a posting from the Patti Network find out what else I'm writing. So Where is Your Accountability Harper? Remember back in 2006 when Stephen Harper ran on a platform of transparency and accountability in government? When the Liberals tried to paint him as having a hidden agenda to which he countered ...

a posting from the Patti Network find out what else I'm writing. OK, Who Let the Other Harper Out of His Cage? After weeks of there being just a bit of a semblance that maybe the boys and girls on Parliament Hill were capable of playing nice and getting the business of government done — someon...

Monday Evening News Roundup President-elect Barack Obama has formally announced his environmental and energy team. I’ve already mentioned Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Chu and Carol Browner. For Secretary of the Interior, he has named Senator Ken Salazar from Colorado. It is also rumo...

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets Not a lot of people in the US know the name Lee Kun-hee, but he's the chairman and son of the founder of the world's largest gadget company: Samsung. And he's also at the epicenter of one of the craziest corruption scandals the industry has seen in years. Kun-hee and his c...

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets Lee Kun-hee, Samsung's 66 year old chairman and son of the company's founder, made a potentially damning announcement over the weekend. Following 11 hours of interrogation by prosecutors into allegations of bribery and maintaining a slush fund (among other improprieties), ...