Charmaine will be appearing on FOX today, Friday 16 July to debate against tax payer funding for abortion.

The tax and abort position will be argued by National Partnership for Women and Family.

Charmaine Yoest

Charmaine taped this morning and the piece will be aired throughout the day. (Normally, ProLife talent should not tape - liberal media will use editorial-editing to win a debate. But FOX is, well, fair and balanced.)

Please let us know what you think.

Why you should watch.

No, not to check out Charmaine's new hair cut and make-up. FOX in DC is expanding their make-up room next to the green room and the surface preparation was a bit rushed.

No. A viewer -- especially those leaning toward abortion -- should watch to learn why the ProLife position is winning in America; where 51 percent now self identify with Life.

Why?

Three reasons:

1) A compelling argument.

2) A winsome argument.

3) A healthy argument.

A compelling argument. Every picture tells a story, as Rod Stewart would say and every gif file is worth a thousand words. The science of the sono-gram has shifted the debate from the mother to the child. 85 percent of women who see Baby's First Picture choose to let the baby live. This is why Cecile Richards at Planned Parenthood fights this scientific advancement. Too much information would change a woman's choice. Science has not been good for abortion.

ProChoiceGal tweets "fetuses are humans. However, that doesn't mean that pregnant women shouldn't get basic human rights." Re: abortion choice. Which brings us to,

Charmaine and Senator Orrin Hatch
A winsome argument. We in the Pro-Life movement are in the persuasion business. The Alert Reader knows that Your Business Blogger(R) teaches Sales and Marketing at the local college. Pro-Life sells. Over the years, we have shaken hands with nearly every pro-choice leader from Betty Friedan to Gloria Steinem to Margaret Sanger's grandson, Alexander Sanger. They were not happy people as one might expect and did not advance a positive, enjoyable debate. They do not smile. (Steinem has now married; I think she may have smiled since the honeymoon.) That's why Charmaine's Pro-Life message is selling so well: She smiles.

The unfortunate Twitterer MsFetus makes as bitter a presentation as Eleanor Smeal (understand the subjective evaluation-not the person: the presentation). The first rule in debating is "whoever shouts or goes ad hominem loses." The pro-abortion advocates are reduced to cussing in Caps Lock. They have lost.

UK Pro-Choice QueenCatherinex tweets, "In my personal opinion I wouldn't call a zygote, embryo, then fetus a baby. So it's not a case of dehumanising, it's biology." No, it's not biology--it's marketing: See your Baby; the Baby lives. Word pictures are powerful.

Finally, the picture of health,

A healthy argument. Charmaine runs Americans United for Life, a public interest law firm. Her team of legal eagles knows well that the debate has moved from Roe v Wade. The Burger court wrote that the state has a compelling interest in the baby in the third trimester, but this was soon superseded by the health of the mother "exceptions." Subsequent rulings have now asserted that abortion must remain legal on the "reliance" interpretation, where the mother's financial health must be preserved as well as the perceived physical well-being.

(Charmaine Yoest, Ph.D., as a case study, would refute this. She didn't need abortion to become a President and CEO.)

But we have come back to the mother's health. Science is now telling us that abortion is a crushing psychological burden where women are now stating--in public--that they regret.

New studies demonstrate that abortion removes protections making women at higher risk of breast cancer.

Women are regretting and re-thinking thinking their abortions. Harms to women will be the next foundation in the future of the abortion debate.

Be sure to follow Your Business Blogger(R) and Charmaine on Twitter: @JackYoest and @CharmaineYoest

Jack and Charmaine also blog at Reasoned Audacity and at Management Training of DC, LLC.

Thank you (foot)notes,

Watch Charmaine's Expert Testimony to the Judiciary Committee on the Kagan Nomination

Watch Charmaine's Expert Testimony to the Judiciary Committee on the Sotomayor Nomination

Be sure to get your personal avatar when you visit www.virtualmarchforlife.com

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Some 26,000 good-guys registered to listen to the WebCast that was conducted this past Tuesday night in Charmaine's offices at Americans United for Life.

