Some of us above a certain age may remember the rallying cry that ultimately brought 5-Star General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in 1945, to the White House in January, 1953. “I Like Ike,” ushered in one of the most successful eight year Presidencies in U.S. history. While General Eisenhower might have [...]

As I think about the ongoing battle we are currently facing as to our policy on immigration, I am reminded of a somewhat unknown point of demarcation in western civiliation for which, to a large extent, we can all be grateful:  the destruction of Carthage by Rome. Interestingly, the Empire of Carthage was a massive [...]

Since there is very little I and frankly most of us can do to provide for substantive and material job growth in this country, I’m relegated to monitoring the on-going rhetoric that emanates from Washington with respect to jobs. The rhetoric continues to be punctuated by the Weekly Jobless Claims Reports, the Federal Unemployment Rate [...]

When I look at the most recent onslaught of political ads, something new appears to be occurring. There is the normal quantum of condescension, absurdity, and exaggeration, of course.  And that’s certainly not new. But what seems to be emerging is a new genre of political advertising that can best be described as massively mean-spirited ads [...]

You know, it didn’t occur to me until I read Peggy Noonan’s column a couple of Saturday’s ago in the Wall Street Journal that the John Birchers are apparently dead. Fresh out of law school, I remember debating the Chairman of the John Birch Society in Florida back in the years that mattered. He was [...]

I’ve never been able to abide individuals who, when you are talking to them one-on-one, appear so unbelievably committed. Indeed, they are actually passionate about what they are saying and, on a one-on-one basis, they exude the highest level of credibility and reliability. And then, you leave the meeting, encounter, Starbuck’s coffee, or otherwise, with the [...]

Interestingly enough, the bleak situation in Greece has diverted attention somewhat from the recession and focused it instead on the overall role of debt at the governmental level. The European Union (EU), sharing a common currency (Euro), in conjunction with other international funding sources like the International Monetary Fund (IMF), will be required to pony up a [...]

I’ve spent most of my life attempting to wipe out vestiges of judgment. It’s not that judgment is necessarily bad. I’ve just always felt that observation tended to be more accurate, because it was judgmentally neutral. But, I do have to say, that my fundamental bias away from judgment and towards observation was severely strained as [...]

Trade, travel, tourism, and technology have globalized the economies of the world.  So, our economy is global but our politics are national, which means that they are clearly mismatched.  Not a great revelation, but one worth noting!

There’s nothing better than a journalist’s eye…as long as they don’t have an agenda. There’s nothing worse than a journalist’s pen when they do have an agenda. I’ve read the very best journalists at the very best times. Most of them don’t have an agenda. But when they do, it’s not pretty. Original writing date: [...]