Opinion Forum

David Axelrod Is Right: Government Is Too Big and Uncontrollable

May 16th, 2013

By Dan Miller President Obama, as usual, is blameless for any misfeasance and malfeasance of the Government he allegedly leads. Let’s make it easier for him by making it simpler and smaller. Due to the complexity and multiplicity of scandals increasingly enveloping the Obama Administration, I became too bogged down with constantly emerging new stuff [...]

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: big government, Congress, control, inefficient, leadership, Obama, politicians
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8 Dimensions of Crisis Mastery

September 6th, 2012

By Dr. Jim Taylor My work in the business world, that has included helping companies survive crises of all sorts, has revealed eight dimensions that distinguish those who respond well to a crisis from those who don’t. Your ability to reject the crisis mentality and cultivate an opportunity psychology depends on your developing these essential [...]

Articles written by Dr. Jim Taylor
Tags: behavior, business, change, crisis, culture, emotions, leadership, vision
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Conservative Media Bias

May 13th, 2011

By Tom Carter “Nothing more important” than a government job…. That headline on the Drudge Report today caught my attention. It was boxed with and just below another item, “Obama Tells Companies to ‘Step Up’ and Hire Workers.” The obvious implication was that President Obama thinks there is no job more important than working for [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: agenda, bias, conservative, context, leadership, private, public, sector
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Newsflash – Obama (Almost) Saves The World!

February 3rd, 2011

By Nancy Morgan According to media reports, President Obama (almost) resolved the spiraling Egyptian crisis in one “private message” to Hosni Mubarak. “Mubarak Promise Comes After Private Obama Message,” AP reports. President Obama is firmly in charge and appears to finally be calling the shots. In a bold, presidential moment, Obama said Tuesday evening that [...]

Articles written by Nancy Morgan
Tags: Cairo, courage, credit, Egypt, leadership, Mubarak, Obama, protests
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A Dime’s Worth of Difference

October 25th, 2010

By Tom Carter Racist rabble-rouser and archconservative George Wallace used to say, “There’s not a dime’s worth of difference between the Republicans and Democrats.” Ross Perot said the same thing, as did Ralph Nader and others. What they had in common was they wanted to get elected outside the framework of the two parties. What [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: debt, deficit, Democrats, economy, leadership, politicians, Republicans, war
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Know What Obama Could Use? A Snake Oil Czar

July 4th, 2010

By Dan Miller President Obama is just one man. He clearly can’t sell all this snake oil himself. * * * We have a disastrously inadequate petroleum reserve; there is a crisis. “We consume more than 20 percent of the world’s oil but have less than 2 percent of the world’s oil reserves,” or so [...]

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: czars, drilling, leadership, oil, President, reserves, satire, Senate, snake oil
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Another Failed Presidency?

March 9th, 2010

By Tom Carter Many on the right, not all of them Republicans, hope that Barack Obama will be a failed President. Some are motivated by ideology — to them, any political position to the left of Attila the Hun is seen as a socialist conspiracy to destroy America. Others are purely partisan, convinced that any Republican is better [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Democrats, failure, leadership, Obama, presidency
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Keep Rahm in the White House

February 24th, 2010

By Tom Carter I’ve wondered for quite a while what was going on inside the White House — how do they manage the place, who has real influence, who does the President listen to? The first indication I saw of disarray and poor management was the way the health care reform effort was handled. From [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Emanuel, leadership, management, Obama, staff, White House
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Leadership and Responsibility

January 4th, 2010

By Tom Carter The first refuge of weak leaders is blaming mistakes on subordinates. It’s unacceptable in the military, in corporate hierarchies, and in other settings where the responsibilities and authorities of leadership are understood and practiced. Harry Truman enshrined the concept with the famous maxim, “The buck stops here.” The principle is that a [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: islamist, leadership, Obama, responsibility, terrorism, war
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Obama the Incrementalist

November 1st, 2009

By Tom Carter Obama the incrementalist is the headline of a column written by Howard Kurtz in The Washington Post a few days ago. Kurtz emphasized what I wrote in a previous article, The Faux Golden Boy. If I can be forgiven for quoting myself, I said that Obama is “the kind of modern man…who [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Afghanistan, decision making, leadership, Obama
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