Category: Book Publishing

A Great Read/Let’s Get Our Money Back!

  Sorry to have missed much of a week, but had to return to Edmonton for my sister’s funeral. *     *     *     *     * I’ve been in and around the book business for over 50 years, but I can never remember a new novel receiving the kind of enthusiastic praise Tom Rachman’s The Imperfectionist is [...]

Harper’s Hairdresser/Hardworking Greeks and Other Musings…

  Well, finally some good news out of Ottawa. Stephen Harper’s full-time hairdresser is now being paid by the Conservatives instead of by the Canadian taxpayer. Also, we now know that she does more than his hair. She also picks out the ties for him to wear.  She travels with him, too, and can do these things [...]

Rabble/Mulroney/Oil/US Mid-term Elections

  Duncan Cameron, the noted political economist, has a very good column at www.rabble.ca from time to time. Do check it out often. *     *     *     *     * Jonathan Kay goes after Brian Mulroney and the Globe and Mail for Mulroney’s amazingly fawning article last week about Saudi Arabia which the paper published prominently about [...]

Sunday April 18th, 2010 in Book Publishing, Canadian Politics, Integration, Oil, US Politics | Comments Off

Missile Defence/Book Publishing

  The following article (See: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18538) by Josh Rogin from globalresearch.ca will be of interest to many of you, but in particular those who have read my book Rushing to Armageddon.  “Front and center in America’s security policy”????  If so we’re in big trouble.  There have been no developments of any importance re missile defence [...]

Tuesday April 13th, 2010 in Book Publishing, Missile Defence, Nuclear Weapons, US Politics | Comments Off