October 29, 2009
By: Chesney, United Kingdom
I am a working class man. My education is heavily biased in the sciences and engineering and later in business. Similar my work and life experiences are those of someone who has earned each crust my family ate and who has shouldered responsibility and got his hands dirty. I have [...]
By: Christopher Curry
Assistant Editor, The Signal
University of Houston-Clear Lake
October 26, 2009
Documentary warms up controversy
Environmentalism has always had its fair share of supporters, but a new documentary “Not Evil Just Wrong” attempts to reveal a darker side of the movement that is making some viewers take a second look at the costs of going green.
This documentary, [...]
Another unsolicited email from the White House! First David Axelrod, now Nancy-Ann DeParle
Director, White House Office of Health Reform. Personally I don’t feel as though its appropriate for the White House to send unsolicited email–SPAM.
The email is provided below for your reading pleasure. The White House does provide an unsubscribe link at the bottom of [...]
South Korea and partners in development
An extraordinary example
Alfredo Ascanio (askain)
The widening gap between the developed and developing countries has become a central issue of our time.
The attempt to do something about this gap was based on the assumption that economic underdevelopment countries would yield to a determined national effort to change it, with external help [...]
Careers With Most Job Growth
by
Beth Braverman, Alexis Jeffries and Donna Rosato
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Demand for personal financial advisors is projected to grow a whopping 41 percent between 2006 and 2016. Which other careers on Money and PayScale.com’s list of America’s best jobs will see big opportunities?
1. Telecommunications Network Engineer
Best Jobs rank: 30
10-year growth: 53 percent
Current [...]
October 18, 2009
By: Frioman
What is the White House doing criticizing Fox News while simultaneously displaying favoritism toward CNN? Is this really something the White House should be doing—promoting one business and speaking ill of the other.
Compare the Obama Administration to what the Chavez Administration is doing.
Senior Obama administration officials took to the airwaves Sunday to [...]
October 16, 2009
By: PP13
Rep. Joe Wilson’s congressional campaign spent nearly a quarter of a million dollars on an aggressive marketing and fundraising operation in the days after the South Carolina Republican shouted “You Lie!” at President Obama in early September, financial disclosure reports reveal.
So far this year, Wilson has collected about $2.7 million in contributions, [...]
October 15, 2009
By: Ascanio (Caracas, Venezuela)
The mayor of Caracas, Antonio Ledezma, has traveled to Spain to seek support for its management, after President Hugo Chávez took away powers and financial resources in what he describes as a “coup” against the institution he leads .
The SPD politician, who has become the emergent figure of the Venezuelan [...]
October 11, 2009
One of these things is not like the other. One of these things just doesn’t belong.
Martin Luther King Jr. – Leader of the Civil Rights movement.
Nelson Mandela – The end of apartheid.
Henry Kissinger – Negotiated a cease fire in the Paris Peace Accords, ending the war and restoring peace in Viet Nam.
Mother Teresa [...]
October 9, 2009,
By: Michael Rowan; El Universal
Opinion
Fidel Castro wanted a pre-emptive Soviet nuclear strike against the United States in 1982, according to recently disclosed documents of Soviet General Andrian A. Danilevich. Castro was only dissuaded when Soviet scientists explained to him that fallout from the blasts could cause millions of deaths in Cuba itself. [...]
Was my England really so bad? | 
Not Evil Just Wrong - review | 
Nancy-Ann DeParle White House email | 
SOUTH KOREA and partners in development | 
Careers With Most Job Growth | 
Obama & Chavez vs. the Media | 
America's Best-Paid Heckler Capitalizes On His Disrespect | 
Hugo Chavez - Orchestrates Coup against Caracas local government | 
Obama Nobel Peace Prize | 
Chavez supports Iran's BOMB | 
