Know someone looking for a job? Or someone who just got a job and needs to keep it? My articles below might help. At least, the price is right! ~Bob.
Resume Rewrites
The Indispensable Employee
Pressure mounting on Romney
Excerpt: Less than 36 hours separate Mitt Romney from what is supposed to be his campaign coup de grace: the New Hampshire Massachusetts governor went to bed in New Hampshire
Vast Web Of Federal Regulation Causing Drug Shortages
Excerpt: The number of prescription drug shortages shot up to a record 267 in 2011, nearly four times the level of just seven years ago, a new report says. It's a shortage made in Washington University of Utah Drug Information Service
A shale gas revolution? MIT report shows prosperous shale gas market could hurt future R&D, if we let it. By Vicki Ekstrom
Excerpt: Shale gas — a resource that has grown significantly in just the last few years to one-quarter of the domestic gas supply — is cheaper and involves fewer emissions than traditional coal or oil. But recent environmental concerns, combined with shale gas's important role in the global economy, have prompted the Obama administration and MIT researchers to investigate the resource and its potential impacts. “People speak of [natural] gas as a bridge to the future, but there had better be something at the other end of the bridge,” Henry Jacoby, co-director emeritus of MIT’s Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, said earlier this year after co-authoring a report by the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) on The Future of Natural Gas.
Tracking the Unreported (15.6%) Unemployed By Aparna Mathur & Matt Jensen
Excerpt: President Barack Obama took office in January 2009 after having campaigned on the broad promise of "hope" and "change." However, to stay in office, there is one thing President Obama should hope for: an improvement in the employment picture before the 2012 elections. The last three years have seen some of the highest unemployment rates reported since the Great Depression. The official rate moved from 5 percent in January 2008 to a high of 10.1 percent in October 2009, and a current rate of 8.6 percent. It rests 3 points above the 1948-2007 average of 5.6 percent. Unfortunately, the reality is even worse than these numbers suggest.
Federal immigration enforcement is mandatory, memo says
Excerpt: A recently released memo says that the Secure Communities program will become mandatory by 2013; states and some counties had been told they could opt out.
Can America
Excerpt: The Iranian threat yet again finds itself on the front page of America 's newspapers this morning, this time with news that the rogue regime has sentenced a U.S. United States Strait of Hormuz --a provocative move that would cut off a quarter of the world's energy supply and wreak havoc on the global economy. Of course, on top of this verbal threat, Iran
Gun control kills jobs: Stimulate the economy by repealing pointless firearms restrictions
Excerpt: Ever since Barack Obama was sworn in as president, the economy has misfired. Jobs remain scarce and the market has yet to recover the value it had prior to the 2007 crash. Though Mr. Obama's policies have unintentionally given a major boost to an industry he hates - firearms - even this one bright spot hasn't necessarily translated into new employment. Take Sturm Ruger Co., one of the few publicly traded U.S.
NAACP Plantation Masters Play Race Card Again by Star Parker
Excerpt: Rick Santorum must be “racist” because he thinks all people, regardless of ethnicity, should have the dignity of self sufficiency. At least that’s how the NAACP sees it. (Anyone running against Obama will be branded “racist.” Thankfully, they have played that card so often it is losing its power. ~Bob.)
Excerpt: Diplomats on Monday confirmed a report that Iran Iran 's holy city of Qom Iran
Russian, French warships off Syria, Iran, US drones over Iranian coast
Excerpt: US , Russian French and British air and naval forces streamed to the Syrian and Iranian coasts over the weekend on guard for fresh developments at the two Middle East flashpoints. The Russian carrier Admiral Kuznetsov anchored earlier than planned at Syria 's Tartus port on the Mediterranean Sunday, Jan. 8, arriving together with the destroyer Admiral Chabanenko and frigate Yaroslav Mudry. To counter this movement, France
Excerpt: Iran has the ability to block the Strait of Hormuz “for a period of time,” and the U.S. Strait of Hormuz ,” Dempsey said in an interview aired yesterday on the CBS “Face the Nation” program. “We’ve invested in capabilities to ensure that if that happens, we can defeat that.”
