As CNN anchor Lou Dobbs seems to ask (night after night) – “What in the world is going on with our government?” Many more people of ordinary means as well as those in high places of power are now asking the same question. As we...[more]

For generations of American workers and business managers, the Heartland states – western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, and others – have been the epicenter of American manufacturing know-how. This was the...[more]

Part II – As we wrote yesterday, in our next of the woods, here in suburban Long Island, New York, two recent tragic incidents have shocked newspaper readers and TV watchers, whether they live in these parts, elsewhere in the...[more]

In our neck of the woods, here in suburban Long Island, New York, two recent tragic incidents have shocked newspaper readers and TV watchers, whether they live in these parts, elsewhere in the country…or in some distant place on...[more]

The Hon. Everett McKinley Dirksen was a gravely voiced, avuncular US Senator from Illinois (he served 1951-1969) who helped to pass the Open Housing Act of 1968, a powerful piece of the Civil Rights legislation. We long remember...[more]

You can tell a lot about a nation by its trading activities, and what goes on at the international seaports where cargo ships of all kinds come and go – the important ports of call of a nation. Take the United States; today,...[more]

Take it to the People, Mr. President. That’s my unsolicited advice for our new president, who takes office January 20, 2009. Considering the complex issues that our new leader will face after he leaves the Capitol steps and the...[more]

Very impressive -- over the weekend the governmental leaders of the world’s largest economies gathered in Washington to exchange ideas and lay the groundwork for greater cooperation in solving the multiple financial crises their...[more]

As we await the arrival of our new president and vice president, cabinet members, and the new members of House and Senate… During the primary campaign season at one point Senator Hillary Clinton was asked about her political...[more]

President George W. Bush came to Wall Street today to meet and greet Wall Street’s power crowd, and to reassure the capitalists that HE still has faith in the capitalist system. The president spoke in what was the first capitol...[more]