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“Entrepreneurs Can Save the World,” declares the front of the December 2 issue of Forbes. It’s the second annual “Philanthropy” edition of Forbes. But the headline might as well say “Entrepreneurs Can Save their Communities.” Forbes has studied the giving habits of millionaires around the world. These philanthropists are making a difference globally—and in their own neighborhoods. Supported by Credit Suisse, Forbes Insights surveyed 317 millionaires regarding Read More ›

Ken Burns, whose film series have illuminated American history on PBS for decades (The Civil War, The National Parks, Jazz, Baseball and on and on), is arguably the leading documentarian of our time. Now he and his talented team from Walpole, N.H., have completed The Roosevelts, a 14-hour series that will spread over seven successive nights next fall, two hours of prime Read More ›

Telltale clues to identify ally betrayal….. Here’s how to tell: Conduct secret negotiations with your ally’s mortal enemy, based upon wrongly presumed common interests & hence goals, including back-channel talks going back five years, even one found to be conducting one or another form of war on you & your ally, on a matter viewed as existential by your ally. Read More ›

John Kerry’s interim disaster augurs catastrophe…. Sunday morning’s interim nuclear deal that six Western powers made with Iran’s rulers is a disaster in search of catastrophe–the latter in the form of the planned final deal six months hence. On Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace began his report on the deal having been reached with  “While many were sleeping”; it Read More ›

After the president, the chairman of the Federal Reserve is the most powerful office in the land. But so far, Janet Yellen, the heir-apparent nominee to chair the Fed, has been slow-pitched and not asked the kind of direct questions in Senate Banking Committee hearings that reveal whether she is the right person to lead the Fed in the most Read More ›

Charges by John Crudele in the New York Post that the U.S. Census Bureau fudged the monthly unemployment numbers a couple of months before the 2012 election are not persuasive. First, according to the Census’ statement today, Julius Buckmon, the individual quoted in the New York Post story “left” the Census Bureau payroll (on what terms we don’t know) in 2011; so he hardly Read More ›

The day remains vivid; a sunny and mild Friday, typical Los Angeles November weather. I was a high school freshman. Eleven A.M. gym class over, I was showered and hungry for lunch. As a group of us boys jostled and kidded waiting for the bell that would spark our daily dash to the food line, a kid came running up Read More ›