Evil HR Lady has answers for human resource management,

Mistakes can lead to success...
Really.

"Why am I evil? Well, I'm not, but that's the perception of all of us in HR. Need to fire someone? Come to HR. Need to explain to someone why, even after working their rear end off all year, that their annual increase is 2.7%? Come to HR. Need to come up with new mountains of paperwork? Come to HR. So, come join me on the Evil Side. Oh, and send me your HR questions."

See her edits and editorials at Carnival of Human Resources #5, and be sure to read Delegation as a Leadership Style, From Susan M. Heathfield, and her Tips for Effective Delegation. With good advice. If every manager delegated properly and treated his desk like a pyramid, Your Business Blogger would have fewer clients.

Or maybe all managers should be sociopaths.

See The Carnival of Australia and learn what ANZAC Day is. Aussies are allies.

And bookmark The Integrative Stream, who is hosting the Carnival of the Capitalists. (I will 'roll 'em, as soon as the Panzer Commander unlocks by blogroll...) William Crawford has,

been a software developer, a manager, a Chief Technology Officer and an author of books about enterprise computing. In 2006-2007, I spent a year working on Healthcare Information Technology policy issues at the United States Department of Health and Human Services, in the Office of Policy at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the largest healthcare payor in the world.

Right now I’m focused on industry liaision activities for the Harvard Medical School Center for Biomedical Informatiocs, and am an MBA candidate at the Sloan School of Management at MIT. I’m also an SM candidate in the MIT Biomedical Enterprise Program, which focuses on bringing together management and scientific professionals to create innovative biomedical businesses. You can never have too many graduate degrees.

And while at the Carnival visit Wayne Hurlbert, who reminds us in Preventing mistakes: Creativity to the rescue

"All business owners and managers make mistakes. In fact, if no mistakes are made, nothing is being done in the business at all. Literally.

Fear that one's mistakes leads to immediate dismissal simply locks down the company. No one will suggest any new ideas, and will revert to covering the backs and keeping their heads down. Entrepreneurs should welcome innovation and fresh, creative ideas. Forward thinkers and innovators should be rewarded and encouraged to seek new solutions to the organization's problems. Mistakes will be made. The key is to keep the errors small, and to learn from the experience."

Wayne gets it right, as usual. Benefit from his wisdom, which is interesting, since he makes few mistakes. Read him.

I usually recognize a mistake... the second time I make it.

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The girls from the Family Research Council put on a show.

Hillary hypocrisy: Imus bad, Timbaland good,

Senator Clinton finds herself at the posh house of rapper Timbaland, who raised $800,000 for Senator Clinton's committee. Timbaland's lyrics, however, are quite "small-minded" and coarsely sexist. The Washington Post reprinted some of Timbaland's lyrics and in just four lines, the word "ho's" appears four times.

So FRC suggested that concerned citizens contact Hillary and request that she not support vulgar and profane lyrics,

E-mail the Hillary for President Exploratory Committee offices at http://www.hillaryclinton.com/help/contact/ and ask her to return the $800,000 she received with Timbaland's help.

And it seems the Clinton Exploratory Committee is upset with the FRC and is responding in kind with cussing,

In the alert we included the only visible e-mail address on Clinton's web site so that our friends could contact her office and ask her to return the Timbaland proceeds. The reaction from her campaign was both swift and surprising, considering that it included even more profanity than a Timbaland song. The recipient of thousands of your e-mails at the campaign was extremely upset--and he let us know in language so offensive the FCC would blush. Does anyone else see the irony in Clinton's committee using profanity to defend profanity?

The only thing that counts with Clinton is cash. Your Business Blogger predicts that Hillary will keep the 800 large. And her negatives will remain high.

The good guys might win yet.

And its not just because our women are better looking...

See the Timbaland lyrics at the jump. Caution: offensive language. No, I don't mean the failure to conjugate verbs.

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The Honorable
Lurita Alexis Doan
Chief Executive
General Services Administration Why is Congressman Waxman so unhappy with Lurita Alexis Doan, head of GSA?

Is it contracts, campaignings, competence?

Your Business Blogger recently sat down with Lurita Doan. She was really quite at home with the intense blood sport that passes for politics. (She's from Louisiana.) (And works academia.) We discussed her management style and her goals in government.

Doan came to Your Nation's Capital to save money in the giant GSA. And to make a difference in the business of government. Rob Bluey reminds us in TownHall.com that,

"The agency oversees nearly $66 billion in federal spending -- more than a quarter of the government’s procurement dollars. It has 12,300 employees who are spread out in offices around the country.

So what do GSA employees do with all that money? The GSA is the world's largest landlord with more than 8,300 government-owned or leased buildings. It is responsible for a fleet of 170,000 vehicles, making it the world's largest purchaser of new cars. The computer infrastructure it oversees is valued at more than $100 million. The agency is the world's largest credit card service, and believe it or not, the world's largest conservator of art."

Jimmie Stewart as
Jefferson Smith in Frank Capra's
1939 film classic
Mr. Smith Goes to WashingtonLurita Doan came to Washington, DC to serve out of passion for her country. But unlike Jimmie Stewart in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Mrs. Doan came with a plan.

Lurita Doan placed herself in the Waxman cross-hairs by breaking rice bowls in the bowels of government.

So Chairman Waxman takes a day off from surrendering to the jihadists in Iraq to hold hearings. He gets a three-fer:

1) Ignore the War on Islamofascists
2) Berate a cost cutting manager, and
3) Smear Karl Rove

Ignore, Berate, Smear. Not a bad day for Democrats.

Following is Doan's memo on How to Cut the Federal Budget at a Government Agency.

Your Business Blogger could have used such a guideline during my tour of duty in government and my feeble attempts to rein in costs to save tax payer dollars (the goal of most Republicans).

The government, the country needs more Lurita Doans. And fewer Henry Waxmans.

HOW TO CUT THE FEDERAL BUDGET AT A GOVERNMENT AGENCY

BASIC GROUND RULES
1. Make a decision not to cut salaries or benefits (PC&B) if a t all possible. The agency should make the commitment to value the skill sets and labor of its employees as its most valuable resource. This kind of cut should be considered only as a last measure, after all other options are exhausted and that commitment and understanding must be shared with the Agency’s employees, so that they know their personal lives are not at risk. This allows employees to focus on the true goal which is to cut the budget thereby improving efficiency and value to the American taxpayer.

