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Janet Yellen Needs to Focus on Jobs
This may elicit a deservedly snide 'duh,' but Janet Yellen has to focus on employment issues and see what the Federal Reserve can do to alleviate the stress that joblessness is placing on the economy....
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A World Without Mistresses
In case you were planning on renting an apartment in Beijing, remember to look for a building that is not full of country girls who are living as mistresses. It's not that you won't enjoy your...
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Why Greed Is Not Finished With Us Just Yet
Ronald Reagan still doesn't receive enough blame for exploding our deficits and embarking on a military buildup that left us with a military that had to be drawn down in the 1990s. There is a sunny...
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Rielle Hunter Opens Up About Being an Insane Homewrecker
I'm not sure why I can't bring myself to forgive and forget when it comes to John Edwards. I voted for him and I supported him and I thought that he was the best candidate to talk about poverty and the...
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On the Waterfront
I came across this older photo taken along the Rhine River in Speyer, Germany when I was looking for adequate photos to inflict on others. You can see my shadow in the lower right of the photo because...
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Heckuva Job, Luke Russert
Luke Russert continues to half-ass his way through the political culture of the United States. Who elevated this young man to his position ahead of all those other young reporters who actually can...
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The Normalization of Technology
This is an article that describes how far we have come since the mid-2000s in terms of legitimizing technology. And it has happened in spite of ourselves.One of the things that thwarted the growth of...
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Unemployment Falls to 7.2%
This could be so much better:[...] the good news is the unemployment rate fell to 7.2% as 73,000 people joined the labor force and 133,000 people said they got jobs. That's considered encouraging,...
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You Are Paying For This
Every individual who receives a Federal benefit puts strain on the system. It's no where near as broken as people claim to be--it's actually very efficient and relatively free of fraud and misuse. But...
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Social Security Is Still Screwing Up?
The government just can't do anything right, can it?I mean, isn't that what we keep hearing, day in and day out? We keep hearing how Obamacare is a nightmare (it isn't) and that no one is being helped...
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No Wonder Ask.com Sucks
The Ask.com extension crept into the Google Chrome browser, and I used it to look for The Guardian newspaper.Instead of going to the newspaper, you're bombarded with ads and sponsored links. Guardian...
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So What?
This is the latest in a series of stories about the ethics and values of people who hold security clearances. Far too many Americans are "cleared" and far too few of them meet the minimum level of...
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The Right Priorities
This is the sort of thing that I wish Bill Gates had said back when his wealth and influence were on the rise. He could have led a different sort of company and he could have made a difference in the...
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You Cannot Diagnose Someone Over the Phone
There are so many things wrong with this article. What happened at Salon? Did someone stop being an editor? Jeebus.1. Nice ad for Apple. What happens if you don't have an iPhone. You die! That's...
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Kurt Schlichter Reaches Out to the Kids
Kids, I have to explain something to you. Kurt Schlichter hates your ever-loving guts:You Millenials voted for Obama by a margin of 28 percent, which will make it a lot easier for me to accept the...
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So Long, You Bastards
At one time, Blockbuster Video was everywhere. It controlled a massive market in this country and it did so by using that tried and true retail strategy--screw the customer out of every penny because...
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People Just Don't Get It
Despite all of the obstacles and all of the obstructionism, this President keeps creating jobs and the country keeps moving forward. We are living through a time where no one tells the truth about what...
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The Scam Continues
The graph that you see above is old data; it's from 2011. The wholesale scamming of money from Vets through the prism of the 21st Century GI Bill has not been addressed. What are these idiots screaming...
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Staying on the Bank's Books Forever
The advantages of wealth keep piling up.We would like things to be fair, I suppose, but things being fair would immediately come under the heading of socialism! or worse. But when things are fair,...
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Something to Remember About the European Union
I found something worth pointing out in this drab, lifeless piece about the European Commission, which runs the European Union, which is, you know, that thing in Europe.Read this again:The Commission...
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The Guano Piles of Rome
The great writer Robert Hughes wrote a history of the city of Rome and there should be someone--anyone--who can work this incident with the bird guano and bring it into the modern day. Between...
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He Knows How to Play This Game
There are no words for how George Zimmerman has gamed the system, elicited sympathy and money from people who were blinded by racial hatred, and has gone on to be an even more dangerous man in...
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Senator Mark Kirk No Longer Represents American Citizens
There's nothing wrong with being dedicated to the survival of Israel, but how would you feel if you were someone from Illinois who voted to send Mark Kirk to Washington D.C. to represent you in the...
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America Still Has a Tribal Hatred For Immigrants
Stories that reflect the acceptance of immigrants becoming citizens are all well and good, but the inherent tribalism of American society, as it relates to the idea that anyone of color might be...
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The Fall of the Latvian Government
I don't know if there are any parallels in this country, or anywhere else. If you had told me that the tragedy of the collapse of a supermarket in Riga would force the Prime Minister of Latvia to...
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