“These are our people” say the Dems
There is currently a hue and cry from Democrats about “habeas corpus” and “due process” for illegal aliens. But the Party that caused the problem has no solution for the problem.
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Don Surber’s Highlights of the Week
Once again the rapier wit of Don Surber looks at last week’s significant events and provides his own, somewhat ribald interpretation, while the rest of us experience a new day in Trump’s America
Democrats’ Worst Nightmare May Soon Become a Reality
In a recent political cartoon, artist Gary Varvel portrayed a Democrat lying on his therapist’s couch. When asked to name his greatest fear, he replied: “That Trump’s policies will make America great again.” In a single, simple drawing, Varvel managed to expose a political reality that few Democrats are willing to acknowledge. His cartoon wasn’t …
Ending the censorship monopoly; Trump takes on the tech giants
When I read the media whining about their First Amendment rights, I remember this: They all cheered when Twitter censored President Trump.
Virtue-based Leadership, Part 6: Leader Selection and Assessment
Leader selection and assessment is a critical leader task. Unfortunately, it is often based on technical skills or dominated by an HR process that may have little to do with virtue and leadership.
Virtue-based Leadership, Part 5: Competency, Candor, and Virtue
Is leadership a process? Processes have inputs and actions/activities that produce outputs. In virtue-based leadership, the inputs are Virtue, Competency, and Candor. The outputs are Integrity, Truth, and Trust.
The Road to Kyiv: NATO, Kosovo, and the Long Shadow of a Broken Promise, Part 3
No one starts a war—or rather, no one in his senses ought to do so—without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by that war and how he intends to conduct it.”
~Carl von Clausewitz
The Greatest Crime Wave In History
Focal Points – Courageous Discourse The medical establishment and the former Biden administration can assure America and the world about the safety and effectiveness of mRNA vaccines, but they cannot dispute the facts. People are dying in mass numbers. VAERS, the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, is well known for underreporting vaccine events by a …
Trump Triumphs in Saudi Arabia…Again.
Trump spoke at a business forum of Arabs and our tech tycoons. The builder of Trump Towers and resorts all over the world talked about the cities Arabs are building.
Virtue-based Leadership, Part 4: Virtue, Morality, and Ethics
While there are similarities and crossovers between morality, ethics, and virtue, they are not the same. For me, at least, morality is essentially based on operant conditioning—reward and punishment. Ethics are based on rules and systems. Both are mutable and will vary
The Road to Kyiv: NATO, Kosovo, and the Long Shadow of a Broken Promise, Part 2
The 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia over Kosovo was billed as a humanitarian mission—a righteous stand against ethnic cleansing in Europe. But behind the moral pretense was something more enduring and more dangerous
Introduction to Business 101: Golf with The Chuck – Trump’s Weekend Wins, May 10-11, 2025
Welcome to the first installment of Golf with The Chuck, where we dissect the business savvy behind President Donald Trump’s weekend activities, often tied to his time on the golf course.
Trump had a great weekend. Media did not
The man figured out how to get around the Wall of Media and get his message straight to the people without filter or fake fact check.
Virtue-Based Leadership: Part 3 Moral Development and Education
Abstract: We live in a society and time that seems very fluid regarding moral and ethical standards and conduct. This is especially true for people on the polar extremes of the left/right divide, but affects all of us. To make the situation even more complex, most of us think we highly morally evolved. Those …
The Road to Kyiv: NATO, Kosovo, and the Long Shadow of a Broken Promise, Part 1
This is Part 1 of 3, about the story of a broken promise—and the consequences that would echo from the Balkans to the Black Sea.
Virtue-Based Leadership: Part 2, Discernment
Discernment is perhaps one of the most important, but least studied and written about leadership skills. It is especially important for virtue-based leadership, which requires leaders to consider moral aspects of decisions.
The World, And The Future, Are Not Powered On Fantasies
Unlike multiple other European nations, France is not experiencing power issues. Germany, after pledging to go all “green,” is reactivated shuttered coal plants (perhaps they should not have relied on Russian natural gas imports). Great Britian is suffering multiple outages (although not back to the 19th century like Spain and Portugal) from lack of stable generation capacity and lack of grid upgrades.
Duty, Honor, Country… Why Family Matters Most
Family, is different than military service, no matter how honorable. A nation may thank you for your service, but it won’t sit beside your hospital bed when you’re broken.
Virtue-Based Leadership, Part 1
Abstract: During my doctorate in Leadership and Learning in Organizations at Vanderbilt, there were a few readings and discussions over whether there is even such a thing as a “leader” or “leadership”. This is related to the discussion over whether leaders are born—they have innate characteristics and capabilities—or made—they are developed, trained and educated. The …
Kids Living Behind Enemy Lines, Tale #42: West Linn, Oregon Schools Collapsing
This confused, abused boy was running for West Linn High student body president, pretending to be a girl. In the early 1990s, on our 45-house street alone, there were 100 children, most under age 10. Now, there are fewer than 20. Indeed, there are so few children in the West Linn-Wilsonville School District^ that the school …