2. Budget cuts should be employee driven in order to release the entrepreneurial energies of the employees who will find better ways to do the same things.

3. Each office within the Agency is accountable for achieving the desired cuts. At GSA, we proposed a 9% cut, but targeted non-performing programs.

4. Additional targets were : unnecessary travel, overseas travel except as it directly related to job performance, promotions above GS-15, hiring of GS-15 or higher, volume travel to conferences—often times limiting the number of attendees at conferences, consolidated purchasing[strategic sourcing]/

5. Each office and each employee at GSA was told that there were “no sacred cows.”

6. Each office was given a timeline / timeframe in which to provide the CFO the targeted cuts.

7. The Budget Process at GSA was collaborative, but by no means consensus driven.

8. I asked that we base the budget cuts on non-performing programs...

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Snoopy
by Charles Schultz :Charles Schultz Philosophy has been making the rounds and deserves repeating.

The creator of the Peanuts comic strip, Charles Schultz, has an eternal perspective.

Charles Schultz

1. Name the five wealthiest people in the world.

2. Name the last five Heisman trophy winners.

3. Name the last five winners of the Miss America pageant.

4. Name 10 people who have won the Nobel or Pulitzer Prize.

5. Name the last half dozen Academy Award winners for best actor and actress.

6. Name the last decade's worth of World Series winners.

The point is, none of us remember the headliners of yesterday. These are no second-rate achievers. They are the best in their fields. But the applause dies. Awards tarnish. Achievements are forgotten. Accolades and certificates are buried with their owners .

Here's another quiz. See how you do on this one:

1. List a few teachers who aided your journey through school.

2. Name three friends who have helped you through a difficult time.

3. Name five people who have taught you something worthwhile.

4. Think of a few people who have made you feel appreciated and special.

5. Think of five people you enjoy spending time with

Easier Right?

The lesson: The people who make a difference in your life are not the ones with the most credentials, the most money, or the most awards. They are the ones that care .

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia .

(Charles Schultz)

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"Why don't they pick up this story?" Michael Brady is questioning the mainstream media's lack of attention on a Democratic scandal in the making.

And he's doing something about it.

Too many good stories are not covered in DC or across the nation and Michael Brady and his business partner, Michael Giuliani have built a new media start-up to fix this. The Michaels 2X believe that the traditional media outlets do not report on important stories either from bias or from the lack of resources.

A blog is the solution. The immediate media.

Brady and Giuliani are professionals who have made careers in writing and researching and believe that the immediacy of the blogosphere will sell.

The (im)media.

The blogosphere is divided into linkers and thinkers. Drudge is a landing page that does the linking. The Majority Accountability Project (MAP) does the thinking. With original reporting.

MAP is breaking Freshmen Democrats turn to embattled lobbyist for cash.

Which would be a page one, above the fold splash-scandal on The Washington Post. If committed by a conservative.

Rob Bluey, recently introduced MAP to his weekly blogger meeting at Heritage. He writes,

The two men behind the just-launched Majority Accountability Project want to shake up Capitol Hill. Michael Brady and Michael Giuliani, two longtime congressional staffers, have decided Washington’s entrenched journalists aren’t doing a good enough job reporting the facts about Democrats in Congress.

And MAP knows where to go to get world-class advice. Bluey continues,

David All, who taught congressional Republicans how to blog while serving as an aide to Rep. Jack Kingston, is now helping Brady and Giuliani turn their website into the GOP’s best online endeavor in a long time.

Brady and Giuliani have a business model they feel can make money on news and content. They plan on making a profit. (Which would set them apart from the dying print media.)

They will sell ad space and subscriptions. Which they claim will put them in the black.

The Long Tail
by Chris Anderson And Your Business Blogger thinks they might just do it. We now know from The Long Tail: The New Economics of Culture and Commerce, Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More, by Chris Anderson, that statistical outliers can make money.

The long tail is a graph with sales volume on the vertical axis and market competitors on the horizontal.

The Long Tail tells us that money can be made in the digital economy even if provider is not in the top 10 or top 100 or with in the two or three standard diviations of a traditional belt curve or F-Curve of sales volume.

Even as we slide down the tail, an outlet such as MAP can make money, because the marginal (digital) costs are zero. And there are sales to be made out there.

MAP may not hit the 800,000 daily circulation of The Wall Street Journal -- who would sit at the head or top of The Long Tail -- but money can be made at 5,000 hits a day: a long way on the right of the tail.

Michael Brady and Michael Giuliani have found a niche and will fill it with content.

And I bet they make a buck.

Thank you (foot)notes:

Rob Bluey also has the best photos. But he left out the Youngest Blogger (who was warmly greeted) at the last meeting with MAP:

Boo Baby seated to the right of David All (at right at laptop)

The Alert Reader will complain that Your Business Blogger is mixing atoms and bits: the comparison should not be with dead tree products with products by 1 and 0's. In this post we consider only the market segment of original content news outlets.

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Charmaine Yoest appeared on CNN Headline News on the Glenn Beck Show on April 20, 2007 to discuss the murders at Virginia Tech. Watch the segment here. Linked thru the Family Research Council site.

One of her suggestions: Banish the murder's name.

Glenn Beck is shown opposite Chris Matthews. Glenn Beck will win with his conservative perspective.

Not everyone agrees with Charmaine and Glenn. Jon Gold from The Daily Iowan writes in Gunning for guns,

Almost immediately after the full horror of the Virginia Tech massacre had been realized, commentators all over the political spectrum broke out in fits of wild, uncontrolled - and almost entirely groundless - speculation about the tragedy's effect on gun control. Little was actually said, and still less made any sense. Charmaine Yoest of the ultra-right wing Family Research Council blamed godless liberals - of course - for the tragedy. "We can [tell kids] 'Thou shalt not smoke,' but we can't tell them, 'Thou shall not kill,' because that might bring … the concept of God into the classrooms." That's right, folks, kids won't know that killing people is wrong unless we make them read the Ten Commandments.

