I’m looking for the wimp of a politician who won’t fess up to taking $29,000 from six political action committees (PACs) and then writing 22 checks for $1,000 each to support Democratic congressional incumbents and challengers. This trickster hiding in the fiscal equivalent of a smoke-filled back room used as his or her guise a […]
Archive | June 9, 2007
Progressive capitalism: Tocqueville, RJ Reynolds, and taking back our American birthright
This is a song Charles Manson stole from the Beatles. We’re stealing it back. – Bono Business issues have been much on my mind of late, and not just for the obvious reasons. Gavin (Whythawk) has pounded this space with a steady stream of posts that come at us from some really different angles. The […]
Two Frontiers: wars of liberation and of determination
Never has the chasm between the expectations and concerns of the rich and those of the poor been greater. The youngsters lighting fires in Germany at the G8 Summit to protest about globalisation and capitalism have little in common with the striking protestors in South Africa this week although they express themselves as vitriolically and […]






