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The founder of USA TODAY felt strongly enough about Obama’s intent to constrain our Space Program to point out that we’re now #2 to Russia, soon to be #3 to China, with others beginning to play as well. The catalyst for his cutting back severely was clearly budget issues, which I’m more than concerned about (as he must be while our expense magnitudes skyrocket). Note: Our war...
read morePresident Obama is obtaining Kudo’s for his nuclear initiative with Russia. My instinct was to applaud, but sometimes it pays to keep thinking. Sure enough, some NYTimes letters-to-the-editors make one stop and think, especially when presumed Democrats (the majority of Time’s readers) turn skeptical. In the 4/8/10 Times, one letter (from A. Weitzner) pointed out that “to think that rogue...
read moreI recently wrote a negative scenario of our country’s future. A similar future scenario exists for Israel, in fact the world has become very sensitive to Israel’s future prospects, many for, but more against. I’d like to present the danger which faces Israel, a summary based mostly upon a March 31 article in the New York Times by Gary Bass called “When Israel and France...
read moreExcerpted from David Horovitz, J.Post: For all its honey coating, the Secretary of State’s speech was replete with advice and demands…lectured on the untenability of the status quo, as though this was news to Israel….urged Israelis to take risks and seek new avenues to peace, as though Yitzhak Rabin, Ehud Barak, Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert had not sought compromise, but then been ...
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35th Anniversary of Gartner Inc.'s Founding: Gartner Inc. (originally called Gartner Group) was born on April 1, 1979, together with a ... [read more]
Oh My Darling Clementine: My three year-old grand-daughter Clementine is very smart. While she's never taken any piano lessons ... [read more]
Social Networking May Be Bad for Your Health: What might have once been called 'intellectual networking' seems to have been displaced by today's ... [read more]
Genius Economist Suggests Solution to Housing Problem: John Geanakoplos is James Tobin professor of economics at Yale University and one of the founders of Ellington Capital Management, ... [read more]
Which Executive Education School Is Tops?: Interestingly, executive education rankings by various publications produce results which seem all over the map. In fact, the ... [read more]