William Seward and the Alaska Purchase

Aren't you glad you purchased Alaska? You got a bargain, you know. You purchased it for 2 cents per acre for all 586,000 acres of it.By "you" I mean you as a tax payer. Back in 1867, under President Andrew Johnson, successor to Abraham Lincoln, the United States purchased Alaska... Read More

Toll Ways Hurt The Flow of Transportation

The United States has never done a full study on the economic losses caused by the toll ways, which impede our daily lives and the flow of our transportation. Transportation is vital to the health of a nation, its GDP and the flow of commerce and trade. Each time we... Read More

The Liberal Solution: Assault a Conservative?

Ok, here is what happened: On March 31, 2005, Pat Buchanan, conservative commentator and former presidential candidate, was giving a speech at Western Michigan University when some 24-year-old ding-dong, who apparently did not like what he was hearing, decided the appropriately mature and tolerant behavior would be to attack Mr.... Read More

Wartime Prisoners and the Will to Fight; War is Hell, Let?s Win Alright?

We learned some lessons in these last few wars. For instance: some of Saddam's Iraqi army personal may have given up or volunteered to give up to slow us down. Prisoners take time to handle and resources to collect. Some are now saying we should not have spared them. He... Read More

National Security; College Campuses

I have witnessed a new era of security in the US. It is by far more prevalent than ever before. All dutied personnel and former officers of law enforcement are on alert. This is good. However we should not blow our wad too fast here. Remember International Terrorist acts are... Read More

Recycling The Mentally Ill

30 years ago, California, later followed by other states, decided to virtually close down the State Mental Hospitals.There had been multiple exposures of abuse throughout the Nation's systems such as over-medicated individuals kept on back wards for years without clinical justification. However, the primary force leading to the widespread closures... Read More

Is it just hubris, or ...?

In what the Americans love to describe as the war on terror, there have been no clear winners even though it has been physically going on now for over three years. By the looks of it, the tussle between the United States of America and its perceived enemy will outlast... Read More

Bilderbergs

In the words of a secret agent who has signed the Official Secrets Act in Britain we find the rationale for what government and supranational organizations have been involved in since Cleopatra, Christopher Marlowe and his own immediate predecessors Crowley and Ian Fleming. David Barrett tells us:"Although the policies of... Read More

How Small Business Benefits From Supporting Labor Unions

For a short time I worked as a union officer for the office workers' union at Walt Disney studios. It was a very educational experience and one thing I learned is that people have a strange attitude about the relationship between unions and business management. All too many business managers... Read More

Alternative to Land Mines in Middle East

With the recent threats from Bin Laden and Al Queda to attack Oil Fields, Pipelines, Facilities, Refiners and Assets of Oil Companies which supply the United States with it's need fuel, such operations will have to upgrade and defend themselves. There are many options from robotics to land mines. Yet... Read More

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Clearing Land Mine Fields from the Air

You know we have sent many, many army tanks with... Read More

Accessibility Requirements for Fair Housing

PolicyFederal Fair Housing accessibility requirements for new multifamily buildings should... Read More

Mommas, Dont Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Lobbyists

For many years now, I have been the proud holder... Read More

Poitical Opinion - No Comment

Publicity is correlative to your position in the community. Seldom... Read More

How Can We Prevent Black Outs and Protect the Grid?

The idea is to have all the important items with... Read More

Seattle Lawyer and Financial Freedom

We are destroying our freedoms and slowing innovation, due to... Read More

Whose Afraid of the Government; Whose the Government Afraid of?

We need a government that can be as responsive to... Read More

America Needs Election Reform to Ensure Congressional Honesty

America must implement a policy on Election Reform that is... Read More

Biz Op Marketing and the Federal Trade Commission

Many had made mention of the problems of business opportunities... Read More

Anarchy: Law, Order, and Authority

[Author's Note: Another essay that I wrote on notebook paper... Read More

Think You Dont Need A License for A Wireless Microphone? Think Again

Believe it or not, every theatre, church, or Britney Spears... Read More

The Blessings of the Black Economy

Some call it the "unofficial" or "informal" economy, others call... Read More

UAV Materials and Thoughts on New Technologies and Keeping Up With Our Opponents

Possible UAV materials are infinite: Foam, Composite, Balsa Wood, Plastic,... Read More

Why Dont We Listen To Entrepreneurs?

I just got done reading a series of articles dating... Read More

Trains and the Flow of Fuel

Fuel costs seem to rank high in surveys of US... Read More

Is Inflation Harmful

Q. Should the Government be concerned if the CPI rises... Read More

Religion, Wars and Civilization

Many are quick to point out the benefits of religion... Read More

John Kerry as a Prosecutor?

Prosecutors with political ambitions are known to modify the truth... Read More

Monitoring Macedonia

Close to 500,000 people - one in four - live... Read More

Experts?

ACCREDITATION: - Scholastic regimentation from the post WWII period has... Read More

Tracking Over The Road Trucks from Canada

Are you happy with all this so-called security after 9-11?... Read More

Mexicanizing America

A friend of mine, who lives in the thick of... Read More

The FTC Purports and Misrepresents Their Law Enforcement Experience as It Attacks Business

We should all give much kudos to the Federal Trade... Read More

End Of History? Not Quite

A visitor to Moscow would be immediately struck by the... Read More

Watergate Scandal

On June 16, 1972, a security guard at the Watergate... Read More

Dealing with Massive Prisoners of War

In the last Gulf War we saw thousands of enemy... Read More

The Professions of the Future

Predicting the future is a tricky business. There have been... Read More

Delta

As you know Delta Airlines is close to bankruptcy. Their... Read More

Revitalizing The Power of the Baby Boomers

As baby boomers, we have been spoiled all of our... Read More

So How Far Have We Come? Here are some of the 2001 Anti Terrorist Projects

An article in Information Week in January 14, 2002 discussed... Read More

A Look Ahead to 2008 (Part I)

Just as everyone has breathed a sigh of relief at... Read More

True Democracy and a Way Forward

The process of researching this topic has been an interesting... Read More

An Overlooked Plan for Bush, Kerry, Democrats, Republicans, and Healthcare Costs

In an effort to assist our political leadership it would... Read More