By Dennis Kneale It’s about time, dammit! Thirteen years after Islamic terrorists took down the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center and killed 2,753 people who were inside them, the first tenants are moving into the new 102-story Freedom Tower, built on the same site. So herewith a few thoughts on what that really […]
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Hello all, here’s a link to my three-hour gig on The Blaze Radio Network yesterday: http://bit.ly/1rmu3Rm Among the topics and guests: —Why did 68% of House Republicans–the guys sometimes deemed as racist for opposing President Obama’s policies–support his request for authorization to arm rebels in Syria, compared with only 57% of Democrats? —“No boots on
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Hey guys, I got to host three hours of talk radio on Glenn Beck’s Blaze Radio Network the other day–and you can thrill to all of it right here on his website: http://bit.ly/1pxiXb7 Had less than two hours’ notice to prepare three hours of material. And at times in the final 30 minutes, you can
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America seems so impotent internationally these days. Is our nation–and especially the Obama Administration–in need of a giant dose of Viagra to put the spring back in our step? That was one of the opening questions of my three-hour gig on Glenn Beck’s online radio network, the Blaze Radio Network, on Monday of this week,
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Hey guys. On Tuesday I gave a TED talk, a speech “In Defense of Capitalism” at TEDxFultonStreet, one of thousands of smaller, indie spinoffs of the renowned speaker confab that draws millions of YouTube fans. Thanks to organizer Aaron Sylvan for the gig, letting me have a say notwithstanding my lack of any major-media affiliation
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Facebook has, to fracture an old phrase, just closed the barn door after a billion cows already have departed the premises. The social network’s new pro-privacy policy, adopted yesterday, for the first time delivers the assurance that over a billion Facebook users themselves might already have assumed: that the stuff you post to Facebook will
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Is he an industry shill or an Obama crackdown artist? We’ve waited six months for Thomas Wheeler to show his true colors as the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. He had spent two decades at the lobbying trade groups of the cable-TV business and the wireless industry, so some were hoping for a
AT&T’s bold bid of $49 billion in cash and stock to acquire DirecTV would lash together the two distribution giants to contend with the mammoth media combo of Comcast and Time Warner Cable, but here’s what it really means for AT&T: It is time to stage another massive break-up. AT&T should split itself into two
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First of three parts In the next wave of the technology revolution, will your company or industry adapt to survive and even thrive—or get disrupted and swept away? Three smart guys have some keen insights on what it takes to surf the wave, and why so many incumbent giants fail. Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff, AOL
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As Vivek Wadhwa just tweeted, it was indeed a riveting panel yesterday at the Milken Global Conference. Here’s the entire session, skim it for some great insights from three very smart guys: Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff, AOL Time Warner survivor Steve Case, and academic soothsayer Vivek himself. Among the highlights: Benioff says we always overestimate
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