Category Archives: Opinion

If there is any one word that will define the next 5 years, I would argue that it is “sustainability” or more specifically, “unsustainability.” We are going to be repeatedly forced into discussing this because like it or not, much of what we do is unsustainable. Our society is in denial.  We look at big […]

The Wall Street Journal has produced a series of charts to explain the president’s 2013 budget.  It shows the usual information we’ve come to expect from government reports, yet another year of deficits, most of it going to entitlements and little evidence indicating the budgetary situation is likely to improve anytime soon.  However, even that simplistic view […]

Most Americans have no idea how perilous the times we live in have become. They know the economy is in bad shape. They know the yearly deficits are significant. Americans are war-weary even though they have been largely shielded from the consequences of a decade of constant war and broken promises. The more perceptive critics […]