Leah Eichler More and more we have to look to Europe for moral leadership, rather than to north America. And moral – as well as good business – guidance comes to us from Norway. Leah Eichler, the founder of Femme-o-Nomics, a networking and content portal for professional women, draws our
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Accidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Richard Thaler criticizes Mitt Romney’s obsession with upper-end tax cuts by pointing out the factors which actually serve to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship: Romney wants to cut top rates by 20 percent, maintain the favorable treatment given to capital gains and dividends,
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Three Reasons why Obama’s Second Term will be a Transformative One
The Great Storyteller Not only America but the rest of the world would benefit from President Obama being voted in for a second term, because that term will be a positive and transformative one for all of us. I am asking you to Tweet and email a link to this
Continue readingLeDaro: Mitt Romney Foreign Policy Debate
It was clear that Barack Obama won the foreign policy debate – Obama knew the issues, Romney did not. On military spending, Obama showed that Romney was stuck in a 1916 mentality focussing on buying more battleships, when modern warfare is much more complicated with new technologies. On geography, Romney
Continue readingLeDaro: Romney Dances ‘Gangnam Style’
I was going to do a video on Romney dancing ‘Gangnam Style’ but I found this one on YouTube. It is a fun video. Enjoy. Here is a one for Obama doing ‘Gangnam Style’ dancing.
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Obama & Romney: What their handwriting reveals
President Obama’s handwriting Many believe that you can read a person’s character by studying their handwriting. A report in Ynetquotes the findings of a graphologist for the two gladiators. According to graphologist Dr. Ari Korenblit the handwriting of both candidates reveals that: Both candidates exude confidence, self-sufficiency, and deeply want
Continue readingImpolitical: Obama’s closing argument
He wanted it. Yes. Very persuasive closer there. I felt emotion from Obama tonight, as I did in the second debate as well. This one seemed a little more enjoyable than the other two. There was no awkward mano-a-mano ambling around the stage and confrontation as characterized by the second
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Battleground States: Romney now leads Obama in 11 states
And the winner is ….? Romney now leading in 11 Battleground States, says the Rasmussen survey of those states released on Monday October 22, before the final debate: In the 11 swing states, Mitt Romney earns 49% of the vote to Obama’s 46%. Two percent (2%) like another candidate in
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Political gravestone for President Obama if he loses
The arc of the presidential campaign of 2012 would be a fitting inscription for a political tombstone should President Obama not win re-election. The CNN Poll of Polls as of October 21 2012 clearly shows the massive impact on the trajectories of the two protagonists of the debacle of the
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Will Romney win the "jobs" argument and therefore Pennsylvania?
This Republican analysis thinks so: Our latest Pennsylvania poll conducted 10/11-10/13 and released by the Washington Examiner October 18thshows Mitt Romney has taken the lead over President Obama by a 49-45 margin. This automated poll, conducted with 1,376 likely voters, was conducted on behalf of the Republican State Committee of
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Obama & Romney: Who is the "change"candidate this time?
President Obama surged to victory in 2008 riding the twin horses of “hope” and “change”, in the process beating off Hillary Clinton and then The Maverick and his moose-hunting Veep candidate. But right now the mantle of “change” candidate seems to have settled on the shoulders of the Gekko-like shape
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Debate 3: President Obama’s Last Chance to Channel Moses
Moses: Model for Obama? Alan Schroeder, Journalism Professor at Northeastern U, has an interesting post in Huffington Post entitled The Dramatic Arc of the 2012 Presidential Debates. It is worth reading. Here’s a taste of it: Which brings us to Act Four. A sense of momentous envelops this final debate,
Continue readingTrashy's World: Saturday miscellany…
Ah. Another session of Parliament and another tome of an omnibus bill. Despite whines and screeches to the contrary, there is lots of new stuff in this 450 page monstrosity! The Navigable Waters Act, Indian Act, Customs Act, Hazardous Materials, the Fisheries Act, Canada Shipping Act… The list goes on
Continue readingSong of the Watermelon: On Polarization in America
Tea Party protest Every four years, the American airwaves are saturated with pundits claiming that the upcoming Presidential election is the most important in the nation’s history. Partisans — both official and unofficial — paint dire pictures of apocalyptic disaster should the wrong candidate be voted in. Ever-escalating stakes seem
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Presidential Election: The Battle of the Pollsters
Nate Silver – 538 pollster While most Americans are focusing on the battle between Obama and Romney, hardcore political junkies (such as you) are also darting from one poll to another, and one pollster to another. Gallup, the grandfather of polling, has raised hackles amongst some. Nate Silver, a pro-Obama
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Friday reading. – In writing recently about employer efforts to intimidate workers into backing corporate-friendly candidates, I figured that the best examples we’d see would come from individual corporate magnates – as the candidates themselves would surely be smart enough not to state publicly that they
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Debate 2 Obama & Romney: The role of the moderator and questions for CNN
Romney, Crowler, Obama The furor over the intervention by moderator Candy Crowler in the second presidential debate has not died down, nor will it before November 6. The Republicans are claiming that the moderator stepped outside the rules and intervened in the debate in a way that was contrary to
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Must Read – Greg Palast Outs Romney’s Vulture Perfidy or Why Mitt Romney Really Won’t Release His Tax Returns
Veteran investigative journo Greg Palast has the goods on Mitt Romney and why the Republican candidate doesn’t want anyone looking at his tax returns. “Oh, it’s one of the creepiest stories I’ve investigated in a long time, Amy. Mitt Romney, through Ann Romney’s blind trust—not so blind, they could see
Continue readingLeDaro: Mitt Romney: "binder full of women."
Very popular subject on Twitter as it went viral. Here is one example of such a tweet.
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