What We Want in a PresidentBY LAWRENCE B. LINDSEY from OpinionJournal.com (excerpts) There are, however, three other questions about a candidate’s character that are likely to shed some light on whether that candidate will do well in the on-the-job training

FromAmerican ThinkerThe Big WinnersBy Richard Baehr http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/01/the_big_winners.html excerpts Can Clinton recover? She has lots of money, and an infrastructure in place in many states. But her strength was the sense of inevitability about her winning, and her claim of long

On December 15 I posted the predictions for Iowa from Intrade showing Huckabee and Obama winning in Iowa. So far so good, we will see how the other primary predictions turn out. I find it worthy that Huckabee soundly beat

Intrade.com is giving 48% odds that the US will go into a recession in 2008. While it is risky to contradict this site on elections I think the odds are strongly against a recession in 2008. The incumbent party will

When our candidates claim to fight against the special interests in our government they are usually referring to the trial lawyers, the NRA, the teachers’s union, the oil lobby, the Israel lobby (never the Arab Lobby), the unions etc… The

The next a time a political advocate states a position push it to clarification. When they want to raise taxes on the rich, have them define rich in terms of annual income or assets or both. When they want to

It seems that almost every political campaign appeals to the desire for change, yet in daily reality and in the business world I find most people uncomfortable with change. In fact people almost violently oppose changes to their routine and

Stephen Covey wrote that trust has two components: character and competence. Character implies the willingness to do the right thing and competence implies the ability to do the right thing. Without both of these components there is no trust. Among