Following is the follow-up letter from the Stop the Abortion Mandate coalition.

Webcast presenters: L to R Tony Perkins, Family Research Council; Wendy Wright, Concerned Women for America; Kristan Hawkins, Students for Life; David Bereit, 40 Days for Life; Charmaine Yoest, Americans United for Life Marjorie Dannenfelser, Susan B. Anthony List; and Douglas Johnson, National Right to Life.
Photo Credit: Hannah Yoest

"Help stop the largest expansion of abortion since Roe v. Wade..."
Listen to the recording of the URGENT nationwide webcast to prevent Washington D.C. bureaucrats and abortion industry lobbyists from using GOVERNMENT FUNDS to pay for abortions and bailout the failing abortion industry!

Despite the fact that most Americans do NOT want our government to pay for abortion with their money, the Senate caved in to pressure from Planned Parenthood and abortion industry lobbyists.

The Senate health care bill -- if passed into law -- will result in a MASSIVE government-funded bailout of the abortion industry -- and the largest expansion of abortion since Roe v. Wade!

To respond swiftly to this crisis, the 70+ pro-life and pro-family organizations that make up the Stop the Abortion Mandate Coalition joined together on Tuesday, December 15, for a huge nationwide webcast, featuring a panel of expert presenters:
Webcast presenters: Tony Perkins, Wendy Wright, Kristan Hawkins, David Bereit, Charmaine Yoest, Marjorie Dannenfelser, and Douglas Johnson

The entire webcast event was recorded, and as you listen to the audio, you will discover:

* The LATEST UPDATES straight from our nation's capital...

* The shocking implications of the bill that the abortion industry is trying to ram through the United States Senate RIGHT NOW...

* Why respected leaders, national organizations, and pro-life people are joining together in record numbers to BLOCK this attempted power-grab...

* How YOU can make a difference at this crucial moment...

Listen now -- click here

Download MP3 file here

The Stupak-Pitts Amendment (see the actual language here) which passed in U.S. House of Representatives verison of health care reform ensures that government money will not be used to fund abortions. The Stupak Amendment clearly maintains the current status quo keeping in line with the already in-place Hyde Amendment. However, some are falsely saying that that the Stupak Amendment goes beyond Hyde. Check out our chart below which compares Stupak to Hyde and read this op-ed by the Con. Bart Stupak on what exactly his amendment does.

Stupak vs Hyde Chart

For more info, see Americans United for Life blog.

Thank you (foot)notes:

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Jack and Charmaine also blog at Reasoned Audacity and at Management Training of DC, LLC.

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Yoest and Richards debate abortion on CNN Charmaine has published an open letter to Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood, in The Hill newspaper; must read in Your Nation's Capital.

Here's the full page letter. Let us know what you think.

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Charmaine and Cecile debate on CNN.

Thank you (foot)notes:

Be sure to follow Your Business Blogger(R) and Charmaine on Twitter: @JackYoest and @CharmaineYoest

Cecile Richards runs Planned Parenthood founded by Margaret Sanger. See Sanger quotes in Woman and the New Race.

Charmaine Quoted in The Wall Street Journal; Planned Parenthood Forbids the Science of the Sonogram

Jack and Charmaine also blog at Reasoned Audacity and at Management Training of DC, LLC.

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Be sure to watch the video clip at the end...

Your Business Professor has students who regularly misspell my name. On a deliverable assignment.

The Alert Student will know that such critical attention to detail might be bad form and might be a prerequisite to earning an "A."

Students and Media, it seem, have the same challenge with 'Yoest.'

Charmaine Yoest will be debating Nancy Keenan, President of NARAL Pro-Choice America (formerly the National Abortion Rights Action League).

They will discuss the pro-life, anti-abortion amendment language and the future of the House Bill as it moves to the Senate.

