Author: parvenu

The title of this post is an expression that I picked up years ago from an old timer. Essentially the meaning of this colloquialism is that IT IS TIME TO MAKE A DECISION. Today America stands foursquare on such a threshold. As a...

The Japanese contingent led by Mr. Aiko Toyoda spent 3 hours before a House Committee this afternoon. Most of the testimony and the questions behaved like ships passing in the night, where the answers given by Mr. Toyoda and his...

The media understandably THRIVES on gossip as we have become a nation consumed by need to get all the details of the latest celebrity scandal. Eyeballs on copy make money. The Republicans march like geese in a line so that there...

Watching Supreme Court Justice Alito’s performance last night at the State of The Union speech by President Obama, I was struck with the sudden revelation that America has entered into a new and dangerous era of political...

The TV commentators have it wrong as to what is fueling the Massachusetts voter’s real anger. They are all highlighting health care as the reasons for the big Republican surge against Coakley in Massachusetts. Granted a...