As we get ready to enter the next decade of the 21st Century, it is time to once again boldly go where no one has gone before. Doing so would revive the country's psyche and provide jobs for U.S. workers. Washington must announce a goal of sending a manned spacecraft to Mars by 2020. ...more

November 28, 2009

How many times has this happened? You go to take a video of someone and when you watch it later you discover the person was not smiling. If you have been saying "If only there was something – some technology – that would guarantee a smiling subject," Sony was listening. ...more

November 14, 2009

Can you see the similarity between President Obama's announcement to close Gitmo in one year and JFK's goal of having a man on the moon by the end of the decade? In both cases, neither could specifically say how it would be accomplished. They just had a sense that once they set an important goal and put the best in minds on achieving it, it would get done. Of course, they had preliminary discussions and studies and understood the main issues and possible solutions, but what they did, as executives, was set a goal, and expectation – a reasonable timetable. The Bush years will soon be viewed as an anomaly by the rest of the world, a brief period in our long history where we fell into the wrong hands, were overcome by fear, lost our moral compass and became decidedly un-American. ...more

January 27, 2009

When Margaret Callija was a child in rural Connecticut, she often heard tales about the man on the moon. ...more

December 6, 2008

A 'Declaration of Independence' from imported oil requires only self-evident programs. ...more

July 9, 2008