by John Gardner Hollywood loves to congratulate itself with endless award ceremonies exalting their creative oblations to the gods of culture. Silicon Valley is fawned over by the media and the idea of unicorns is now sullied by association not with the magical...
by John Gardner American immigration policies in the late 1800’s such as the Immigration Act of 1882 and the Alien Contract Labor law prohibited certain laborers from coming to America, specifically blocking the entry of “idiots, lunatics, convicts, and...
by Brian Imbler, CEO The Sales Bridge What are the hidden costs of offshore sourcing? 1) The Unquantifiable cost of stolen intellectual property and product replication(China's IP theft greatest transfer of wealth in history) 2) Cost of dealing with...
by Brian Imbler, CEO The Sales Bridge As a business owner who has spent three decades in the contract manufacturing service industry (primarily in the US while briefly once dipping my toe into China sourcing before quickly pulling it back out), I have made...
by John Gardner I watched the Holocaust documentary FINDING MANNY last night and encourage all who stand for Good over Evil to share this experience. Of the many poignant moments, seeing pictures of happy families together before they were ripped apart and...
by A close friend of John Gardner's wrote this The turmoil in Afghanistan this past week has greatly affected me...saddened me. While there have been many large scale disasters and turmoil in decades previous, earthquakes in Japan and Haiti, hurricanes in...
by John Gardner Family life can sometimes feel like you're taking a submarine beyond its collapse depth. In “A Lot Like Me” Larry Elder masterfully limns the tools for family life in the same way civilizations have passed on the gnosis they intend to survive the test...
by Greg Owens, Co-founder and CEO, Sherrill Manufacturing/Liberty TabletopThere are few if any things that would be considered “pleasant” in a presidential political year but there is at least one thing that is positive. The process heightens awareness of issues that...
A Manufacture Local Story™ by John Gardner As I meet immigrants I ask them why they came to America and the universal response is “opportunity”. I ask them to specify what “opportunity" America provides that other nations do not; the majority, who are...
by John Gardner On Dec. 22, 2020 I sent a submission to the Oxford English Dictionary for a “A new word or sense”. That word is STEALTH-SLAVER and/or STEALTH-SLAVERY. Definition:Any individual, collective, corporation or country who surreptitiously benefits from the...
by Michael Nickle Pearl Harbor Day is the one day per year that I am most consistent in posting to social media. I do it because there is so much to learn from this event that seems to be lost which bothers the Hell out of me.Why did the Japanese attack us? You can...
by Brian Imbler Turn the clock back to 1990 when the Communist regimes in Europe collapsed and there was an apparent end to the decades long totalitarian big government, anti-God experiment. To those living at that time, did you ever imagine that a...
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