Charmaine Yoest, Ph.D.

It's gonna be good.

Charmaine's AUL Action will not support any bill with out abortion funding restrictions.

Keenan's NARAL will not support any bill with abortion funding restrictions.

They will appear on Dr. Nancy on MSNBC. Hit time is 12 noon EST.

As one would expect from the liberal MSNBC, the host will not be unbiased. See MSNBC's 'Doctor Nancy' Admits She Finds Pro-Life Democrats 'Infuriating'

So the odds will be 2 on 1. Which is unusual. Charmaine usually faces 3 on 1.

And wins.

Tune in and let us know what you think.

Alert Readers know that Your Business Blogger(R) teaches marketing at the local college and makes a study of the intersection of politics and business and truth. NARAL changed its name because no one could stomach ABORTION in their org title. Much like KFC used to be Kentucky FRIED Chicken. ABORTION and FRIED are hard to swallow. It is good marketing to use short words, short phrases -- the best marketing is to use well understood acronyms. As in USA.

Thank you (foot)notes:

Be sure to follow Your Business Blogger(R) and Charmaine on Twitter: @JackYoest and @CharmaineYoest

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The Business Case Study Method permits the student or researcher to conduct a critical analysis to solve a problem or to exploit an opportunity. Or to answer a hypothetical "what if?" scenario. (In contrast to politics where hypothetical questions should never be addressed.)

There are a number of outstanding formats and templates (see below or at the jump) for organizing.

Your Business Blogger(R) as Your Business Professor prefers a simpler, story telling formula: Problem, Solution, Result. (The use of such PSRs as narrative outline are also most helpful in job interviews.)

A Problem defined is half solved. It is useful to state the problem as an inquiry (think the game show Jeopardy or Larry King or Dr. Laura, "What's your question?").

The subject for the content on Business Case Studies is one of my former companies. The Alert Student will also select a company where s/he worked, is working or wishes to work. Students who have first-hand knowledge or a compelling interest deliver the best case studies. Let's start with the backgrounder.

Menlo Care, Inc. was a medical device start-up manufacturer and direct seller with an outside sales team of 35 experienced, senior, account managers in the 1980's and 90's. The company had a proprietary process to manufacture a new intravenous catheter. The venture was funded with $500k in seed money from Raychem Corporation where the technology was developed and spun off. The product is based on a material science of a polymer that was as rigid as Teflon when dry but became as soft and flexible as silicone when wet.

The polymer-plastic was extruded or formed into an intravenous catheter for insertion into the venous blood system.

The new technology improved patient care in a cost-effective manner. However, the new IV catheters had two major marketing concerns:

1) They were 100 times the price of the existing, nearest competitive substitute.

2) The Menlo Care products required advanced one-on-one inservice training to insert or to pass" the I.V. catheters.

At the time, Menlo Care was still operating on venture capital investment and had significant negative cash flow typical of early stage start-ups entering the marketplace.

The high "burn rate" of capital would not allow the hiring of the estimated 35 full-time instructional nurses; one teacher for each sales territory.

Nurses prefer to be taught by their peers - other nurses, not necessarily company sales representatives. Sales teams have the time intensive responsibility to peddle the product and to manage the territory logistics.

The question: How can a manufacturer teach and sell new medicine across the USA within 90 days?

The issue is an extension of the classic challenge of marketing with no money or no budget and the need for an intensive face-to-face sales process.

A Solution was developed from a number of options and recommendations. The final sales-education idea was an innovative combination of well-known teaching-marketing strategies reconfigured into a unique delivery process.

The answer to the problem would involve having per diem or part-time nurse clinicians conduct training classes. Each of the 35 sales representatives would identify, recruit, train, motivate and manage the advance practice nurses who were the thought and opinion leaders in the medical community (e.g., presidents of local chapters of oncology nurses, certified I.V. nurses' associations and leaders in the home health care business). These nurses would come from the small cadre of existing users of the Menlo Care catheters. The solution was simply to hire the customers to teach.

