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CNN Makes It Official: Zucker to Be New President
New York Times, by BILL CARTER and BRIAN STELTER
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Posted By:FlyRight, 11/29/2012 4:27:08 PM
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| CNN made official Thursday morning its decision to install Jeff Zucker, the former chief executive of NBC, as the new president of CNN Worldwide. The announcement was the culmination of monthslong search to find a replacement for Jim Walton, who had led CNN to record profits even as ratings for its American network, CNN/U.S., hit record lows. The network announced in July that Mr. Walton would step down at the end of the year.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
engrpat, 11/29/2012 4:59:20 PM (No. 9040005)
Hmmm, looks like they are just rearragning the deck chairs.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Goose, 11/29/2012 6:13:55 PM (No. 9040132)
CNN would be better off hiring the Zucker Brothers who made the Airplane! and Police Squad movies.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
gesundheit, 11/29/2012 6:46:18 PM (No. 9040177)
There´s no reason for liberals to watch the news anymore, since no matter what happens in the economy, the world, or with their own livelihoods, they will always support Obama and the Democrats.
Do liberals care about Benghazi, our towering national debt, or the fiscal-cliff deliberations? Even the President himself doesn´t seem to care about those things.
So the prospect of a liberal news network improving its ratings cannot be favorable. The only people who care about what´s going on the world are Conservatives and moderates, who are already being served by Fox News.
Unless CNN changes its political perspective to at least one ´´fair and balanced´´ enough to attract moderates and Conservatives, they might as well sell the network to someone who will, before its ratings and value decline into nothingness.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
shamus, 11/29/2012 6:47:46 PM (No. 9040181)
Epic fail.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
reddfroge, 11/29/2012 8:44:15 PM (No. 9040345)
You must remember, ´Liberalism´ comes first...no matter what. Zucker is a complete failure, but that cannot, ever damage Liberalism...he must be held up and promoted because he is a Liberal.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
M Stuart, 11/29/2012 8:46:25 PM (No. 9040351)
WHY? Because he did such a great job at NBC?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
john56, 11/29/2012 9:01:58 PM (No. 9040370)
MSNBC2.
Maybe Obermann can get a job there.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Pinchem, 11/30/2012 6:25:44 AM (No. 9040677)
Hey be careful. Looking at the ratings MSNBC has higher ratings than CNN. CNN´s ratings are really pathetic.
One thing they must learn, twisting stories, outright lying or not telling all the news to cover up for Obama is no way to enhance their image. The saddest part is that Liberals cannot comprehend how pathetic this network is but they believe every word they put out.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Bad Dog, 11/30/2012 7:25:35 AM (No. 9040750)
Conservative to Liberal: What do you think about Benghazi?
Liberal response: Who´s Ben Gazi?
Welcome to CNN, Jeff. Please do with it what you did for NBC. And if it doesn´t work out for ya, there´s always Current.
Cheers.
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Obama´s Army Outmaneuvered by the NRA
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NationalJournal, by Beth Rinehard
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Posted By: FlyRight- 4/10/2013 7:18:37 AM
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Although the first votes on gun -control legislation have yet to be cast, by some measures the National Rifle Association has already won. Obama’s ambitious plans to ban assault weapons and limit magazine capacities are off the table, while the NRA suggested it could support the most likely outcome -- expanded background checks -- as recently as 1999. The NRA claims that the president’s efforts have triggered a fundraising surge and boosted its membership from 4 million to nearly 5 million.
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What the Iron Lady Forged
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Los Angeles Times, by Jonah Goldberg
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Posted By: FlyRight- 4/9/2013 7:46:33 AM
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In 1975, when asked to explain why Margaret Thatcher was poised to take over the Tory Party, the irascible British satirist Malcolm Muggeridge replied that it was all due to television and the fact that the telegenic Thatcher had a "certain imbecile charm." That was one of the nicer things said about an "imbecile" who earned a degree in chemistry from Oxford and passed the bar while studying law at home.
