2012 Presidential Election

A sales pro battling discrimination gets $20 and 30 minutes to help put her career back on track.

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Laid-off worker gets new shot at dream job

A NLRB report released last month said member Terence Flynn shared confidential information outside the agency, potentially violating attorney-client privilege. Read more…

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NLRB member in ethics trouble has former Justice watchdog’s help

Award winning Last November, we told you about the launch of a new tool for political junkies brought to you by House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy called WhipCast. It’s a way for the GOP leadership to reach out to voters in the digital age, providing tools for communication, planning and organizing through mobile phones and pretty much Read this post

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada’s economy is doing better than expected and the threat from the European debt crisis has lessened, Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney said on Monday while warning that high household debt levels were unsustainable. “Conditions in the Canadian economy have…been somewhat stronger and the degree of slack somewhat smaller than the bank had expected,” the central bank chief said in a speech to a business audience in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario. …

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Bank of Canada: economy doing better than expected

US environment agency’s new standards for carbon dioxide emissions from power stations would restrict the construction of new coal-fired plants

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EPA seeks strict limits on coal plants

Spain vowed on Sunday to deliver on its promise to reduce its budget deficit, as the country’s economic situation sparks concern in the eurozone and financial markets.

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Spain vows to stick to budget deficit targets

In 1968, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) effectively nationalized the movie industry’s rating system to guide parents and the wider public about the content of films before purchasing tickets. A year doesn’t go by since then that the Beautiful People don’t throw their artistic temper tantrums when they receive a harsher rating than they want. The latest example is a documentary named “Bully,” which investigates the lives of five bullied students during the 2009-2010 school year in five states – Georgia, Mississippi, Iowa, Texas, and Oklahoma. Two of the five committed suicide. The filmmaker is basing his whole publicity campaign on shock and outrage for receiving an “R” rating for six uses of the F-bomb, as well as other vulgar threats. Lee Hirsch has been all over television and has aligned a parade of liberal celebrities (with Ellen DeGeneres as grand marshal) to demand this politically correct movie is far too important – too important! – to require a parent to accompany a child to the cineplex. Hirsch has been leading a dishonest campaign suggesting that an “R” rating means children under 17 are barred from the theater, period.

Ed Schultz, Phil Griffin, and MSNBC. A revealing relationship, yes? With NBC, Brian Williams, Tom Brokaw, Matt Lauer, and the parent company of Brian Roberts’ Comcast all in the mix, a very revealing relationship. You have to wonder, are these guys really proud of what’s going on here? Really? And how many cats are holding the usually voluble tongue of “conservative” Joe Scarborough? But first, here’s another NBC story. A telling one. Particularly considering the presumed standards of Tom Brokaw, Brian Williams, Matt Lauer, and Brian Roberts. Standards that have now apparently been abandoned faster than some celebrity wannabes ditch husbands. The story? The President of NBC was in trouble. Rumors had surfaced of drinking binges at the Beverly Hills Hotel. When his boss showed up at NBC’s Burbank studios, the NBC president looked disheveled, unsteady, the pits. The straw that broke the camel’s back was Mexico. At an NBC affiliate gathering, the network president’s condition, evident throughout, became the talk of the meeting. Things got worse when the man returned to NBC’s New York headquarters in Rockefeller Center. The drinking continued — and suddenly, the string had run out. Summoned to his boss’s office in a moment of sobriety, the meeting was both brief and brusque. The President of NBC — a popular and well-respected man in the television industry — was fired. Out. Done.

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Ed Schultz and MSNBC’s Sewer of Hate

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Game on! Maybe I’ve watched one too many gimmicky music performances in favor of this or that politician, but I was skeptical when I read about this effort from an Oklahoma family band to capture in music the essence of Rick Santorum’s campaign: Game On’ features lead vocals from sisters Camille and Haley Harris, and backup from Read this post