Key nurses from a local area would be invited in for a day-long training program. The area account manager/sales representative would host the event and act as the "master of ceremonies" where the class of nurses would be taught about the new medical devices.

The hook for attendance would be the concern and the warning that local hospitals might start to see the new Menlo Care I.V. catheters on those patients who might be admitted into emergency rooms. Clinicians need to know what products are being used on patients using IV therapy in case the patient has an emergency. Especially of concern were those being treated as out-patients in the home health care market.

The attending nurses who received training and inserted a catheter on a patient became credentialed as a "Landmark Nurse" and were awarded a framed certificate and lapel pin to recognize their expertise and achievement.

(A credential can be done by private associations in contrast to a certification which is awarded by a state licensing authority. Common certifications are MD, LPN and RN.)

The Results were immediate and measurable. Sales increased from near zero to over $12 million on a yearly run rate. The product line and technology commanded such attention that a number of major medical device manufactures expressed interest.

Menlo Care, Inc, was sold in 1994 to a division of Johnson & Johnson satisfying investors and stockholders.

Also see marketing with no budget in 10 steps.

Refer to the syllabus for length and style.

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LifeNews reports that Kim Gandy is leaving the leadership of the National Organization for Women (NOW) to spend more time with her family. Maybe...

It is more likely that she will join the liberal feminists running the Obama administration.

Charmaine has crossed paths with NOW's Gandy a time or two. The most memorable was in November 2005. At the time Your Business Blogger(R) noted the altercation,

I was in the middle of drafting an article on the glass ceiling for women. And got a first person account instead.

Click on image to enlarge; Charmaine on Right in red.

Today I thought I'd give the little woman a respite from the laundry and the kids. "Go play in the Nation's Capital," I said to Charmaine this morning. "Have a fun lunch with the girls!"

Then on the radio I hear Rush talk about a smack down at the Supreme Court and see a photo of Charmaine in her red power suit at Rush Limbaugh EIB Extra... .

She had Kim Gandy in a half-nelson. Elbowing Gandy aside at a press conference.

I have sat through a number of cantankerous board meetings. Adversarial budget negotiations. Hardball sales presentations. Terminations. Giving and getting.

But no one actually got spanked.

I thought the gathering of girls today would be a powder puff tea party of cooperation. Sweetness and light and reason and 'Please' and 'Thankyou.'

I was wrong. No one fights like a woman on a mission.

I'll have to rewrite the glass ceiling article.

(It is a joy to marry over your head.)

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Press Release: AUL Senior Counsel Clarke Forsythe Publishes new book.
Dr. Charmaine Yoest, AUL President & CEO said, "Politics for the Greatest Good is a critical book for the pro-life movement at this time in history. This important focus on the achievable in political strategy...AUL Action

FOXBusiness reports, Americans United for Life Senior Counsel Clarke Forsythe Publishes Politics for the Greatest Good is now available at bookstores and Amazon.com.

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Most people know very little about Supreme Court nominee Sotomayor. Americans United for Life will be alerting the public about the Pro-Abortion-Choice affinities of Sotomayor and the abortion agenda of president Obama.

AUL has published a new website www.Sotomayor411.com.

Click on the banner for outstanding research and analysis to learn about Sotomayor's judicial activism and the personnel policies of president Obama.

Alert Readers know that Charmaine served in presidential personnel in the (real) West Wing of the White House in the Ronald Reagan Administration. The direction from The Gipper was to hire carefully. Personnel is Policy.

President Obama shares more that oratorical elegance with Reagan. Obama also knows that Personnel is Policy.

Sotomayor is the personification of Obama's abortion policy.

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Alert Readers following on Twitter know that Americans United for Life is making numerous key, high talent, hires,

Top Radio Talk-Show Producer Heather Smith Joins Americans United for Life.

