March 2, 2013

The Logic of Liberalism

While liberals have always (at least for a century) claimed the intellectual high ground, they have at the same time been applying flawed or incomplete logic in their solutions to social problems. This is rather obvious with the i...

February 23, 2013

Drones and the American Future

Drones are a tool of the modern age. They have benefits. They have faults. They have become the equivalents of the secret agents of the past whose role was to observe and thwart as needed. They are a modern technology with which no governmental leade...

January 18, 2013

Lies and the National Agenda

The world you grew up in is no more. The world of reasonable honesty and reasonable lies has been replaced by abject dishonesty and blatant lies. Lies. Ah, yes. People have always told them. You have told them; so have I. We need lies; they are a fo...

December 10, 2012

Understanding $16,000,000,000,000 in Debt

I don't understand how much $16 trillion ($16T) of debt is.  So, to help myself, I break it down to terms I can understand. There are about 254,000,000 registered vehicles in this country (2009 data).  Big number this is.  But ...

November 27, 2012

Can Online Education Work?

Can Online Education Work?   We are discussing here the future of education on this planet. Here are a few notes about online learning that may be of interest.  I know the faculty is generally dead-against it, but it is coming, maybe...

November 14, 2012

Generals and E-mail

What is so utterly unbelievable about the Generals Petraeus and Allen is their apparent naivety. These are experts at secure communications. They are intelligent and capable military officers. What could ever bring them to believe that any comm...

October 25, 2012

The Politics of Trust

There is an old saying that goes, "Trust, once lost, can never be regained." Trust is a singularly important commodity in the entire animal community.  It transcends and combines your entire mental makeup.  Trust is about survival.  Tr...

July 10, 2012

Blue, Red, and Swing States

The claim by the Obama campaign (Team Obama TO) is that we've had continuous job growth for the last 24 months. This is more-of-less true, but here we consider the actual data and how it fractionates by Blue, Red, and Swing states. Let's give TO the ...

June 26, 2012

How to Make Massive Legislation

In the past several years, we have witnessed massive legislative bills passed in Congress.  Some are more than 2,000 printed pages.  What are the consequences?  What does this mean? We begin with some salient observat...