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There has been criticism of President Obama’s ostensibly restrained emotional response to the the Gulf oil crisis. I find his approach reassuring in the same sense that when a plane has lost its engines I would much prefer a calm, cool and effective pilot at the controls. Give me Sully any day over a pilot … More “Sully” Sullenberger and the BP Oil Crisis
I caught a snippet of Pete Dominick’s show on XM Radio yesterday and heard him mention something about CNN’s reporting on Mark Kirk and Richard Blumenthal. As I recall, the premise was that CNN is a “liberal” site but had more stories on Richard Blumenthal, the Connecticut democrat who apparently lied his military record, than they did … More Using Google to identify bias in the media: Blumenthal vs. Kirk
The roles and responsibilities of the Federal government in disaster responses are based on the flawed assumption that organization and structured command and control are the foundation of an effective response. A more effective response strategy could be developed by understanding the function of complex adaptive systems and how to apply that understanding to developing … More Complex Adaptive Systems and Effective Disaster Responses
Whether it’s foreign aid, highways or medicare, when the topic of trimming the federal budget comes up everyone has a program they believe should be cut. A poll conducted in April 2010 by The Economist asked 1000 respondents which federal programs should receive less funding. The program receiving the highest number of votes was foreign … More Cognitive dissonance and the federal budget
I was thinking about crude oil being a fungible commodity and I realized that I had a fundamental misunderstanding about debate of “to drill, or not to drill” in the Gulf. Prior to this somewhat embarrassing epiphany, my working hypothesis and basis for my position on the issue was that the oil obtained from drilling … More Does the oil from the Gulf of Mexico belong to America?
