A recent Op-ed piece in the Washington Post by Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO,  discusses disturbing trends that he believes demonstrate America's failure to maintain its leadership position in innovation. The trends he points to have to do with searches related to delaying back to school purchases last fall and increases in searches for payday loans over the past two years.

Mr. Schmidt believes that the best ways to curb unemployment and[...]

In the past, Americans have always provided for future generations, but our political leaders reversed that trend. Will a new movement emerge with the aim of providing our children with a brighter future or will we just leave them with budget deficits and mounting debt?

In a recent Op-ed column in the New York Times, David Brooks wrote about the failure of politicians to provide for future generations. In his column, Mr.[...]

Time magazine's November 22, 2009 article, "The ‘00s: Goodbye (at last) to the Decade from Hell" points out that the first decade of the new millennium might be one of the worst decades for America in recent history. How could they have drawn this conclusion?

In the last ten years, we have experienced two financial meltdowns - first in 2000-2001 when the internet Bubble Burst. Then again in 2008-2009 -[...]

The world wide web has brought people and ideas together far better than anyone could have imagined just a few years ago. Being able to communicate with anyone, anywhere at any time has made the world a much smaller place and provided us access to information and ideas no one dreamed possible a couple of decades earlier.

Citizens across the globe can discuss news, politics or any other subject with[...]

I believe we have another nominee for my 2009 WTF award. I believe it is okay for the government to have a say in the executive compensation for those companies that the government has propped up with federal funding, but in the private corporate sector that is not okay. Some members of Congress are testing the waters with talk about reigning in executive compensation for all private sector companies, not[...]

Okay, don't get too excited. I am not suggesting that democracy doesn't already exist in America. I voted in the last election and I hope you did too. However, we do not have a democratic form of government. The United States is a republic and our duIy elected representatives determine the policy directions in America and make the laws in the country.  All I am saying is that with the[...]

Bailouts haven't done much to help our faltering economy, so how could technology save the economy? What would you do with $100 billion? Spend it wisely we hope. That is what President Obama and the U.S. Congress are hoping. That's the amount in the stimulus package devoted to discovery, development and implementation of technologies in energy, healthcare, a smart grid, broadband and R&D.  

The short answer to the question is yes,[...]

What do they have in common? Both have been used to rob Americans of their hard earned cash for way too long. Now they have a second thing in common. I was wondering when I would find another candidate for my annual WTF award for 2009. I believe the U.S. Senate has provided me with a candidate.

The commonality between credit cards and guns has to do with a piece of legislation[...]

Welcome to socialism! Bailouts here, recovery plans there, not to mention national healthcare. I hear this mantra from a number of my more conservative friends, but I am not buying into it for one minute. Our free enterprise/free market system has sustained some serious injuries, but I don't believe for a minute that we can't fix our economic system and restore America back to its position as the leader of the free[...]

In a recent Assoicated Press article titled, With Obama, many say bye-bye to Boomers, the writer Jocelyn Noveck states, "To a number of social analysts, historians, bloggers and ordinary Americans, Jan. 20 will symbolize the passing of an entire generation: the baby boomer years." While I don't believe this for a minute, I am sure a number of people out there take this seriously. By the way, President Obama is[...]