Union officers’ pension plans are significantly better funded than the plans they negotiate for their rank-and-file counterparts, raising questions about whether union members have been manipulated by those they trust to bargain for them. The average union staff plan is … Continue reading
How many times has this happened to you? You work all night on a presentation of spreadsheet and promise yourself that you’ll put it on your thumbdrive to take it with you to a meeting you have the next day. … Continue reading
And that’s what Chopra is: an evil capitalist. He’s evil because he often denigrates the American system, while taking full advantage of it: selling DVD’s, books, seminars and wellness programs that soak people for thousands of dollars. He is a … Continue reading
The 2010 Atlantic hurricane season will produce an above-average eight hurricanes, four of them major, posing a heightened threat to the U.S. coastline, the Colorado State University hurricane forecasting team predicted on Wednesday. In its second forecast in four months … Continue reading
If you’ve ever been stuck in a cocktail party in Manhattan, a pool party in Brentwood, or a comedy club in San Francisco – the concept of tea partiers being racist has existed for decades. They just weren’t called tea … Continue reading
Two weeks after President Barack Obama signed the big health care overhaul into law, Americans are struggling to understand how — and when — the sweeping measure will affect them. Questions reflecting confusion have flooded insurance companies, doctors’ offices, human … Continue reading
If you wear eyeglasses, you’re definitely aware of what a drag on the budget they can be. Even if your optical needs are covered by your health care plan, you probably don’t want a pair of big old clunky plastic … Continue reading
Remember when we had manly men in the White House who actually knew how to throw a baseball and didn’t wear mom jeans? I miss those days. The guy throws a baseball like a friggin’ five year old girl. And … Continue reading
Ironic that 2000 years ago last Thursday, Jesus was washing feet. And yet this pope, draped in silk & satin, surrounded by wealth & more apostles than Jerry Garcia can’t find the humility to simply apologize. What’s so hard about … Continue reading
MARION — Two Republican party officials were shocked to hear someone had thrown a brick through a window at their headquarters downtown — with a message directed at stopping conservatism. “Stop the right wing,” was written in purple ink on … Continue reading
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No one party has a monopoly on civility, despite recent outrage by the left who suddenly seem to have found Miss Manners.
With thousands of summer jobs in jeopardy, more than 200 city teens rallied in City Hall Park Thursday against funding cuts to the popular Summer Youth Employment Program. Nachaell Gonzalez, 16, of the Bronx who has worked at a family … Continue reading
The subtle humor of this obviously metaphorical reference to a ship capsizing illustrated my concern about the impact of the planned military buildup on this small tropical island. via hankjohnson.house.gov You be the judge. Posted via Posterous
This is how househunting feels to me.
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Getting… Sleepy…