Washington, DC -- Heather Smith has joined Americans United for Life (AUL) as Director of Communications. Her focus will be to oversee corporate communications including traditional media, internet, and new media.

Dr. Charmaine Yoest, AUL President & CEO commented: "I am very pleased Heather is joining our team. As a veteran producer of radio, television, and film, she brings a wealth of experience and an insider's perspective to our communications efforts."

Miss Smith said: "It is a great honor to join the foremost pro-life organization in the country. I look forward to expanding AUL's media outreach and working with the AUL legal team toward our goal of seeing a nation in which everyone is welcomed in life and protected in law."

She has produced three top-10 nationally syndicated radio programs: The G. Gordon Liddy Show, The Laura Ingraham Show, and most recently, The Lars Larson Show. She has also worked at FOX News Channel, where she produced Weekend Live with Tony Snow and FOX News Live, and booked guests for FOX's breaking news special programming. In addition, she has produced film documentaries hosted by former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and by Dick Morris. Previously she booked interviews for WFLA-AM's The Shannon Burke Show and worked on several documentaries for PBS and History Channel.

Miss Smith has been in front of the microphone as well, having begun her media career in 1997 as an alternative rock disc jockey and radio talk show host. She has also been interviewed on FOX News Channel, CNN, MSNBC, and nationally syndicated talk radio programs about grassroots-activism campaigns she oversaw in Florida.

Please join us in welcoming Heather Smith to the Pro-Life professional legal-eagles at Americans United for Life.

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Be sure to get Charrmaine's media updates on Twitter from Your Business Blogger(R) and @charmaineyoest

Pro-life leaders, groups condemn murder of Kansas abortion doctor, By Chaz Muth at the Catholic News Service reports,

WASHINGTON - Pro-life advocates universally condemned the May 31 murder of a Kansas abortion doctor, with officials from several U.S. right-to-life groups saying such extreme acts only hurt the pro-life cause.

"We condemn this lawless act of violence," said Charmaine Yoest, president of the Americans United for Life. "The foundational right to life that our work is dedicated to extends to everyone. Whoever is responsible for this reprehensible violence must be brought to justice under the law."

Dr. George Tiller, 67, of Wichita, Kan., was fatally shot while serving as an usher at the city's Formation Lutheran Church during morning services, according to The Associated Press

David Brody at CBN reports, Randall Terry Is Not Spokesman for Pro-Life Movement,

Let's start with a reality check. Randall Terry does not speak for the broader pro-life movement. It's important to note that just because Randall Terry from Operation Rescue speaks out forcefully againt abortion doctor George Tiller that does not mean his sentiment is shared among mainstream pro-life groups.

You don't need to believe me. Just compare Operation Rescue's website with Concerned Women for America or Americans United for Life and on and on. The sanctity of life message is the underlying theme but the tactics and language are different. Much different.

Colleen Raezler at NewsBusters reports
Media: Tiller a Martyr, Abortion Not Killing and Pro-Lifers are Crazy

Tiller as Abortion Rights Martyr

Broadcast networks painted Tiller as a man willing to die in defense of women's rights.

All of the broadcast coverage noted past attempts people have made to disrupt Tiller's work - a bombing of his clinic in the 1980s and a 1993 attack in which he was shot in both arms - which, while pertinent to the story, also increased the aura of martyrdom that now surrounds him.
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Statements from major pro-life organizations revealed a different story: that the pro-life community truly views all loss of human life as a tragedy.

Charmaine Yoest, president and CEO of Americans United for Life, said "The foundational right to life that our work is dedicated to extends to everyone."

Opposing Views has Murder Not Justified, Pro-Life Leaders Say, By Baptist Press , News With a Christian Perspective

Among those issuing statements condemning the killing were representatives of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, National Right to Life Committee, Americans United for Life, Family Research Council, Focus on the Family, Concerned Women for America, Care Net, Susan B. Anthony List, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, American Life League, Operation Rescue, Christian Defense Coalition, 40 Days for Life, Stand True, Priests for Life and Pro-life Action League.

