Observations©
By Don Coakley
Last week my column extolled the beauty of our Eagle Watch community and how that beauty brings solace to one’s mind and soul. I suppose we all wish life’s problems could be resolved so simply; by looking out over the fairway of a golf course into a distant mountain range. But we also know life’s challenges cannot be solved so easily. After all life is … Read more...
By Les Dunaway
I’ve read the Wall Street Journal most every weekday for 20+ years. Being a money junky, I also read Forbes, Financial Times, … Over the past few weeks, when we’ve had some of the worst market swings in memory, the discussion has recognized that the world, not just the US, is hanging on the edge of a really nasty depression. That’s to be expected and isn’t news … Read more...
By J. Randolph Evans
Okay, it is officially political chaos out there. For months, Republicans have flirted with having a ‘frontrunner’ for the GOP nomination. Sometimes, the ‘frontrunner’ has not even been a candidate – like Donald Trump and Governor Mike Huckabee.
There have been ‘if she or he ran’ frontrunners like Governor Sarah Palin and Governor Chris Christie. There have been the ‘comings and goings’ of various candidates as … Read more...
By Les Dunaway
The Occupy Wall Street demonstrations have brought up a subject that needs more scrutiny. A member of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, who dissented from the report, summarizes what happened in the Oct 12th Wall Street Journal.
Judging from the squealing from the left, below, he struck a nerve. Take a look a these videos, in light of what we know now, and see if … Read more...
By J. Randolph Evans
Justice George Carley turned Georgia judicial elections upside down with a single decision this week. Here is what happened.
2012 was shaping up as a pivotal election for Georgia’s judiciary. On July 31, 2012 (Georgia’s Primary Election), Georgia voters would elect a majority of Georgia’s seven Supreme Court justices.
Placing four justices on the same ballot at the same time carried significant implications. It meant that … Read more...
By Les Dunaway
We lost a great one today – Steve Jobs lost his long battle with cancer. Our world is poorer without him. [WSJ] [Forbes]
I want to talk, not about the Mac or the iPad or … that Steve and his coven of heavy-techies created, but rather a basic principle the Macs have followed.
Open the box
Plug in the cord
Turn it on… Read more...
By J. Randolph Evans
On September 29, 2011, the Georgia Immigration Enforcement Review Board held its first meeting and elected Ben Vinson as its chair. It also started the process for enforcing Georgia’s tough new illegal immigration laws. Somehow it was fitting that it happened on the same day that a federal judge in Alabama upheld what many regard as the toughest illegal immigration law in the United States.
The … Read more...
By Les Dunaway
In a debate co-sponsored by NYSE and Corporate Responsibility (CR) magazine’s COMMIT!Forum the Agenda 21 people made clear their agenda – the destruction of capitalism. Of course, anyone who has looked at the website wasn’t surprised.
[Reuters report] [Advisor One report] … Read more...By Les Dunaway
“When institutions protect the liberty of individuals, greater prosperity results for all.”
Adam Smith in “The Wealth of Nations”, 1776
This truth is a key measure of the fitness of a government to survive. When any government fails this test, the citizens of that government must resort to another statement, written the same year:
…We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, … Read more...
By J. Randolph Evans
The Chicago Cubs led the New York Mets by 9½ games in the National League East late in the 1973 Major League Baseball season. Lawrence Peter “Yogi” Berra summed up the situation like this:
“It ain’t over till it’s over.”
Yogi Berra was right about baseball in 1973. The Mets ended up winning the division in the last game of the season.
… Read more...By J. Randolph Evans
Once upon a time, there was a new football coach at a prestigious university. Now, this was not just any university football program. It was a team that had a long and storied history of success. Yet, recent troubles had prompted the university to bring on a new coach – full of promises of better things yet to come.
… Read more...By Les Dunaway
Well, we now have President Obama’s plan to “to put more people back to work and more money in the pockets of those who are working”. A long list of business leaders had little hope that the speech would contain anything substantive. They were proven right. What we got was more of the same, both in terms of the programs offered and the tax increases to pay … Read more...