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Roughly 14 million people are formally labeled as unemployed, but “there’s probably 22 million to 23 million people who are unemployed, mal-employed or under-employed,” said Andrew Sum, an economics professor at Northeastern University in Boston, as reported by DailyCaller.com. The professor didn’t define “mal-employed,” but I’m thinking it includes the over-employed—those in full-time jobs way over their heads who screw up life for the rest of us. Consider Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, who’s blown through nearly $2 trillion taxpayer dollars trying to fix the economy. He admitted Wednesday that he’s clueless about why the economy has a...

Conference for conservative thinkers coming to Chicago Tuesday, May 06, 2003 By The Leader-Chicago Bureau Conference website is www.conservativeconference.com. CHICAGO -- Conservatives in Illinois will be meeting together with national speakers such as Grover Norquist, Morton Blackwell and Janet LaRue next Saturday, May 17 at the Palmer House in downtown Chicago. "Winning with Ideas," the theme of the conference, reflects the mood of Illinois conservative political activists who suffered loss at the statewide level last November, but achieved political victories at the national level. The conservatives of Illinois say that they are not represented by the leaders in either of...