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Why I Like to Hire Ugly People How the unattractive suffer ... and can end up sitting pretty By Marty Nemko September 2009 Like beauty, “ugly” is in the eyes of the beholder. What I’m talking about here is anything in a person’s physical appearance that’s likely to keep him or her off a “most attractive” list. For me it’s my hair, or lack thereof. Many years ago, I was all set to appear six times on a daytime-TV talk show. But the producers first had one suggestion: Get a hairpiece. “Market research indicates that a man with a full...

The Tea Party Express will be rallying in Canton, OH at 10:00 am this morning, Pittsburgh/Cranberry Township, PA at 2:30 pm and Johnstown, PA at 6:00 pm tonight!! Next rally stop: Scranton, PA tomorrow morning!! Woo hoo!! Thirty-five cities, thirty-five tea parties in sixteen days!! Be sure to check the tour schedule and join us when we get to a city near you: TeaPartyExpress.org!! And if you are going to DC for the big March on Washington and National Tea Party on 9/12, you won't want to miss our National Freeper Convention!! Click here to order your tickets today!! If...

Jon Meacham strikes me as a knowledgeable man. Surely the author of a well-regarded biography of Andrew Jackson knows his history. Ignorance thus cannot explain how the Newsweek editor could with a straight face describe Barack Obama as "the real Burkean in American politics right now." Yet that's just what Meacham did on today's Morning Joe . . . View video here.

Markets look to open higher. All three indices were up between a half a percent and a full percent yesterday. Markets are up this morning but much less than that even. The Dow is up less than six points currently. The other two indices, the S&P and NASDAQ, are up even less. Commodities are looking higher this morning as well.

With virtually no input from the mainstream media, the alternate media exposed and forced the resignation of Communist, racist, intemperate partisan Van Jones. He will not be the only White House czar forced from office in this way. According to the most recent count in Politico, with the resignation of the red green czar Van Jones, the White House still has 30 czars in its stable (12 more than Russia which had but 18 Romanov czars):

Breaking news: A politician has a speechwriter. Geoffrey Dunn writes: So what is this attempt at rebranding Palin all about? You can lay some good money down that here's what happened: The big boys — her attorney-agent Robert Barnett and probably her publisher, too, Rupert Murdoch — had a sit-down with young Sarah and told her she had better pull her mud together. They have a lot riding on the deal. Murdoch has anted up a seven-figure advance for a book written by someone who can't construct two cohesive sentences together. Barnett has staked his considerable reputation on the line....

You've no doubt heard about how everyone else's healthcare is better than ours. This excellent Daily Mail article explains the advanced science behind the UK's superior infant mortality statistics. The trick is to not count the ones your doctors never work on. Your math teacher was right all along, kids. As it turns out, good mathematics can solve any problem. And in this case, as Ezekiel Emanuel would say, the key to good healthcare is to allocate scarce resources where they will do the most good. Society can't waste precious live-saving care on long shots. We need to be more...

On Tuesday morning, 14-year-old Ta’veon Tashawn Mason should have been at his desk at Austin High School, but he and two friends skipped school. Police said the ninth-grader died in a Southwest Decatur backyard from a single gunshot wound. A press release said a resident shot him inside the house during a burglary at about 10:30 a.m. Noel Mclean at 1432 Fifth Ave. S.W. said he shot Mason. He said he was awakened by the intruders and he shot out of fear. One of three suspects Lt. Jonathan Green, public information officer, said Mason was one of three teen boys...

In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day". ennead • \EN-ee-ad\ • noun a group of nine Example sentence: Immediately following the show, viewers will be able to call or text in their votes for their favorite among this ennead of remaining contestants. Did you know? Since ancient times, various groups of people have considered nine to be a very special and sacred number. Legends and literature have long characterized groups of nine as having a special, in some cases magical,...

The attached image is a picture of Jayden Capewell, who was born prematurely and died solely because he was denied treatment by the NHS in Britain. If societies are judged by how they treat the weakest and most vulnerable inside their society, then nations with "compassionate" socialized national healthcare plans are surely damned. The leftists who promote such insanity never think about the fac More..t that such systems place targets on the backs of people like Jayden. If Jayden had been lucky enough to have been born in an evil, heartless, for-profit system like ours in America... he would most...

