Tom Sowell reviews the new book Outliers, calling it one of the best of 2008. That alone qualifies it for our consideration.  The book examines how individuals achieve outstanding success. Some are the result of a particular selection process. But others are a result of commitment. I have watched students, both when I was there as…

Igor Panarin predicts the US will collapse within two years and break into six regions.  China will be come the new finance superpower and Russia will rule Eurasia. No kidding, click and read the article, better yet, Google Panarin I think we have a bit longer than this but I do not know how much longer,…

There is no shortage of ethical failures as I put the ethics syllabus together. One Herman Rosenblat concocted Angel at the Fence, supposedly a story of how he met his wife at a concentration camp. Oprah hailed it as a great love story, only problem it is not true.  Herman says he just wanted to write…

We have a class in business communications, thanks for Helen King for that!  Read this excerpt from Caroline Kennedy to grasp why this is so important.  Her speech is punctuated with uhs and ya knows. ONe reporter yesterday on television observed that Caroline would never have gotten into Harvard if she had not been a Kennedy, ouch! Our aim is to prepare you…

THE Dallas Art Museum had high hopes for its exhibit of King Tut, the gold statutes, et all from 1300 BC Egypt.  It planned on about one million guests based on how the exhibit did in Chicago and LA. Guess what, attendance is not as expected. If you log on to the museum site, one has…

Pat Buchanan like Ross Perot vigorously opposed NAFTA saying it would lead to a loss of jobs here. Now he notes that countries around the world are growing more protectionist.   And that incldes the 11th hour save of GM and GMAC.  THe Smoot Hawley tariffs passed in the 1930s slowed round the world trade.  Actually the…

  Every top ten movie list includes Casablanca. it is on oue  list of movies with ethical themes.  Bogart, Bacall, Rains, a nightclub owner with a shadowy past, a couple encouraging the French resistance, Vichy occupied Morocco, and it all happens to night at Rich's Cafe American on Turner Classic Movies at 7 PM, trust…

Edward Owens was an 1870s pirate who turned to the trade after losing his oyster fishing business. Or so a history class at George Mason U would have us believe.  In fact there was no Edward Owens as y ou will read. The teacher had the class fabricate the story and a blog and a house…

We will be studying Accounting and Ethics this spring. ONe of the amazements is that these stories just keep on coming. Apparently people believe they will not get caught. Here is a story appearing on Yahoo.  An exec with the electronic chain Fry's demanded kickbacks from vendors. The IRS says he made $65 M in…