We know that progress depends on technological inventions - the wheel, the steam engine, and the computer are often cited as keys to our mov...

Yesterday, the senate passed a new defense spending bill 100-0. Every single Senator agreed that we should spend another half a trillion dol...

At times it seems as though our president is in denial. For instance, he claims that the recently released intelligence report that states t...

The dot-com boom and bust is dismissed as a typical speculative bubble, a lesson for those enchanted with the prospect of sustaining outrage...

Like so many of the policy pronouncements of the modern world, this only makes sense to people who are multitasking or lack a sense of histo...

The potential of a child born in medieval France is very different than the potential of a child born in modern France. Potential may be som...

So, I'm sitting in a hotel last week, channel surfing and playing pop culture catch up. One of the cable channels has a show, apparently...

Competitive markets help drive down prices and raise the probability that resources will be best used. In the last 25 years, CEO pay has sho...

This week Time magazine has a cover "War with Iran." That the invasion of Iraq would be such a fiasco and that Iran would be at le...

I’m not really pleased that eblogger has translated my birth date into an astrological sign. I’m a Virgo. We don’t believe in astrology.

Two religions are destined to continually clash. They are not Christianity and Islam. Rather, they are religion as experienced by the indivi...

The first in a series of musings about corporations in the future .... Today, the cost of "broadcasting" video has dropped exponen...

About a year ago, congress passed legislation that made it harder for folks to walk away from bankruptcies, leaving the irresponsible and un...

100 years ago, parents fretted over keeping their children fed. Today, parents fret about keeping their children amused. Videos, theme parks...

Today's San Diego Union Tribune has an interesting headline: Pope Says Jihad Not God's Plan. Actually, that's not news. News wou...

History will judge …. What do you do when you demand more accountability in government and then your own government policies lead to a serie...

1948 to 2001, average economic performance under Democratic (D) or Republican (R) presidents. ____Unemployment_______GDP Growth________Infla...

Dylan and Springsteen are rare. As I get older, I find it more perplexing that pop rock musicians feel obliged to imitate them - writing the...

Poll CEOs at Fortune 500 companies and you're unlikley to find more than a small fraction who would support command and control economie...

Earlier this summer, Democratic senator Dick Durbin got in trouble for comparing the mistreatment of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay with what N...