Right now in California we gain 40,000 new acres of desert every year, with all the building and the people read more

Right now in California we gain 40,000 new acres of desert every year, with all the building and the people coming in... housing going up like crazy.

I have been fielding quite a few calls about Apple's filing of the 'Mobile Me' patent. Folks have been speculating read more

I have been fielding quite a few calls about Apple's filing of the 'Mobile Me' patent. Folks have been speculating about a phone from Apple for more than a year. Being that I am a wireless analyst, I don't follow Apple as closely as others do. What I do know though, is that we are not likely to know until Apple wants us to know. They are pretty good at big surprises. Do I think they are developing a phone? Probably. Probably somewhere in their labs, there are prototypes of phones. Whether or not they bring one to market commercially is another story. Whether or not they will do so on their own is another open question. Hard to imagine carrier subsidies on a device unless there are revenues to be earned through downloaded services and content.

Our surveillance team set up and watched this particular group install a card reader and a camera on the ATM read more

Our surveillance team set up and watched this particular group install a card reader and a camera on the ATM machine,

That's a thorn that has stuck in our sides for year. We went from being one of the best to read more

That's a thorn that has stuck in our sides for year. We went from being one of the best to the bottom 10 in the nation last year. I have let it be known from Day 1 in practice that we will not forget that.

[These others -- the overwhelming majority of Iraq's people -- have repeatedly given every indication of valuing their newfound freedom: read more

[These others -- the overwhelming majority of Iraq's people -- have repeatedly given every indication of valuing their newfound freedom: voting in two elections at the risk of their lives, preparing for a third, writing and ratifying a constitution granting more freedoms than exist in any country in the entire Arab Middle East.] The secret is out, ... There is something decent unfolding in Iraq. It's unfolding in the shadow of a terrible insurgency, but a society is finding its way to constitutional politics.

The wages, benefits and pensions are not going to be as lucrative. We know that. But what they've put on read more

The wages, benefits and pensions are not going to be as lucrative. We know that. But what they've put on the table is not acceptable.

I wept as I remembered how often you and I had tired the sun with talking and sent him down read more

I wept as I remembered how often you and I had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.

I can't say I could do all that they do; they are really motivated.

I can't say I could do all that they do; they are really motivated.

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.