This State Of The Union Is President Obama’s Farewell Address, To The Economy
Tonight’s State of the Union Address will be a bittersweet moment for me. Having voted for President Obama twice, once for cultural reasons and next because I saw him as more faithful to Distribution...
View ArticleTurkey and South Africa’s Interest Rate Hikes Still Might Save Emerging...
The surprising decision by central banks in Turkey and South Africa to raise rates – against conventional wisdom – may be the best hope emerging markets have to limit the damage done by a Federal...
View ArticleSuper Bowl Semantics: Why O’Reilly Defeated Obama On Benghazi
“In the late 1800s, Michel Bréal coined the term sémantique to describe the psychology of language. That French word has its origins in Greek: semantikos means ‘significant,’ and comes from semainein...
View ArticleLaura Ingraham KO’s George Will. When Economic Nationalism Is Better Than...
Host Chris Wallace adroitly played the role of both boxing promoter and referee on Fox News Sunday – recognizing the tension between Contributors Laura Ingraham and George Will on the issue of...
View ArticleUganda’s Anti-Homosexual Law Doesn’t Matter To Obama. Countering China And...
“To the media and the American people, officials insist the US military is engaged in small-scale, innocuous operations there. Out of public earshot, officers running America’s secret wars say:...
View ArticleAs Sports Struggles With The Politics Of Gay Rights, Race Relations and...
“People say, ‘I don’t like it when you talk about politics’ [but] everything’s political… Everything is – business is, sports is. Everything is, so if you can’t handle it turn off the radio.” Colin...
View ArticleMemo To CPAC Conservatives And CATO Libertarians: Ideas Win Arguments But...
“A personal attractiveness or interestingness that enables you to influence others.” - ‘Charisma,’ defined at Vocabulary.com As I watched bits and pieces of the Conservative Political Action...
View ArticleJoakim Noah, Kevin Brady And Bray Wyatt Have The ‘It’ Factor Of Leadership
Every political party, civic organization, team and business firm could learn some valuable lessons in leadership from three persons in very diverse fields – basketball, politics and professional...
View ArticleObama’s Pop Culture Embrace Aims At Policy, But Risks A Cult Of Personality
“Times that by my influence on pop culture, I’m supposed to be number one on everybody’s list/Let’s see what happens when I no longer exist” - Jay-Z, from “What More Can I Say?” “Levity...
View ArticleThe Law of 250. Joe Girard’s Sales Strategy Wins The Millennial Vote, Not...
“What is still untapped for political organizing on technology (is) we’ve done really good in mobilizing the base and raising a lot of money (but) we haven’t really done a lot of persuasion with it.” -...
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