Something happened during the 2014 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland this year. It didn’t make headlines, but it’s something that certainly should not be ignored. While Iranian leaders spent most of the time talking about their nuclear program and other issues including Syria, there was a brief exchange between …

The typical American mom (and dad) must think government economists have rocks in their head. According to the number crunchers at the Labor Department, over the last year, prices were up only 1.2 percent, and for the month of November, inflation was zero, nada, zilch! Surely economists don’t eat, or …

1787: Americans are thunderstruck. After secret meetings, political muckamucks have proposed a breathtakingly radical new government. Tempers flare over how to respond. 1861: a meltdown over slavery. Neighbors — sharing the same heritage, language, and God — kill and die in droves. The New Deal. Civil Rights. Today’s skirmishes on …

The government slimdown, known in some quarters as the so-called “shutdown” hasn’t lived up to the disastrous predictions. Federal government spending has been cut by 17 percent from the scheduled increase for the 2014 fiscal year. It is only a 13 percent cut from what was being spent during 2013. …

I realize the last thing the White House wants from me is communications advice. And, goodness knows, President Obama has plenty of advisers all weighing in on the public relations push to get Congress (and the American people) to support an intervention in Syria. Yet, there’s something about the administration’s …

Friday, forecasters expect the Labor Department will report the economy added 175,000 jobs in July, down from 195,000 in June. They also expect the unemployment rate to slip a notch to 7.5 percent. The pace of jobs creation has been stronger in recent months; however, a noticeable shift toward replacing …

Eight days into its presentation the prosecution in the George Zimmerman second degree murder trial signaled that it planned to finish its case by the end of the day. Prosecutors did not rest but their midday statement signaled that they were essentially done showing the jury all of their evidence …

We have arrived at a defining moment for the progressive movement in this nation. The New York Times editorial board, which has generally given this president a lot of leeway throughout his career, wrote a scathing denunciation Friday of the Obama administration’s use of data mining, claiming that “the administration …

The Kermitt Gosnell verdict is hardly a victory. Out of 7 charges of first degree murder to unborn babies, Gosnell was only found guilty of three. Of one charge of third degree murder to an abortion patient, Gosnell was found guilty of a lesser charge of involuntary manslaughter. A 38 …

It was a life-shifting question from South African social rights activist and Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu inviting me to tell him about my life – “Not what you’ve done, but who you are.” No one had ever asked me such a question before. Most of us expect the inevitable question …