Prime Movers

President Obama has signal that education is a key Administration initiative. His goal is to enable the US to graduate more college trained students than any other country. Education is believed to be a critical route for anyone to exit poverty. President Obama, however, sees other objectives. Providing everyone with health care protection is also [...]

Connective Tissue

The surest route to failure, it is said of great leaders, is to try to do too many things. In our complex world, many government policies and initiatives end up have unintended consequences just because that is the way things are. From day one, President Obama has unveiled one initiative or policy statement after another. [...]

Swing and A Miss

Palm Sunday was the first game in the Easter Week series. The home team, the Vatican, stepped into the batters box. Their top player, Pope Benedict, went to the plate. He took a deep breath, stared at the anxious public, took a swing and missed. The Pope seemed oblivious to the public relations, if not [...]

When Morning Comes

It may not seem like it but Americans are living it up in a huge all night party. There’s plenty of food and drink, and the band is playing without breaks. No one seems to be noticing the time, and one must wonder what they will think when the sun begins to rise. Some may [...]

Back Together Again

It was actually satisfying to see John McCain and Sarah Palin on the stage again yesterday. Following McCain’s defeat in the 2008 Presidential election, McCain never once bad mouthed Palin who had proven to be all show and no substance during the campaign. McCain never took the opportunity to throw her under the bus. Yesterday [...]

Connecting the Dots

On the eve of the passage of President Obama’s historic health care reform (read insurance reform) and since, there has been some bizarre behavior by elected officials and some elements of the general population. The leading actors have been members of the Tea Party and the fundamentalist anti-abortion coalitions. While it is risky to trust [...]

Toyota and Rome

It is not new information that public “for profit” corporations and private “for profit” churches have a lot in common. Toyota seeks to save people time by providing affordable transportation. The Roman Catholic Church seeks to save men’s souls and lead them to the mythical next life. You might say that these missions do not [...]

Repeal and Replace

Someone stayed up late recently in order to give Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell a sound bite that almost makes sense. Mitch, just like Senators Fluster and Bluster, stood tall and promised Americans that Republicans would “repeal and replace” the health care reform just passed by Congress. Giving him the leeway that he is in [...]

Government’s Size

Just as we talk about a man’s suit measurements or a lady’s dress size, the terms “large or extra large” is also applied to the size of our Government. Of course they are quite different in nature, but the corrective action sounds eerily the same for suits, dresses, and government. Just say no, cut out [...]

The Morning After

In what can only be described as either a victory for the world’s greatest democratic process, or the sorry output of a corrupt, incompetent, and mean spirited Congress, never the less, the health care reform bill passed the House of Representatives yesterday and is destined to become law shortly. Which one is it? As reforms [...]