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Remember the game that we all played as kids. Mom would say,

I have a real problem with high-level people in any organization who love to get the glory when things go well, but try to point fingers at someone else when things go wrong.

Winston Churchill once said, "The most beautiful voice in the world is that of an educated Southern woman.

History will tell you the United States was built by freedom of the individual, not by centralized planning and control. And the freedom that balanced the budget and paid the bills came from free-market capitalism, not from socialism. Winston Churchill once said our form of democratic capitalism was the worst type government ever devised by man

All this protesting about the black Trayvon Martin being killed by the Hispanic neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman who was acquitted of second degree murder and manslaughter being some kind of racial violence has gone far enough. No, it's already gone far to far. Protest rallies have been held all across the nation, including right here in Hall County! A jury has unanimously spoken.

One of the things I miss as an old geezer, no longer in the daily combat of the business world, is attending business seminars. Every July the World Future Society holds its annual seminar, and for four solid days it features a lineup of people from all over the world who are on the cutting edge of about everything.

Jefferson Davis President of the Confederacy said:

Our ruling elite and their minions in the liberal media just do not understand why so many of us are upset about them using the new technology to listen to our phone conversations, or read our emails and text messages, After all, for years the IRS has gathered detailed information on our tax forms about our income, who we give money to, where we work

There is certainty a lot in the news today and all the social media outlets allow everyone to express their thoughts, rationalizations and opinions on any subject. A scan of Facebook, twitter, blogs and such reveals that no one is without an opinion.

It was in 1924 that Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University, welcomed a group of new immigrants as American citizens. Here is what he said...