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Helping People
I had the opportunity several years ago to sit next to one of the members of the House of Representatives while on a flight from Washington, DC to Los Angeles. He is still a member of the House and...
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Equal Opportunity
We hear a great deal of equal opportunity and fairness. I can give you a reasonably acceptable definition of equal opportunity, but I’ll be doggone if I can tell you what fairness is. Fairness, like...
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“There May Be Bigots Out There…”
I was reading a non-fiction book, and one of the people in a quoted conversation, referring to one particular aspect of human behavior, said, “…there may be some bigots out there somewhere who...
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Damned if You Do …
The talking heads have spent the last month berating President Obama for not being sufficiently bold in taking action against ISIS. Now that he has ordered significant air strikes against them, the...
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CEO Pay
Just read a rant about how CEO pay averages 354 times the pay of an unskilled worker. I firmly believe that people should be paid decently – an honest day’s pay for an honest day’s work. In a recent...
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A Common Language
The debate in the U.S. over bi-lingual education is missing an important point. The United States has existed for over 227 years, and for almost all of that time, it has been an English-speaking...
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Follow the Money
Politicians and detectives often say that, if you want to find out the truth about something (who benefits from a law or who committed a crime), just follow the money trail. Recently, I watched a...
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Net Neutrality
Yesterday, President Obama announced that he wanted to see the Internet regulated as if it were a public utility. While I strongly favor net neutrality (net neutrality is the absence of higher rates...
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Inequality
Inequality has been getting a great deal of press recently – by the Democrats. I think that the Democrats are waving this flag because they were trounced in the 2014 elections, and this was a topic...
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Labor Unions
First, I want to confess that I think that labor unions serve a valid purpose in today’s economy. They provide a constraint on the level of stupidity to which management (not leadership, mind you) can...
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