by Bob Hubbard | Feb 11, 2012 | Education, Politics & Law, Society & Culture
Revisiting the Past : Part 4 – The Institution of Slavery as a cause for war. By Bob Hubbard (Originally Published on Martialtalk.com 12-16-2008) My previous three articles on States Rights, Secession and the causes of the ill named “American Civil...
by Barry Fagin | Jan 16, 2012 | Education, Society & Culture
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 11-1-07} It’s not often I take issue with Thomas Sowell. A senior scholar at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, a worldclass economist and a prolific author, he’s forgotten more about public policy then I’ll ever know. He gets...
by Barry Fagin | Nov 21, 2011 | Education, Philosophy & Ethics, Society & Culture
{published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 8-23-07} Full disclosure: My wife got good grades in law school. She graduated third in her class. She practices law with a firm downtown that only hires lawyers with good grades, just like every attorney there. Full...
by Christina E Stock | Nov 16, 2011 | Education, Politics & Law
While our generation of college students has skyrocketed in terms of attendance and graduation rates, job security is one phrase that has slowly dwindled from our vocabulary. Now, even with a bachelors degree, the job market holds less and less promise for those...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Nov 10, 2011 | Business & Economics, Education, Politics & Law
The stimulus bills and bailouts are difficult to defend as anything but a disaster, or at best of minimal impact when considering the dollars spent. Ronald Reagan once said of our Federal government, “We could say they spend like drunken sailors, but that would...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Sep 29, 2011 | Business & Economics, Education
An associate on the Global Citizenship forum on LinkedIn, Olimpiu Frant, posed the question if the wealth of the richest companies and countries was made by academic economists (such as from Harvard was his example). The follow-up question is if these are the same...