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Double Action: Two NY Times Columnists Embarrass Themselves on Guns in Sunday Review
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NewsBusters, by Clay Waters
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Posted By: FlyRight- 4/9/2013 7:43:54 AM
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Two New York Times columnists embarrassed themselves over the weekend, betraying anti-gun ignorance in the paper´s Sunday Review.Frank Bruni went hunting for the first time (with the chef of a ritzy Manhattan restaurant), and remarked "what an unfair fight" hunting is, as if he was the first person to think that up. After lamenting "how thoroughly a weapon can be romanticized and fetishized," he pivoted to easy access to guns in "this country of ours." I could forget, when not aiming at a bird, to keep the gun pointed toward the sky or the ground.
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President Barack Obama finds voice, but task’s huge
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New York Daily News, by James Warren
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Posted By: FlyRight- 4/9/2013 6:47:16 AM
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WASHINGTON — President Obama may be tilting at windmills, but the wind is at his back. His latest eloquent speech on guns, inspired by the Sandy Hook massacre, came Monday amid doubts about gun control legislation passing Congress. For now, he looks weak up against the National Rifle Association, spending much of the speech simply pleading for opponents not to block votes
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Disability & Welfare Cont’d
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National Review, by Jonah Goldberg
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Posted By: FlyRight- 4/8/2013 9:41:43 AM
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The Wall Street Journal has a big frontpage story today on the disability epidemic. It’s a good addendum to my column from last week. The unexpectedly large number of American workers who piled into the Social Security Administration’s disability program during the recession and its aftermath threatens to cost the economy tens of billions a year in lost wages and diminished tax revenues. Signs of the problem surfaced Friday, in a dismal jobs report that showed U.S. labor force participation rates falling last month to the lowest levels since 1979,
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Sponsors Now Pay for Online Articles, Not Just Ads
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New York Times, by TANZINA VEGA
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Posted By: FlyRight- 4/8/2013 9:21:23 AM
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Articles in a series on Mashable.com called “What’s Inside” looked for all the world like the hundreds of other articles on the digital media site. But journalistically, they were something very different. The articles, about technology topics in a wide variety of products, including modems and the Hubble Space Telescope, were paid for by Snapdragon, a brand of processor chip made by Qualcomm, and the sponsor of the series. Most were even written by Mashable editorial employees.
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The Lessons of Zombie-Mania
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Wall Street Journal, by DANIEL W. DREZNER
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Posted By: FlyRight- 4/6/2013 1:44:06 PM
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By any observable metric, zombies are totally hot right now. Look at movies like "Warm Bodies" and the coming "World War Z," the ratings for AMC´s hit series "The Walking Dead" (12.9 million viewers for its recent season finale) and $2.5 billion in annual sales for zombie videogames. Over the past decade, between a third and a half of all zombie movies ever made have been released. A glance at Google GOOG -1.51%Trends reveals that in the past few years, interest in flesh-eating ghouls has far outstripped popular enthusiasm for vampires, wizards and hobbits.
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J. David Kuo, onetime leader of Bush’s faith-based initiative, dies at 44
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Washington Post, by Karen Tumulty
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Posted By: FlyRight- 4/6/2013 1:42:04 PM
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J. David Kuo, an evangelical Christian conservative and former top official of President George W. Bush’s faith-based initiative who drew wide attention when he publicly accused the administration of failing to live up to the values it espoused, died April 5 in Charlotte. He was 44.He was diagnosed a decade ago with brain cancer, his wife, Kimberly, said. The arc of Mr. Kuo’s life and career had taken him from liberal to conservative, from hard-edged Republican activism in the 1990s to disillusionment with the idea that politics could serve as an extension of his faith. Link repaired by Staff.
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Bribed For So Little: Our Pols Just Don´t Cost Much
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New York Post, by John Podhoretz
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Posted By: FlyRight- 4/6/2013 8:54:47 AM
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This country is an embarrassment. We can’t do anything right, least of all corruption. Look, when Venezuela’s populist demagogue Hugo Chavez died, word was he’d somehow accumulated an estate worth $2 billion. In the old days when the PRI party ruled Mexico uninterruptedly, every president got a single six-year term — and promptly retired at its close as a billionaire.And that was when a billion was real money.
