I get a bit tired of candidates accusing each other of "flip-flops." I suppose no one remembers Ralph Waldo Emerson, who penned...

“Responsibility is a unique concept... You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but...

We learned soon after the Germanwings crash that it appeared to have been intentional. The movie Dr. Strangelove immediately came to mind....

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. Ralph Waldo Emerson ...

A little etymology is in order.  Fortunately, Timothy Taylor in his blog "The Conversable Economist" saves us the trouble of porin...

American CEO's Are Forty Times As Productive As Germans At least that is what one might assume from the above graphic. Tha...

Some years ago, then-First Lady Hillary Clinton asserted that a "vast, right-wing conspiracy" had targeted her husband, President ...

Here is an interesting post by economist Tim Taylor, reposted by Mark Thoma.  It addresses issues of manufacturing productivity and suggest...

Michael Hiltzik, writing in the Los Angeles Times, makes it pretty clear that Hostess' problems were caused by management , not the unio...

In August, 1935 Soviet newspapers reported that a twenty-nine year old miner, Aleksei Grigorievich Stakhanov ( Алексе́й Григо́рьевич Стаха́н...

The style is unmistakeably "socialist realism."  In the National Review? A blatant copy of a Soviet poster (rolled up sleeves and ...

Along the same lines as yesterday's post by Robert Reich is an interesting examination of why business leaders aren't calling for ec...

OK, it wasn't Bonaparte. It was really the Board's retreat, but that doesn't have quite the same ring. Liz and I spent the pas...

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Yesterday's New York Times had a very informative article focused on why iPhones are made in China, not in America. And the answer is, ...

Bizarre town meeting tonight. Only four commissioners present (Commissioner Styron was absent). After an interminable discussion of minute...

Things slowly getting back toward normal in Oriental. Only thing lacking is DSL Internet connectivity from Century Link. Everything else: ...

The North Carolina Legislature in its 1991 session passed An Act to Set a Referendum on Possible Changes in the Electoral System for the Tow...

Some Oriental Town Commissioners seem to have great difficulty grasping the proper role of the board of commissioners. Let's try again. ...

Interesting column by Harold Meyerson in last week's Washington Post . The question Meyerson addresses is whether the United States can ...