My daughter will return to the UK – her birthplace – next month to start a 5-year professional degree program in Materials Chemistry at the University of St. Andrews. Shemade a wise choice. I believe that college is a bad investment unless your child is majoring in science, technology, engineering or mathematics. Otherwise they can […]
Greece is Going – Will Obama Follow?
This morning’s New York Times had an authoritative analysis of Greece’s imploding economy. The article hints that the global financial community is bracing itself for a Greek exit from the euro zone, yet it doesn’t address the implications for the United States, especially for this year’s elections. Greece is going – the only remaining question […]
No Historical Precedent for Obama/Holder Assassination of US Citizens
Attorney General Eric Holder declared on March 5, 2012 that President Obama can, with impunity, secretly order the assassination or indefinite imprisonment of Americans abroad. According to Holder, President Obama may do this without a shred of evidence, based solely on the CIA or Defense Department’s suspicion the citizens are terrorists or “pose an imminent […]
Iran’s Secret Weapon
Headlines such as “U.S.Sees Iran Attacks as Likely if Israel Strikes,” are a sobering reminder that jumping into a war with Iran could have even more dangerous consequences for us than invading Iraq. My first job after graduate school was with a shadowy company in Washington DC that ostensibly had a “Crisis Management Training” contract with the […]
Downton Abbey – We Cannot Escape History
The last known World War I veteran has died at the age of 110. Like the fictional Ladies Edith and Sybil Crawley in Downton Abbey, Florence Green crossed the boundaries of social and cultural convention to
