Politics and Leadership (2010)

Ain’t Gonna Do What We Should, ‘til the Economic Finality Axe Chops Our Silly Heads — Why an Increased Gasoline Tax Would Boost National Security (30 December 2010)

 

 

A Hypocrite’s Tears — Speaker Boehner’s False Allegiance to Children’s Needs (20 December 2010)

 

 

Bigamy with the Two Political Extremes — David Brooks’ Idea on How to Deal with Stalemated Polarization (17 December 2010)

 

 

Simultaneously Too Little and Too Much Regulation — a Suggested Fix from Former Virginia Governor, Now Senator Mark R. Warner (16 December 2010)

 

 

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, and the Applicability of His Ideas in the United States (14 December 2010)

 

 

Beijing’s Smile and the Demise of U.S. Competitiveness — An Economic Parable in the Making (13 December 2010)

 

 

Professor William Easterly’s Attack on Bono using John Lennon’s Halo as a Club (12 December 2010)

 

 

The Obama Tax Cut Extension Compromise as an Indication of Cultural Short-Sightedness (10 December 2010)

 

 

Piracy, Dumping the Problem on Kenya — an Example of the Developed World’s Greed (09 December 2010)

 

 

The President’s Predecessors Must Marvel at His Political Incompetence — the Tax Cut Extension Fiasco (08 December 2010)

 

 

Columnist Thomas Friedman’s Two-Item Graphic of What Is Wrong with the American Situation Is Something a Leadership-Oriented President Would Be Spouting at Every Opportunity (06 December 2010)

 

 

Deficit Reduction — Culturally Characteristic Fuzzy Thinking from Critics of the Bowles-Simpson Plan (06 December 2010)

 

 

I’m Supposed to Care about Charlie Rangel’s Censure, as if It Were Some Sort of Paradigmatic American Sorrow, when People Are Dying in Combat in Afghanistan? (05 December 2010)

 

 

President Wimp (03 December 2010)

 

 

From Banks Too Big To Fail to Bigger Still — another Failure of American Government (02 December 2010)

 

 

What Will Our Children’s Kids Aspire to When They Look Up at the Night Sky? (24 November 2010)

 

 

Columnist David Brooks, an Insightful Observer, Says Deficit Reduction Is Hopeless for at Least the Medium Term — and a Comment on Spiritual Hubris (23 November 2010)

 

 

Sarah Palin Is a Political Force to Be Reckoned with — and Opposed for the Good of the Nation (23 November 2010)

 

 

Respect Where Due ─ Nancy Pelosi, the Competent Grown-Up Most Everyone Loves to (Pretend) to Hate (05 November 2010)

 

 

The New Afghanistan Plan, Negotiating with the Taliban ─ Just How Successful Will that Be?

(02 November 2010)

 

 

United States Drops Out of the Top 20 Least Corrupt Places to Live and Work (26 October 2010)

 

 

Becoming Artisans, Is that a Way to National Economic Hopefulness? ─ Probably Not (24 October 2010)

 

 

Financial Institutions Stole Americans’ Money, Created the Foreclosure Crisis, and Clouded Title to Real Estate ─ How’s that for Plutocracy in Action? (22 October 2010)

 

 

Behind the Shouting Decay that Marks American Politics, Science Still Has its Hope-Inspiring Triumphs ─ the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (21 October 2010)

 

 

Political Anger for Its Own Sake Does Not Solve Anything ─ It Shuts Down the Mind, Making Constructive Change Difficult (21 October 2010)

 

 

Gandhi’s Crew, A Morality Play for Our Times ─ the Great Person Theory of Leadership Ignores the Other Critically Important People Who Made It Work (19 October 2010)

 

 

President Obama’s Introverted Equilibrium Probably Tripped Him Up, when He Failed to Recognize the Importance of Job Creation for Mid-Term Election Success (19 October 2010)

 

 

As the United States Continues Its Rapid Eye Movement Sleep, China’s Government Monopolized the Rare Earths Production Necessary to American Economic and Military Survival (18 October 2010)

 

 

Switzerland Versus the United States, an Interesting Difference in Perspectives regarding Democracy and Investment in Transportation Infrastructure (15 October 2010)

 

 

Turning the Military’s Dead into Political Ploys at Arlington National Cemetery ─ Can We Get any More Morally Revolting? (12 October 2010)

 

 

Ryan Lizza’s New Yorker Article Reveals Details about the Death of the Energy Bill in the Senate ─ an Exercise in Dysfunctional Government and Failed Presidential Leadership (11 October 2010)

 

 

Senator Susan Collins Wrote a Moderate Essay that Mostly Misses the Point, but Includes a Comment from George Washington that Hits It between the Eyes (10 October 2010)

 

 

Another Step in the New American Way to Self-Destruction ─ New Jersey Governor Chris Christie Cancelled the Much Needed Hudson River Tunnel

(08 October 2010)

 

 

Green Energy Substitution Is Not a Realistic Solution to Carbon Emissions in the Short and Medium Terms ─ Our Planning Needs to More Realistic