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The FBI interviewed former CIA director David Petraeus at his home Friday, USA Today reported
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USA Today, by Christina Boyle
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Posted By: FlyRight- 4/6/2013 6:41:54 AM
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The FBI interviewed former CIA director David Petraeus at his home Friday, USA Today reported. The retired Army general was quizzed as part of an ongoing investigation into whether he provided classified information to his biographer — and mistress — Paula Broadwell. The FBI questioned Petraeus part of an ongoing investigation into whether he provided classified information to his biographer — and mistress — Paula Broadwell. The FBI questioned Petraeus part of an ongoing investigation into whether he provided classified information to his biographer — and mistress — Paula Broadwell.
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Global Warming: Was It Just A Beautiful Dream After All?
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Forbes, by Harry Binswanger
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Posted By: FlyRight- 4/5/2013 7:12:52 AM
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Like most of you, I yearn for shorter winters, more shirt-sleeve weather, less lashing from frigid winds. As a confirmed New Yorker, I’m not willing to do what millions have done: move to the sunbelt. I want warmer weather here in the Big City.But I’ve grown old waiting for the promised global warming. I was 35 when predictions of a looming ice age were supplanted by warmmongering. Now I’m 68, and there’s still no sign of warmer weather. It’s enough to make one doubt the “settled science” of the government-funded doom-sayers.
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The most shocking news you won´t see in the MSM today
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American Thinker, by Thomas Lifson
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Posted By: magnante- 4/9/2013 11:49:09 AM
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The murder trial of abortionist Kermit Gosnell largely is being ignored by the mainstream media, even in the face of grisly testimony, such as what we heard yesterday. Life News reports: ...a former employee described how she heard a baby scream during a live-birth abortion. Abortion clinic employee Sherry West described an incident which "really freaked (her) out" and related to the jury how she heard a child who was born alive following an abortion scream.
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White House: Planned GOP gun filibuster cowardly
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Washington Times, by Dave Boyer
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/8/2013 11:08:31 PM
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Beginning a week of high pressure on gun control, the White House on Monday accused some Republican senators of cowardice for planning to filibuster gun legislation without allowing the full Senate to vote on President Obama’s initiatives. “If they oppose this legislation, have the courage to say so on the floor and vote no,” said White House press secretary Jay Carney. “Don’t block it. Don’t hide behind a procedural action to prevent a vote. That’s the wrong thing to do, and that’s how the president clearly feels.”
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Obamacare architect Rockefeller: It´s ´beyond comprehension´
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Washington Examiner, by Paul Bedard
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Posted By: Drive- 4/10/2013 7:17:19 AM
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West Virginia Democratic Sen. Jay Rockefeller, one of the towering architects of Obamacare, on Tuesday openly criticized program managers for not moving quickly enough to build the system, warning that if it gets off to a bumpy start it will just get worse. Decrying the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as way too complex, he warned the acting Medicare director that Obamacare is "so complicated and if it isn´t done right the first time, it will just simply get worse."
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Obama enjoys ´sequester soul concert´ at White House amid massive budget cuts and government worker furloughs
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Business Insider, by Staff
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/10/2013 4:24:28 AM
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The sequester may have many across the country singing the blues, but for President Obama, it was all about Memphis Soul. Even with the threat of furloughs and government cuts sparked by the sequester, Obama took the time to enjoy a star-studded concert at the White House tonight. The White House celebration of Memphis Soul music in the East Room--which included special guest appearances by Queen Latifah and Justin Timberlake--is likely to rile Obama´s Republican foes. Some conservatives have called on Obama to give up golf, especially since popular public tours of the White House have been canceled because of
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Obama: Put Nation´s 4-Year-Olds in ‘Public Preschool;´ Will Save on ‘Child-Care Costs´
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Cybercast News Service, by Terence P. Jeffrey
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/10/2013 1:18:38 PM
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In the message he issued along with his budget proposal on Wednesday morning, President Barack Obama said he wants to see 4-year-old children in the United States enrolled in public schools. Obama said America needs to start enrolling 4-year-olds to make sure the children are “better prepared for the demands of the global economy” and to help parents save on "child-care costs." After saying the United States needs to “equip our citizens with the skills and training” to fill jobs in manufacturing, energy and infrastructure, Obama said, “And that has to start at the earliest possible age.”