But today I, too, am going to make a partisan argument out of the tragedy. I feel guilty, but I think it's got to be done, and here's my point: There are too d@mned many guns floating around in this country.

Liberal logic: Guns bad; Abortion good; Smoking bad. And the Ten Commandments can be displayed only where they would be irrelevant. Like an empty liberal mainstream protestant church.

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Gold Star
1st Lt. Jared M. Landaker A few decades ago, Your Business Blogger was privileged to be a Survival Assistance Officer helping families who lost a service member. As a young Cavalry Officer, I commanded a number of burial details. The part that hurt and still moves in slow motion in my mind's eye, is handing the tri-folded American flag to the widow.

I never cried at these funerals. I was too young. It was a task, a detail that had to be done.

Our government has a task that needs to be done. But it won't be done by Harry Reid. Democrats are surrendering and will nullify our sacrifices in the war against the jihadists. Democrats say our troops sacrifice and die for nothing.

Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, says, "...this war is lost..."

Democrats, like the French, have already surrendered. RedState says it all best.

But not surrendering, it seems, is the American public. Following is Diary Of A Last and Final Flight Home dated February 17, 2007, that was making the rounds. Hat tip to John Howland, who runs the USNA-At-Large group.

Every death in the armed forces is a public event. 1st Lt. Jared M. Landaker, 25, Big Bear City, California, Rest in Peace.

Diary Of A Last and Final Flight Home

February 17, 2007,
0350 [hours; 3:30am]
I was at curbside at 24th and M, Washington DC . 16 Degrees with a light breeze. Going home after my second week of freezing temps to my warm home in SoCal. Take a walk on the beach, ride a horse, climb a mountain and get back to living. I'm tired of the cold.

0425
paying the taxi fare at Dulles in front of the United Airlines counter, still cold.

0450
engaged the self-serve ticker machine and it delivers my ticket, baggage tag and boarding pass. Hmmm, that Marine over there is all dressed up in his dress blues a bit early this morning... "Good Morning Captain, you're looking sharp." He says, "Thank you, sir."

Pass Security and to my gate for a decaf coffee and 5 hours sleep. A quick check of the flight status monitor and UA Flt 211 is on time. I'm up front, so how bad can that be? Hmmm, there's that same Marine. He must be heading to Pendleton to see his lady at LAX for the long weekend, all dressed up like that. Or maybe not. I dunno.

The speaker system announces "Attention in the boarding area, we'll begin boarding in 10 minutes, we have some additional duties to attend to this morning, but we'll have you out of here on time."

The Marine Captain has now been joined by five others. BINGO, I get it, he's not visiting his lady, he's an official escort. I remember doing that once, CACO duty. I still remember the names of the victim and family, The Bruno Family in Mojave - all of them, wows, that was 24 years ago.

On board, 0600:
"Good morning folks, this is the Captain. This morning we've been attending to some additional duties, and I apologize for being 10 minutes late for push back, but I believe we'll be early into LAX. This morning it is my sad pleasure to announce that...

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FOX News Charmaine recently appeared on FOX News Sunday to discuss the data and wisdom and public policy of day care.

She is debating a professional who loves day care.

Charmaine reviews the data that confirms the mother's intuition that the more time a mother spends with her child, the better the child will be. The better the world will be.

Moms know best. Who knew?

Child care liberal feminist activists take the other side. So that women can make money. Because money, to feminists, is the most important thing in the world...besides sex. And power.

(Money, Sex, Power. Liberal feminists would do well to remember a Democratic President who warned against this trifecta: Harry Truman.

Three things ruin a man

power, money, and women.

I never wanted power.

I never had any money,

and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now.

He also dropped the Atomic Bomb...my kind of guy.)

Anyway. Charmaine's short clip is available here. Please forgive the extra click thru on the Family Research Council site.

Thank you (foot)notes:

See: Emptying the Nest: Does Day Care Work?

Lauren Bacall and Harry Truman
As a child, Truman would wake at 5am to practice Chopin.
The piano player can get the girl, as I tell my sons,
Practice chop-sticks and get the chicks. Also see: Women's Work: A journalist warns women that once they leave the career track, they may never get back on, in The Washington Post.

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NPR
National Public Radio Charmaine will be on NPR radio this afternoon.

She will be discussing the future of abortion. And the partial birth abortion Supreme Court decision.

Your Business Blogger was able to listen in on Charmaine's side of the pre-interview conversation she had with the NPR booker/producer.

One of the subtle forms of media bias we confront directly is with credentials. Charmaine is usually addressed as "Mrs. Yoest" or as "Charmaine."

But seldom as "Dr. Yoest." The liberals on the other side are always, always deferred to with an honorific. The liberals will be addressed, for example, as "Dr. Sam Smith."

Charmaine on ABC sans Ph.D. So Charmaine goes thru the dance of reminding the bookers at liberal media outlets that a Ph.D. is a terminal degree on par with an M.D..

Or she would rather not go on. Contrary to the "sex and TV" advice from Gore Vidal (see #8).

But sometimes, no -- most times -- the liberal media will "forget" and revert to the first name for (pro-life) "Charmaine."

And for the liberal (pro-abortion) guest: "The Honorable, Doctor Grand-PuBa of Abortion Providers, Dr. Sam Smith."

Tune in today and listen to learn if NPR lives up to their side of the pre-interview contract.

And let us know how it sounded to you. Was NPR biased...or fair and balanced?

Hit time is 3:00pm, today on your local NPR station. See local stations.

Here in the DC area turn to WAMU at 88.5 or WETA at 90.9 on your FM dial. Or tune in the 24-hour Program Stream

And you won't have to miss a minute of Rush Limbaugh...

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Tonight Rich Little did a little entertaining (very little).

There was also very Little laughter. AJ, Laura Ingram's producer, told me he wanted to splice in the 'lonely crickets at nite' sound track onto the Rich Little tape -- where there would have been laughter 30 years ago.

Rich Little was dated and stale at the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner. He also did Ronald Reagan...cussing. Something Reagan never did, says Charmaine.

