This is the week where we see who has power in Washington, D.C.  With the Obama administration and House Democratic leadership going for the all or nothing health care vote, I would love to be in on the conversations with wavering House Democrats - the threats, the pleading, the bribes (of one…

Yes, you read the headline right. The Ottoman Empire. And, yes, it is making Obama’s life miserable eighty-eight years after its unceremonious dissolution.

For six hundred years, the Ottomans straddled Europe and Asia, stretching from Algiers to the Persian Gulf to the gates of Vienna. It…

Toyota may be nearing a line of no return with the Prius - the Pinto line.  You know the one, where there are so many jokes and such wide perception of danger that a car (and company) become synonymous with both laughable incompetence and horrible fiery death.

In the Pinto’s case, it was the…