When google decided to index some of the English world’s greatest libraries, I hardly expected it to cause waves in France. It turns out that I was wrong: “It appears that Jacques Chirac is thoroughly displeased with what he considers but the latest parry...
Lou does not mince his words in his book, and some of the entries are priceless. Early in the book, he bemoans the neglect of critical thinking taught by an oxymoronic, “postmodern education” system. In an example he writes of the mis-use of the word,...
My sense is that AIG is the subject of a witch hunt, and a board of directors that, in a post Enron world, is just a little trigger – happy. Article on AIG for Knowledge@Wharton For a very useful background & set of introductory links to Finite Risk...
I met Lou Marinoff at the World Economic Forum in New Delhi in 2004. I am now reading his book, “Philosophical Practice”. I am so enjoying it that I have been sifting through the notes for some of his sources. For whoever missed this the first time around,...
My friend Mark Pincus makes a very smart and sensible suggestion regarding corporate fraud: If a company has to restate its financial statements, then the executives have to regorge back to the company the profits from any stock sales that that time. The rule is not...
I have taken this straight from Melanie Phillips diary. It is uncanny how her views conincide with mine – only that she expresses herself a lot better than I do. Melanie Phillips’s Diary: Killing the disabled She quotes Linda Chavez a hispanic author and...
Wow. Even writers from the Guardian are starting to eat humble pie. Guardian Unlimited Guardian daily comment The war’s silver lining we ought to admit that the dark cloud of the Iraq war may have carried a silver lining. We can still argue that the war was...
Buried in this article in the Independent: Israeli intelligence officers briefed ambassadors of the EU, the G8, and the UN Security Council on Friday’s Tel Aviv bombing. They read from a transcript of an intercepted telephone call in which Ramadan Shallah,...
Are we celebrating too soo, or are Bush’s policies starting to show real vindication on the ground? Telegraph | Opinion | The Arabs’ Berlin Wall has crumbled Who ever thought that the Middle East could be this exciting, or remarkable.
Syria’s thuggery in the Middle East cannot be appeased, or allowed ot stand. International News Article | Reuters.com What a sign of remarkable change in the Middle East that an Arab news station is willing to go public to a Western news agency about the death...
Now we find out if Abu Mazen is up to snuff, a break from Palestinians nihilistic path, and ally to the forces of civilization and freedom, or whether he’s just more of the same, but wrapped in a different wrapper. Yahoo! News – Palestinians Angry Over Tel...
I have no clue whether or not global warming is really taking place or not. But I resent that any scientist who does not come down on the “right”, or should I say, “left” side of the debate is considered questionable. Melanie Phillips’s...
My sense is that Columbia University don’t quite know what is about to hit them. Perhaps the President and the Provost should get in touch with Eason Jordan, or Dan Rather for a clue. lgf: Columbia Implodes! I wonder how long it takes for the website,...
Its stories like this one about Larry Summers at Harvard, that renew my faith that our civilization will not, “go to hell in a handbasket” Times Online – Sunday Times The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s brilliant scientist Steven Pinker...
For the last two years, on my annual pilgrimage to Omaha, I have participated in a meeting of German speaking Berkshire Hathaway investors. One of them, Max Otte decided to translate it into German and send it to his subscribers. For more about Max, and his site go...
Victor Davis Hanson is great, to my mind. I have just finished his book, Ripples of Battle, and am now reading Carnage and Culture. Victor Davis Hanson on Democracy on National Review Online I am only sorry that I did not read about him sooner.
It is becoming more and more apparent to the world’s media that it swallowed a big one – hook, line and sinker from “Pallywood” when it reported that Mohammed Al Dura was killed by the Israel military. It is pretty clear at this point that the...
Eason Jordan of CNN thought he was safe when he claimed that he knew of at least 12 journalists that had been targeted by the US military. Well, blogs such as Captain’s Quarters and Powerline and Hugh Hewitt have “smelt blood”. In my view, its only a...
