Bowles-Simpson to America: Cut Spending Now
WASHINGTON – The American debt crisis is deep and real, requiring urgent measures. What is at stake here is...
Category: Politics
After The Elections: Divided America
WASHINGTON – Maybe we can call these mid-term elections the revolt of “Fly-Over-Country” against the coastal pro-big-government elites that...
After the Elections: A More Divided America?
WASHINGTON – Most opinion polls indicate losses for the Democrats, the majority party now holding both the White House...
How to get America back into Innovation
WASHINGTON – A recent Schumpeter column in The Economist magazine (“The Innovation Machine”, August 28 – September 3, 2010),...
Indiana: Blueprint for Lean, Smart Government
WASHINGTON – President Obama, perhaps overwhelmed by the number and magnitude of the issues already piled up –the banks, GM,...
If Arizona is Wrong on Immigration, then what?
WASHINGTON – The always relevant The New York Times dedicated an Editorial, “Showdown in Arizona“, July 28, 2010, to...
America: Open Doors to Foreign Innovators
WASHINGTON – There are two issues confronting America’s economic vitality. One is the disturbingly weak short term economic picture...
Counterinsurgency against a political clock
WASHINGTON – How are we doing in Afghanistan, now that General David Petraeus has taken over? Well, it depends...
Happy Fourth America
WASHINGTON – I run into an old acquaintance in the elevator. A few pleasantries are exchanged. And his farewell...
BP and the Mismanagement of Complex Systems Systemic failures indicate inability to understand the true nature of problems, in industry as well as in government
WASHINGTON – The story of the BP Gulf platform explosion and never-ending spill has been presented to the public as...