US will respond if Iran
Excerpt: The United States will respond if Iran tries to close the strategic Strait of Hormuz at the entrance to the Gulf, US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned Sunday, saying such a move would cross a "red line." "We made very clear that the United States
Excerpt: An Iranian court has convicted an American man of working for the CIA and sentenced him to death, state radio reported Monday, in a case adding to the accelerating tension between the United States and Iran U.S. military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan before heading to Iran
Incompetence in Federal Homeland Security Contracts in Chicago , Cook County , Illinois
Excerpt: Project Shield was supposed to make citizens safer. But in the end, the $45-million Homeland Security program more resembled a disaster, wasting taxpayers’ dollars and failing to make a single citizen more secure. The failed Cook County Cook County
GOP field looks south
Excerpt: Even as most of the Republican presidential hopefuls hustle through town halls and diners ahead of Tuesday’s primary here, a consensus is emerging among the campaigns that South Carolina will serve as the great clarifier. That’s where it will become clear that either Mitt Romney is on an inexorable path to the nomination or this process will take some time and the Republican Party’s conservative base isn’t quite ready to accept the once-moderate Massachusetts
Muslim Gangs Drug and Rape Children All Over The
Excerpt: Britain
Swiss pharma giant Novartis recalls drugs in US
Excerpt: Swiss pharmaceutical firm Novartis said Sunday it was recalling four different products sold over the counter in the United States
Democrats Embrace Voter Fraud by Lurita Doan http://townhall.com/columnists/luritadoan/2012/01/09/democrats_embrace_voter_fraud
Excerpt: With a dismal record of achievement and forced to accept the bitter harvest of their failed economic and foreign policies, no one should be surprised that Team Obama and the Democrats in Congress are running scared. Nor are the Democrats’ fears irrational. With an historical supermajority in the House and the Senate, Team Obama and Democrats pushed their pet, progressive ideas with a vengeance, spending and borrowing. … With ACORN gone and unable to produce the loyal legions of fraudulent voters, there’s a good chance that Team Obama may “pull a Putin.”
As Predicted, Obama Administration Backs Off Medicare Anti-Fraud Efforts by Michael F. Cannon
Excerpt: Medicare and Medicaid are rife with fraud. We’re talking 10 percent or more of total spending, which is two orders of magnitude more than what credit card companies tolerate. In a recent article, I explained a couple of ways such fraud occurs:
Islamic Militants in Gaza
Excerpt: Allah's prayers upon you, our beloved Prophet [Muhammad]. You have made your teachings into constitutions for us – the light with which we dissipate the darkness of the occupation, and the fire with which we harvest the skulls of the Jews.
[…] Yes, our beloved brothers, even though the entire world moves closer to Allah through fasting, through hunger, and through tears, we are a people that moves closer to Allah through blood, through body parts, and through martyrs. (Didn’t get the “Islam is a religion of peace” memo. ~Bob.)
Saudis laud credit card hacking scheme
excerpt: Scheme widely reported in Saudi-Arabia as web surfers welcome damage caused to Israelis. 'Jews are the most despicable, Hitler was right,' one talkbacker says. Saudi web surfers expressed glee Tuesday over the credit card scheme which exposed the account details of tens of thousands of Israelis. "If I were a hacker I would wish for 800,000 credit cards to be leaked, not just 400,000," one Saudi talkbacker wrote. "It's allowed when it concerns Jews," others said.
New federal consumer-protection agency shops for $100,000 scheduler
http://dailycaller.com/2012/01/06/new-federal-consumer-protection-agency-shops-for-100000-scheduler/
Excerpt: It’s nice work if you can get it. The federal government is prepared to pay up to $102,900 per year in salary for an “invitations coordinator” at the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Excerpt: Labor unions continued to receive the overwhelming majority of waivers from the president’s health care reform law since the Obama administration tightened application rules last summer. Documents released in a classic Friday afternoon news dump show that labor unions representing 543,812 workers received waivers from President Barack Obama‘s signature legislation since June 17, 2011.
Of delegates, math, and election rules … by Matt K. Lewis
Excerpt: Let’s suppose, having just won Iowa , Mitt Romney goes on to win New Hampshire and South Carolina
They’re Not Waiting: Keystone Delay Could Send American Jobs & Energy to
Every day that President Obama delays action on the extension of the Keystone XL energy pipeline causes more uncertainty and puts the creation of thousands of new American jobs in jeopardy. Because of the Obama administration’s delay, the Wall Street Journal says Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has “ratcheted up support for the idea of transporting some of Canada's growing oil production westward” instead of south through the U.S. Harper “stepped up his support for a pipeline to access Asian buyers since U.S. President Barack Obama put the Keystone project on hold,” according to the Toronto Star.
25-year-old man arrested by feds in Fla.
Excerpt: A 25-year-old man from the former Yugoslavia was charged with an alleged plot to attack crowded locations in the Tampa
Obamacare Waiver Tally: 543,812 for Union Members, 69,813 for Private Employees by Wynton Hall
Excerpt: In the battle to dodge Obamacare’s costly requirements, Big Labor–one of President Obama’s biggest backers and a strong support of Mr. Obama’s healthcare overhaul–is winning. Big time.
