President Elect Obama must govern from the center if he is to have a lasting legacy.  What does this mean?  Simply put, solutions to problems must be sustainable over time.  Solutions which are overturned with changes of political party are not useful or productive.  Legacies are built on centrist resolutions to problems.
Let’s look at a [...]

In 1948 Harry Truman was desperate to win the White House.  He had been president for over three years - but he ascended to the throne via the death of Franklin Roosevelt.  Truman was not popular.  The Republican Thomas Dewey led in the polls and in monetary donations.  The pollsters stopped polling two weeks before [...]

No one really knows. Or if they do they don’t agree with others equally confident of their knowledge. There are some things we can know - for instance, people are generally afraid of anything they do not understand. We step on harmless spiders and kill friendly snakes because we do not understand.
Many of us have [...]

Included in this post are excerpts from a previous post.  Added here are commentary from T. Boone Pickens on CNBS discussing the economics of energy.  We can check the video and then discuss the harmony of wind energy with nature.

Pickens speaks economically of the great wind corridor stretching from Texas to Canada.  I live on [...]

Tonight is the final State of the Union address by President George W. Bush.
The speech is on. President Bush began with recounting seven years of turmoil and debate, calling on the Congress for unity in Government. Bush calls on the Congress to make tax relief permanent. If any bills to raise taxes reach my desk [...]

Son,
Leadership is not personal.  Leadership is not about what I do at home in the evening, when no one is watching.  Leadership is about what one does when everyone is watching.
I really don’t care about the televangelist who privately has a couple of mistresses on the side.  Who cares - what is the message that [...]