Lux Americana

Even if you haven’t been on board with everything he’s done since his inauguration, there’s one thing you really have to give President Obama credit for – he knows how to pick the right man for the job. Our current Energy Secretary is Professor Steven Chu, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in [...]

Earlier this week Larry Pope, president and chief executive of Smithfield Foods of Virginia, insisted that “we are very comfortable that our pork is safe,” and that “we know of no pigs that are sick, no people on those farms that are sick and no people in our plants [who are sick],” and the U.S. [...]

With the U.S. auto industry in rough shape, one thing is clear; we can never go back to the “good old days.”  The global markets are changing, our tastes in vehicles are changing, energy prices are changing, and more Americans are becoming conscious of the environmental impact of traditional internal combustion engines.
Unfortunately, these are not [...]

This week in his “online town hall,” President Obama laughed off one of the questions that has persistently been among the most popular throughout the “Open For Questions” and online town hall voting processes – should we legalize marijuana in order to stimulate the economy?
It’s tempting to believe that the president has been consistently giving [...]

If you’re into “something called ‘volcano monitoring’,” it’s been a pretty interesting week.
A massive undersea volcano spewed thousands of feet into the air, creating a new island off the coast of Tonga in the Pacific “ring of fire,”  and leaving “no living thing left” on another tiny nearby island, via its two vents.
Here in the [...]

According to data from the National Center for Health Statistics, the number of babies born in the United States in 2007 (more than 4.3 million) surpassed even the height of the “baby boom” in the late 1950’s.  Like most industrialized nations, the United States worries about a possible population crisis as a result of low [...]