What consenting adults choose to screw in their light sockets is their own business.
New Huntsman Ad
Occupy DC prepares for massive January rally
Excerpt: The upcoming Occupy Congress protest is shaping up to be one of the largest demonstrations Occupy DC
Excerpt: Contrary to popular opinion, the enormous national debt crisis we find ourselves in is not due to an escalation in military spending, but is a direct result in the steady increase in entitlement spending. The disagreement over the cause of the debt exists not only between the Democrats and Republicans, but it also creates a painful and unnecessary rift between conservatives and our libertarian friends.
Confronting Bias and Fixation at the New York Times
Excerpt: As one of your predecessors once pointed out, the Times is a liberal newspaper. We understand that and have been documenting the often irrational and cynical ways in which left-wing groups have targeted us. But if the Times is going to take part in that bandwagon and go to lengths so far afield from legitimate news coverage, then it ought to have the integrity to acknowledge it.
No, not me. ~Bob. Excerpt: During a breakfast with supporters on Monday at a sprawling estate, a woman named Linda Teagan of Conway told the candidate while he took questions that before moving to the Granite State , she was a Massachusetts
Worth Reading
Excerpt: Liberals have a rendezvous with regret. Their largest achievement is today's redistributionist government. But such government is inherently regressive: It tends to distribute power and money to the strong, including itself. Government becomes big by having big ambitions for supplanting markets as society's primary allocator of wealth and opportunity. Therefore it becomes a magnet for factions muscular enough, in money or numbers or both, to bend government to their advantage.
Excerpt: In 2005, Michael and Chantell Sackett were working toward what many American families work toward, their own home on their own land, until the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) halted their plans by declaring it a “wetland.” On Monday, Jan. 9, the Sacketts and their attorneys will ask the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court to not only restore the right to use their own land – but to break the absolute power the EPA has over protected wetlands.
Smart or Stupid test
Variety of knowledge. I scored 26, 46% above average. Tough test. ~Bob.
The Top 5 Reasons Obama Must Be Removed as Commander-in-Chief By Stella Paul
Excerpt: Obama recently signed a mysterious new law that proclaims all American soil is a "battleground," thereby allowing the president to indefinitely detain any American citizen without charges. Critics fear Obama will use his fun new unconstitutional powers to make his political enemies disappear, but that may not be necessary. The way things are going, most patriotic Americans will soon be six feet under, felled by apoplectic strokes brought on by reading the latest outrage committed by our "Commander in Chief." He may not have a limit to what he'll inflict; but our collective blood pressure may have a limit to what we can bear.
Marine Brothers: Siblings Serving Together In Afghanistan
Just in case you missed 60 Minutes last night, here is the video of the story they ran about five sets of brothers serving together in the same battalion in Afghanistan
William Daley to step down as White House chief of staff
Excerpt: White House Chief of Staff William Daley is stepping down from his post, according to a senior administration official.
Maggie's Magic Came from her Contempt for Complacent Men - Boris Johnson, Telegraph UK
Excerpt: The Iron Lady is the most important political film for years. Nothing and no one has done more, in the 22 years since she was kicked out of office, to rehabilitate Margaret Thatcher. As anyone who has been on the BBC’s Question Time will know, you only have to mention her name and you will come under a fusillade of boos. Not any more, I suspect; or not so much - not after this film.
Leaders with Ginni Thomas: Charles Krauthammer
Excerpt: A Harvard trained physician, Krauthammer switched to political commentary two decades ago. In Washington
Mark Steyn: Politics Trumps Left's Empathy - Orange County Register
Excerpt: Lest you doubt that we're headed for the most vicious election year in memory, consider the determined effort, within 10 minutes of his triumph in Iowa
The Debt Generation
Great youth vote video. Please share. ~Bob.
Conrad Black: Vindication for the Iron Lady - National Post
Excerpt: Though it is probably happening too late to be overly gratifying to her, events are piling on to vindicate Margaret Thatcher completely in her reservations about British integration in Europe . Her response to the proposal to reduce Britain to a local government in a federal Europe was, memorably: “No, no, no, and never.” And her reward for her refusal to get on board what was then the thundering bandwagon of Eurofederalism, was to be sent packing by her own ungrateful party, though she was the only British political leader who had won three consecutive, full-term election majorities since before the First Reform Act expanded the electorate in 1832. (Churchill was loudly inveighing against joining the EU when he went into hospital for the last time, if memory serves. ~Bob.)
