We are almost into our two year adventure of running ‘The News In Review’ radio series. Each week we seem to break new ground. This week Jan and I were joined by our regular panel of ace reporter TJ Hart, investigator Peter Hyatt, the crime doctor Denny Griffin and journalist Dave Knechel. Also joining was [...]

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New Yorkers are rolling in the aisles. The summer of our discontent (economic, political, you name it) has been made glorious circus by the race for the governor’s seat. A clown car of candidates is lurching round the ring. This year’s Volkswagen– or is it a Volt?– is almost totally filled by state Attorney General [...]

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It has been said that the heart and soul of the American economy is the small business. To that point it has been argued that excessive taxation, fees and regulations have provided barriers to the creation and growth of small business. The mantra from conservative radio and many business periodicals is that if the government [...]

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I am going to take the liberty of including below a blog sent out a month or so ago. Let me say here that I have never seen our country so badly divided. I was a child of WW2 when we cared about each other. I wonder these days how many really miss the Americans [...]

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A “bung” in current British slang is a bribe or a kickback — with the “u” pronounced as in “cup” — but I am not referring to that. There has always been a certain amount of controversy about how Australia’s indigenous blacks should be referred to. With admirable simplicity, they themselves usually refer to themselves [...]

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The Taliban did it again. Killed a medical team whose only crime was to travel into isolated areas to treat eye disease. Their “crime”? They were supposedly being “spies”, even though only a few of the medical team were Americans. Oh yes: And they were (gasp) Christians. Can’t have that, can we. Kill the infidel. [...]

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