When It Isn’t Good to be Number One

America loves to be number one. But now we have the dubious distinction of being number one in a category that nobody wants: we have the highest corporate tax rate in the world. The result is that the U.S. tax code continues to drive American employers to outsource jobs overseas. Since 2001, Japan had levied the highest combined corporate tax rate among the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries at 39.5 percent. They recently lowered their rate... Read More

Former Chicago City Clerk Jim Laski Claims Gun Ban a Failure

A repeat visitor on ‘Truth for America’ is former Chicago politician Jim Laski, now the host of a radio show on WGN Radio. Laski spent a total of 28 years in the political arena, part in Washington, DC, and 16 years as an elected official serving as an alderman and Chicago City Clerk.  He also served some jail time for corruption. Laski has had a front row seat for the ongoing corruption trial of impeached former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich.  While watching... Read More

Morphine Economics

Morphine Economics I own a large collection of antique engravings and maps dating back more than five hundred years. They tell a fascinating story that divines the future if you are perceptive to their wisdom. Clipper ship entrepreneurialism was the strong, steady wind that propelled forth the Age of Discovery. The embassies, merchants and holy men billeted on these magnificent ships faced incredible hardship as they searched for undiscovered trade routes that could potentially... Read More

5 Things That Must Happen in 2010 To Spur American Entrepreneurship: The Year of Engagement

Although encouraged by President Obama’s pledge during the State of the Union Address to double exports and open up new markets, we are not seeing any progress toward meeting these critical objectives. I wish he was being sidetracked by job creation –but that is not the case either.  Once again the Obama administration has failed to understand that the key to stabilizing the economy and job creation rests with supporting the nation’s entrepreneurs, especially... Read More

Husdon Institute President Herb London Proposes a Gridlocked Congress Following Mid Term Elections Good for America

Kicking off his nationally syndicated “Neal Asbury’s Truth for America Show” on WZAB-AM, Neal Asbury opened the show by suggesting that if our Founding Fathers were around today and watched Congress for even one day, they would be weeping over the partisan politics that has turned off voters. Asbury noted a recent Wall Street Journal/NBC Poll that found that 72 percent of Americans disapprove of the job Congress is doing. An earlier poll found that if an option appeared... Read More

Faulty Allies & Forgotten Friends: Realpolitik

Remember when President Obama first took office and then proceeded immediately on his “International apology to the World” tour?  Instead of making friends, it showed America as a weakened partner.  And the damage has been done. We have put all of our support behind President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan as the country’s future, despite widespread corruption. We have spent billions of our treasure and thousands of American lives, only to have Karzai threaten to join... Read More

Conscientious Equity

On March 15, 2010, Peter Miller, President of PMA Literary & Film Management, Inc., announced the sale of the world English rights to Conscientious Equity: An American Entrepreneur’s Solutions to the World’s Greatest Problems by Neal Asbury to Palgrave Macmillan. Miller negotiated the sale with Laurie Harting, Executive Editor. The book will be published in hardcover in October 2010. In Conscientious Equity, Asbury argues that moving away from intransigent political ideologies... Read More

Tough Enough

Are you tough enough? As an American Entrepreneur and small business owner I have asked this question of myself countless times over the past twenty-five years. I still do. I equate this toughness with the concept of “conscientious equity”. “Conscientious” because it is right. “Equity” because we all have ownership in doing the right thing. Yet, through some selfless mentoring by people who practiced conscientious equity by tapping into their mental toughness the hard... Read More

A Call to Action

One of the overriding principles of a Democracy is the power of its citizenry to change the course of their country when they believe that it is heading in the wrong direction. That time has come for America. Amer icans can no longer s i t idly by as a few individual s take the country down a road that is diminishing its global and domestic leadership even as the average American is increasingly feeling powerless to change course. It is time for all Americans to become engaged... Read More