Growing up around religious people means that I got to know a bunch of folks who took inordinate pride in believing the unbelievable.  It do...

So a brand-new subway system that cost $527 million to build is going to cost $500 to repair due to Hurricane Sandy's storm surge.  When...

For 35 years, we have been told by fools that governments, and their employees, cannot do anything of importance.  Well, once upon a time, t...

This is it.  Expensive bureaucrats toting expensive Powerpoint presentations fly to the capital of an oil emirate and what is accomplished? ...

So USA State Department climate envoy Todd Stern goes to Doha.  And since the record he must defend is indefensible, he just lies.  And whil...

They are really going to do it.  Today.  The Norwegians really are going to give the Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union.  This is the s...

And oh, that first one is so beautiful!  Looking out my front door. Yes we are coming up on holidays that promise the light will return...

We who seek change in how our culture operates must admire Ms. Brown.  On one hand, she gets up every morning convinced she has discovered o...

The problems for any farmers raising animals for markets continue.  They have been running in the red since August when drought worries caus...

It is no surprise that USA is  the skunk at Doha.  It was inevitable.  In most of the world, the science supporting climate change predicti...

There are dozens of metrics out there that measure the success (or lack thereof) of a given society—GNP, trade balance, quality of life meas...

$243 million seems like a LOT of money for a light rail station.  But it includes a quite beautiful rehabbed building from the 1920s.  Even ...

Still at the level of a demonstration project, Gazprom just sailed an LNG tanker from Hammerfest Norway to Japan—with a little help from thr...

I actually got to perform with Dave Brubeck.  It was 1970 and he had written a "Jazz Oratorio" called "A Light in the Wildern...

The MAIN reason the world needs to restructure the insane amounts of existing debt is that they are crippling the possibility for doing anyt...

Say what you will about Doha, it has been an occasion for the publication of new scientific findings.  The findings are much more grim than ...

It took me most of my life to learn life's most profound truth—NOTHING is as easy as it looks.  So please take the following article wit...

One of the original goals of Social Security was to give older Americans a reason to retire so their job would go to someone younger.  Even ...

One of my blessings in life is that I have been privileged to know members of the Producer Royalty.  Generalizing about those who successful...