Topic: Dick Cheney

Continental Courage

Where do you find courage in this country? Not in the southern or western U.S., which overwhelming succumbed to the Bush campaign's fear mongering and Dick Cheney's demented suggestion that a vote for John Kerry is a vote for the ...READ»

Cheney Still Kicking, Starting Consulting Firm With Family

Former Vice President Dick Cheney and his two daughters are rumored to be starting a Washington, D.C. consulting agency to advise political clients, reports the Washington Post today. The Cheney firm will remain an inchoate concept, ...READ»

Birth of a Notion

What with all the interesting news right here in our own country (is it Britney or Lindsay who’s in rehab these days?), it can take a while for news from elsewhere in the world to reach us. So it is with this recent item I ...READ»

Work/Life: Tax This!

  A Pew Research Center Poll reports that Americans believe cheating on your taxes is only nine percent more despicable than cheating on your spouse.  Nine percent!  How are we ever going to get the balance ...READ»

Perspectives On Wachovia

I read in the news yesterday where Wachovia Bank lost $8.9 BILLION last quarter - mainly in the mortgage idiocy, apparently - and summarily laid of 6,340 people without so much as a 'by your leave'. 6,340 people is just about 50% ...READ»

What If Your ID Badge Says Halliburton?

"At the time of the capture [Saddam] had $750,000 in cash on him. They think he was trying to buy three gallons of gas from Halliburton." -- Jay Leno "I did not have financial relations with that company." -- ficticious quote ...READ»

The GMC Sierra Hybrid: The Hybrid that Lurking through Miami Streets

Most guys do not believe that it is possible to make a hybrid that is powerful, with decent towing capacity, and enough “manliness” inside and out to justify buying it for work (i.e. construction, contracting, etc.) or pleasure ...READ»

Thoughts on Indns and Obstacles We Face

Hanh mitakuyapi.  I'm going to make a confession at the start of this post.  Actually, it's a multi-aspect confession.  I call these "I'm-nots".   I'm not a financial big shot.  I'm not a financial wizard used to ...READ»

What Sarah Palin Might Have in Common with Your Boss

A Kick in the Career: Can lack of experience make someone a bad leader? In this week's column, humorist and careers expert Tom Stern considers the ramifications of elected officials emulating managers at a business when making decisions (such as the little matter of choosing a running mate).READ»

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Full Text: Feed the World

Feed the world, but not by throwing money at the problem. On that, Share Our Strength's Billy Shore and William Easterly of New York University agree.READ»

Barbie Turns 50, Celebrates by Having Some Work Done, Dropping Price to '59 Levels

For 50 years, a certain American blonde with the figure of a Playboy bunny, the hair-do of a USC cheerleader, and the arches of a Conde Nast editor has been channeling the zeitgeist and fashioning her wardrobe accordingly. She ...READ»

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Joe Trippi's Killer App

Howard Dean's campaign manager has used the Internet to turn an obscure ex-governor into a real presidential contender. It's anything but politics as usual. Will it work?READ»

If It Quacks Like a Duck...

In the current issue of New York, Kurt Andersen laments America's age of lame-duckism, "in which the discredited and obsolete and totally over shuffle around in the limelight for years after their sell-by dates." Andersen artfully ...READ»

Own Up and Clean Up

"Were they there?” was how Annette McLeod replied when Congress Henry Waxman asked her what she had to say to the Army leaders now that the facts of the deplorable conditions at Walter Reed’s out patient facilities were out in ...READ»

What the Election Taught Us About Leadership and Marketing

Barack Obama's historic landslide victory provides many lessons about leadership--and about successful marketing. To name some of them: A transformative, emotion-based, positive campaign will trump a narrow,negative, ...READ»

Medical Leave

Your next heart surgery could well be in Bangkok -- but don't worry, it'll be "in network." How your health care is taking wing ...READ»

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