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Why Larry Summers’ Withdrawal Is So Important

09/16/2013 Published on Forbes.com
President Obama failed quietly over the weekend, and it’s important to understand why. His failure had both everything, and nothing, to do with Syria. The withdrawal of Larry Summers as a prospective candidate to head the Fed is indicative of…

Obama Opts To Delay and Diffuse

09/11/2013 Published on Forbes.com
In Tuesday’s address President Obama didn’t change any minds. And he certainly didn’t offer any answers to the litany of questions from Congressmen, Senators, commentators and everyday Americans that have been posed since the President came out in support of…

The Threat At Home — The NSA And The “Golden Age of Spying”

09/07/2013 Published on Forbes.com
“An aggressor nation or extremist group could use these kinds of cyber tools to gain control of critical switches. They could derail passenger trains, or even more dangerous, derail passenger trains loaded with lethal chemicals. They could contaminate the water…

Weak On Syria, Weak In The World

09/01/2013 Published on Forbes.com
I am sure they are breathing a sigh of relief – if not celebrating – in Damascus, Tehran and Moscow. By that I mean that it looks like, at least for the short term, that President Assad has gotten away…

Medicare’s Independent Payment Advisory Board

08/27/2013 Published on Forbes.com
To absolutely no one’s surprise, Democrats and Republicans are still struggling to pass a 2014 budget, and have been unable to agree on where, and by how much, federal spending should be cut. Furthermore, the deadline is approaching: Congress has…

How To Reform The NSA

08/21/2013 Published on Forbes.com
“It’s not enough for me to have confidence in these programs. The American people need to have confidence in them as well.” Those were President Obama’s words at his August 9th press conference in which he laid out his plans…

Obama Plays Politics With The NSA

08/16/2013 Published on Forbes.com
As I discussed in my most recent post, thanks to last week’s newest revelation–that the NSA scans virtually all communications between Americans and their correspondents overseas, based on the conveniently inexplicit and ambiguous rule that the NSA may “seek to…

NSA Oversteps (Again)

08/10/2013 Published on Forbes.com
Let me be clear, Edward Snowden will never be a hero or a patriot in my eyes. I will not argue that he is traitor, though he is certainly a criminal. And no amount of revelations as to how the…

The End Of The Reset?

08/07/2013 Published on Forbes.com
This morning’s news that President Obama canceled his plans to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow next month at the G-20 summit in St. Petersburg could very well signal the end of the reset. Over the past few…

The Printed Word

08/06/2013 Published on Forbes.com
Douglas E. Schoen and Jessica Tarlov The printing press rocked the world by spreading literature and news to the masses for the first time. A wild, bold entrepreneurial streak created the most efficient, durable way we consume information. The internet…