Donald Trump has the power to do amazing things. When I heard his assertion that Canada’s “ridiculously high tariffs on our Farmers and farm products has made life impossible for these great American Patriots,” I was suddenly trans…
From the week Donald Trump was inaugurated, tariffs – taxes on imports – have been the center of his economic program and the subject of much reporting and controversy, with Trump touting the enhanced revenue and incentives to onshoring…
The challenge, “Where’s the beef” didn’t do all that much for Minnesota Democrat Walter Mondale in his race for president in 1984. Nevertheless, some Democrats today hope that “How much is the beef?” will be a vote-producing slogan over…
If one has lived in a developing country, a trip across the Minnesota prairie from Mankato to Brookings, S.D., drives home how well our country has done many things. And the quadrangular system of roads — state, county and…
As Americans, we face an IHOP-sized stack of problems.
Despite 30 years of warnings, our federal budget deficit and debt problems are about to blow up — from an annual average federal deficit of 1.67% in the 1990s to 5.8% this…
Our nation is in a state of chaos, politically and economically.
Many other nations in the world are in their own states of disarray.
And the war we started four months ago in the Persian Gulf introduced chaos to the international…
“Assumption of command” always is a challenge, as every green second lieutenant learns.
It’s never easy to take over leading an existing organization that has strong personalities and unwritten rules.
That is the challenge that Ke…
“Can we all get along?” We boomers or geezers may remember Rodney King’s plaintive 1992 question as widespread rioting broke out across Los Angeles; this after the L.A. police officers who had beaten King on a viral video were found not…
“How much things have changed in 30 years!” Just saying that is proof of geezerhood.
But those too young to remember back to the 1990s need to understand how adversely our nation’s economy has turned in the past three decad…
