By Diane M. Grassi


The announcement on May 21, 2007 that the largest public company in the Middle East, by market value, would be acquiring a division of the world’s second-largest corporation, by market value, and based in the United States, could not have been any less publicized. But in the world of corporate governance, the largest transaction ever completed in the Persian Gulf, seemingly trumps all laws of reason.

However, there is little precedence...

By Diane M. Grassi

On March 23, 2005, U.S. President George W. Bush, former Canadian Prime Minister, Paul Martin and former Mexican President, Vicente Fox, authorized the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), now under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Commerce. Most Americans have little to no knowledge of this seemingly innocuous sounding unofficial treaty and therefore believe there is little reason to be alarmed.

However, what could be misinterpreted as legislation...

By Diane M. Grassi

The dawn of the 2007 Major League Baseball (MLB) season is perhaps the best time to reflect upon baseball’s past and its hopes for the future. At no other time of the season will fans’ aspirations be as high without need for qualification.

As teams gear up for Opening Day on April 1st, major league camps in both the Grapefruit and Cactus Leagues have had the enviable positions to not only evaluate the 2007 starting line-ups but to get a look at...

Threats to our liberty can come from any direction. As we finally learned this week, talks moving us closer to the Republic of Canamex are taking place behind closed doors far from the eyes of a prying press.

In this case the threat isn't actually the economic and political integration of USA, Canada and Mexico. God knows we would all be better off by creating the world's largest single economy. However, the fact that those in power no longer consider it necessary to pay lip-service to...

By Diane M. Grassi

The tragic explosion of the Sago Mine in West Virginia on January 2, 2006, which took twelve lives and permanently disabled another, still begs for a rational explanation over 1 year later. The disaster captured the interest of the American public and fostered outrage on the part of lawmakers and bureaucrats alike, while coal mining operators ran for cover.

For not only did the International Coal Group, Inc., which owns and operates the Sago...

By Diane M. Grassi

For several years now, American healthcare consumers, including many from other western industrialized nations, have heard about elective surgeries being...

By Diane M. Grassi

This past July, former President Bill Clinton announced an initiative in conjunction with the William J. Clinton Foundation to fight childhood obesity....

Sweden - Americans John C. Mather and George F. Smoot won the 2006 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for work that helped cement the big-bang theory of the universe and deepen understanding of the...

Republicans won in pushing through a key piece of President Bush's anti-terror agendathis week, passing along party lines legislation endorsing the military program to detain and interrogate...

By Diane M. Grassi

“Prediction is very hard, especially when it’s about the future.” ... Yogi Berra

Given the focus on the recent one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina...