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If At First You Don’t Succeed, Jam It Down Their Throats

December 18, 2013 • Top Story • 1427

The newest move to save Obamacare is….an ‘adult’ in a onesie. Yep, a onesie. If you log on to BarackObama.com/talk – you will be greeted with one of the dumbest ploys every seen. The fine folks at Organizing for Action have put together a full-proof guide to talking about Obamacare with your kids. Within in the guide they provide tips, talking points and scripted conversations so parents everywhere can forget about the true meaning of the holidays and talk about the things that matter with their kids, healthcare. But they’re overlooking a huge piece of Obamacare -anyone under the age of 26 can stay on their parents insurance plan. So, in theory, the ‘kids’ they are targeting are 27+, and either Organizing for Action is failing to give 27 year olds any credit/responsibility for managing their own lives, or future is doomed to be run by pajama wearing morons.

Links

-> Pajama Boy: The Obama Machine’s Id

-> Re-Branding the GOP

-> Leadership Is About Emotion

-> The Fed Will Taper

-> The Most Important Charts of 2013

-> 3 Tips to Bolster Your Sales in 2014

-> Infographic: If Social Networks Were Megacities

-> Why Do Ex-Politicians Earn Huge Money From Making Speeches?
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Made In America: We’re Watching You

December 17, 2013 • Top Story • 1243

The United States has struggled making friends in recent years, in no small part because of our insatiable need to bomb/invade, and things keep getting worse. Everybody’s favorite computer geek, Edward Snowden, is taking his talents South, at least he’d like to. Snowden is looking to receive asylum in Brazil in exchange for helping the government there fight the NSA/CIA spying that has taped, hacked and cracked communications of just about everyone in Brazil, including President Dilma Rousseff. Land of the Free, home of the Brave.

Links

-> NSA’s Indiscriminate Spying ‘Collapsing’

-> The EPA’s Highest-Paid Employee Pretended To Be A CIA Agent For 12 Years

-> Facebook Is A Fundamentally Broken Product That Is Collapsing Under Its Own Weight

-> ObamaCare: 5 Land Mines Dead Ahead For Health Law

-> President’s Current Approval Rating Is The Ugliest Since Nixon

-> The Hottest Global Startups Of 2013

-> 7 Things to Do Before New Year’s

-> Business Plans Are a Waste of Time. Here’s What to Do Instead

Top Photo: JulieFaith via Flickr
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DC Isn’t Broken, It’s Fixed

December 16, 2013 • Top Story • 1271

If the billions of dollars wasted on ‘grants’ to green energy donors (Solyndra?) that happen to be mega-donors to President Obama aren’t proof that everything in DC is paid for by lobbyists- the newest member of the ass-backwards think tank that is the White House, is none other than a lifelong lobbyist with direct ties to multiple green energy firms. Meet John Podesta.

Links

-> New Obama Adviser Brings Corporate Ties

-> There’s A Boatload Of Big Economic Events This Week — Here’s Your Complete Preview

-> Affluenza Is Not a Real Thing

-> Long-Term Jobless Benefits Succumb to ‘Mission Drift’

-> 10 Things The Greatest Leaders All Have In Common

-> 6 Signs You’re Sacrificing Too Much for Success

-> Tackling the Tricky Balance of Marketing to Women

Top Photo: HVargas via Flickr
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God Wants Ohio to Fail

December 13, 2013 • Top Story • 1289

Ohio Governor John Kasich has come out saying that his fear of God is what has lead to the expansion of Medicaid in his state. That’s a reassuring revelation given America’s political landscape these days. Using the ‘Kasich Model’ -God is the ultimate scapegoat. Rather than pass sensible reforms and spending money in a responsible fashion, it’s easier to hinge your policy on the will of God. Besides, when the money runs out, who is going to take God to task?

Links

-> God Wants Ohio to Expand Medicaid

-> Taxpayers Have Spent $14K for Each Obamacare Enrollee So Far

-> Obamacare’s Never-Ending Fix-a-Thon

-> New Regulations Will Affect How Employers Pay Their Employees

-> The 50 Coolest Small Businesses In America

-> US Housing Market Outlook 2014: Slowdown In Housing Recovery, Home Prices To Rise By 4% Next Year

-> The Simple 3-Part Formula For Employee Happiness

Top Photo: ClaraDon via Flickr

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Budget Deal Misses the Forest for the Trees

December 12, 2013 • Top Story • 1427

Before anyone starts patting themselves on the back over the latest budget deal, take a look at the real numbers. This ‘deal’ claims to save $85 billion via cuts, over the next 10 years. Contrast that to the $63b in additional spending the first year alone, and you can see why any worthwhile economist is calling shenanigans on the deal. One thing is for sure, Congress couldn’t be trusted to budget lemonade stand.

Links

-> Budget Fight Masks the Real Threat

-> Why Wall Street is fed up with the White House

-> Debt Deal Will Push US Debt Up More Than Under All Presidents from Washington Through Reagan

-> Executive Order Picks Renewable Energy as Winner, Regardless of Demand

-> 11 Ridiculous Gifts For The Millionaire Who Has Everything

-> 2 Steps to a Better BS Detector

-> Guide to Pulling Off That Company Holiday Party Without a Hitch

op Photo: Oxfam International via Flickr
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Shameful Incompetence At An Incomprehensible Level

December 11, 2013 • Top Story • 1373

The least productive Congress ever has put together a ‘blockbuster’ budget deal that would have Howard Houdini scratching his head. The smoke and mirrors laden Ryan-Murray budget deal is nothing more than a feeble attempt to garner some validation for a Congress that has failed over, and over, and over, and over again to come up with a workable budget that avoids a catastrophic collapse. This deal does nothing to fix things, it only kicks the can down the road, per usual. And they want us to trust them with redistributing our wealth?

