My book, One of the Last Business Dinosaurs: How I took an alternative path to business success, is now available for mail ordering.
It’s my memoir of 43 years in business communications, but I include tips on succeeding in business. In it, I suggest that having a passion and a perseverance of excellence are important in whatever career one decides to pursue.… read more
(Cartoon courtesy of Michael Ramirez, IBD)
I hope you weren’t among those so grateful for Iran’s quick release of our sailors and their boats that you dismiss the fact that it again pointed to America’s weakness abroad.
Pictures of our sailors on their knees with their hands on their heads were broadcast around the world with quotes by an Iranian Revolutionary Guard general saying our Marines were “crying,” and “admitted humbly our power and might.” Continue reading
Columnist Peggy Noonan’s description of the Republican presidential contenders “running around like rabid squirrels throwing nuts at each other in the dark,” was cleverly stated in her recent Wall Street Journal piece.
It’s time to clean the stable and prepare for the November stakes. (horses.about.com)
Here we are with a fine stable of candidates, each with his or her own strengths and weaknesses, and they choose to attack each other like school children.
Not satisfied with the way he turned the media on the qualification of Sen. Ted Cruz to serve because of his Canadian birth, Donald Trump twisted the knife by calling the Cruz comment on New Yorker values as “insulting.” Time will tell if this seriously hurt the Cruz campaign, but the media is making the most of it. Continue reading
(Cartoon courtesy of Michael Ramirez, IBD)
In recent posts I have written about President Obama’s seven-year hatred of the coal industry despite the fact that coal has supplied us with the cheapest energy and still produces about a third of America’s energy.
Further evidence of his 2008 threat to bankrupt coal companies was revealed this week when Arch Coal filed for Chapter 11 protection, following the earlier filings of Patriot Coal, Walter Energy and Alpha Natural Resources. The actions of Obama and his compliant EPA have killed some 40,000 lower and middle class jobs during his tenure. Continue reading
With the Paris conference on climate change behind them, the Obama administration has enlisted the help of Martin Luther King III to help them sell the black community on the importance of the president’s Clean Power Plan.
In doing so, the president and King are taking on the National Black Chamber of Commerce, a group that took a position against the Clean Air Plan just six months ago.… read more
It’s nice to be back again, sharing my political views with you. I took a brief hiatus for the Christmas and New Year’s holiday season, but when I returned to my blog I found that my host had done an update and, in the process, caused much of my style points to change.… read more
Like me, you’re probably getting a bit tired of the political polls. They really don’t mean much this early in the game, but when my curiosity peaks I check out Real Clear Politics, where they average the major polls.
(Graphic courtesy 365psd.com)
The polls that fascinate me are the ones citing favorable and unfavorable ratings. By now, most of you know that 67.2 percent of those polled by Gallup believe President Obama has the nation going in the wrong direction and just 23.2 (who are they?) believe he’s doing just fine. The president’s disapproval rating is at 51.8 percent, and his favorable is at 43.9 percent. Continue reading
After posting my thoughts here that we now have a plan to reduce carbon emissions over the next 50 years, but lack a plan to destroy ISIS today, I was pleased to see the Investor’s Business Daily editorial position, Leaders 
Fight Phony Climate Enemy – Solving Real Problems Too Hard. “What better enemy for them to tackle than one that can’t be seen, whose damage can’ be quantified, and which can’t fight back?” IBD states.
“They should get serious about eradicating terrorism. Climate change has harmed no one, but terrorists continue to slaughter in large numbers – nearly 33,000 people were killed just last year in terrorist attacks,” according to the IBD editorial. Continue reading
There he was this weekend, Secretary of State John Kerry, touting the Paris agreement on global emissions reduction he negotiated for the United States; the same John Kerry who negotiated the nuclear deal with Iran.
Master negotiator John Kerry touted his Paris agreement on carbon emissions reduction this weekend. (nypost.com)
Understandably, Kerry spent most of his time defending the lack of any provision for enforcing the “pledged” reductions by the 185 countries, saying that “If there had been a penalty, we wouldn’t have gotten agreement. So it has to be voluntary. We got the best deal we could.” Continue reading
“The agreement represents the best chance we have to save the one planet that we’ve got.” – President Obama
Grammar aside, on Saturday our president touted the “Paris agreement” on reducing carbon emissions as a landmark climate pact.
“We came together around a strong agreement the world needed. We met the moment, and we’ve shown what’s possible when the world stands as one.”… read more
