Tag archive for ‘Choices’
Encouraging the Freedom to Fail
American business is the most robust, the most efficient, and the most effective in providing returns to shareholders on invested capital. We take capital from all points on the globe and turn it into returns that are often multiples of what they initially invested. No other country is as effective at generating wealth as the United States. We are so effective because of our commitment to capitalism and free markets. Part and parcel of that commitment is a belief in freedom. One of those freedoms has to be the freedom to fail. For if failure is not a consequence of bad decision making by private enterprise, we will surely fail in the long term in generating wealth. Life without risk, in business, is not worth investing in.
What Obama’s Policies mean for America: Defense Policy
This is the first article in a multi-article set that will examine each of the policy “categories” that Sen. Obama identifies as part of his platform, and offer some critical analysis of what an Obama Presidency might mean, given what he has said.
I decided to write these series of articles after Sen. Obama commented on [...]
How important is the Vice President pick anyways?
The buzz this week is all about who Sen. Obama will chose as his Vice Presidential nominee. I have been talking with friends and the question keeps coming up, “How important is the pick?” The answer - it is one of those choices in life you can only “screw up”; getting it right often has [...]
Edwards “Bangs the Help” - and lies about it…
To quote John Edwards, there are in fact two Americas, the America where I get to have illicit affairs while running for President and lie about it, and the America where if you did that, you’d probably wind up castrated.
But hey, perhaps just like Sen. Edwards went to learn about poverty by working at a [...]
UBL free because of GOP policies, and “Tigger” too…
Today, the exchange between McCain and Obama on the national security issue reached the surreal. Obama’s likely “National Security Advisor” Richard Danzig, claims he’ll follow a “Winnie the Pooh” approach to foreign policy - if it hurts too much, then stop doing it:
Richard Danzig, who served as Navy Secretary under President Clinton and is tipped [...]
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