by Donald Croft Brickner Per the Growing Importance of a Tenable Global World View — a Recommended Ontological Backdrop to the Essay that Follows: Ours is not a primary reality. Everything in our cosmos is a construct of an invisible-to-the-naked-eye building-blocks foundational reality — whose operating rules are not only consistently different from those of […]
Obama Tells Japan “We Are Bound By Our Shared Prosperity” – Speech Transcript
The following is a transcript of President Barack Obama’s prepared remarks, delivered at Suntory Hall in Tokyo. Good morning. It is a great honor to be in Tokyo—the first stop on my first visit to Asia as President. It’s good to be among so many of you – Japanese and Americans – who work every […]
Is Hannah Montana Really Such a Great Role Model?
First in the series: Today’s Female Role Models Who says, who says I can’t be Superman? I say, I say that I know I can. Who says, who says I won’t be president? I say, I say you ain’t seen nothing yet! (“Who Said?” Performed by Hannah Montana, 2006) It sounds like a Girl […]
Op-Ed: Obama, Please Drop Stimulus Packages
According to press reports — and even recent suggestions by President Elect Barack Obama, now less than three weeks before Christmas 2008, and precisely one month before he takes the Oath of Office — the astute, well-meaning and determined new administration is about to make a horrid blunder: wasting what enormous tax dollars it now […]
FASHION WORLD–LATEST NEWS–MY WAY
A Sense of Elegance – Burberry Coats Almost all designers wants to create his/her own unique style, trying everything just to get the attention that they want and they only want it for their selves. Almost every month they releases a new trend of clothing line in the market, trying to fit itself in […]
A Note to Capitalism’s Economists: It’s all About the Consumer — Period
It’s not as if we don’t get our fair share of warnings — as in, these Billy Joel lyrics from last century: “… Every child had a pretty good shot … to get at least as far as their old man got… Something happened on the way to that place: they threw an American flag […]