The Department of Transportation's High Speed Ground Transportation (HSGT) program aims to finance high-speed rail connecting major urban centers at distances of 100 to 500 miles, with trains running at 150 - 250 mph.  But a Washington Post front-pager offers disquieting numbers that give ...

Hillary's Great Red Diplomatic Moment presenting a gift to Russian FM Sergei Lavrov with a wrong Russian word inscribed will no doubt get some flunky tossed to the sharks off the east coast of Florida.  Seems Ms. 3 AM Phone Call used the Russian word peregruzka, thinking she was saying &qu...

But contrary to the above is the view of a writer, Sam Schulman, who calls calls Barack Obama a Hamlet in an astringent Weekly Standard piece.  Calling President 44 "a 20th century liberal of a very conventional type: incurious, superior and vain," Schulman writes that like Hamlet 44...

March 5 closing Dow Jones Industrial Average = 6,594.44, down 281.40.  At closing on January 19, Inauguration Eve, the DJIA stood at 8,279.63.  It has plunged 20.4 percent.  Upon 44's election it stood at 9326.24 (closing bell, Nov. 3), from where, in a scant four months, the D...

Forbes ran an astonishing story on Harvard University's investment calamity due to heavy investing by their fund managers in derivatives.  An endowment of $36.9B is now one-third smaller, with huge projects already under commitment.  Ivy League smarties turned out to be too smart for...

So I’ve been struggling with this post for a while.  I think a few people that I work with actually do read my blog now and again and I don’t want them to read this post and take it as free license to slack.  So, I thought I would start with this disclaimer: if you’re on my team ...

Filed under: Kids 8-11, Fun & activities In the summer, my kids have a lot of freedom to play outside and generate their own fun. In the winter, however, the bitter cold (it's almost zero degrees today in northern Wisconsin!) means a lot of time spent indoors. To entertain themselves, my kids pl...

Iraq.  President Obama's Camp LeJeune Address was eloquent in tone and sound in policy.  He gave highest praise to his audience of Marines, with sincerity and grace.  He is keeping enough troops in the country for satisfy his military commanders, and withdrawal is expressly pre...

Friday's sell-off made for the worst market month since 1933, a stunning no-confidence verdict rendered by investors on President Obama's first full month in office.  The Conference Board's Consumer Confidence Index fell to an all-time low (since its 1967 inception) of 25 percent; ...

Two items to offer a chuckle or two in these unfunny times, one from me, and one from a wag that was forwarded by a friend.  First, from me: Edgar Allan Poe's poem"El Dorado" (the City of Gold of Colombian legend) may prove to be an augury for Team 44's response to the econom...