by admin | May 8, 2015 | Books, History
I am not much of a fan of “self-help” books but when I saw that Bill Smullen had written Ways and Means for Managing Up: 50 Strategies For Helping You And Your Boss Succeed, I felt compelled to buy it and, even more amazing, read it right away. I’ll...
by admin | Nov 23, 2014 | Books, Tax
I’m trying to decide whether this is ominous or not. I did a post on a case nearly two weeks ago in which I noted that the Tax Court in seeking a definition referred to . I wrote at the end: The reference to the Webster’s II New Riverside University Dictionary...
by admin | Oct 31, 2013 | Books, History
Originally published on Forbes.com Oct 31st, 2013 In the last Presidential election, I knew my candidate, Jill Stein, was not going to win. I was comforted by the belief that at the Sesquicentennial of the Gettysburg Address, we would have either a member of Mr....
by admin | Jul 4, 2013 | Books, History
Originally published on forbes.com on July 7, 2013. ____________________________________________________________________ This was a very special Fourth of July and I felt lucky to be celebrating it in a small Pennsylvania town, which for a few days 150 years ago...
by admin | Jul 3, 2013 | Books, History
This was originally published on forbes.com on July 3, 2013. This reissue is scheduled to post one year from the date of the opening ceremonies for the Gettysburg Sesquicentennial on the evening of June 30, 2013 or Day 0 in the reckoning of this real timer. Here is...
by admin | Apr 30, 2011 | Books, History
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fall, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new...