(07 October 2010)

 

 

It Is Hard to Stay Credible if One’s Behavior Is Not Credible ─ The Obama Administration Continued to Shoot Itself in the Foot during BP’s Gulf of Mexico Oil Gusher (06 October 2010)

 

 

If Americans Could Vote for Underfunded, Centrist, Anti-Plutocratic Third Party Candidates ─ Would They? (06 October 2010)

 

 

House Minority Leader John Boehner ─ A Shining Example of Plutocracy Running Government

(05 October 2010)

 

 

Charles Krauthammer’s Conservative Political Criticism of the Commander in Chief Parallels My Centrist One ─ The President Has Put Himself in an Untenable Strategic Position at the Expense of Other People’s Lives (01 October 2010)

 

The American Political and Economic Situations Are Bad ─ Even Columnist Thomas Friedman Is No Longer Temperate about Them (29 September 2010)

 

Congress’ Inability to Govern Is Illustrated by Stephen Colbert’s Invited House of Representatives Appearance regarding Migrant Farm Workers (29 September 2010)

 

 

Challenging China’s Back-Door Protectionism May Be Necessary as the Lesser of Evils

(27 September 2010)

 

 

China Is Looking toward the Future ─ What Are We Doing? ─ Pretty Much Zip (26 September 2010)

 

 

Philip K. Howard, David Brooks, and a Call to Personal and Positional Responsibility ─ Transitioning from a Currently Failing Culture into a Successful One

(24 September 2010)

 

 

Chinese Humor Highlights America’s Economic and Political Conundrum (22 September 2010)

 

 

China’s Leaders Are Mostly Scientists and Engineers ─ So They Don’t Waste Time and Opportunity by Arguing about Reasonably Certain Scientific and Economic Realities (20 September 2010)

 

 

Is Accurate Thinking in Politics an Educable Trait? ─ Democracy Fails if It Is Not (20 September 2010)

 

 

How to Change the American Soul, as Applied to Education, without Getting Politically Shot Down

(19 September 2010)

 

Educational Reform Requires Fixing the American Soul (15 September 2010)

 

 

Improving American Education Is about Culture, More than It Is about Teachers, Buildings, and Books

(13 September 2010)

 

 

Acting as if Perfect Security Is Achievable Is Strategically and Morally Unwise ─ The Primary Analytical Flaw underlying Our Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (11 September 2010)

 

 

Selecting an Intelligent Mission and Sticking to it Is Important (09 September 2010)

 

 

Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki ─ Trying to Do What Is Right against a Tide of Government Inertia (02 September 2010)

 

 

Well-Meaning Foreign Critics Could Become the American People’s Best Friends, If We Seriously Considered their Insights (26 August 2010)

 

 

If We Were All as Obtuse as the Food and Drug Administration, Our Genes Would Have Died Out Long Ago ─ The FDA Rejected the Idea of Emulating Britain’s Success in Reducing Egg Salmonella

(24 August 2010)

 

 

Hanging Our Troops Out to Bleed ─ Politicians’ Islamic Cultural Center Button-Pushing Puts Our Troops into More Danger (23 August 2010)

 

 

Government’s Fake-Science in its BP Residual Oil Spill Estimate (05 August 2010)

 

 

Contemptible U.S. Senate Exposed by George Packer and David Broder ─ American Republic’s Looming Failure Captured in a Nutshell (05 August 2010)

 

 

Making the Economy Worse by Saying We Cannot Do Anything about Avoidable Problems (02 August 2010)

 

 

Government Gets Bigger, Does Less, Costs More, and Leaves Us More Vulnerable than We Were Before ─ Franz Kafka and Kurt Vonnegut Would Laugh (19 July 2010)

 

 

Gravitas that Conceals Devious or Mistaken Minds Is a Problem for the American Public (14 July 2010)

 

 

Casualty of War – One Soldier’s Psychic Strength in Stark Contrast with the Spinelessness of Our Political Leaders (03 July 2010)

 

 

Conceptual Thinking Aids and Hinders Rationality and Efficient Living ─ Awareness of the Paradox Is a Key to Wisdom (07 July 2010)

 

 

Public Indifference to U.S. Military Deaths in Afghanistan Requires Re-instituting the Draft as a Means of Reminding Americans of the Need for a Less Selfish Personal and Public Morality (30 June 2010)

 

 

American Thinking Is Over-simplified Dualism (25 June 2010)

 

 

President Obama Fails the Leadership Test Provided by the Gulf Oil Spill (12 June 2010)

 

 

Aspects of the Gulf Oil Spill Are So Absurd that They Escape Attention (12 June 2010)

 

 

Awakening to Unpleasant Facts ─ Leadership is about More than Achieving Office, Citizenship Is about More than Getting Rights (19 May 2010)

 

 

Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon Spill Could Have Been Avoided Had United States Regulators Used Common Sense and the Precautionary Principle

(15 May 2010)

 

 

Plutocracy at Work in Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

(03 May 2010)

 

 

The United States Is Losing Freedom’s Heritage

(12 April 2010)