I'm starting to think that perpetual growth notions are the Achilles heel of the human brain. They pop up like munchkins on a wackamole machine. You smash one and up come two.
A recent example comes from Tim Worstall, a business and technology writer for Forbes. Like the long...
0 Comments | Posted November 15, 2011 | 1:41 PM
If there is one thing the Occupy Wall Street movement has generated, it's the opinion that there is no unifying agenda or policy being advanced by the Occupiers. Perhaps that explains why organizations such as mine have been asked repeatedly to contribute to that agenda and help identify...
0 Comments | Posted October 12, 2011 | 3:36 PM
As crazy as the Tea Party may seem, they've got one thing very, very right. The deficit spending has gone too far. Continuous deficits and the ever-expanding debt are leading the USA -- and much of the world -- into an unprecedented economic and social crisis.
Why "unprecedented," you...
0 Comments | Posted August 8, 2011 | 3:52 PM
Fellow Americans, this evening I have a special message for you. It's an unprecedented and surprising message, but ultimately it will resonate with your common sense, good will, and patriotic spirit. It turns out that the recessionary cloud we're under does have an extremely valuable silver lining. I know; it...
0 Comments | Posted April 8, 2011 | 11:18 AM
From the little Fauquier Times Democrat, serving a rural county in northern Virginia, to the ABC Nightly News, we keep hearing the opinions of rednecks, news anchors, CEOs and statesmen that the radioactivity coming from the Fukushima nuclear plant is "nothing to worry about." It's way below this...
0 Comments | Posted March 9, 2011 | 4:43 PM
If we aren't living in an "educable moment," then we must be dumber than a doggone boot. Financial collapse, fiscal crisis, skyrocketing gas prices, global warming, revolutions in crowded countries, unemployment all around... let's graduate from the College of the 21st Century and recognize the old kindergarten lessons about limits...
0 Comments | Posted February 8, 2011 | 11:10 AM
He's finally done it. Barack Obama has taken the tantalizing trail to a notoriously slippery slope. In an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal recently, the President promised, "federal agencies [will] ensure that regulations protect our safety, health and environment while promoting economic growth." In other words, we...

0 Comments | Posted April 15, 2012 | 6:20 PM