Memo for: Record, and my personal learning journal Subject: Review of critical thinking workshop, 21 – 22 February 2012 Author: Ken Long Date: 24 February 2012 1. Administrative notes: presenter was Dr. Enoch Hale from the Foundation for Critical Thinking led by Paul and Elder, sponsored by School for Command Prep, featuring broad college […]
Month: February 2012
Advice on preparing for the defense
My good friend Tonya asked for some advice on preparing for her dissertation proposal defense. These were my thoughts on the dissertation defense (I misheard her). For the proposal defense, the focus is more on the procedural and methodological questions 🙂 They should ask you, and you should be prepared to give answers to these […]
Future Force in the news
A nice write-up in the Army Times on the Future Force game I designed for the Command & General Staff College. It was cool to see my family commenting in the discussion session. Related articles Congressional negotiators reach tentative deal on payroll tax cut, jobless aid … – Fox News (foxnews.com) Economic Growth Gives Lift […]
Budget cutting by reducing farm subsidies
I see liberal commentators like Cenk Uygur applauding the reduction of 280B from the proposed budget, as an end to corporate crony capitalism. As if that’s not going to have an effect on the price of food, which is a disproportionally higher percentage of the budgets for the poor than the rich. Cut 280B from […]
Buffet making money the old fashioned way
It’s not what you know, It’s knowing who butters your bread There is no correlation to Buffet’s public position on tax policy favoring Obama’s redistruibutionist policies