HEALTH CARE REALITIES IN AMERICA (that’s the way of it) A President decides to get a first-hand view of the health care system here in America, to see what needs to be fixed or reformed, so that everyone can
A REVOLUTIONARY CHANGE (….blowing in the wind) As so often in human history, there comes a point when authoritarian rule becomes so unbearably oppressive revolutionary change begins blowing in the wind, as the mass of the people react against it
REACHING OUT TO TOUCH SOMEONE (only works….when someone reaches back) President Obama’s recent speech in Cairo to the Moslem world will do little to bank the fires of Islamist extremism and hatred for our country. If anything, the apologetic
ODE FOR ALL OUR POLITICIANS They lure the best and brightest of our youths Into the structured barbarisms of war, With gilded promises of honor they’ll never keep, As the everlasting remembrance of a grateful nation. And mindless
SCRIPT OUTLINE FOR A SHORT VIDEO FILM TITLE: HOSTIS HUMANIS GENE (a common enemy) (Theme up….) SETTING: A Federal Courtroom in New York City where, after months of legal maneuvering and wrangling, the lone survivor of a Somali gang attempting to
HOSTIS HUMANIS GENERIS (common enemies to all) Piracy at sea has always been considered a capital crime as far back as in Roman times; and, those engaging in it, subject to summary justice whenever caught. It’s been the law of
JUMP-STARTING OUR ECONOMIC ENGINES (without flooding them out with….paper) When it comes to economic and financial matters, perhaps my less than perfect academic immersions in these two fields often block my real understanding of them. Then again, it may be
THE ECONOMY TREE (making it bloom again) Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke’s public interview on 60 Minutes (the first in history) seems to have been an attempt at reviving public confidence in our financial system. While his comments were apparently frank,
THE BONUS RATIONALES (a case of anal-retentive fears) The rationales given for the AIG big bucks bonuses appear to be the result of anal-retentive fears that, without these, there would be no way to retain the hotshot “financial artistes” they