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Frank Burke
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February 26, 2015
Toward a Winning Communications StrategyWithout a defined and implemented communications strategy, Republicans will lose more than the presidency in 2016. It is ironic that at the present time the party of Ronald Reagan, the man known as “The Great Communicator” should so of...
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August 1, 2014
Automation: the Joker in the DeckBecause of the hostility toward (and ignorance about) business that permeates the Obama administration and the Far Left, they are overlooking an element that could have the effect of accelerating unemployment among low-skilled workers to exponential ...
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July 21, 2013
Destroying the American BrandThe cumulative negative effect of the Obama administration's methods, actions, and ideology on the perception of the United States, both at home and abroad, becomes especially vivid when viewed in the context of a business analogy. And no busin...
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June 8, 2013
A Failure to CommunicateThe line, "What we have here is failure to communicate," from the film, Cool Hand Luke, might describe of the single greatest failure of Republican conservatives. As those on the Right sought to analyze the loss of the 2012 Presidential race, one of...
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October 10, 2012
Don't Bet on Obama's Likeability RatingDespite declining approval numbers, pundits are opining that Obama will be re-elected because of his personal likeability rating. Lacking a background in market research, they are taking at face value a question with much more subtle implicatio...
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March 12, 2012
Democrats Kill Wisconsin Jobs to Spite Governor Scott WalkerOn March 6, every Democrat in the Wisconsin State Senate, and one Republican, voted down a bill that could have streamlined the permit process and permitted the development of an iron mine in a depressed area of northern Wisconsin. The mine wou...
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September 9, 2011
Manufacturing FailureDr. Susan Hockfield, in her recent op-ed piece article for The New York Times titled, "Manufacturing a Recovery" (August 30, 2011), reveals much of the liberal/academic mindset and selective blindness that, in seeking government solutions originated ...
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July 4, 2011
American AmnesiaAlzheimer's is one of the most terrifying diseases because it is the thief of memory. And, without memory, we know neither where we have been nor where we are capable of going. Rather, we exist in a perpetual present, futile because it le...
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April 15, 2011
Substance and Style Needed to Defeat Obama in 2012Those pundits and politicos evidencing shock and awe at the public's seeming embrace of Donald Trump's possible candidacy are missing a key point that will be critical to success in the 2012 election: the importance of style in the leadership equatio...
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March 14, 2011
Barack Obama: A Management AppraisalIn addition to examining the roots of Barack Obama's political philosophy, an evaluation of his management style, such as might be undertaken by an independent business consultant, is likewise instructive.The comparison is apt in that the United Stat...
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February 23, 2011
The View from WisconsinFor those outside the state to fully appreciate the significance of what is happening in Wisconsin, it is necessary to understand the local political situation over the past decade. To conservatives and to many moderates, the capture of the gov...
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February 13, 2011
J. Edgar Holder and His Misplaced PrioritiesThe recent "mob roundup" in New York is emblematic of the disconnect on multiple levels between Eric Holder's Justice Department and the real world problems facing law enforcement . One of the most frequent criticisms of the late J. Ed...
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January 22, 2011
Culture Minus ContextA controversy currently taking place in the literary world reflects longstanding problems with the writing -- and teaching -- of history. In an eloquent and superbly reasoned piece in the January 6 issue of The New York Times, literary critic M...
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January 4, 2011
The Lamest Duck of AllObama's vaunted lame duck session successes will, like most of the administration's agenda items, come back to bite him at a later date.Anyone doubting that the area inside the Washington, D.C. Beltway combines the more surreal elements of the Emeral...
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December 25, 2010
A Special Christmas SongIn the season of joy, one song's poignant lyric recalls the darkest days of the Second World War and provides a message of hope for today.By 1943, the full impact of World War II was felt in the United States. American troops were fighting and ...
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December 14, 2010
The Energy Equation: Practical Fact vs. Political FictionPolitically motivated energy solutions continue to exacerbate the problems they were supposed to counteract. The automotive industry and the CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) regulations, which originated in 1975 as a result of the 1973 Ara...
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December 4, 2010
A Foolish DREAM and its Nightmare ConsequencesOnce again, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and the Obama administration are attempting to negate the United States Constitution and the will of the American people in a cynical attempt to satisfy yet another of their multiple special interest groups....
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November 28, 2010
The Dangerous Mythology of ImmigrationNo question on the national agenda is more important than the resolution of our immigration policy. The U.K., France, Spain, and Germany have discovered that, as German Chancellor Angela Merkel stated recently, multiculturalism has "utterly fail...
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November 3, 2010
Conservatism's Boll WeevilObama may, unwittingly, have done for conservatism what a hungry insect accomplished for cotton farmers years ago.The Town of Enterprise, Alabama is home to one of the world's most unusual monuments. It was erected in 1919 by the farmers of surroundi...
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October 21, 2010
Obama's Impossible LeapNo area demonstrates the Obama administration's lack of intrinsic knowledge and stubborn failure to seek competent guidance than manufacturing policy.Early on, candidate Obama pontificated about the need to end tax breaks for companies moving jobs of...
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October 17, 2010
The Unions, the Trial Lawyers, and Mr. ChekhovHow did Anton Chekhov's play The Cherry Orchard (1904) ever get past the censors of Imperial Russia? The central plotline is an extremely obvious representation of the then-current situation in Russia and its inevitable consequences.In the play, Mada...
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October 14, 2010
A Matter of AccountabilityThe low regard in which American elected government leaders are held by the public derives not merely from the combination of poor legislation, paralysis in matters of pressing importance, and pork-barrel projects. It is fueled also by the personal, ...
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October 4, 2010
Marching Toward Oblivion: Obama's Core Supporters and the Corruption of IdealismThe core supporters who not only facilitated the rise of Obama, but hijacked the traditional Democratic Party and have led it to the brink of electoral ruin need to be understood. To understand the psychology of Obama's core, it is necessary to defin...
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September 10, 2010
The Student Loan TakeoverThe unilateral seizure of the student loan program by the Obama administration carries extremely serious implications for the future of higher education in America, especially in view of a confluence of market forces that have the potential to effect...
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September 9, 2010
Liberal Economics -- Insular, Misguided, and ObsoleteA prominent Democrat has unwittingly provided an in-depth view of all that is misguided, incorrect, and vacuous regarding the ultra-liberal perspective on the economy, business, and the global market. In a recent op-ed piece, "How to End the Gre...
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August 14, 2010
Governing against the PeopleWhile it is not yet known whether "the rise of the oceans began to slow" since the nomination/election of Barack Obama, it is clear that Lake Michigan hasn't, thanks to the recent infusion of more than two billion gallons of raw sewage, cou...
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August 9, 2010
Obama's 'Cool'The Late Show with David Letterman.The View.Paul McCartney plays the White House. Barack Obama's affinity for pop culture is emblematic of his administration's greater disconnect on programs, policy, and ideology from the mainstream of American...
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July 25, 2010
The Bête Noire of LiberalismIt's called the "Law of Unintended Consequences" -- the fact that politically motivated, well-intentioned (but poorly conceived) legislation results in situations that wreak havoc far beyond what was originally supposed to be remedied....