The Stem Cell Marketing Failure and Octuplets
I’m not at all surprised by the enormity of the stem cell debate in the United States. After all, the consequences of stem cell research are a life and death matter. This debate, however, is apropos of...
View ArticleThe Greatest Generation Holds Its Place In Front Of Us All
Not too long ago I took in the Clint Eastwood film “Letters from Iwo Jima” at a local theater. Although it had only been out for a short while I was surprised to see the tiny theater in which it had...
View ArticleKorean Airlines Flight 007
On September 1st, 1983, a Korean Airlines Boeing 747 was shot out of the skies over the Soviet Union’s Eastern port area of Vladivostok near the Kamchatka Peninsula. The airliner purportedly drifted...
View ArticleA Nation Divided Through its Diversity
On November 4th, 2008, my political party may not have won, but more importantly, our nation did. To date, we took the largest leap forward on race relations while simultaneously distancing ourselves...
View ArticleProtectionism Versus Globalism
At a time of great concern over individual economic vitality and our nation’s economic health we hear arguments for protectionist policies. Protectionism is basically a retreat from global markets and...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Health Care Debate
Any serious discussion of health care reform must begin with serious data. The often pronounced number of the uninsured being at 47 million in the United States just doesn’t measure up in any serious...
View ArticleCitizens Putting U.S. in Harms Way
Those private American citizens that willingly place themselves in harms way abroad, shall have no expectation that we’re coming for them. The harm done to our nation as we’re trying to negotiate the...
View ArticleThe Marriage of Money and Politics – A Unified Class of Deceit
While our recession looms and nightly newscasts highlight rage over Wall Street bonuses, we’re missing a larger and most formidable storyline. The only class warfare worth mentioning is between the...
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