Power Line turns 10

Source: Hot Air

This past week, we celebrated the tenth birthday of our granddaughter, the Little Admiral, about whom readers of my old blog Captain’s Quarters read on a regular basis. We hosted her birthday party at her request on Th ...
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Staff frozen out as aircon firm collapses

Source: The Age

Engineering company Hastie has collapsed under an estimated $500 million debt. Photo: Michele Mossop MORE than 2000 jobs will be axed after embattled engineering company Hastie collapsed under an estimated $500 million of debt. In a ma ...
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Innovation Under Austerity: Eben Moglen's call to arms from the Freedom to Connect conference

Source: Boing Boing

Last week saw the latest installment of David Isenberg's Freedom to Connect conference in Washington, DC. One of the keynotes came from Eben Moglen, formerly chief counsel of the Free Software Foundation, now ...
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The Republicans are unfit to govern

Source: Daily Kos

One of this biggest economic stories of the past week was this: The 17-country eurozone risks falling into a “severe recession,” the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development warned on Tuesday, as it ...
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Descendant: Capones paved way for Nevada gambling

Source: Belleville News-Democrat

Move over Bugsy Siegel. A descendant of Al and Ralph Capone says in a new book that the two gangsters played a much bigger role in creating Nevada's gambling empire. Historians are skeptical because the claims are based on ...
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JANET STREET PORTER: Struggling to put on a happy face? Wear a Camilla mask!

Source: Daily Mail - UK

Positivity is the big buzz word of the moment. Everyone’s ‘on a journey’ looking for ‘positive outcomes’ — like getting a job and paying the mortgage, or meeting someone they can spend time with. To be honest, there has been little positivity in the Str ...
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Black Enterprise Entrepreneurs conference celebrates anniversary, mourns loss

Source: Chicago Tribune

Latrece Russell milled around the Hilton Chicago this week with a doll in her arms, but her mind was far from child's play. The 25-year-old Bronzeville woman co-owns the company that designed Joi, an 18-inch doll that speaks Bible vers ...
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Lazy Sunday Thoughts: Future Books

Source: Chrisbookarama

Not very lazy this weekend, I’m afraid. It seems as if everything happens all at the same time and I have to be in two places at once. So, while I’m “here” I’m also somewhere else. Maybe you can read a few books for me today. And as if I don’t have enoug ...
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50 top entrepreneurial blogs for your reader

Source: Drew’s Marketing Minute

Every year the team at Evan Carmichael round up some of the best blogs out there and put together a top 50 list. This year’s list for the is a doozy. Here in the States, we have a long weekend for Memorial Day…so why not u ...
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