I received this in an email, with no author credited, and claim no original ownership but wanted to share the story as it seems to be very illustrative of the world we sometimes find ourselves inToday we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who was with us for many years.No one knows how old Common Sense was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red...

Of late I have begun to wonder, if the site moderators should have the ability to simply delete articles and seeds deemed to have no positive value to the site or its members and if members who persist in seeding/writing such articles should be censored in some mannerArticles meant to mock, to incite or to spread hate and denigration come to mind.Cleverly disguised under the cloak of satire,...

Character, integrity and loyalty are three qualities that my grandfather told me were the basis of what kind of person we turn out to be and what kind of example we are to others/ I saw this on line and it captured a lot of what he meant Character - what does it mean to you?

I ran across this the other day and it immediately reminded me of the great leaders (bosses) that I worked for (in and out of the military) as well as the really bad ones (mostly in the private sector). I have been retired for a number of years and a couple of the people I worked for in the private sector or served under in the military are still important parts of my life as friends,...

I saw this on LinkeIn and while the numbers can be argued, the underlying fact that fewer people are choosing the manufacturing floor as a career than ever before. The offshoring of jobs is certainly a factor, automation another, but as the operations/production based is renewed as part of the revival of the middle class who will fill those skilled jobs?

Too many people in the U.S. are too busy to be Americans these days.People are too busy being liberals or conservatives or libertarians or progressives or socialists or ..... to simply be Americans.People are too busy being African Americans, Mexican Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans or ..... to simply be Americans.People are too busy being Democrats or Republicans or Independents or...