May 22, 2011

The difference between legality and ethics

Rarely are there two stories in the news at the same time that, between them, so well define an important issue in our society, character.You are aware, I'm sure, of the man who won a lottery and took home over $800,000 in cash, yet still collects fo...

May 6, 2011

A Greenie fesses up

An interesting article in which the author, a noted "Greenie," illustrates the "problems he sees for the green movement. First, that they don't really have an understanding of reality, for example, for their proposals to work, progress...

September 3, 2010

A Real Economic Stimulus

When we hear supposed experts speak of what we need to do to help our ailing economy, they never seem to mention the obvious: increasing exports and reducing imports, and doing so without increasing import duties. Is it just too obvious that if more ...

April 14, 2010

The Recoveryless Recovery

The president, the left-hand majority of the media, and the Democrat political leaders are all trumpeting about how the recession is over. They say that employment will recover soon, that employment is a lagging indicator. Since they all speak w...

March 7, 2010

Is Capitalism Evil?

We hear people speak of "business" and "capitalism" as being somehow evil, including comments about capitalists victimizing employees and customers in pursuit of the goal of "maximizing profits". In conversations wi...

March 3, 2010

Is capitalism evil?

We hear people speak of "business" and "capitalism" as being somehow evil, including comments about capitalists victimizing employees and customers in pursuit of the goal of "maximizing profits".In conversations with sup...

December 27, 2009

Engineers, Scientific and Social

On January 14, 1953, the chairman of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. spoke at the annual meeting of the Society of Automotive Engineers in Detroit. He was Admiral Ben Moreell, and in 1953, most people in the audience would have known him as a founde...

June 30, 2008

Lies, Statistics and Trends

Over the period of our lives, we humans ought to learn more efficiently. But in so many ways, we keep sticking our fingers in the same light socket and yet each time we are subsequently surprised when we get a shock. Case in point - the word ...