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Obama´s Army Outmaneuvered by the NRA
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NationalJournal, by Beth Rinehard
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Posted By: FlyRight- 4/10/2013 7:18:37 AM
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Although the first votes on gun -control legislation have yet to be cast, by some measures the National Rifle Association has already won. Obama’s ambitious plans to ban assault weapons and limit magazine capacities are off the table, while the NRA suggested it could support the most likely outcome -- expanded background checks -- as recently as 1999. The NRA claims that the president’s efforts have triggered a fundraising surge and boosted its membership from 4 million to nearly 5 million.
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4 annoying ways climate change will make your life a bummer
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The Week, by Chris Gayomali
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/10/2013 7:30:26 PM
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Within the next few decades, carbon emissions could cause global temperatures to rise between 4 and 11 degrees Fahrenheit, melting ice caps and causing sea levels to rise. The price of crops like coffee and chocolate will skyrocket, and countless cuddly animals around the globe could be wiped out. And yet, a lot of people find it hard to really care about climate change. But don´t be fooled: Climate change will affect you. Here´s a brief sampling of ways that warmer temperatures will suck the fun out of your life: 1. Your flights will be more turbulent
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Outraged Liberals Say Obama Is About To Screw Over The Very People Who Got Him Elected
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Business Insider, by Grace Wyler
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/10/2013 6:35:42 AM
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Liberals descended on Pennsylvania Avenue Tuesday to protest President Barack Obama´s decision to include entitlement cuts in his upcoming budget, delivering 2 million petitions demanding the White House back off its support for the chained CPI. As we reported this weekend, liberals have been seething over the inclusion of the chained CPI in Obama´s budget, which they see as a huge betrayal by the Democratic president. This week, progressive groups, including MoveOn, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, and Democracy for America, have mounted "emergency" online campaigns against the proposal, accusing Obama of
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Sebelius: Implementing Obamacare More ´Difficult´ Than Anticipated
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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Tony Lee
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/10/2013 7:21:14 AM
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Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius conceded Monday that implementing the Affordable Care Act has been more complicated and frustrating than the Obama administration expected, largely due to Republicans who have opposed the law´s state-based exchanges and Medicaid expansion. "The politics has been relentless and that continues," Sebelius said. "There was some hope that once the Supreme Court ruled in July, and then once an election occurred there would be a sense that, ´This is the law of the land, let´s get on board, let´s make this work.´"
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AG sues florist who refused flowers to gay wedding
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer [WA], by Joel Connelly
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/10/2013 2:28:46 PM
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State Attorney General Bob Ferguson on Tuesday filed a consumer protection lawsuit against Arlene’s Flowers & Gifts, a Richland florist that refused to supply flowers to the same-sex marriage of a longtime customer. Ferguson said he sent a March 28 letter to owner Barronelle Stutzman asking her to reconsider and supply flowers to customer Robert Ingersoll. Through an attorney, Stutzman declined to change her position.“As Attorney General, it is my job to enforce the laws of the state of Washington,” said Ferguson. “Under the Consumer Protection Act, it is unlawful to discriminate
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Ron Johnson’s JCPenney: Anatomy of a Retail Failure
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Yahoo! Finance, by Jeff Macke
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Posted By: athina- 4/9/2013 9:45:34 AM
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In a stunning end to one of the most aggressively unsuccessful tenures in retail history, JCPenney (JCP) last night announced that CEO Ron Johnson would be leaving effective immediately. Myron Ullman, Johnson´s predecessor at JCPenney, takes office as CEO. When Johnson was initially wooed by JCPenney, it was to serve as CEO with Ullman as Chairman. In January 2012, Ullman was unceremoniously removed from the board. Gone with Ullman was any control the Board of Directors had over Ron Johnson and his control of JCPenney resources. Headline corrected by Staff
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CA Proposes Law to Force Insurance to Cover Homosexual ´Infertility´
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Breibart´s Big Government, by Breitbart News
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Posted By: athina- 4/9/2013 10:00:36 AM
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The state of California is reportedly considering legislation that would force group insurance policies to provide infertility treatment for gay and lesbian couples. Two men who have sex with each other for a year and do not produce a baby would be considered “infertile” under the proposed legislation. So would two women having sex. Since biology does not allow those without a uterus to conceive or those without a penis to impregnate, every year-long gay couple in California would potentially be covered by this new provision of California law.
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