Your Business Blogger and Charmaine at the Red Carpet entrance.

Jed Babbin, the boss at Human Events, making a point with Your Business Blogger

Mitt Romney and Charmaine NOT talking politics. She has not endorsed any candidate.

Sanjaya was there, but he clearly was not impressed with the inside the beltway DC crowd. He didn't understand how cool Your Nation's Capital is. Teenagers.

See White House Correspondents Dinner - Sanjaya Malakar Gets Political.

Don't make the mistake we did at last year's dinner. Walking The Red Carpet; In 7 Easy Steps.

We did not join the 3,000 diners in the main ballroom, opting instead for our own get together at the Washington Hilton. Our group actually had some laffs. Come to DC this time next year and we will invite you. Subscribe by email or RSS and get on the list for the next White House Correspondents' Dinner Alternative Party.

See inside Cable News.

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Glenn Beck
on CNN
Charmaine will be coming back again this week on the Glenn Beck Show on CNN to discuss the cultural implications of the shooting at Virginia Tech.

The Killer Was Evil. He Made an Evil Choice.

Liberals do not want to hear any debate on Good and Evil. Because Liberals cannot, of course, name Evil.

Because they would then have to acknowledge Good.

Because liberals cannot acknowledge our Creator from which all Good flows.

Hit times are thrice tonight, Friday: 7, 9 and 12 midnite Eastern on your CNN Headline News cable outlet.

Charmaine on remote on the DC set
for Glenn Beck who is taped in NYC
Photo Credit: The Dude Please tune in and let us know what you think.

And listen to a conservative Political Scientist who can name Evil.

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The USS Pueblo
is a popular propaganda tourist attraction
on the Taedong River in Pyongyang
North Korea US Senator Wayne Allard, R-Colorado, (Republican, of course) reintroduced a resolution demanding the return of United States Navy property from North Korea.

The Pueblo is the only active-duty U.S. warship in the hands of a foreign power. It was taken Jan. 23, 1968, after being sent defenseless on an intelligence-gathering mission off the North Korean coast. Reports the Washington Post (with misplaced indignation).

The USS Pueblo may have been out-gunned, but she was armed and was not defenseless.

The reporter, Jennifer Talhelm, is a female feminist from the Washington Post; I'm not sure military armaments is her forte.

Allard said the USS Pueblo "belongs to the United States Navy and we should pursue all possible options to return her to a rightful resting place."

The USS Pueblo and her crew have been in the blogosphere recently. The Pueblo crew was a noble comparison with the ignoble captured British sailors. The Brits were subservient and groveling when held by pirates.

Americans were defiant. Americans gave our captors the Digitus Impudicus. As Mark Steyn says America is Alone.

That is not quite right: It is Conservative Republicans who are alone.

Pueblo Crew
Time Magazine 18 Oct 1968 Jennifer Talhelm from the Washington Post continues,

Navy records show the Pueblo was in international waters when it was captured, though the North Koreans insist it was inside the Korean coastal zone. One person was killed in an explosion during the attack, and 10 of the 82 surviving crewmen were wounded. All 82 were held 11 months before being sent to South Korea on Christmas Eve.

The North Koreans display the ship as a trophy and a monument to the rocky relationship between the two nations.

Indeed.

Pueblo Crew with
"Hawaiin Good Luck Sign"

Thank you (foot)notes:

See USS Pueblo Coming Home?

See Little Green Footballs British Sailors Party on Iranian TV

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Glenn Beck
on CNN
Charmaine will be on the Glenn Beck Show on CNN to discuss the cultural implications of the shooting at Virginia Tech.

Hit times are thrice tonight, Wednesday: 7, 9 and 12 midnite Eastern on your CNN cable outlet.

Thank you (foot)notes:

Be sure to listen to Your Business Blogger tomorrow at 8:45am Eastern on FOX 97.1 FM Talk KFTK in St. Louis.

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Jamie Allman Your Business Blogger will be interviewed on the Fox radio affiliate in St. Louis, Missouri. Host Jamie Allman would like to talk about my experience as a "member" of the White House press corps at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast.

But it wasn't my first experience with the, well, habits of the White House press corp.

White Press Corps
Reserved Seating
Your Business Blogger
took the sign and
took a seat Charmaine and I were dating during her tenure in Reagan administration. She would often take me back to the White House press briefing room (built over Franklin Roosevelt's swimming pool) to fetch a press release or some such.

I expected the press room to be as immaculate and awe-inspiring and dignified as the rest of the rooms at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

But no.

The place was a dump. Yes, the podium and backdrop were spotless. But that was it. Trash was everywhere, waste cans overflowing. Cables, equipment and crumbs underfoot. I thought that the cleaning service was lax. (In the White House?) But no, they all, from Dan Rather on down lived in the squalor. The cleaning crew could barely keep up with the waste-management.

Those guys didn't pick up after themselves.

They made a mess and depended upon others to clean up after them.

Things haven't changed much from the 80's. Which is why people read blogs today...

Hit time is Thursday 19 April at 7:45 CST – 8:45 am my time here in Eastern.

If you live around St. Louis, tune in and let us know what you think. If you are outside the area, not to worry:

Launch the Live Stream.

Join up and listen up. I did.

White House
Press Pass Credentials And learn what the White House press corps will never do.

White House Press, on left
covering President Bush
at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast

Thank you (foot)notes:

Host Jamie Allman is a 14 time Emmy winning and five time Edward R. Murrow winning TV reporter in St. Louis.

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The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.

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Rolling Stone
always provocative Rolling Stone has an excellent analysis on the God-fearing voter effect on presidential politics.

Evangelicals in Exile; The Christian right is reeling from its biggest electoral defeat in a quarter century - and now they're talking about abandoning the GOP byline ROBERT DREYFUSS,

"To ensure that Republicans get the message in 2008, the religious right is redoubling its efforts to mobilize its political machine -- including tens of thousands of churches, hundreds of radio stations and two national television networks."

The liberal thinking is that the Jesus-God-fearing voter votes as one. One candidate; one block.

O that we would. 30% of Evangelicals voted for Clinton. Gary Bauer at one time encouraged John McCain. Liberal democratTIC candidates still get some Catholics.

