Visualize the following scene: A pilot is at the controls of her new jetliner. Digital displays show a wealth of information: altitude, course, air speed, latitude and longitude, engine rpms, exhaust gas temperature and other data. The pilot knows exactly…
Politicians have better things to do than mess with gas price concerns
Why do members of Congress and other government officials spend so much time on peripheral issues? I know that many American will not agree with me, but recent increases in gasoline prices do not constitute a national emergency. Moreover, there…
A trade deficit does not indicate a fiendish plot by another country
“We have plowed the sea!” With those bitter dying words, Simon Bolivar expressed his frustrated conclusion that his life’s work had come to naught. El Libertador helped much of South America achieve independence from Spain. But instead of enjoying liberty,…
More to Social Security than retirement
Social Security was long termed the third rail of politics: touch it and you are dead. No more. Everyone from presidential candidates George W. Bush and Al Gore to Minnesota Senator Rod Grams has a plan to revamp the 60-year-old…