Friday, November 29th, 2013
There was a bit of a hullabaloo over the deal made last week to lift sanctions on Iran, in exchange for reductions in their nuclear program. Many praise the diplomacy as progress towards a more peaceful and stable Middle East. Russia, China, Egypt, Turkey, France, Britain, Germany, are all fine with it. Even Israel’s President
Tuesday, November 12th, 2013
Typhoon Yolanda, may very well have been the strongest typhoon to make landfall in the Philippines, at least measured in wind speed. The devastation, and cost to human life are truly tragic, and the people of the...
Friday, October 25th, 2013
When the Reverend Jim Jones told his followers they were all going to drink Kool-Aid and go to a happier place, they all lined up and drank it. The Reverend Jones was their God. Like many leaders...
Thursday, September 19th, 2013
In my work, I sometimes rub elbows with the rich and powerful. Not long ago, I was doing some work for a multinational corporation based in Mexico and discovered something that perplexed me. The founder of this...
Monday, September 9th, 2013
Did you ever stop to wonder why is there a “Middle East” in the first place? Just about as long as any of us can remember there have been problems there. But why are the lines drawn...
Friday, August 30th, 2013
She was in her late twenties, with flowing brown hair and clear pale skin. I met her on my morning commute. The 880 from Oakland to San Jose is one of the worst commutes in the Bay...
Saturday, August 24th, 2013
Franklin Delano Roosevelt is considered by many to be the greatest American President of the 20th century. His four terms as chief executive changed the course of government as we know it, and the direction of world...
Friday, August 23rd, 2013
“As a first step, I would see to it that things are called by their right names.” That was what Confucius said would be his first act if he were to govern a just society. He further...
Monday, August 19th, 2013
I didn’t plan to get in a fight. I didn’t go looking for trouble either, but somehow trouble seems to find me. Well, that’s not exactly true, maybe I was looking for it just a little bit....
Sunday, August 11th, 2013
1,810 people renounced their US citizenship in the first half of 2013. That’s SIX times as many people who renounced their citizenship in the same time period the previous year. The trend is unmistakable. More and more...
Thursday, August 8th, 2013
I’m going to burn my house down. Then I’m going to push my car off a cliff. And then for a finale, I’m going to throw my television into the ocean. Besides being a tremendous amount of...
Monday, August 5th, 2013
The Sooner State is leading the pack is the quest to make healthcare simpler and less expensive. Not content to wait for directions from above, Dr. Kevin Smith and Dr. Steve Lantier started a surgery center based...
Wednesday, July 31st, 2013
Despised by some, deified by others, Ayn Rand is mostly known for her overly thick novels: The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. She also wrote a book outlining her philosophy called, The Virtue of Selfishness. It has provided...
Tuesday, July 30th, 2013
When I was a kid, my friends and I built a tree fort in the woods out behind the last suburb of town. On the front door we hung a sign that said, “No girls allowed.” Why...
Sunday, July 28th, 2013
The great thing about science is that it is true for everyone. The terrible thing is that it’s not always true right away. One-year science says avocados are bad for you, and the next year science says...
