The significance of continuing growth in unemployment ranks has been obliterated from headlines by an unexpected decision by the Administration: Five Guantanamo Bay Sept. 11 terrorist detainees will be tried in a civilian federal courthouse in New York.

As I watched the first news reports of the Fort Hood Military Base shootings, I wondered what the right response from the Commander In Chief should be to this disaster.

The international movement to provide the United Nations (UN) with unprecedented power and influence on world affairs has found a seemingly innocuous, but deceptive train to ride.

We have suffered a week of apoplexy having endured a bombardment of reasons offered to justify a Nobel Prize awarded for expectations and promises rather than results.

You can listen to conflicting opinions of self proclaimed experts on government activity or lack thereof on “stimulating,” the economy. However, the reality is that the economy’s progress remains in your hands.

We can't listen to Iran's Ahmadinejad posturing on the expansion of the Iranian atomic energy program, without recalling Obama's dramatic reversal on the U.S. missile defense system only days ago. The blunder was not in the reversal, but in its timing.

When a country's leader is on foreign soil, he represents his country. Did Obama's loud missing presence at Harper's arrival to the White House represent a snub? If so, of what or whom?

The lawyers and legal minds holding the joystick of politics in America’s White House and Congress, are afraid to make a move. The administration and legislature are staying away from confronting their former classmates in the legal profession.

From its inception, Canada has been served by a Parliament controlled by lawyers. This long-standing practice has to change.

Tomorrow, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on the constitutionality of the restrictions that have been placed on corporate money in politics.

The Kings of Wall Street have long coveted the absolute supremacy they now enjoy over the largest economy in the world.

The recession is dealing a hard blow to government revenues with tax receipts expected to drop 18 percent this year. The big question being lathered across the Nation, but not being answered honorably by the Administration, revolves around tax increases.

As you shelter yourself in a cool closet from the hailstorm of healthcare promotion, Congress and the President are sliding into home plate with compensation controls in the senior offices of financial firms, … for starters.

For a generation, now, we have been accommodated with a front row seat to a rigorous and seemingly intractable advance of government into the whole of America’s social fabric, and into the institutions of its capitalist system.

The loud, national sigh we heard this week was America gratefully, but suspiciously, acknowledging Ben Bernanke’s claims that, well, it’s over. The Fed Chair is satisfied that the recession is in a turn around mode, or at least stabilizing.

Dear Mr. President,

 this should prove a challenging week on the PR front for us at Goldman Sachs. There are a few situations surfacing for which appropriate clarification will provide you context in the event that the inevitable questions arise.

The recent representation of America at the Moscow summit delivered a mutually agreed-to target for the removal of some nuclear warheads and launchers. Almost.

While countries struggle, muddling their way through stimulus packages and bailouts, China is being touted as everything from, “the best current place to invest,” to being, “the engine that will pull the globe out of its recession.”

Dear Mr. Obama

, We are the heads of a few of your largest constituents, including Dow, GE and DuPont. This letter represents our sentiments in wishing to express our gratitude for your and Ms. Pelosi’s efforts on our behalf.

“The withdrawal of such a large foreign investor from the Russian market may cause considerable damage to the image of the country.”