Mike McCready

This clip is from October 8, 2007 and I meant to post it back then but filed it and just now got back to it. It’s quite poignant and insightful as well as funny. Check it out:

A couple of days ago John Kao was on the Colbert Report to discuss his book called “Innovation Nation” in which he makes the point that America is losing its edge in innovation, education and global competitiveness. This is the same point I made in a blog post a couple of weeks ago. […]

It looks like we’re making a little bit of headway in our education system. According to the Education Department reading and math scores among third and forth graders have made improvements over the last couple of years. In 2005 only 36% of fourth graders were proficient in math and only 31% were proficient in reading. I […]

I know I’m not the only one who’s noticed but this new season of America’s original reality TV show, “OJ” comes at a really bad time for the country. We have far too much going on to get addicted to this again. We need the national ADHD-effected attention span focused on what we think of the […]

To read this post of The Huffington Post click here. It’s been 6 years since 9-11 and the question everyone is asking is, “are we safer”? All the news channels are filling air time with the multi sides of that issue. What we can all agree upon is that 9-11 changed our country. For as […]

I was reading the recent article in Business Week called The Greatest Entrepreneurs of All Time. I was encouraged to see John D. Rockefeller made the list. Frankly, I probably would have thought something was wrong with the list if he hadn’t made it. I was encouraged because if I have a chance of […]

As I write this the Senate still hangs in the balance but it is so good to see we’re turning a corner. This administration has been so wrong for our country since it was first …. (I almost wrote “elected”). Thank you, fellow Americans who finally came around to the voice of reason. I was on a […]

This weekend I saw Al Gore’s movie, An Inconvenient Truth (yes, I’m a bit behind on my movie viewing). I recommend everyone see it. It’s VERY compelling!