Robert Dreyfuss continues,

The Family Research Council, a leading lobby for the Christian right, is planning a huge expansion on the Internet, including videos and podcasts, to reach millions in next year's election. "We want to be sure that the lessons of the last election have been learned, and that the Republicans understand that we are not a lock for the GOP," says Charmaine Yoest, the council's vice president of communications. "When you're looking at razor-thin margins, you better pay attention to your base."

New Media is key. A percentage point or less, will win. Jim Ceaser, who sat on Charmaine's dissertation committee, made this clear in his book The Perfect Tie (list price: $69.00).

The other James, Carville, agrees,

"It's not like you have to win 'em," says James Carville, the Democratic strategist who engineered Bill Clinton's rise to power. "You just have to do better. Even if you go up five points, it's a big deal."

Dreyfuss quotes Charmaine, who gets it right (of course...)

The swing certainly got the attention of the Christian right. "Man, a couple of points difference -- that's what the political consultants get paid the big bucks to deliver," says Yoest of the Family Research Council. "In a divided electorate, that's significant."

Dreyfuss warns,


Rolling Stone

The group fired an early shot across the GOP's bow in January, when it delivered a videotaped response to President Bush's State of the Union speech. "The president failed to draw a line in the sand on behalf of life," charged Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council.

Dreyfuss quotes Perkins,

"What will become of the culture of life, of the defense of marriage?" The council displayed a chart [above] on which it noted the number of times the president mentioned the Christian right's core issues: marriage, 0; abortion, 0; stem cells, 0; cloning, 0; abstinence, 0; and values, 0.

Be sure to bookmark and track Family Research Council's New Media advances at the FRCBlog. (Unpaid link.)

Thank you (foot)notes:

See Charmaine's work at The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life: Religious Voters and the Midterm Elections

Also mentioned in the Rolling Stone article were,

Communications expert Genevieve Wood from Heritage, Dick Armey, James Dobson, David Kuo, Ted Haggard, Phill Kline, Curtis Gans, Don Wildmon.

Get (warring) religion on Rein's Religion Blog.

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Watch Charmaine on a previous
MSNBC appearance
with Brian Williams
debate Plan B Friday the Family Research Council,

filed a federal lawsuit against the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to overturn the FDA's approval of the "Plan B" morning-after pill for over-the-counter (OTC) use by women 18 and older.

Charmaine is quoted in The Washington Times,

"It's really simple -- it just needs to be overturned," said Charmaine Yoest, FRC's vice president for communications. ..."It's very clearly caught up in political dynamics and I would go so far as to say there is electoral politics involved here..."

FRC's press release continues,

The lawsuit alleges the following violations by the FDA:

The data submitted by Plan B's owner did not establish that it is safe or effective.

The FDA lacks authority to approve the same drug for both over-the-counter (OTC) and prescription-only distribution.

The FDA lacks authority to approve distribution based on the buyer's age.

The FDA lacks authority to approve "behind-the-counter"-a drug that is neither fully OTC nor prescription only.

The FDA approved Plan B for non-prescription use without conducting the necessary rulemaking required by the Administrative Procedure Act and the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act.

The sudden reversal by FDA and Commissioner von Eschenbach had the distinct appearance of resulting from improper political pressure exerted by Senators Clinton and Murray who made clear that they put "holds" on von Eschenbach's confirmation until he acted on Plan B.

The FDA's approval ensures that girls will have unsupervised access to Plan B even though FDA has found that Plan B is unsafe for girls without medical supervision, as denoted by the fact it is prescription-only for those under 18.

The FDA failed to require Plan B's owner to comply with the Pediatric Research Equity Act which protects children and adolescents

Watch Charmaine debate Plan B on NBC and Democracy Now.

Thank you (foot)notes:

See March Together at What's the real story about Plan B?

See Charmaine's Plan B quote in the Daily Princetonian.

See more on the liberal FDA Commissioner, who is a democraTIC contributor.

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President Bush at the
National Catholic Prayer Breakfast
Credit: Peter Shinn
from Pro-Life News TV There is one thing the White House Press Corps never does.

Applaud the President.

Your Business Blogger is attending the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Your Nation's Capital. And received White House Press Pool credentials.

So my fellow press jackals kindly let me know that it was very bad form for me to clap for the president. Whooping and cheering is frowned upon in the press gallery. We all must keep a professional, detached demeanor, you see.

And don't even think about reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.

The Plege was led by Marine Corporal Michael Blair. Got his body blown up by an IED in The War. He still hobbled up and stood tall for the 1600 attendees. I looked at Cpl Blair...then over at the press corps.

The White House Press Corps -- I was reminded of a slander my old First Sergeant would often invoke: They all wouldn't add up to a pimple on a corporal's backside. Except Top didn't say backside...

('Top' is the term of endearment for the senior enlisted rank-holder in a company size Army unit.)

So I join my fellow Jesus-loving Christians, who are in the Catholic tradition. [Caution: Christian humor to follow.]

Catholics are easy to spot -- they're the one's with tabbed Bibles...to make the individual books easy to find.

Protestants smugly don't need the table of contents and page numbers; having grown up with 'sword drills' to find a particular Biblical passage. Although we Protesting Protestants could use the sacrament of confession...

...Or maybe just this Calvinist.

(I'll match my humility against anyone's.)

Anyway, Austin Ruse began the welcoming after the breakfast meal.

President Bush came to the podium punctual. On time: The Courtesy of Kings.

A war protester yelling something about stop the war was quickly and safely escorted from the ball room. It was not clear if she was addressing President Bush...or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran. (Not present.)

The President starts by complimenting the Catholic crowd, "You make a Methodist feel at home." Bush noted the wisdom of the planners that the breakfast bash, was "...on the Friday after Lent...[so you can now] eat the bacon..."

George Bush speaks about the sanctity of human life -- he is at home in this pro-life crowd. Standing O's.

Laura Bush did not attend.

