I've been in business now for six years. For all six of those years, I've had a silent business partner. My partner's contribution to the enterprise has been sipping sweet cream during those years while I labored and toiled to try to make a go of things. It seems that the only noise he makes is when I don't send his cut on time.I struggle each month to find new ways to drum up business and sales; he merely changes the rules of...

After the Tuesday Oval Office address to the nation, I was grumbling about the speech when my son asked me what was making me so angry. Desperate to find an analogy to convey my meaning in understandable terms, I brought it down to his teenage level."Son," I began, "when you first started driving, did we just put you behind the wheel and send you out on the roads?"  He looked at me with a puzzled expression, shaking his head. "No way, Dad. You...

As kids, we played a variety of games for entertainment. I recall one such game called "opposite day." On opposite day, a pledge would be made that we would say the exact opposite of what we were feeling for the entire day. For example, if my socks were black, I would tell everyone that they were white. If I liked my breakfast, I would say that I hated it, and so on. Soon the other kids would catch on and start playing along...

Halloween takes on a new meaning as we face a monster of lies and deceit.The Baucus health care reform "plan" is finding its way to daylight just as the Halloween holiday approaches.  It would appear that the timing for this monster is appropriate, as it lurks toward us disguised behind a mask of compassion, caring and fiscal responsibility.  On the surface, the mask assures us that this reform is necessary to save our country from economic ruin.  But, under the mask, we find...

When the new administration took over Washington and our smiling, community activist, leader took the oath of office, the chuckles began as we witnessed the most expensive inauguration in US history and the start of the transformation of America.  I giggled -- initially.  This idol-worshipped man with absolutely no background or experience became our new President.  I laughed at how America had been taken for a ride.When the President embarrassed America with his lame gift to the British Prime Minister, it was so...