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Americans United for Life issued a statement on the killing of Tiller who performed third trimester abortions,

Washington, DC - Americans United for Life President and CEO, Dr. Charmaine Yoest, issued the following statement to address the murder of Dr. George Tiller: 


"We condemn this lawless act of violence. The foundational right to life that our work is dedicated to extends to everyone. Whoever is responsible for this reprehensible violence must be brought to justice under the law."

Alert Readers who follow us on Twitter, jackyoest and charmaineyoest, know that AUL is saying very little out of respect for the Tiller family left behind.

USN&WR has George Tiller Murder Knocks a Burgeoning Antiabortion Movement Back on Its Heels, by Dan Gilgoff,

It's too early to tell if the killing will halt the antiabortion movement's recent momentum....[I look forward to reading if our friend Dan Gilgoff would ever be able to buck his editor's style book requirement of using 'anti-abortion' rather than 'pro-life.']

According to news reports, Kansas police have apprehended Kansan Scott Roeder, an abortion opponent, as a possible suspect in the murder. "Roeder is most definitely not part of the pro-life movement," said Charmaine Yoest, Americans United for Life president and CEO, in an E-mail message this morning.

CBN has Pro-life Leaders Respond to Tiller Shooting, with a review of Pro-Life reactions.

CNN reports, Obama, others condemn Kansas abortion doctor's killing

Zenit reports, Pro-life Groups Denounce Murder of Abortionist, Condemn Attack as Contrary to Goals of Promoting Human Dignity

Kay Steiger at Campus Progress, writes Rebirth of Anti-Abortion Terrorism, The murder of Dr. George Tiller in Kansas brings back old memories of radicalized violence against abortion providers. As much as Your Business Blogger(R) and Your Business Professor loves academia, the children at Campus Progress, like most academics, are wrong. Kay is a bit confused about terrorism-- and has yet to learn the difference between acts of war and criminal acts. The unfortunate Kay is still suffering from the Bush Derangement Syndrome where she pokes fun at the past president,

Opinions: "I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them." -George W. Bush

Who cares anymore?

Houston Belief

See The Moderate Voice

The Huffington Post has Cristina Page writing, The Murder of Dr. Tiller, a Foreshadowing

Tiller Murder a Lawless Act of Violence

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Alert Readers following on Twitter know that Charmaine was interviewed on NPR yesterday. Did Nina Totenberg actually say "Pro-Life" and not "Anti-Abortion"?

Maybe the media is a-moving? Becoming, well, fair and balanced...?

Not likely. Michael Medved author of Hollywood vs America reminds us that journalists in the Main Stream Media began their descent into bias when they turned into Truth Tellers rather than Reporters of Fact.

The truth is, of course, what the liberals think it is. And liberals are usually wrong.

Listen to the interview here on Obama's Supreme Court Nomination, Sotomayor.

So why do Hollywood and the newspapers -- going broke -- continue to produce product against American values (including that business drive to make a profit)? Read Making Money vs Making a Movie.

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The Sotomayor nomination: Charmaine taped ABC and is scheduled for CNN tonight at 8pm. The humidity is down, but will her hair stay up? The Big Question.

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Charmaine on FOX debating abortion and
incremental sonogram legislation.
In The Washington Post, Battle Lines Are Drawn On Sotomayor Nomination; Ideology, Abortion and Remarks on Ethnicity Come to Fore; Washington Community Reacts to Sotomayor; Members of the Washington community give their opinion on Obama's decision to nominate Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court, By Robert Barnes, Washington Post, Staff Writer, Thursday, May 28, 2009,

Charmaine Yoest, president of Americans United for Life, described Sotomayor as a "radical pick." But Yoest acknowledged that Sotomayor's most notable ruling on abortion was on the conservative side. In the ruling, she said the Bush administration had the right to prohibit abortions by overseas organizations receiving U.S. funding, as well as the right to prohibit the groups from speaking out against the restrictions.