If you're watching more TV on your computer these days -- and less on an actual TV -- you're not alone. A survey by the nonprofit Conference Board released Tuesday showed that nearly a quarter of households in the U.S. now view television programs online. That's up from 20% last year. The quarterly Consumer Internet Barometer survey found that news shows were watched by 43% of online viewers, followed by sitcoms, comedies and dramas, watched by 35%. Slightly less than 20% viewed reality shows online, and 18% took in sports. Viewership of the Hulu online service -- which offers shows...

Dear Esteemed Chairman and Savior of the World Economy: On behalf of your many Chinese friends and all of the Chinese people, we wish to congratulate you on your recent reappointment as Chairman of the American Federal Reserve. We could not be more pleased to know that the man who saved the value of our Fannie Mae mortgage-backed securities last year will be the Great Monetary Helmsman for another four years. We also note with satisfaction, and admiration, your many recent assurances, via the Wall Street Journal and various eloquent speeches, that you and the Fed have no intention of...

Here is audio / video of Glenn Beck on radio talking to Georgia GOP Rep. Paul Broun. Broun said he is concerned that President Obama an the Democrats are moving toward an "Authoritarian Type of Government." Broun mentioned Obama having said he wants to develop a "Civilian National Security Force" just as powerful as our military. Here is video of Obama saying that during last year's campaign . . . (VIDEOS)

How significant is gold's break through $1,000 on Tuesday? We have been here before, most recently in February, but each time the yellow metal has failed to hold the line. Flagging industrial and jewellery demand has ultimately overwhelmed the gold bugs' desire to push the price through what feels like an important psychological barrier (even if it's really just round numbers). snip snip ... the unprecedented monetary stimulus with which the authorities fended off Great Depression 2 is very likely to lead to a serious inflation problem down the track. And that gold and other real assets will be a...

September 11th marks the gruesome day when 152 years ago, some 120 men, women, and children were slaughtered in cold blood by a group of Mormons. The Mountain Meadows Massacre would be the "worst incident of organized mass murder of unarmed civilians" until the Oklahoma City Bombing in 1995. To understand how this happened, we must understand the relationship between the early Mormons and the rest of the nation Shortly after being organized as a church, Joseph and his two hundred or so followers settled in Kirtland, Ohio. The church grew, but by 1837 many had begun to lose faith....

Something electric is in the air. They’ve spit in our face once too often. The spirit of 1776 and 1861 is building up in the hearts and souls of American patriots waiting to burst forth this Saturday. The power of the American people is filling our streets and won’t be denied. Each successive TEA party brings greater power and higher spirit, but there’s much more to come. What is coming? We’ll see a Second Revolution followed by a Second Civil War, but there’ll be no shooting, no war in our streets. These changes will be made with moving vans and...

During August, in scores of meetings which were held in all parts of the country and attended by thousands, concerned citizens sent unmistakable signals to their elected political leaders that if Congress is going to produce anything on health-care this year — and many openly stated they hope nothing at all will pass — they want it to be a more targeted, less expensive, and less controversial product, and one based on bipartisan consensus and not ideological ambition. Polls show most Americans are strongly opposed to a full governmental takeover of U.S. health-care, and they rightly sense that is exactly...

VAN Jones resigned as White House green-jobs czar after the public got a look at his history of radical activism, including his time building the so-called Apollo Alliance -- a coalition of left-wing interest groups unified around the green-jobs concept. But another, even more radical Jones (not related) is leading Apollo's New York state activities.

We continually remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by HOPE in our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Thes 1:3 The Czar of CommieCzars’ Valarie Jerrett is Tony Rezko and Van Jones w/o the ethics. She is Obummer’s right hand man who runs the personnel hirings of the Inner Circle. She is a not so closet communist who is doing everything in her power to bring about a commie Country. She rose up through the Richard Daley machine working inside the mayors office while taking graft through inner...

She's been ridiculed by the so-called masters of the universe in the mainstream media for warning President Barack Obama's health care proposals could result in one of one of her loved ones having to stand in front of one of "Obama's death panels" to determine their "level of productivity in society" to see if they are worthy of health care. But despite the criticism, she's not backing down from those statements. Aside from submitting written testimony to the New York State Senate, as Noel Sheppard pointed out for NewsBusters on Sept. 8, Palin wrote an op-ed that appeared in the...