In the gathering:

Wendy Wright, Concerned Women for America; Janice Crouse, Ph.D., Beverly LaHaye Institute.
Justice Alito, Bill Saunders, Board member of the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast

Reverend Thomas G. Bohlin, Vicar, Prelature of Opus Dei in the United States

Colleen O'Boyle, CRC; and
Diana Bannister, Shirley & Bannister
putting the PR in PRayer Jacqueline Halbig, Board member of the National Prayer Breakfast

Ken Blackwell, fellow at the Family Research Council, and Michael Steele.

The Breakfast is the kick-off for the day-long conference. The National Catholic Prayer Breakfast was created and influenced by Pope John Paul the Great for a "New Evangelization, new in ardor, methods and expression."

Well Done, good and faithful servants.

Thank you (foot)notes:

Schedule at the jump.

All links are unpaid.

Be sure to watch Charmaine on Cavuto today between 4 and 5 on Fox in a debate on Imus. (Not present.)

UPDATE: 14 April, Kathryn Jean Lopez, from NRO was there, of course. K-Lo is every where. See The Guy Can Deliver, and Breakfast with the Catholics.

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Neil Cavuto
Your Money or Your Life
HarperCollins Publishers,
New York, New York Our culture has coarsened. Alert Readers will remember the yesteryear risque of Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971), writing about men and women and marriage,

Incompatibility will never exist,

Not as long as he's got income

And she's got patt-able.

To today where Sir Mix-a- Lot, (a Grammy Award winner, natch) tells us, (fortissimo)

I like big butts and I can not lie...
To hell with romancin'
She's Sweat, Wet, got it goin like a turbo vette...
So ladies (yeah), Ladies (yeah)
Do you wanna roll in my Mercedes (yeah)
Then turn around
Stick it out...
Baby got back...

OK...So Nash and Sir Mix are saying the same thing. But there is a difference in, well, style.

And this culture war is seen in the counter-cultured Icon Imus in his depreciation of black women.

Fox News Pop culture confusion also caused by Kanye West, who symbolizes the Imus counter-example. West is a producer for gangsta rapper, Ludacris, who is best known for "edgy" lyrics:

Ludacris, formerly on Pepsi payroll

I got my twin glock .40's cocked back/Me and my homies, so drop that.

My shotguns are cold and hard . . ./My triggers are always talking about some squeeze me, squeeze me.

Hollow bullets I pull it,

I'm about to live in vain

And then I drill 'em,

refill 'em,

make sure they feel the pain.

And my favorite, "I've got ho's in different area codes."

Ludacris can make this rhyme.

A style like Ogden Nash, content like Tony Soprano: Ludacris and Kanye and Mix-a-Lot . . . and Imus hangin' with the ho's at Bada Bing.

Is insulting black women reserved for black men?

Should Imus be banished to satellite to cuss it out with Howard Stern?

Or should the high standards of Your Business Blogger -- the morally virtuous -- impose moral superiority on the gutter-mass-media-mouths?

Charmaine takes up these questions on FOX. She will be returning to Cavuto's show on Your World with Cavuto, Friday (the 13th!) at 4 pm Eastern. On Fox News.

Charmaine, the weather vane, will point us in the right direction in these times of confused moral compass headings.

Tune in and let us know what you think.

Thank you (foot)notes:

See Neil Cavuto's bio at the jump.

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Albert Einstein
Baby Boo, The Diva, The Dancer
living proof of The Roe Effect
at PrincetonCharmaine's speech at Princeton was noted in that area's newspaper of record the Daily Princetonian.

The reporter was remarkably fair and balanced working this liberal campus -- even considering the biased title:

Anti-abortion speaker sparks heated debate

It might have been more accurate to report,

Pro-Life speaker sparks heated debate

Which proves we each have our biases. Our own world-views.

Angela Cai, Princetonian Senior Writer reports and quotes Charmaine,

"I believe Roe v. Wade is on its way to extinction ... precisely because abortion harms women," [Dr. Yoest] said.

Speaking to a large audience..., Yoest faced a crowd of students and community members anxious to argue with her during the question-and-answer session that followed the lecture.

She maintained that the United States is "on the road, long term" toward the overturning of Roe v. Wade. "There is an intellectual rot at the heart of that decision," she said, noting that even many liberal scholars agree that there is no constitutional basis for the controversial 1973 Supreme Court ruling. She added that the case was an example of the inappropriate use of judicial power. [see the Alan Dershowitz quote on the slide presentation.]

Yoest argued that abortion's consequences hit home on a more personal level for many women who undergo the procedure. "It's very sad to me when you look at how many relationships break up after abortion when women say they had abortions to save their relationships," Yoest said. She described what she called the problems of Post-Abortion Syndrome, which include effects such as "drug and alcohol abuse, personal relationship disorder, sexual dysfunction ... and attempted suicide."

Alert Reader Jill noted that the title of the speech changed. Originally advertised as "How Abortion Harms Women," the more accurate and complete title is "The Politics of Abortion: Moving Toward a Post-Roe America." So Charmaine changed the title to reflect the added, expanded content.

Thank you (foot)notes:

Mother May I be Born says,

While some in the audience nodded or facially expressed their approval of Charmaine Yoest’s anti-abortion message at Princeton University last night, others made it clear during questioning that Yoest spoke a foreign language which they had no desire to learn.

Do Elite Women Want to Breed?

Jessica at Bush v. Choice blogged.

See Charmaine's PowerPoint presentation on the FRCBlog. Thanks to the technical influence of Managing Editor Joe Carter.

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"Francis, Jamaica Plain, Mass.," 1971 Your Business Blogger eagerly awaits each issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education. And not just for the articles...

Most every issue has nude photos of women (art, of course) that is Not Safe for Work.

Not family friendly. View and get fired.

Unless you are self-employed -- or in the academy where no professor is ever terminated for sex offenses including seducing co-eds (whether by grades or degrees). (Although Professor Leacher does sometimes get caught.)

Alert Readers will remember the, well, uninhibited, photo shoots of Professor Diana York Blaine. NSFW.

Not family friendly.

But times might be changing even if The Chronicle doesn't. Charmaine et. al. recently spoke at Princeton University where the faculty were most proud of recent human resource changes to encourage parents with children.

To be more family friendly. Princeton should be proud.

Princeton is on the right (tenure) track.

Thank you (foot)notes:

Be sure to see academic marketing from Princeton University Press.

