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I watched “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room” tonight. It is a great example of the unbridled greed which overcomes Americans when they decide that they can be trusted to make decisions about other people’s lives and money. We regulate industries because we don’t trust people to those decisions. Why does we think that…

Another thought spin-off from watching “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room” results from a statement by one of the people interviewed, who said that he felt that what he was doing could be unethical, or worse. What is worse than unethical? Is there anything in personal life which could be more painful than believing…

Sure, that’s a sensational title. About the same as the sign carried by a child saying that “Obama Lies, People Die” (or something like that; maybe it was about grandma). There have been publications that around 20,000 people a year die in America because of the lack of health care. Then, Congress can take the…

Just saw a TV commercial promoting a cap-and-trade system for carbon emissions, to cool the climate and heat up the economy. That was followed by a Burger King commercial promoting eating cows. Ain’t capitalism great? The juxtaposition of addressing a really serious, I mean, really, really, really serious problem threatening the entire world and life…

Just read a quote from H.R. Clinton in China, “Human rights cannot interfere with the global economic crisis, the global climate change crisis and the security crises.” She doesn’t get it. I fear that many of our leaders don’t get it. The global economic crisis is caused by the failure to respect human rights, fundamentally! Every…