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Classified Employment Ad. Help Wanted: President of the United States of America. Please submit resume references, 7 verifiable references, credit report, and birth certificate. Non-smokers and light drinkers preferable, but will consider all applicants (because we have too.) Must have business experience. Cash register skills perfered as we go thru alot of money More

We've heard of this committee before, I think that Betsey McCaughey, in the pages of the WSJ, referred to this commission as a death panel. Here's a little bit more about it: H.R. 1 (more commonly known as the Recovery and Reinvestment Act, or the Stimulus Bill) contains US $1.1 billion in funding for the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness More

When did our budget become all about cutting Medicare? I am an Emergency Physician of 20 years, and these patients only come in for valid needs, and often come in later rather than earlier in the course of their illness. They don't abuse the system in my opinion. As opposed to Medicaid patients, who never paid in, are flooding the system, and come in the ER for every More

Let's see. Union membership in teaching goes up, performance goes down. I wish there was something that could show the positive correlation between the two . . . . If only there was some mathematical equation . . . some Microsoft application that you could plug in the numbers . . . some kind of computer program that you could run to show the correlation . . .what More

Maybe Rich was in a lab where half his co-workers were educated in China, or went to a conference where half the presenters were educated in China, or read a scientific paper in which half the contributors were Chinese. I have. I welcome them. Science is an international effort, and anyone who wants to contribute to that effort is on my team effort. I'll compete More

Those darn patents...what pesky things they are. Kind of reminds me of the Jupiter Jack...that cellphone device that transmits the signal to your car radio. Jupiter Jack was not the original name of the device. It was coined the Black Jack at first, but that turned out to be taken already. And several names after that didn't work out either. Ultimately, Jupiter More

I had some odd jobs, mostly before I turned 16, which was a long, long time ago. But once I got my first payroll job, I began learning things organized neatly you only learn working for a well-organized, professional company. ________________ Henry, you do learn different things working in a company, but you learn even more valuable lessons working on your own, mowing More

Globalism is about global prices but its also about producer global wages and benefits. The Plutocrats knew this quite well but they only mentioned the former not the latter so that they could tamp down US labor costs almost at will. When you offshore your jobs and use global wages and benefits as your main argument at home to reduce them you produce the perfect More

The most dramatic example of the impact of competition that I have experienced occurred several years ago. I was flying on a regular basis from Baltimore to Cleveland to attend a board team meeting. A colleague who lived in New Jersey attended the same meeting on the same schedule. I routinely flew Southwest Airlines. The round-trip fare was $100 +/-a few dollars. More

If some busybodies are so worried about what a free enterprise is doing, maybe they should put up the money to buy shares for the privilege of voting on how its run. These companies are not public utilities, and people need to butt out and mind their own business. What other people choose your career to purchase and eat is none of their business. I rarely do fast More