Full Disclosure: Charmaine's dissertation was on family leave policies and tenure in academia. More at the jump.

Photos by Henry Horenstein in the article Family on Film, April 6, 2007, B19. The photos are of "...[M]y people...I grew up with as a kid... and met along the way...while making that awkward transition from adolescence to adulthood." The relationship with the nude woman is not described. And I really don't want to know the details.

Although it is surely a topic of academic discussion.

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Jingozium Erratum
Your Business Blogger
at Oxford's circular library
May 1995

The Dude,
Dad went to Oxford
and all I got was this shirt
and a Jingo-Jihad

www.MikeJingozian.com

Erratum at the jump

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Julianne Malveaux, Ph.D.
Julianne Malveaux has been appointed President of Bennett College for Women.

Alert Readers will recall that Malveaux called President Bush a "terrorist" and that our America is "a terrorist nation."

And that she wished that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas would die. "The man is on the Court. You know, I hope his wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease. Well, that’s how I feel. He is an absolutely reprehensible person."

Among her many awards is the Media Research Center's I’m a Compassionate Liberal But I Wish You Were All Dead Award.

Dr. Cornel West says she's “the most iconoclastic public intellectual in the country.” Dr. Maya Angelou, a member of the board of trustees, gushes, “...[W]e are made steady with the arrival of Dr. Julianne Malveaux...! We will all be uplifted, informed, and increased by your presence..."

(...Increased by your presence...? What does that mean?

Somebody’s got to clear the Mayan quotes.)

Julianne Malveaux. Perfect for the Academy. May your presence be increased.

Charmaine tangled with this presence in the last millennium over, what else?, sex. In a point-counter-point column in USA Today over Norplant.

Face Off: New Birth Control Methods.

New Contraceptive Is No Magic Bullet

By Charmaine Yoest
Guest columnist

WASHINGTON - She is only 13, but she has had 8 sexual partners. A recent article in People magazine didn't report what she was looking for, but it does say what she got: chlamydia and a diary of memories. And what she didn't: after a few romantic trips to Burger joints, all eight are now long gone.

Should we worry that she might get pregnant? Absolutely. Is the long term contraceptive, Norplant, the answer? Absolutely not. Pregnancy is the most visible result of pre-marital sex, but it may not be the worst.

Sexually transmitted diseases among teenagers are increasing alarmingly. [From 1986 to 1990] syphilis among teenagers increased 62%. Planned Parenthood research shows that unwed teenagers using contraceptives more often with more partners. Of sexually active teens, 58% report two or more partners.

Knowing this, in the age of AIDS, we cannot continue promoting contraceptives as the answer to teen sexuality. That's a Band-Aid approach. Norplant may slow the tragic increase in teen pregnancy. But at what price?

The American Psychological Association reported [in 1990] that women experience more depression than men. A leading cause? infertility. Sexually transmitted diseases are a common cause of infertility. How many of those women, infertile from sexual experimentation, would trade today those transient experiences of the past for the thrill of holding their new born?

More Malveaux at the jump.

Thank you (foot)notes:

This article originally ran on Tuesday, December 11, 1990. USA Today. Little has changed in Charmaine's argument. Truth is unchanging.

Transcribing credit to The Dude and The Dreamer from the Penta-Posse. This is what your parents think.

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Charmaine, Your Business Blogger
Penta-Posse at the Grand Canyon
Easter 2005 In this political season, every Presidential Candidate will be in church on Easter.

A photo op, if nothing else.

Two Easters back we traveled west on business and celebrated Easter in Arizona.

Your Business Blogger had the Family celebrate our Faith with tax supported Freedom at the government owned and operated Grand Canyon.

I remember asking the officiating pastor at Sunrise Service if liberals were attempting to shut down the event at Mather Point. Church/State and all that.

He said, "We've been having [Easter sunrise service] for decades. No one has bothered us." Preaching on public land. Imagine.

Alert the (main stream) media. Call the ACLU.

The sponsoring church secures the permit and 1,600 people show up well before dawn. To watch the sun rise.

Which makes for the perfect photo op.

Be sure to visit Pro-Life News. To see this Faith in action.

Pro-Life News TV

See the press release at the jump.

Thank you (foot)notes:

Full Disclosure: Peter Shinn at Pro-Life News TV is the tech-guru for Your Business Blogger.

Easter at the Grand Canyon? Maybe not necessary...Finding God in a Technical Memo.

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Two pictures
from Charmaine's PowerPoint at Princeton
See the Presentation here.
Thanks to Joe Carter
for uploading Information is good.

Reason and science.

Our friends on the left would prefer less information when it confronts their...religion. Its two sacraments are:

Abortion, and

Evolution.

And so Charmaine recently has braved to lecture liberals on abortion and evolution on CNN, MSNBC and Princeton University.

Alert Readers have noted that the Anderson Cooper 360 segment on CNN aired Wednesday night and will air again tonight, Friday, between 10 and midnite. Tivo and let us know.

What you think.

Her debate with Anderson Cooper was on the teaching of the theories of evolution and intelligent design in the classroom. Edu-crates do not care for I.D.

The academy at pharyngula seems less concerned about academic censorship as they do about the age of the earth. They swallow a camel and choke on a gnat.

Charmaine will also be on MSNBC LIVE today Friday, 6 April. She will be debating for the wisdom of viewing a picture of your baby before you have an abortion.

Backstory, from The Times and Democrat

S.C. House approves bill requiring ultrasounds before abortions By SEANNA ADCOX Wednesday, March 21, 2007 COLUMBIA, S.C. - The South Carolina House gave key approval Wednesday to a bill that requires women seeking abortions in this state to first review ultrasound images of their fetus before the procedure.

If enacted, it would be the first law of its kind in the nation. Some states make ultrasound images available to women before an abortion, but South Carolina would be alone in mandating women see the pictures.

It seems that liberals are most unhappy because 80% of women will stop their abortions after seeing a picture of their babies (in the womb). See the picture and the baby lives. Information can save a life.

Hit time is between 3:30 and 4pm Eastern Time.

Abortion and evolution. Today.

