Posts Tagged ‘Gates’

Off With Their Heads!

By Jamie McIntyre on Monday, February 8th, 2010

Off With Their Heads!

If you needed any clue to Gates’ propensity to jettison subpar performers regardless of prior success you need look no further than his tenure as President of Texas A&M University, where one of his first acts was to fire the winnings football coach in Aggie history. Gates would later joke privately that during his time at the CIA he’d overthrown governments of small countries with less blowback.

Russia’s Polar Sea Grab

By Jamie McIntyre on Friday, November 20th, 2009

Russia’s Polar Sea Grab

Will Arctic be next “Cold War” conflict?
Every summer the polar ice pack gets smaller. It’s opening on new shipping lanes, and fanning tensions between the U.S. and Russia.