tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8615440807722294462012-01-01T12:51:05.037-05:00This blog title is inspired by Admiral Rickover, who frequently instructed his leaders to maintain a questioning attitude, never simply accepting things the way they are.Rod Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03652375336090790205noreply@blogger.comBlogger71100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-861544080772229446.post-64291469167404382122011-03-05T07:49:00.000-05:002011-03-05T07:49:53.390-05:00

This video made me laugh so hard I was crying. Then I realized that I was crying for a reason as I remembered all of the teachers who have made a positive impact on my life. It is painful to think that there are opinion shapers who are working hard to convince wage earning Americans that their economic troubles have been caused by public employees who earn living wages with decent, but not

Rod Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03652375336090790205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-861544080772229446.post-28931142691411853392010-08-08T05:03:00.000-04:002010-08-08T05:03:28.016-04:00

Bob Herbert has written an thought and comment provoking column for the New York Times titled Putting Our Brains On Hold. The column was published on August 6, 2010 and two days later has attracted more than 820 comments filling 33 web pages. I have just read the first 100 of them, but they indicate that Bob has touched a real nerve. His column is a lament about the sad state of education in

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I have just read the latest issue of Bloomberg's BusinessWeek. Sometimes I wonder if anyone else made the same connections between the articles that I did as I was reading. Here are key points from various articles. American consumers are nervous about the future. Big business enterprises are sitting on a mountain of cash. Low interest rates in the United States are encouraging investors to put

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I have been troubled for many years over the world's decision to stop large scale production of a class of useful chemicals called chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). As an operational engineer who was assigned the overall responsibility for a half a dozen or so large air conditioning and refrigeration units on board a nuclear powered submarine, I learned that those chemicals were had some very useful

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By my moral compass, self-defense is not an unlimited right since a higher directive tells me to love my neighbor as myself and a guiding inspiration tells me that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.I would be completely unjustified in claiming that I was merely defending myself if I began shooting at a mugger in a

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The American Dream of home ownership has been a driver in our economy for at least six decades. Our large, beautiful country with its abundant lakes, open spaces, hills, mountains, rivers, and freedom has always been a major magnet for foreign capital in the form of individuals and families with active minds, creative hands, strong work ethics, and personal savings. Like most people in the US, I

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For those who are stumbling on Questioning Attitude without coming from one of my other publications, allow me to introduce myself. I have been a commissioned officer in the United States Navy or US Naval Reserves since May 1981. Like most people who have served in a large organization for many years, I have held a variety of positions, but within the Navy my career has been rather unusual. There

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