Opinion

What We Make Of It
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September 5, 2011
Sounds simple: “The world is what we make of it.”
In a recent conference call for work, an Israeli immigrant to Canada said the United States was a democracy.
Everyday except Sunday begins by organizing my “To Do” list.
Enablement
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May 16, 2011
My wife and I were on our way to one of our granddaughter’s soccer games one recent Saturday.
To those who have come before and to those now serving, you have my ever-increasing gratitude, and my solemn promise to perpetuate what you have given us.
About five years ago, the adult leader of the Boy Scouts of America troops in Phoenix said that the Arizona chapters had stopped their 100+ year old tradition of taking scouts out for camping trips to southern Arizona because “coyotes” with AK-47s were shepherding illegals into the scout camps and demanding food and water.
"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
Not Prepared
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May 11, 2010
There is a country, which I will allow to remain nameless, that receives a lot of “off-shoring” of software engineering from US companies.

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