The politically charged debate over high-income tax cuts is reaching a fever pitch, and the question being asked across the nation is whether small businesses' hiring ability will suffer
The rigors of the campaign are still fresh, but for newly-elected House members and senators, the hard part is just beginning. Already, they're inundated with advice on the
An intriguing conversation about the next step in the fiscal drama is taking place among our elected leaders. At this early point it is mostly at an exploratory level, but
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. — Abraham Lincoln
America has forsaken her first love.
A phrase that has found its way into our daily lexicon this year is "fiscal cliff." It refers to a combination of federal government spending cuts and expiring
Some say it's the most complicated machine we've ever built. We rely on it not just each day, but each moment of each day. It reaches
As every good businessman knows — including Gov. Romney, with whom I had been associated as a limited partner at Bain Capital Ventures — the soundness of a company and its ability
This Day of the Dead season in Santa Monica brings some usual challenges. The recent deaths of two Santa Monica homeboys clouds the celebratory day in tragedy and loss. A
Who says Republicans and Democrats can't agree? Every four years, politicos and pundits, both left and right, come together in a harmonious hymn of hyperbole: "This is
When I saw the nativity, menorah, solstice and atheist displays in Palisades Park last New Year's Eve, I remembered a turquoise trailer that appeared every week at my
This November, Proposition 34 — the SAFE California Act initiative — will ask California voters to stop funding the state's broken death penalty system and try another approach to improving
Lots of us have observed that foods that are good for us — broccoli and bean sprouts — don't trigger intense cravings. In the late afternoon, when my energy is
