Consider, Reconsider
A Reason to Think, and Think AgainGrim Fiscal Reality Requires Review of Military Alliances
{Published as "Grim fiscal reality requires all our military alliances be revisited" in the Colorado Springs Gazette, August 15, 2013} (Full disclosure: Sequestration has impacted me personally. This has undoubtedly influenced the opinions below.) The spending cuts...
Obamacare Hiccups Bureaucratic, Not Partisan
The devil is in the details. All new programs admittedly have problems, but the banter about them ringside is the real show. It was only a matter of time before widely predicted Obamacare problems would be just as predictably pinned on its opponents. Well wait no...
TED Tuesdays: Cities, Not Nations
This week's TED Talk focuses on the emerging role of cities in today's world, even preceding the nation-state as a unit of human progress.
Political ‘Mom and Dad’ Can’t Always Save Us From Monsters
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, March 2, 2011} I've had this theory about political parties for a long time. It’s so obvious, someone must have thought of it, but that won’t stop me from putting my name on it. I call it the Fagin Theory of Parental...
“GOP Shutdown” Also a DNC Shame
It's apparently some secret that the House of Representatives sets the federal budget and it's Senate's job to approve or send it back with suggestions and compromises. When the latter didn't do this, the former was blamed. Except that's not exactly how it played out....
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