It should hardly come as a surprise that the Obama White House has been rocked by a veritable plethora of alleged scandals in the past couple of weeks.  It would be even more impressive if any of them even came close to approaching those of the other twice-elected presidents of the last fifty years. Richard […]

“War is merely the continuation of policy by other means.” -Carl von Clausewitz               “Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.” -Otto von Bismarck Here’s a question to get us started:  If a guy tells you that he knows […]

In the good old days (circa 2000), when the economy slipped into even a near-recession, let alone a full-blown one, law school applications soared.  The thinking was that if you couldn’t get a job in the business world, you could certainly find one with a law degree.  Thus college graduates would turn away from MBAs and other […]

The week just past had most of us glued to our TVs as one horrible event played out in full view of a national audience while another that would have been equally compelling almost went unnoticed, save for those who were tragically affected by it. The first was the detonation of the two bombs at […]