New York Times

Dangerous dilettantes

“I work for the president but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.” Those words, published anonymously by the New York Times, may be the most dangerous words written in the history of our nation. While so many had their panties in a twist about a Read More

For all its flaws, we still need the Dayton Daily news

This morning on Facebook an acquaintance was railing against the new Dayton Daily news paywall. There was an article she wanted to read (ironically about the shift to temp and part-time workers) but didn’t want to pay for. This is a person who rallies against minimum wage jobs, Monsanto and the 1%, yet, doesn’t think Read More

Dayton makes the New York Times- again for the wrong reasons

We’ve made the news, the New York Times. Instead of talking about why Dayton is a great place to locate your business, with a highly trained workforce, low cost of living, high quality of life- we get a mid-level manager talking about our long-term unemployed: Lucious Plant, work force development administrator in Montgomery County, Ohio, Read More

Time for Warren Buffett to walk his talk

In yesterday’s New York Times, the oracle of Omaha wrote a plea for Congress to “Stop coddling the super-rich” and raise his taxes and all those of the people making more than $1million a year. I highly recommend you read it- and then laugh: OUR leaders have asked for “shared sacrifice.” But when they did Read More

The doors open to the back room of international politics

A sea change is coming to international relations- and social media will be the engine driving the movement. The latest release from Wikileaks is a fascinating look at the good ‘ole boy/country club that’s making decisions on how the world turns: A cache of a quarter-million confidential American diplomatic cables, most of them from the Read More

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