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US Public Education In Crisis Latest PISA scores underline the failures of U.S. public education

WASHINGTON – The international student proficiency scores gathered under the auspices of the Program for International Student Assessment, (also...

Obama Is The Big Loser In This Election The hard reality is that most American voters do not care about his legacy

WASHINGTON – Outgoing President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle actively campaigned for Democratic Party nominee Hillary Clinton. In...

How The US Fed Damaged The American Economy Too many years of zero interest rates caused a stock market bubble

WASHINGTON – I indicated a while back that whoever would be elected President of the United States on November...

The Tragedy Of The Uneducated Poor in America The poor cannot get a good education. And so, they stay poor

WASHINGTON – Much has been said about the “crisis” of American public education. Indeed, if we look at the...

Round One: US Shale Wins, OPEC Loses The US shale oil industry managed to become more productive and more efficient

WASHINGTON – Here is the news. The US shale oil industry, while badly wounded by the price war waged...

Is Exxon’s Obfuscation About Climate Change A Crime? Exxon apparently knew a long time that fossil fuels cause global warming but denied it in public

WASHINGTON – Here is the thing. We know now that ExxonMobil’s internal documents reveal that experts working for the...

First Comes Growth Then New Jobs in our politically correct word jobs can be willed into place, whatever the economic fundamentals

WASHINGTON – Every day I walk by a giant banner hanging from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce imposing building...

Can Clinton Unify Left And Center Against Trump? The candidate's message is that she is on the left but also a pragmatic doer who will seek unity. Will this resonate with voters?

WASHINGTON – Hillary Clinton’s performance at the Democratic National convention in Philadelphia was “mission impossible”. Now the anointed presidential...

Will Tim Kaine Help Hillary Clinton Get Elected?

WASHINGTON – Hillary Clinton, about to be nominated presidential candidate for the Democratic Party, just veered back to the...

How To Handle Terrorism: Stop Media Coverage Terrorists love publicity. International media make them famous, this way encouraging others

WASHINGTON – A 31 year old French citizen of Tunisian origin, using a truck as his weapon, run over...