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Much like , competition for seasonal work is proving to be exceptionally brutal this holiday season. A recent survey of more than 1,000 hiring managers revealed that employers plan to hire more than 40 percent fewer seasonal employees this year than they did in 2007.
The House majority leader said Friday he's willing to explore selling Iowa's fiber-optic communications network to raise money and ease the state budget crunch.
The boyhood home of Pulitzer-winning author Cormac McCarthy, long abandoned and overgrown, has been destroyed by a fire even as preservationists tried in recent months to save it.
The Knoxville home where author Cormac McCarthy grew up has been destroyed by a fire.
The Green Bay Packers signed coach Mike McCarthy on Tuesday to a five-year contract that runs through the 2012 season.
When Eugene McCarthy ran for president in 1968, he pledged to fire J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI director who had outlasted presidents from Calvin Coolidge to John F. Kennedy.
Jenny McCarthy worried about finding a good man after her son, Evan, was diagnosed with autism two years ago. Then Jim Carrey came along. "Beyond doubt it was written in the stars that Jim and Evan were a pair," the 34-year-old actress tells People magazine in its Oct. 1 issue.
Mike McCarthy doesn't have a retirement answer from Brett Favre yet. Heck, he doesn't even have a house.
Crane smashes Through Santa Rosa, California House: Video of Scene"A crane . . . toppled backward and sliced a Santa Rosa home nearly in half" on November 16, 2009.
The National Deficit- of LeadershipIt is fashionable these days to decry the quality of American leaders, and why not? Not long ago, we celebrated our CEOs as the new masters of the universe; some paid themselves as if they thought so, too, and their faces graced the covers of magazines everywhere.
I am only forty-one years old so I never lived it. But I have studied the time. I also have friends who lived through it. I wonder if anyone else out there gets the sense that we are seeing the anger, fear, loathing, and suspicion that we saw during the McCarthy era.
Some people are up in arms about an upcoming national address to school students by President Obama.
Obama's dissident database could be secret -- and permanentThe White House request that members of the public report anyone who is spreading "disinformation" about the proposed national health care makeover could lead to a White House database of political opponents that will be both secret and permanent, according to Republican lawyers …
Rationally Speaking: Vaccines do not cause autism"The evidence is in. The scientific community has reached a clear consensus that vaccines don't cause autism. There is no controversy." So begins an in-depth discussion of the vaccines-cause-autism nonsense penned by "SkepDoc" Harriet Hall in a recent issue of eSkeptic.
House Bill Aims to Strip "Extremists" of Second Amendment Right A sinister bill working its way through the House may eventually serve as a companion piece to the Department of Homeland Security's "Rightwing Extremist" report that labels veterans and advocates of the Second Amendment as dangerous terrorists — H.R.
Oprah teams up with Jenny McCarthy to potentially kill childrenI'm not one for sensationalism but this title stands. The issue at hand is important enough, and I feel strongly enough about it, that I'm willing to be over the top. Except I don't think I'm being over the top.
Coke cop says oral sex to blame for dirty test, but judge not buying itExcerpt: A decorated ex-cop who claimed he tested positive for cocaine because he ingested the drug during oral sex with his girlfriend can't have his job back, a Manhattan judge has ruled.
The latest showdown between Ann Coulter and Meghan McCain illustrates the sad state of American culture.
Last year, Horace Engdahl aroused controversy for his "anti-Americanism" in an Associated Press interview:
With one era ending and another about to begin, this should not only be a time for reflection but also a time for looking ahead.
Ax falls on Packers defensive staff - McCarthy slashes coaching staffFired. Fired. Fired. Fired. Fired. And fired. One by one, coach Mike McCarthy gutted his defensive staff and axed his strength coach during a 24-hour period unlike any other in the long history of the Green Bay Packers.
The GOP's McCarthy gene - Los Angeles TimesThe GOP's McCarthy gene Think Goldwater is the father of conservatism? Think again. Neal Gabler opinion.But there is another rendition of the story of modern conservatism, one that doesn't begin with Goldwater and doesn't celebrate his libertarian orientation.
Eating Their Own: GOP Pulling Its Ads From Rep Michele "Anti-American" Bachmann's Race, Media Buyers SayFive days after Rep. Michele Bachmann went on a McCarthy-esque rant suggesting Barack Obama was unpatriotic and urging the major newspapers of the country to investigate anti-American sentiment in Congress, the national Republican political parties are running for cover.
Just as Adolph Hitler whipped up the crowd against the jews in his speeches before he came to power apparently John McCain is using this tactic. There is a way to conduct a campaign ethically and responsibly. John McCain is not interested in that.
Is GGW's NGO Watch A McCarthyite Blacklist?Global Governance Watch (GGW) is a joint initiative of two influential rightist groups, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and the Federalist Society.
Joseph Goebbels once said that if you tell a big enough lie and keep repeating it, people will come to believe it. Never has this been truer than in the case of Senator Joseph R.
Wall Street Journal Stonewalls On Mccarthy Readers of these pages may recall that last year I published a study of Sen. Joe McCarthy (R-Wis.), the premier Red-hunter of the 1950s, based on long-secret but now available Cold War records (Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy; Crown Forum.
The Real Un-Americans When you hear the term "un-American," what is the first thing that comes to mind? Most of you are not old enough to have lived through the McCarthy era, but like me, you may have read about it in history books.
Deja Vu: 2008 as 1968The past is not necessarily prologue. Yet 40 years later, the Democratic Party faces the possibility of another self-defeating split caused by the selection of the less-popular presidential candidate by unelected convention delegates.
Nomination Fight Tests 1984 Democratic Strategy If I were an elected Democrat -- Governor or other statewide officer, Senator or Representative -- I'm not sure what I'd make of the current nomination competition between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
McCarthy close to extensionMike McCarthy could have a contract extension before he coaches the Green Bay Packers in Sunday's NFC championship game against the New York Giants.
Joe McCarthy Invented the Internet - By Ann CoulterThe October 2007 Vanity Fair had a long, gaseous article explaining how the pro-Bush bias of the mainstream media cost Al Gore the 2000 presidential election.
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