1933-1945: It Could Never Happen Here
You have accepted things you would not have accepted five years ago, a year ago, things your father could never have imagined.
36,576 Reasons Never to Forget
Older South Koreans are forever grateful to the U.S troops who saved them from Communism. Could anything be more honorable than that? The Korean War should never be forgotten.
A Spcecial Moment
From time to time, a large coyote had been paying us a visit looking forward to whatever scraps of food he could find or perhaps our minpin, Jackdog. I say large because it resembled a wolf more than a coyote (but his tail gave him away
Barney Frank: Fox in the Hen House
The markets will take care of the business of business.Barney Frank should focus elsewhere and mind his own business. He should remain as the witty entertainers in the center ring of his own political circus.
Civics: Some Good News
those responsible for curricula should not fall prey to budgetary, bureaucratic and/or administrative requirements that continue to handicap and produce students who think the current way is the only best way.
Cuba: Its time
Lets unlock the potential that would have tremendous and lasting benefits for both Americans and Cubans. Lets show them what the American Model can do. I can think of nothing better than that to facilitate an ideological transformation. Its time.
Eminent domain, eminently Immoral
Article shows how a recent Supreme Court decision further strips away our property rights.
Golden Parachutes and Pensions: An Invitation for Mischief...
At a time when traditional pensions in the private sector are disappearing at an alarming rate, the pensions in the public sector remain juicy plums with glaring loop holes to be exploited at every turn at the taxpayers expense.
Government Intrusion
How intrusion at all levels is used to control how we live and think. How to fight back.
Income Inequality is a Positive Indicator.
Political candidates from both major parties all seem to agree that America faces a crisis of income inequality. They propose to alleviate it by raising taxes on the wealthy and expanding various welfare programs. What crisis?
Let's Form a Committee
An explanation of Parkinson's Law and how it applies to bureaucratic and government waste.
Let's Roll
How heroes inspire us to achieve beyond the norm. Who are some heroes and who are not?
Punishing Success
Defending Wal-Mart against state legislation designed to force it to pay health benefits.
Rewarding Failure
How rewarding executives who fail with oversized severance payments is out of sync with pay for good performance.
Rewarding Failure: Part Two
More and more, these episodes continue to be classic examples of the elite rewarding the elite, of how powerful people can bend or rewrite the rules to fit the games they play and somehow rationalize it, but in the process, they are tempting fate.
Rising Gas Prices and the Government
The knee-jerk responses to demand the government to do something to force rising gas prices lower continue, but such calls are misguided. Market fluctuations in the price of gasoline, up or down, are none of the government's business.
Rosolino: Parts One and Two
I will not try to seek resolution regarding this tragedy nor have I attempted to. I never try to make sense out of the senseless, for that is an endless loop. I do know that one's control can be taken away at any time.
Sub-primal Fear
an extraordinary policy shift is needed to contain the sub prime-mortgage collapse that is happening in plain sight and Chairman Bernanke may be the one to lead us through such a shift. I am betting he will be a major improvement over Alan Greenspan.
Sub-primal Fear: Part Two
Individuals are ultimately responsible for the loans they make and for choosing the housing option that are best for them. Any problems they have are their responsibility to remedy.
The Almost Alternative
This is 2008. These are tough times. Laws need to be enabling; not disabling. The government needs to protect; but not overly so. Common sense and personal responsibility need to prevail.
The Myth of Commercial Growth
In a classic governmental interventionist versus free market face off, some hope for massive bailouts while others argue this would be a disastrous message to the globe that must be avoided at all costs.
The New Forgotten War
America's campaign in Afghanistan seemed to have been considered a success. Our policy makers and spin meisters told us we have nothing more to fear. But the facts clearly suggest otherwise.
The Politically Correct
How the PC police are continually telling us what is right and what is not.
Time for Real Energy Alternatives; Time for Action
I don't have all the answers but at least I have recommendations, and I will no longer remain on the sidelines with those saying "oh isn't it awful." I truly believe a multi-faced approach can go far in solving our energy issues,
Whispers Of Love
A man copes with the loss of his brother after forty consecutive days at his bedside.
Who Will Represent Me?
independents vote issues, not parties. They vote their conscience and not what someone else tells them to do. They cross over the ballot rather than vote straight down the ticket. Hell, independents are not robots; they tend to think for themselves.
Ted Sares, PhD, is a private investor and entrepreneur who lives and writes in the beautiful and secluded White Mountain area of Northern New Hampshire with his wife, Holly and Min Pin, Jackdog. He writes a bi-weekly column for a local newspaper and is a regular contributor to the NH Business Review. He specializes in columns, articles, essays, op-eds, and short stories. Many of his works are widely published.