Monday, November 30, 2009

Biden v. Cheney

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For better or worse, Dick Cheney redefined the role of the modern Vice President.  By creating his own executive branch inside the Bush Whit...
Wednesday, November 25, 2009

A Rainbow in the Night

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As we Americans celebrate a small group of European settlers who landed on our shores, it's worthwhile to stop and look at the impact o...
Sunday, November 22, 2009

Fourty-Six years and we still are seeking the truth

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Forty-six years after the murder of John F. Kennedy new information continues to come to light.  The link between a secret coup planned by ...
Friday, November 20, 2009

Tales from a Rock 'n' Roll Life

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In a business as transient a journalism it is remarkable that Robert Hilburn was the pop music critic for the Los Angels Times for 35 year...

Literary Catholics

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We've had two guests recently whose conversion to Catholicism is both surprising and literary.  Both came to their faith late in life, y...
Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Why we miss Molly Ivins

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As a journalist she was ahead of her time.  As a columnist she was the last of a dying breed.  She was one of the most provocative, courageo...

Tear Down this Country.......

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While Mad Men and even Barack Obama remind us of the idealism of the 60's, it is in fact the 80's, the Reagan years, that shape most...
Monday, November 16, 2009

Tear Down This Wall....

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Regardless of the scope of their contribution, many iconic leaders are often reduced to a single sound byte or single speech: "We have...
Friday, November 13, 2009

And the Plane he rode in on...

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Ten months ago, when "Sully" Sullenberger landed his plan on the chilly waters of the Hudson River, we celebrated his cool, his sk...
Thursday, November 12, 2009

"A really big show."

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Before the advent of cable, i Pods, Satellite or the Internet, we got all of our home entertainment from just three television networks.  An...
Wednesday, November 11, 2009

A survivor's tale

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By any account it was one of the most gruesome and heinous crimes of our times. On April 14, 1989 Ramon Salcido went on a killing sprees in ...
Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Smart on Crime

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Kamala Harris may be the next Attorney General of the state of California. She is currently the District Attorney of San Francisco and name...
Sunday, November 8, 2009

Nothing Was the Same

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Kay Redfield Jamison , in her best selling THE UNQUIET MIND , was a guide in understanding the nature of depression, bipolar disorder and th...
Friday, November 6, 2009

Google

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It is the behemoth of the digital age.  It has steamrolled over traditional media companies and yet it's run by engineers who strive to ...
Thursday, November 5, 2009

One year and counting......

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One year ago this week we concluded one of the most transformative Presidential campaigns of all times.  A campaign and an election that wil...
Wednesday, November 4, 2009

How Poker Explains the World

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Invented in China, refined in France, for almost two hundred years, poker has been the favorite American pastime.   In his new book Cowboys ...
Monday, November 2, 2009

Tokyo Vice

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You may have recently seen Jake Adelstein on 60 Minutes , expounding as one of the worlds most knowledgeable voices on the Yakuza and the J...
Friday, October 30, 2009

Social Networks are contagious

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The work of Nicholas Christakis , physician, scientist and sociologist at Harvard has been cited in over two thousand media outlets in the p...
Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Deepak Chopra

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Long one of the worlds most powerful advocates for the connection between health and consciousness, Deepak Chopra now takes the process a s...
Friday, October 23, 2009

Who is Ayn Rand?

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Know primarily for her bestselling books THE FOUNTAINHEAD and ATLAS SHRUGGED, Ayn Rand is one of the 20th century's most controversial a...