So those millionaires and billionaires finally resolved their differences?  Now, don’t we all feel better?             I’m referring, of course, to the new collective bargaining agreement struck last week between the owners of the teams that comprise the National Basketball Association (the NBA) and the players who are paid handsomely by those owners to […]

                Don’t look now, but the presidential election of 2012 is less than a year away.  Of course, if you follow politics at all, you know that the campaign has been fully engaged since last summer.  In fact, it probably took off with the creation in August of the Congressional Super-Committee, which just this week […]

            Three months ago, I predicted that Barack Obama would be defeated in his bid for re-election.  In making that call, I wasn’t exactly going out on a limb.  No president since World War II has secured a second term with an economy as bad as the one the country is dealing with now.              […]

            Some dates are remembered because of what happened on them.  December 7, 1941 and June 6, 1944 are remembered for their significance in the last World War.  (The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that got America into the war occurred on 12/7/41; the allied invasion of Europe began on 6/6/44.)             Other dates are […]