April 28, 2015

U.S. Immigration Policy: What We Have Wrought Is Unsustainable

There is little doubt that immigration will be a major campaign issue in the 2016 presidential election.  Sadly, opinions on immigration are too often based on very limited knowledge and understanding of the effects immigration has on our countr...

May 29, 2013

Necessary, But Not Sufficient: Reports on Benghazi and the IRS

When a bureaucracy screws up, it's just as hard to find out what happened as it is to fix it. The Benghazi and IRS debacles are no exception. The U.S. Federal Government, with over 2 million employees, is probably the largest, most complex bureaucrac...

May 22, 2012

Fixing the GSA

Believing that government oversight committees can penetrate the darkness in the General Services Administration, an organization that has lost its way, and navigating without a compass or sextant, the Congress is at best rearranging the deck chairs ...

July 10, 2011

Me Bad: Six Not-Easy Steps to Get Me Out of the Mess I Caused

How to ruin a life, legacy, career, and marriage in an instant?  That is what Representative Anthony Weiner did when he recently hit the send button on his Twitter account.  Within a few days, good that he may have done became deeply discou...

January 2, 2011

Obama's Bucket and Other Social Science Insights into His Presidency

Barack Obama, like all of us, is a product of his own experience. His multi-racial birth, early childhood development, formal education and professional experience form the milieu from which he has evolved and constitute the attributes he brings to t...