When President Lincoln was criticized for failing to destroy his political enemies, he answered, "Don't I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?" The story prompts me to wonder what would happen around the world if President Obama said during his State of the Union message:

"'Technology available to us today can provide food and drinking water far in excess of conventional production methods without pesticide and chemical pollution, without crop failure from drought and other weather problems, and without burning fossil fuels that create devastating climate changes around the world.  I am today committing the full resources of the United States of America to eliminating hunger from the face of the earth within the next decade by harnessing that technology and helping all humankind realize the full promise of safe and environmentally sound crop production and distribution."

Click on the pictures to see news clips from CNN, Good Morning America, KFOX-TV, and a video from Italy, one of several nations embracing the new, urban agribusiness industry.

Part 1. The reason: Click here to hear why and how we can avert disaster.
Part 2. The vision: Click here to see the promise for a better life.	Part 3. The beginning: Click here to see the first steps in a new direction.	Part 4. The future: Click here to see our nation is not alone.

Meeting Humankind's Most Urgent Needs

"Another Santa landed in a shopping center with a real helicopter. As he climbed out of the helicopter, his pants fell down, and as he bent over to pull his pants up, the whirring blades blew off his hat and hair and beard." (Bob Morgan, author of Goodbye, Geraldine)

This is a warm and wonderful Christmas story. Well, not so warm and wonderful, really, but it is a story, and it is about Christmas. Read more.

I have always disliked the phrase, “time is money.” That is the least thing that time is, for it is irreplaceable, and not all the money in the world can . . . Read more.

(During your campaign and victory celebration, you said you wanted to hear from people on Main Street as well as from people on Wall Street. Well, our little publishing company is located on Main Street in Rockford, Illinois, and here’s a report on what people are saying in our neighborhood.)

Dear Mr. President:

We want to believe what you said about ending or “winning” the war in Afghanistan by increasing our troop deployment there, but we just cannot — for many reasons. Following are six of those reasons:

First, those of us who . . . Read more.

Crises are consummate teaching moments. One such moment came our way on Thanksgiving Day this year. Read more.

Okay, who's in charge here? Who's really running your life? Read more.

"There are some times in life when you fall down and you feel you don't have the strength to get back up. I have no arms, no legs. It should be impossible for me to get back up, but it's not. I will try 100 times to get up, and if I fail 100 times, if I fail 100 times, if I fail and I give up, do you think I will ever get up? No. But if I fail, I try again and again and again. It's not the end. It matters how you are gong to finish. Are you going to finish strong?'— Nick Vujicic Click here or on the photo to see VIDEO.

Stunned silence greeted President Barack Obama as he entered the General Assembly of the United Nations and approached the podium cradling in his arms the emaciated and lifeless body of a small child. Read more.

Leaders at all levels of government will be more effective in their efforts to encourage job creation if they honor two basic entrepreneurial maxims: Read more.