Yoest said Sotomayor was following the court's precedents, something she might not do if she were on the Supreme Court. "There is no doubt that Judge Sotomayor's philosophy is that she is not only a practitioner of activism, but a defender of it," she said.
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On the other side of the debate, Northup's concern is just the opposite. "That decision certainly doesn't suggest she's a judicial activist," [Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights] said, adding that her organization knows of no instance in which Sotomayor has talked about Roe or expressed support for abortion rights. "We don't want any Souters, either," she said. The reference was to retiring Justice David H. Souter, whose jurisprudence surprised his advocates once he joined the court...

From The Chicago Tribune on line, Abortion views hard to judge; Rights activists fear Sotomayor not in their court

"What we know about her we like, but I don't know the answer on abortion rights," Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority Foundation, said in an interview.

Abortion opponents say they are convinced Sotomayor is an "extreme" supporter of abortion, although several acknowledge they do not have specific evidence of her views.

"She is a radical pick that divides America," said Charmaine Yoest, president of Americans United for Life.

WND CHANGING OF THE GUARD, Limbaugh: Obama's judicial pick a 'racist' Criticizes comment that Hispanic woman can make better decisions than white male, Posted: May 26, 2009, By Bob Unruh, © 2009 WorldNetDaily,

Charmaine Yoest, chief of Americans United for Life, said the nomination torches any statements by Obama he wants "common ground" over the abortion war.

"A vote to confirm Judge Sotomayor as the next Supreme Court Justice is a vote to strip Americans of the ability to choose for themselves how to regulate abortion. Our recent polling data speaks to this point of judicial activism and as a woman, I don't believe she 'represents' American women," she said.

"The Supreme Court took on the role of the 'National Abortion Control Board' in 1973 with Roe vs. Wade, and Judge Sotomayor will further entrench the court's self-appointed role as the sole arbiter of abortion policy. Based on her judicial philosophy, she will work to elevate unrestricted, unregulated, and taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand to a fundamental constitutional right by reading the sweeping Freedom of Choice Act - also known as FOCA - into the Constitution," she continued.

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Fearful of Latino Losses, GOP Cautious with Sotomayor
By Jonathan Allen, CQ Staff,

That emotion was clear in the reactions of conservative interest groups to the nomination.

"This appointment would provide a pedestal for an avowed judicial activist to impose her personal policy and beliefs onto others from the bench at a time when the courts are at a crossroad and critical abortion regulations -- supported by the vast majority of Americans -- like partial-birth abortion and informed consent laws lie in the balance," said Charmaine Yoest, president and CEO of Americans United for Life, a group that opposes abortion. Other conservative groups called Sotomayor a radical judicial activist -- words that in battles past have been used to rally core supporters, yet neutral toward Hispanics, just like the strategists recommend.

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Brayton gives voice and ink to the position that Roe was well reasoned. Not many liberals even assume that position any longer.
Sotomayor and Judges Making "Policy" Posted on: May 28, 2009 9:09 AM, by Ed Brayton

The point is that the line between interpreting the law and making policy is not nearly as clear as conservatives want people to think. Indeed, here is a textbook example of what conservatives really mean when they say a judge should not "set policy" from Charmaine Yoest of Americans United for Life, speaking about Sotomayor:

"She believes the role of the court is to set policy which is exactly the philosophy that led to the Supreme Court turning into the National Abortion Control Board denying the American people to right to be heard on this critical issue," Yoest said. "This appointment would provide a pedestal for an avowed judicial activist to impose her personal policy and beliefs onto others from the bench at a time when the courts are at a crossroad and critical abortion regulations - supported by the vast majority of Americans - like partial-birth abortion and informed consent laws lie in the balance."

