America Needs Education Reform WASHINGTON – Here is the basic proposition: America’s national secondary education system bleeds very badly. We are doing poorly and...
Time to Get Real in Afghanistan WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama just made a surprise visit to the US troops in Afghanistan and thanked them...
The “Debt Commission” Has Gone Home WASHINGTON – I recently expressed unconditional praise for Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, the two gutsy co-chairs of the...
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...
America Has Got Natural Gas! WASHINGTON – A Recent, (November 14, 2010), segment of the popular CBS TV program 60 Minutes was devoted to...
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...
How To Fix America: A Massive R&D Effort WASHINGTON – Fareed Zakaria wrote a thought provoking cover story essay in TIME magazine, (“How to Restore the American...
Needed: A US National Consensus on Debt Reduction WASHINGTON – America is facing death by garrote-like, slow fiscal strangulation. Overtime, Washington piled up debt levels that beat...
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...
India’s Rise WASHINGTON – The “Big Story” of the decade, in fact of the century, is the rise of Asia, a...