William J. Bratton deserves the name of America’s super-cop as the decorated former Chief of the New-York Police Department (NYPD) and the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). In 2009, Bratton announced that he would leave the LAPD. He decided to monetize his skills learned in the US public sector by creating a private international security [...]
Words can be powerless. They couldn’t describe the destruction, the mad power of the storm. Words were also barely adequate to portray the suffering, despair and misery imposed on the people of New-Orleans. Knowing that 1,600 people were killed during and in the aftermath of Katrina, and that 500,000 residents of the Crescent City were [...]
Hollywood adaptations of novels are hit or miss. So I took in “The Help” Tate Taylor’s big screen version of Kathryn Stockett’s beloved bestseller with equal measures of anticipation and trepidation. I needn’t have worried. If you loved the book, you’re apt to like the movie. And if you haven’t read it, you’ll like the [...]
As the citizens of the world, newly enlightened through the advent of ubiquitous digital media and champions of free speech and transparency such as WikiLeaks, Anonymous, and Antisec, et al , begin to rise up against their exploiters and oppressors, the question of alternatives to the status quo is becoming the focal point of conversation. [...]
By Ron Steinman The Iowa Straw Poll conducted Saturday, August 13, in Ames, Iowa, was not all the press is making it out to be. The day after the poll, The New York Times buried the true lead of the story deep inside the paper. This is what it said: “It was hardly a perfect [...]