Links

-> 3 Things You Need to Know About the Congressional Budget Deal

-> U.S. Stocks Drop as Budget Deal Spurs Bets on Fed Cuts

-> Army May Have Overpaid $3.3M for Communications Devices for Afghan Military, DOD IG Reports

-> The Sign Language Interpreter At Mandela’s Memorial Was ‘A Complete Fraud’ Making Nonsense Gestures

-> 10 Overused Words You Should Never Put On Your Resume

-> 3 Business Models Venture Capitalists Love

-> The Best Companies To Work For In 2014

Top Photo: marsmet543 via Flickr

U.S. Stocks Drop as Budget Deal Spurs Bets on Fed Cuts
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Fire All the Firemen

December 10, 2013 • Top Story • 1391

More fallout from the Affordable Care Act – this time first responders are in the line of fire. The employer mandate encompassing ‘businesses’ that employ 50+ people will come down on ‘volunteer’ fire departments all across nation. The US Department of Labor considers ‘volunteer’ firefighters -volunteers, but the IRS begs to differ. The IRS technically considers firefighters ’employees’ and thus small time departments all around the nation are going to have to choose between paying huge fines or keeping the lights on when someone calls. In the private world, a plan like Obamacare -one that has this much fallout- would cost a lot people in charge their jobs.

Links

-> Obamacare Could Extinguish Volunteer Firefighters

-> An Absolutely Terrifying Chart For Microsoft

-> Ski Season Renews Calls for Federal Government to ‘Combat Climate Change’

-> Volcker Rule Restricts Bank Hedges

-> The 5 Golden Rules Of Finance

-> 7 Ways to Make 2014 the Best Year You’ve Ever Had

-> US Spends $1 Billion in Taxpayer Money on Russian Helicopters for Afghan Military

Top Photo: CS_McMahon via Flickr
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Welcome to Detroit – Brought to You Buy China

December 9, 2013 • Top Story • 1330

As the embattled shell of a metropolis that is Detroit sorts out its bankruptcy, Chinese real estate investors are flocking to the Motor City and snatching up land by the city block. While it’s good news for the world that China is shifting capital abroad, it’s bad news for Motown. After decades of corrupt government oversight, the city has been reduced to a shell of its former glory and foreign powers buying up land for pennies on the dollar are only going to make things worse. Detroit’s motto- ‘Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus’ (We Hope For Better Things; It Shall Rise From the Ashes) – is rather fitting.

Links

-> China’s Newest City: We Call It ‘Detroit’

-> Obama Administration About to Give “Kill As Many Eagles as You Want” Pass to Wind Farms

-> ATF Uses Rogue Tactics In Storefront Stings Across Nation

-> Obamacare Is Obama’s Iraq

-> Full U.S. Retreat From Afghanistan ‘A Very Real Possibility’

-> 4 Ways to Make Your Showers More Productive

-> Ron Burgundy’s Durango Campaign Helps Dodge Laugh All the Way to the Bank

Top Photo: Michigan Municipal League (MML) via Flickr
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The Proof is in the Eye of the Beholder

December 6, 2013 • Top Story • 1575

Global-warming ‘proof’ is going the way of the dodo bird, but that just means the ‘warmists’ will have to change their definition of what ‘proof’ is. Every time there is a major weather event -like Superstorm Sandy -that lays waste to civilization, the ‘warmists’ come out of the woodwork to point fingers. However, when you stack storm data against recorded history, the ‘proof’ evaporates into recurring trends and nominal weather cycles. As Slick Willie would say – ‘it depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.’

Links

-> Global-warming ‘proof’ is evaporating

-> The Cold War Is Over, But No One Told The IRS

-> Obamacare Reg Treats Congress That Spent $3.5 Trillion as a ‘Small Business’

-> The Scariest Jobs Chart EVER

-> 10 Ways To Make Your Computer Run Faster

-> The Single Most Important Trait for Entrepreneurs

-> Three Smart Ways To Use Data When Developing Products

Top Photo: mirjoran via Flickr
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Wage War

December 5, 2013 • Top Story • 1504

Around the country today, hard working Americans are using their voice to impact the law of the land. Kudos to them, demonstrations like today’s are what makes America great. Unfortunately, national labor unions are using these demonstrations to further their cause under the auspice of making things better for all American. But that’s not true. If minimum wage jumped to the proposed $15 – the cost of a cheeseburger at McDonald’s would jump to $3. That might not seem like much, but that is 3x increase for one of the cheapest meal choices in America, extrapolate that out to everything else and you have $30 pizzas, $10-$15 a gal for milk, etc. What a world that would be.

Links

-> Fast-food Strikes Return Amid Push for Wage Hikes

-> The City Of Detroit Is Bankrupt, And For Some Reason The Washington Times Credits Mitt Romney

-> In The Hospital Of The Future, Big Data Is One Of Your Doctors

-> Stock Futures Mixed After Data; Apple Up On China Mobile Deal

-> US Q3 GDP Revised Up To 3.6% From 2.8% On Higher Inventory; Initial Jobless Claims Fall For 3rd Straight Week

-> 10 Competitive Jobs That Everyone Wants But Hardly Anyone Gets

-> What to Do When You’re in Over Your Head

Top Photo: arimoore via Flickr
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