January 15, 2010
Time to Play Hard Ball With China
Time to Play Hard Ball With China Google did the right thing yesterday when it said enough is enough to the Chinese government. Chinese military assets launched a coordinated cyber-attack on Google and about 30 other multi-national, mostly American companies...
January 14, 2010
The Wrath of Obama
When I was in high school, and I did a particularly poor job of picking out my clothes for the day, my mother would say that I looked like the Wrath of God. In other words, not very good. That...
January 13, 2010
Paula Nowakowski
Paula Nowakowski As I drove my wife back to her office after the funeral of my good friend Jeff Becker, a bumper sticker on the car in front of me caught my attention. “What if the hokey-pokey is what it...
January 12, 2010
Harry Reid Should Stay and Face the Voters
Washington (CNN) — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is in hot water for some comments he made to reporters in a new book called “Game Change.” In the book, Reid said, Barack Obama had a chance of winning because he...
January 11, 2010
Beware of Reporters Writing Books
Beware of Reporters Writing Books The first time I ever talked to a reporter writing a book, it was Mike Weiskopff and David Marinass, who were chronicling the Newt revolution. I wasn’t a big enough fish back then to get...
January 8, 2010
Jeff Becker
Jeff Becker You can thank Jeff Becker for the fact that there isn’t an excessive tax on your beer. Jeff was the longtime President of the Beer Institute. He loved the beer industry, loved the people who made beer, the...