Pick up any paper or national news magazine and there’s at least one political factoid everyone across the political/spectrum is in agreement about: The 2016 Presidential campaign has unofficially/officially begun! Barack Obama is only in the first year of his second term, and already candidates, on both sides of the aisle, are jockeying for followers, […]
China was once referred to as the “sleeping giant”. Well, it’s certainly not sleeping now-a-days. And, it has literally become an economic and political behemoth on the world stage that no one would have ever thought possible a mere 10 to 20 years ago!
China today may titularly retain its communist political background and ideology, but, […]
The city of Detroit’s recent filing for bankruptcy got me thinking about cars and the role of cars in our lives, and how Detroit at one time was the mecca of the car world.
For years and years and years Detroit was the main driver (pun-intended) in national industrial production and economic well-being. No one, at […]
Summer is a time for many things – travel, rest, play, and, of course, time to finally get to that novel, that one special book that you have been putting off all winter. Somehow, summertime gives us permission take time to enjoy the written word just a bit more. On a plane, on a train, […]
Let me be clear from the start. I believe that ability deserves to be rewarded! I believe in merit pay, I believe that this country became what it is today on the basis of merit, ability, and hard work. I believe that all of us are, to one extent or another, motivated by the risk […]
Like it or not, according to the self-help group Workaholics Anonymous, given the raw number of hours we put into our jobs, most of us are either active workaholics or potential workaholics. Historian Daniel Rodgers argues that we are a nation predisposed to hard work and that the “elevation of work over leisure” is an […]
Let me be clear, I’m not a fan or follower of Ned Ludd. I am not a Luddite! Technology can be the engine of beneficial economic and social change. Case in point, the “age of the computer” has revolutionized the world. Computers have changed how we know, what we know, and how we communicate.
Today, iPads, […]
The leadline of the Wall Street Journal on Saturday, April 27 was really a restatement of the obvious: Economic Growth Stays Soft. We are all acutely aware of the fact that although many of the catastrophic consequences of the recession have been avoided, the overall economy remains sluggish. There have been cutbacks in federal spending. […]
In the last ten years, there have been a spate of books published on the nature of happiness. Most of these books point out that happiness is not only possible, but it is the American way. In fact, the “pursuit of happiness” is the basis of the Declaration of Independence, it’s our Constitutional right.
Unfortunately, after […]
By 1942, Heinrich Himmler was one of the most powerful men in the Third Reich. Along with Goring, Goebbels, Speer, and Von Ribbentrop, Himmler was a major player in Hitler’s inner circle. In the Nazis hierarchy, although it was not his official title in the Nazis hierarchy, Himmler was the “Director of Death and […]
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