Today in Singapore marks the hopeful end to the saga of Sunshine Empire Singapore. I’ve discussed it many times before but hopefully this will be the final time. I named this Florida based blog in 2006 purely unaware of any other organization sharing that name. I named the blog The Sunshine Empire. I found through [...]
Now that the nation is within 100 days of the midterm congressional elections, the campaigns seem to be coming to life with their arguments to the nation. One theme that has started to emerge from the political right is the issue of spending restraint. On this point conservatives and the Tea Party types are banking [...]
For some time I’ve written about the saga of Sunshine Empire Asia. At about the same time that I named this blog with a not to my living in the sunshine state, a ponzi scheme was begun in Singapore bearing a similar name. Wherein this Asian company was named, “Sunshine Empire” my blog was named, [...]
Today in Washington, the military career of General Stanley McChrystal came to an embarrassing end as a consequence of the interview he gave to Rolling Stone magazine. The criticisms that General McChrystal leveled at the administration at times sound like an indifferent teenage girl, and primarily strike to the heart of the concept of civilian [...]
Writers block is a bitch, let’s just be honest here folks. The dead of summer has settled in here in The Sunshine Empire and the tempestuous mix between blinding heat and torrential thunderstorms is now a daily occurrence. I’m a naturally opinionated American, but we deal with issues of such immense proportion that they last [...]
I’ve been watching several disparate economic trends across the globe that have me interested. In the United States the economic recovery has been progressing for several months, but job growth has hit a stumbling block, and European debt concerns have the bull market being beaten back all of the sudden by a rather surely bear. [...]
I’m rarely prone to chicken-little type sky-is-falling hysteria, but these are the types of afternoons where you really feel like the world is self destructing. Between the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the deteriorating situation on the Korean peninsula, I’m just sorely disappointed that I do not have a massive amount [...]
There is nothing in politics quite like the epic drama of an American presidential election. Now stretching over two years, when one election ends the next one begins. But our British brothers and sisters prefer the action packed thirty minute television episode to our 3 hour long movie. That action packed drama of three weeks [...]
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