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One hesitates to give attention to Jesse A. Myerson. But it's probably worth it, if for no other reason to contend that many of his beliefs are likely shared by the mindless lemmings disguised as "journalists" who wildly cheered on Saturday when an obviously orchestrated "climate change" agreement designed ultimately to redistribute massive amounts of wealth from developed to underdeveloped countries — which would virtually guarantee that they will stay undeveloped — was announced in Paris. Almost two years ago, Myerson, whose experience includes "the Media and Labor Outreach committees at Occupy Wall Street," identified of "Five Economic Reforms Millennials...

[This is Part Two of the "Beyond Blue" series. Part One is available here.] A reader responding to my essay on Governor Brown and the Great White Train asked a cogent question: if building high speed rail is the wrong thing for the governor of California to be doing, what should he be working on instead? Other readers have asked similar questions as they’ve read my essays on the decline of the blue social model. What model do I propose in its place? These are reasonable questions and fair ones, and of course they are impossible to answer with the...

When historians look back on this moment in American politics, they may wonder why the White House failed to focus on the consuming issue of the time: the economy -- and, in particular, jobs. An exasperated U.S. Sen. Bob Casey Jr., D-Pa., said in a recent phone interview, "Frankly, our constituents really just want us to focus on jobs." Instead, he and five Western Pennsylvania congressmen are caught in the crosshairs of Washington's political blood sport, as both parties clash over debt limits and deficits. Outside Washington, constituents are clamoring about the economy -- or, as U.S. Rep. Jason Altmire,...

I have done just about every business you can imagine, lots of flops lots of great fun and success's. In so many ways I have achieved the American dream thousands of times and I want to to do it a thousands times more! I have sold candy door to door, sold seven year air fresheners, I have imported Rolls Royce s from England. The total screws ups and wastes of time, I now revel in because they have made me such a better business man. A year ago, the phone barely rang with opportunities, now my fellow entrepreneurs are humming...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. Wichita — Home foreclosures in aviation-dependent Wichita have soared in the past two years as more families struggle to make ends meet in this hard-hit Midwest manufacturing community. On average, between 30 and 40 Wichita families each week are losing their homes at sheriff's auctions in the Sedgwick County Courthouse. Extended unemployment benefits and family savings have run out for thousands of laid-off aircraft workers and others who still are having a hard time finding jobs two years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks triggered massive layoffs in Wichita's four...