Today, a citizen concerned about an issue can't get a word in sideways because "Citizens United" made it legal for those with great wealth and corporations to literally buy a politician.
  America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. ~Abraham Lincoln   Lincoln's words are as true today as they were over 160 years ago when he first spoke...
There are three elemental areas of business – any business The three elements are: Sales Operations Finance
"Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK-Dqj4fHmM Who would have thought that the best advice for America in a motion picture would have come from Dean Vernon Wormer's reprimand of Flounder in Animal House? America is...
One of the most profound experiences of my life was the fall of the Berlin Wall. I was nine years old but could feel the change. I won't talk about the fall of the Berlin Wall (certainly not Hasselhoff), but to say the DDR was crumbling from within, and it was not Reagan.
When you thought of starting this business, what did you imagine your life would be like? What did you dream of having? Do you have the family or fun time you thought you’d have by this time? Are you any closer to fulfilling your dreams than when you started?
Chances are good that you've never heard of Cambridge, Ohio. It's a tiny hamlet located in eastern Ohio, near the West Virginia border, that happens to be my ancestral home. My maternal grandparents, along with relatives and fellow immigrants...
When you see what guns can do in the wrong hands each and every day -- not just once in a blue moon -- there is no time for fantasy.
You know, six years ago we went through the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Millions of jobs were lost. The auto industry was on the brink of collapse. The financial system had frozen up. And because of the resilience and the determination of the American people, we've begun to fight our way back.
Elizabeth Warren divined the reasons for the financial meltdown and continued economic sluggishness--the fact that the middle class now needs 104 paychecks a year to pay for a lifestyle their parents had with 52.