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Why Did President Obama Hide Record Small Business Numbers

Last Friday, as I predicted in my August 6 and August 24 Huffington Post blogs, the Obama Administration, right on queue, released the latest Small Business Administration (SBA) fiscal year (FY) 2009 Small Business Procurement Scorecard. Anyone in th… Continue reading

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Labor Day History: 11 Facts You Need To Know

Yes, Monday is a federal holiday in the United States, but Labor Day is much more than that.Labor Day has a rich history centered around workers. This year, it has particular meaning as hundreds of thousands Americans try to get back to work. The lates… Continue reading

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Play Meditation Like a Video Game

Meditation requires a balance of effort and relaxation. Too much effort makes meditation tiring and unsustainable, while too little effort causes you to lose your grip on your attention. The classical analogy for this balance is having just the right… Continue reading

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Men’s Wearhouse Launches National Suit Drive To Help Unemployed Men

On any given night, almost 700,000 people experience homelessness in the U.S. Of that number, an estimated 37 percent are people in families — families who often depend on an unemployed breadwinner and only need simple, short-term help with housing an… Continue reading

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Is the Grass Greener in Canada?

I was vacationing in Prince Edward Island, Canada this summer when I came across this article in The Globe and Mail: “The World Would Love to Be Canadian.” The writer, Joe Friesen, cites this startling statistic: “Given the choice, 53 percent of adult… Continue reading

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Stupendous Tropical Rainforests Offer Medicine and Fight Global Warming

The breathtaking luxuriant tropical rainforests occupy about 13 percent of Earth’s surface. These incredibly complex and diverse ecosystems account for half of the known biological diversity (about 800,000 different species), and conservatively there a… Continue reading

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Championing Corporate Social Responsibility

A recent op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal by Aneel Karnani has stirred up quite a reaction in the corporate responsibility (CR) community. For those not familiar with the op-ed, Mr. Karnani argues that “the idea of corporate social responsibi… Continue reading

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My Weak Muslim President

Except for a few residual Know-Nothings, Americans wouldn’t think twice about voting for a Catholic president. In the last election, President Obama abolished the presidential race taboo. And we’re likely to have a woman president in the next decade or… Continue reading

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Weekly Audit: Why Do Deficit Hawks Hate Social Security?

by Zach Carter, Media Consortium blogger Last week, Social Security advocates learned something they had long suspected. Arguments for cutting Social Security aren’t really about economics or the deficit. They’re all about waging war on social services… Continue reading

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Please Stop Complaining About the Media’s ‘Ground Zero Mosque’ Coverage

Now that the initial furor has died down, much of the media is quickly coming to a consensus that the debate over building a Muslim community and prayer center two blocks from Ground Zero was overblown. It is/was part of a “summer of fear,” a “ginned u… Continue reading

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