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Johnson Publishing Reeling In Economic Downturn

It’s not exactly news that the economic downturn is kicking arse and taking names. And one of those names is Johnson publishing, the company behind the venerable Jet and Ebony magazines. Richard Prince’s Journal-isms column points to an article by Eddie Baeb and Ann Saphir, who wrote Monday in Craig’s Chicago Business, the  details of some [...]

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Obama to Change Emissions and Mileage Standards

  Obama is going to see to it that we enjoy better gas mileage on our cars and also make the auto dealers do better or do their part to make the air quality from our vehicles clean as possible.  Environmentalists are doing the happy dance and singing the praises of the plan that will be [...]

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Internet Crime On the Rise

The economy is so bad that people better not only lock their doors, but use more common sense and security precautions online.  Fraud is the major getter of goods online right now.  If there’s security on your computer and it is still hacked, you may  have someone to blame, but if you don’t have your computer secured …take care [...]

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Jokey Joke: Now That They’re ‘Sucking At The Gov’t’s Tit,’ CEO’s Are Learning The Newest Way To Fly

Raise your hand if you feel sorry for all those poor CEOs. Well, we don’t mean poor literally. We mean poor as in the fact that Americans have sorta turned on the poor guys … and gals, too. It seems that when the public found out about AIG giving it’s execs multi-million dollar bonuses, that [...]

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President Obama Says ‘We Will Rebuild’ America

While President Obama didn’t give his formal State of the Union speech yet, his congressional chambers address was riveting.  He has to be one of the most eloquent orators of our time.  The President we have now is like that good friend that visits you when you’ve buried your mother or have experienced some crisis [...]

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