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Blog Entries by Conrad Black from 10/2011

Off With the FT's Head

| Posted 10.05.2011 | Canada
Read More: Law, London Financial Times, Phone Hacking, Financial TImes, News Corp, Robert Zoellick, Wall Street Journal, Justice, The Economist, Plea Bargain, Rupert Murdoch, Canada News

I am groggy with disbelief at the London Financial Times' suggestion that British justice should now, having preserved its virtue and a reasonable facsimile of due process for centuries, adopt the American plea bargain, at least in corporate matters.

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Global Warning: Trust Scientists, Not Shamans

| Posted 10.12.2011 | Canada Politics
Read More: Solar Panels, Cap and Trade, Global Warming Science, Climate Change, Windmills, Ipcc, Environmentalism, Al Gore, Wind Turbines, World Temperatures, Global Warming Denier, Kyoto, Global Warming, China, Carbon Footprint, Canada Politics News

The charlatans who promoted or allowed ecology to become the ultimate broad church gathering together everyone from the bird-watchers, to the loopy militants chaining themselves to trees, should be allowed to subside without a sadistically prolonged stay in the pillory.

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The Real Rupert Murdoch

| Posted 10.21.2011 | Canada Business
Read More: Michael Wolff, Rupert Murdoch Phone Hacking, Wall Street Journal, Rupert Murdoch Wall Street Journal, News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch, News of the World, Canada Business News

My admiration for Rupert Murdoch's boldness and acumen and our previous 25 years of more than civil relations make it unpleasant, despite his unspeakable assault on me, to have to conclude that he is deeply repressed and malicious man.

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Where Are the Republican Candidates?

| Posted 10.28.2011 | Canada
Read More: Republican Candidates 2012, Chris Christie, Mitt Romney, Republican Candidates, Election 2012, Hermain Cain, Rick Perry, Republicans, Canada News

It is disturbing that as the United States flounders through one of the most precipitate declines of prestige and economic and fiscal strength in its generally upwardly mobile history, there is such a scarcity of galvanizing candidates to take the headship of the country.

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