Excerpt: Just as the conservative movement finally has the first real chance since Ronald Reagan to see one of its own — a “full-spectrum conservative,” as Rick Santorum now calls himself, picking up the phrase from Rep. Steve King (R., Iowa) — win the Republican presidential nomination, the purists emerge to say he’s somehow not conservative enough.
Romney Derangement Syndrome: His GOP adversaries are criticizing private-sector success. By Avik Roy
Excerpt: A number of commentators have been remarking on how rarely Mitt Romney gets attacked by his opponents in the GOP debates. What’s even more remarkable is what the other candidates are attacking Romney for. Instead of calling Romney to account for his health-policy mistakes, they’re going after him for his . . . successful business career?
OWS in Crisis: Occupying is so last year. By Charles C. W. Cooke
Excerpt: Occupy Wall Street is wandering in the desert. This much was made clear on New Year’s Day. Sitting at the airport in London waiting for my flight back to America New York City
Excerpt: It is not surprising how little foreign policy comes up in the debates, given the sorry state of the economy. But the entire idea of Obama’s outreach/reset diplomacy is now starting to Carterize, circa 1979/80, and in part reflects the vast trillions borrowed of the last three years that sent the debt to $16 trillion and weakened the U.S. Iraq bodes ill, especially given the contrast that not a single U.S.
Critics claim MSNBC has ‘suspended’ Pat Buchanan: Activists condemned beliefs of onetime presidential candidate
Excerpt: Excerpt: An activist group whose leaders object to the beliefs of Pat Buchanan, a senior adviser to three American presidents, a candidate for the Republican nomination in 1992 and 1996, and the Reform Party’s presidential candidate in 2000, is announcing victory in its campaign to have the author of multiple best-selling books removed from MSNBC. “ColorOfChange.org welcomes MSNBC’s decision to indefinitely supend (sic) Pat Buchanan,” ColorOfChange.org Executive Director Rashad Robinson posted in an online statement.
21 Percent of Dems Have Left Party By Dick Morris
Excerpt: According to the latest Rasmussen Poll, 21 percent of Democrats have abandoned the Party since Obama’s election as president. That’s more than one in five. While most have become Independents, identification with the Republican Party has also risen not only since 2008 but also even since the GOP’s 2010 victory. (Maybe the beer ran out. Folks will leave a party with no beer. ~Bob.)
Next ice age not likely before 1,500 years: study
Excerpt: High levels of carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere mean the next ice age is unlikely to begin for at least 1,500 years, an article in the journal Nature Geoscience said on Monday. Concentrations of the main gases blamed for global warming reached record levels in 2010 and will linger in the atmosphere for decades even if the world stopped pumping out emissions today, according to the U.N.'s weather agency.
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"As an Independent, I support Newt Gingrich for president because he has a proven record of getting things done..." - Todd Palin
Beyond smoke and mirrors: the middle ground
Excerpt: California Four Corners coal-fired power plant from coal to natural gas. That doesn’t say don’t use any solar. But it does say let’s do things that can have a big impact now, and let’s give credit for it. The mandate to utilities should be to reduce emissions. It shouldn’t be to use certain technologies. (This is a group of reviews and an interview with Nobel Laureate (Physics) Burton Richter about his new book titled Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: the Middle Ground. Noted climate scientist Judith Curry, PhD posted it at her site. Like her, I haven’t yet read it, but very few works get positive reviews from both skeptics and warmers, so there is probably some good sense in it. Ron P.)
Bill Daley OUT – Time for a look back at what Insider told us way back when
Excerpt: …In the Obama White House, you have the Oval Office, and you have Jarrett’s office on the second floor. That second floor office has been where the real power has resided. That is no exaggeration. Jarrett has people around the Oval Office who report back to her. Everything. She sets the agenda and that agenda is sent directly to the president, who more often than not, never questions it. And as Jarrett assumed more control over the day to day operations of the West Wing, the president happily backed away. He had little interest in policy. He had even less interest in the work to form that policy. As long as he “looks good” – that’s all that matters to him, right? I know I’m repeating myself a bit here, but I’m getting to it. (I’ve not much faith in unnamed sources, but some interesting comments here. ~Bob.)
The Week That Was: 2012-1-07 (January 7, 2012)
Excerpt: The latest EPA effort to skin the cat are the new Mercury and Air Toxics rules (Utility MACT) announced just before Christmas. These include the double and triple accounting as the prior rules but also include the supposed benefits of reduction in mercury. And herein is the tale of two islands. (As usual, the excerpt is from Ken Haapala’s summary. The article he refers to in the excerpt is a valuable reminder of proper scientific process to produce valid results. Ron P.)
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