While History Never Repeats Itself, Political Patterns

History Is Replete With Examples Of Empires Mounting Impressive Military Campaigns On The Cusp Of Their Impending Economic Collapse.

To Own The Dominant, Or Only, Newspaper In A Mid-sized American City Was, For Many Decades, A Kind Of License To Print Money. In The Internet Age, However, No One Has Figured Out How To Rescue The Newspaper In The United States Or Abroad.

Whether One Agrees Or Disagrees With The Tactics Of The Occupy Wall Street Movement, It's Easy To Understand The Inspiration For Its Anger As Well As Its Impatience.

Philosophers And Theologians Have Argued For Centuries Over The Morality Of Targeted Assassinations - A Technique That The Israelis Use With Some Frequency - Without Ever Reaching Anything Approaching Consensus.

As A Parent And A Citizen, I'll Take A Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) Over Steve Jobs Every Time. If We Must Have Billionaires, Better They Should Ignore Jobs's Example And Instead Embrace The Morality And Wisdom Of The Great Industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.