My former employer, the San Diego Union-Tribune, is doing another round of layoffs, rumored to be targeting 120 positions throughout the company. In keeping with the legal conditions surrounding my receipt of my severance from the company, that’s all I’m going to say.
The government here in the golden bankrupt state has actually increased the number of state employees over the past year by 2 percent. While ever other industry in the land is cutting back, the state is still hiring. About 4,000 more full-time workers drew state checks in June compared to a year before, with the […]
This post is probably just an excuse to link to this bit of comedy over at imao.us likening the infamous [email protected] e-mail address to the weird Six Flags guy on TV. However, I've thought about former ABC newswoman Linda Douglass’ creation of the aforementioned e-mail address and her plea to the public to do her […]
I’m not sure exactly what this video says about the nation’s top diplomat. Now, apparently the student translator got it wrong; he was asking about President Obama’s position on the issue – not former President Clinton’s. I understand these are just students in Congo, but would her highness behave more or less appropriately when participating […]
The big news Friday was that the unemployment rate had ticked back down 0.1 percent to 9.4 percent even though more people were unemployed in July than in June. The cause of that discrepancy is that even more people were removed from the available workforce because they’ve become “discouraged workers” – people no longer looking […]
After viewing the behavior in the video in the post immediately below this one, here’s one thing I haven’t heard any one talk about in the past day: It certainly puts card-check in a different light. The unions claim that somehow the secret ballot elections are unnecessary and it’s employers who are behaving thuggishly towards […]
Yesterday, Democratic Rep. Russ Carnahan of Missouri held a town hall event. Unfortunately, Rep. Carnahan didn’t really want to hear what the public had to say. Instead of opening the front doors to let those waiting to attend in, they snuck SEIU union members in the side door in a successful move to stack the […]
The dumbest thing the news media does on a regular basis is failing to identify corrupt Democrats in news stories. It’s stupid because it fools no one but continues to erode what little trust anyone has in the media. Today former Democratic Rep. William “Cold Cash” Jefferson was convicted on 11 of 16 counts of […]
I'm continuing to work clearing my bookshelves this summer and in the past few days have finished both Dean Koontz's "The Face" and John Scalzi's "Old Man's War." Let's get Koontz out of the way first. "The Face" is the story of about 72 hours in the life of a man who is the head […]
It took a few days, but the White House has finally gotten around to to responding to this collection of clips outlining President Obama’s long-held desire to move the country toward a Canadian-style single-payer system. The response comes from former journalist Linda Douglass who joined the Obama campaign several months after she had done interviews […]