05 Feb
Posted by charles as Journalism, News, commentary
Lots of people already don’t trust Google. Now, there is even better reason.
The New York Times reporting that Google has joined forces with the National Security Agency in an effort to track down who was behind the attacks on its cybersecurity last year.
As the paper correctly puts it, ” The collaboration between Google , the [...]
28 Jan
Posted by charles as Journalism, News, Politics, commentary
It took President Obama a long time in his State of the Union speech before getting around to talking about his health insurance reform initiatives. I can understand why he would not exactly want to highlight this at this point in time.
He did have some typical fighting words indicating that he wanted the reform measures [...]
22 Jan
Posted by charles as Journalism, News, Politics, commentary
Hillary Clinton was right: Barack Obama was (is) just not experienced enough to be President of the United States.
How else can you explain how badly he and his administration screwed up health care reform by not paying attention to what was going down in Massachusetts until it was too late to make a difference?
A [...]
19 Jan
Posted by charles as Journalism, News, Politics, commentary
No matter what happens in the special election to fill the Senate seat left vacant by the late Senator Edward Kennedy in Massachusetts Tuesday, the Obama administration has taken a major hit.
Of course, should Republican Scott Brown win, it could derail the Democratic Party’s (and President Obama’s) health reform legislation by denying the Democrats the [...]
10 Jan
Posted by charles as Journalism, News, commentary
I’m sorry. I have no sympathy for most U.S. airlines or the people who work for them! Sorry, but I don’t!
While there are, of course, exceptions, many U.S. airlines have some of the oldest fleets on the planet. I think even Vietnam’s commercial air fleet tends to be newer.
After years of cutbacks and slim downs [...]
05 Jan
Posted by charles as Journalism, News, Politics, commentary
President Obama is in the middle of trying to find out how U.S. intelligence agencies so badly botched the handling of a Nigerian terrorist whose mission to blow up a U.S. airliner Christmas Day was derailed only because of luck and certainly not because of anything in “the system” that worked. It didn’t.
But maybe the [...]