It sounds trite, even naïve. But it isn’t. It’s a brutal concept. It demands discipline, concentration, humility and courage. And honesty. Our leaders were supposed to be our servants. They were elected “to serve”. We call it “service”. It’s one of the primary reasons our forefathers spilt all that blood. Not to mention they conceived [...]

In these deeply troubling times we need to now face a hard reality and stop worrying about convincing President Obama of anything. We need to convince his bosses, Goldman Sachs and a few others on Wall Street that what’s good for the Republic is good for them. We need to convince them that Warren Buffet [...]

It’s a kind of a strange feeling now to have watched the unfolding of the Goldman Sachs drama in Congress (and the White House), the rising rage in the country towards Goldman Sachs’ blithe multi billion dollar bonuses. It’s been over a year now that I’ve been raging against this company (along with a few [...]

I don’t like this thought I’m having. I want to figure out how to say this nicely. I’m going to do my best. But somewhere the sex scandals that drift around the lower steps of the Vatican and the Health Care journey we’ve just witnessed have become linked in some strange dark place in my [...]

I’ve gotten my wires crossed around the passing of Ted Kennedy and health care, and the dialogue between the parties and in the media hasn’t helped me any. I’m going to try to unbundle my thinking here, if I can. The first question I have to ask myself is do I really want to be [...]

I woke up out of a dream this morning, acutely aware that while I can go to any movie theatre and see America deeply involved in a space program (the last Star Trek by J.J. Abrams, for instance, was great fun) nonetheless the real space program is nearly dead on the vine. What happened?  How [...]