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The President and Charmaine During this political season, politicians are noisely claiming the philosophy of The Great Communicator.

And that's just the Democrats...

On April 18, 1986 Ronald Reagan outlined his bedrock principles on how government should work. This is the measure of Reagan the president. And should be the measure of any conservative aiming for the White House.

(For conservatives only. As liberals lack principles, they are most welcome to borrow ours.)

One. Federalism is rooted in our knowledge that our political liberties are best assured by limiting the size and scope pf the national government.

Two. The people of the United States created the national government when they delegated to it those enumerated governmental powers relating to matters beyond the competence of the individual States. All other sovereign powers, save those expressly prohibited the States by the Constitution, are reserved to the States or to the people.

Three. The Constitutional relationship among sovereign governments, State and National, is formalized in and protected by the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution.

Four. The people of the States are free, subject only to restrictions in the Constitution itself or in constitutionally authorized Acts of Congress, to define the moral, political, and legal character of their lives.

Five. In most areas of governmental concern, State and local governments uniquely posses the constitutional authority, the resources, and the competence to discern the sentiments of the people and to govern accordingly. In Jefferson's words, the States are the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies.

(Liberals being anti-Republican -- Your Business Blogger.)

Six. The nature of our constitutional system encourages a healthy diversity in the public policies adopted by the people of the several States according to their own conditions, needs, and desires. in the search for enlightened public policy, individual States and communities are free to experiment with a variety of approaches to political issues.

Seven. Acts of the national government -- whether legislative, executive, or judicial in nature -- that exceed the enumerated powers of that government under the Constitution violate the principle of federalism established by the Founders.

Eight. Policies of the national government should recognize the responsibility of -- and should encourage opportunities for -- individuals, families, neighborhoods, local governments, and private associations to achieve their personal, social, and economic objectives through cooperative effort.

Nine. In the absence of a clear constitutional or statutory authority, the presumption of sovereignty should rest with the individual States. Uncertainties regarding the legitimate authority of the national government should be resolved against regulation at the national level.

Ten. These principles should guide the departments and agencies of the national government in the formulation and implementation of policies and regulations.

Ronald Reagan and Charmaine

Thank you (foot)notes:

Thank you to the editors of The Insider, Winter 2007, The Heritage Foundation.

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How Abortion Harms Women
Princeton University Charmaine and Your Business Blogger will be a-traveling with the Penta-Posse (minus The Dreamer at crew camp) to Princeton University over the spring break.

Charmaine will be giving a talk on abortion/women/work/life. Alert Readers will remember that she used to teach a course The Family and Politics at The University of Virginia.

From the Princeton Campus Announcements,

Charmaine Yoest, Ph.D.

A lecture titled "How Abortion Harms Women" is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 4, in 16 Robertson Hall.

The talk will be delivered by Charmaine Yoest, [Ph.D.] vice president for communications at the Family Research Council, a nonprofit lobbying organization that promotes socially conservative views.

Yoest also is project director of the Family, Gender and Tenure Project at the University of Virginia, a nationwide study focused on parental leave policy.

She is the author (with Deborah Shaw Lewis) of "Mother in the Middle" and is working on a new book, "A G.I. Bill for Moms: Mothers, the Market and the American Way."

The talk is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions.

The event is free and is open to the public. Come by and join us and let us know what you think.

Thank you (foot)notes:

Special thank you to Andy McCarthy at The Corner at NRO for "How Abortion Harms Women" -- a forum sponsored ... by Princeton! Andy says that he has,

...duked it out before (in an exchange at Commentary on international law) with Anne-Marie Slaughter, the Dean at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. She is, though, a fair-minded liberal in the great but dying academic tradition of allowing all thoughtful voices — including, yes, conservative voices — to be heard on campus.

Thank you also to Tiger Hawk for the announcement and poster pic.

See also Princeton to allow Charmaine Yoest to speak about abortion! at RealChoice: The reality of "choice" in America. In a breathtaking, courageous example of fostering real diversity of thought...

And note Abortion foe to lecture at Princeton University from The Princeton Packet.

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Ken Blackwell Ken Blackwell recently joined the Family Research Council. He will be introduced by Tony Perkins.

Plan on coming to see Charmaine also. And the Penta-Posse and Your Business Blogger.

Ken Blackwell will give a talk on Lessons of 2006: Moving Forward to 2008.

A must see,
if you're in DC.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 29, 2007 CONTACT:
J.P. Duffy or Maria Donovan, (866) FRC-NEWS

Washington, D.C. - Tuesday, 3 April, at 5:30 pm, Family Research Council and the Board of Directors, will host a reception in honor of Mr. Ken Blackwell, a former Undersecretary at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Human Rights Commission. Mr. Blackwell is joining the Family Research Council as the Senior Fellow for Family Empowerment, where he will focus on issues such as family economics, tax reform, and education. The evening reception will include remarks by Mr. Blackwell on the 2008 presidential election as well as an opportunity for media interviews.

When: Tuesday, April 3, 2007
5:30 pm

Where: Family Research Council
801 G Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001

Please RSVP: 1.800.225.4008, they need to get a headcount for the (free) hors d'oeuvres and refreshments. Business attire is preferred.

Ken Blackwell's appointment at FRC was noted by the Associated Press, where he is quoted,

“They (FRC) asked me to sort of build up the economic and fiscal dimension and show how that is an important part of what they do and what they find to be important. One of the areas where Buckeye and FRC share a public policy interest is in the area of advancing school choice and parental empowerment. It’s 21st century civil rights,” Blackwell said.

Blackwell, a former state treasurer, is well-suited to discuss economic issues, but his position against abortion and on other issues will allow him to speak to many constituencies, FRC President Tony Perkins said.

“Ken is well rounded as a former (Cincinnati) mayor, secretary of state, gubernatorial candidate. He has a well-rounded conservative portfolio,” Perkins said. “He has consistent conservative positions and he has not been bashful.”

Please come and welcome Ken Blackwell.

Thank you (foot)notes:

And be sure to see Charmaine on Anderson Cooper 360 tonight, Monday, at 10:00pm Eastern. She will be debating Intelligent Design, Creationism and Evolution in the classroom.

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