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Got this little tidbit from the EEOC this morning at work. New guidelines could keep employers from digging into someone’s past. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is changing the way companies use criminal background checks to weed out new hires. The change comes as most employers are increasing their use of background checks to find [...]

Recently was sent this link: That’s my image, here’s Townhall’s link.  Since I was a young boy, I hated NPR.  They’ve had a lifelong history of dumbing down content.  If they were reporting a war, you heard incessant gun fire in the background.  The noises alone drove me away.  It just struck me that they [...]

See if these two maps seem to have a running theme.  First, Map 1.  No titles, no labels, just ten pins: If that doesn’t seem clear enough, try this one: That is the ten richest counties in the USA according to the 2010 census.  What do you think the odds are that five of them [...]

The Senate passed the finance reform package.  They’re sending it to Congress.  It’ll pass.  It’s 2,300 pages.  It’s 390,000 words.  When I asked a finance person what the impact would be on my personal bank, and my investments, he said “very little, if any”.  Obama’s advice was a little more direct: “Unless your business model [...]

A few months ago, President Obama gutted NASA.  People threw a fit.  In order to get his health care reform passed, Obama cut a deal.  Charles Bolden was the man to get it done.  Quite confident in NASA’s lack of direction, Charles Bolden was now in charge of Obama’s newest direction.  They were going to [...]

Immediately after the Kentucky US Senate primary, Rand Paul made what a lot of people consider a gaffe that got all kinds of media exposure: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy The entire country went bonkers over the fact that Rand Paul would dare do the unthinkable and dick [...]

Yesterday we had two issues, among many, that demanded Obama’s attention. Fannie Mae, the largest U.S. residential mortgage funds provider, on Monday asked the government for an additional $8.4 billion after the company lost $13.1 billion in the first quarter. Barack Obama, addressing an audience in Hampton, Virginia, said nothing.  The government very quietly wrote [...]

Fox says: White House Takes Aim at Critics of New Breast Cancer Guidelines White House says: The hope appears to be that some media outlet will give them unchecked airtime under the banner of covering the “controversy.”  Today they’re going back to that playbook again, and Fox News obliges them with the headline “Critics See [...]

I’ve stolen that title from Classically Liberal.  It’s not really the point I’m shooting for, but it’s close enough and the article is a riot.  A lot of people have been claiming Obama’s socialist.  I have for that matter.  However, people supporting Obama have dismissed those claims as rhetoric.  However, Obama’s White House PR person [...]