Is John McCain Courting the Religious Right?
Your Business Blogger was strolling through Washington, DC and decided to step into an old building to escape the July heat. The Dirksen beckoned. If it’s named after a Republican, then it’s got to...
Category: Leadership
When Men Outnumber Women
An Alert Reader, Martha, a former Air Force enlisted, who has been following the thread on women in combat with concern, writes to explain the “Abracadabra” issue: I have heard horrid stories from deployed...
The Devil Wears Prada and Alan Greenspan: Nuance and Silence
Charmaine and Your Business Blogger President’s Box Kennedy Center ca 1988 Your Business Blogger once sat near Alan Greenspan with his hot decade-long date, Andrea Mitchell in the President’s Box in the Kennedy Center....
Larry Summers Speaks Up for ROTC; Gets Fired
Harvard ROTC CommissioningThese two events are not connected. Directly. Causation? Maybe. Correlation. Certainly. Your Business Blogger was recently reminded that it is possible to get an army commission at Harvard. Lefty gentleman Jody Wheeler...
Center for Military Readiness Names New Vice President
As George Bush started to run for president, the story is told about Dick Cheney and his work to help find a Vice President. Numerous talented candidates were evaluated. But none were quite as...
Bribery as a Cost of Doing Business In Washington, DC
Your Business Blogger with back office hardware Bangalore, India In India it’s called “Speed Money.” In Mexico it’s call “Facilitation.” In China it’s called a “Relationship.” In the US of A, it’s called a...
Al D'Amato, Leadership and the Courts
A few years ago Your Business Blogger would occasionally share an elevator with then Senator Al D’Amato (R-NY) where he had a hide-a-way of some sort. He was Senator from 1981 to 1999 until...
Job Interview: 3 Questions for Your Prospective Boss
In your job search you are prepared to answer many questions. But there are questions you should be prepared to ask. Questions for your possible new boss. And not just the trite and true,...
Starbucks Coupon from China, Redeemed in Maryland
Starbucks in China A well meaning friend gives me a gift certificate from Starbucks. While we were in Shanghai. So I pack it home, thinking I would attempt to redeem in the US of...
Savage Places Second in the Cal Ripken Tournament
Savage Spirit, Maryland Championship First Runner-Up Cal Ripken, Opening Day Tournament 2006, 11u, years old and under Vince Lombardi once said, “The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out...
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