Sometimes it’s impossible to avoid staying at a hotel, especially when you’re traveling for work. Business travel can cement the hotel mentality, overlooking a world of lodging possibilities that are…
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Hey, honey! Let’s go on a cruise! That’s a magical phrase in many households. Imagine the cushy deck chairs, the pina coladas, the lavish pools, the spectacular nightlife, the exotic…
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Welcome to Situational Awareness, a weekly roundup of news from last week that will likely be causing sleepless nights in the future. #BRINGBACKWHOSEGIRLS? — Africa’s largest economy, the oil-rich Nigeria, this…
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In the psychotic prison state that calls itself the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, nothing is what it seems, and everything is a secret. The entire country is essentially a 47,000…
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It’s called the Switzerland of South America. Its citizens are mostly of European stock. It is a Social Democracy that offers free education, legal marijuana, abortion, and same-sex marriage, and…
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Situational Awareness: Warren Dodges Questions, Sterling Fights Back, Obama Punts on Ukraine
by Bruce Haringby Bruce HaringWelcome to Situational Awareness, a weekly roundup of news from last week that will likely be causing sleepless nights in the future. ALAS, POOR HILLARY: Big Chief Elizabeth Warren, she…
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Clippers owner Donald Sterling shouldn’t be worried that his life is over. Sure, he’s now holed up in the penthouse of a Beverly Hills office building, subsisting on pizza and…
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Every so often an idea comes along, that combines familiar technologies in a new way that seems totally obvious after you see it for the first time. The kind of…
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About 10 years ago I worked with a young Polish gentleman, and one day I caught him wistfully reminiscing about the Communists. He was only a young child when the Solidarność…
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While Russian troops camp out on the Ukrainian border, pro-Russian insurgents inside the Eastern European nation are seizing town after town, this week claiming the eastern city of Luhansk. Obama…