They think that Roe v Wade was an example of "making policy" but that simply isn't true. Whether you agree with it or not, Roe v Wade was a decision based on the constitutionality of laws forbidding abortion. So very much like "judicial activism" and its various cognates, when conservatives talk about judges "making policy" or "legislating from the bench" all they really mean is "judges ruling in ways we don't like."

Steve Benen writing the Political Animal column at The Washington Monthly, May 28, 2009

SHE'S PRO-CHOICE, RIGHT?.... ,

Shortly after Sotomayor was introduced as the nominee, Charmaine Yoest, president of Americans United for Life, quickly blasted her as "a radical pick" who "believes the role of the court is to set policy which is exactly the philosophy that led to the Supreme Court turning into the National Abortion Control Board."

What was that based on? Apparently nothing. The right assumes she's pro-choice; the left assumes she's pro-choice. But no one seems to know whether she's pro-choice or not.

David G. Savage and Peter Nicholas reporting for the LA Times,
May 28, 2009
Abortion rights groups concerned about Sotomayor's stance; Obama's Supreme Court nominee has little record on issues related to Roe vs. Wade

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Yes, yes, the nomination is important, but we've got the real news -- our new SWAG just arrived. We just got the new AUL baseball caps and golf shirts. Branding lives!

If you want to know how to get one, give us a tweet on Twitter @JackYoest @CharmaineYoest

On the CBS News Political HotSheet, Sotomayor Nomination Renews Roe V. Wade Debate, Posted by Declan McCullagh,

Americans United for Life said she would "impose her personal policy and beliefs onto others from the bench," and pointed to a YouTube video saying that courts of appeal are where "policy is made."

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FrontPage Magazine, By John Perazzo reports, Sonia Sotomayor - Obama's New Activist Judge,

A number of notable conservatives, meanwhile, have taken a different view of the nomination. For instance, Charmaine Yoest, president of Americans United for Life, called Sotomayor "an avowed judicial activist" who "believes the role of the Court is to set policy," and who will likely "impose her personal policy and beliefs onto others from the bench."

Dahlia Lithwick at Slate writes Republicans won't beat Sonia Sotomayor,

The case against Sotomayor--to the extent it's being made, is that her life is such a tumultuous blend of personal hardship and deep feeling that she cannot separate the law from her own agenda. In short, she feels too much....[Goodness!] Charmaine Yoest, president of Americans United for Life, rushed to describe her as "a radical pick" who "believes the role of the court is to set policy which is exactly the philosophy that led to the Supreme Court turning into the National Abortion Control Board."

Our liberal friends at Media Matters write, Media uncritically repeat claim that New Haven firefighters case shows Sotomayor is an activist.

The Guardian has Sotomayor: closet moderate

Pro Ecclesia does not quite understand the separation of powers and the work and role of the Court, Sotomayor Blurs Lines in Abortion War [UPDATED],

"She is a radical pick that divides America," [ED.: Really? She seems like a fairly safe and conventional (albeit clearly liberal) pick to my "untrained" eyes.] Americans United for Life said this morning. "She believes the role of the court is to set policy, which is exactly the philosophy that led to the Supreme Court turning into the 'National Abortion Control Board.'" [ED.: NEWS FLASH!!! The Supreme Court, like it or not, DOES set policy. They have ever since a little case back in the early 1800s called Marbury v. Madison.]

The anti-science women who run Choice Matters, not only don't know when life begins -- also do not know that Americans United for Life believes that the Sotomayor nomination divides America.

RaceWire claims to be color blind. Or maybe just blind, She rests her case.

Michael Sean Winters at America writes Sonia Sotomayor: A Different Pro-Life Angle

It took just about an hour for Americans United for Life, a pro-life lobbying outfit, to denounce the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. "Judge Sonia Sotomayor's judicial philosophy undermines common ground," the group said in a press release. "She is a radical pick that divides America."

The Plum LineGreg Sargent's blog writes, Steele: I Really Don't Know Whether Sotomayor Is An "Activist" Judge,

Steele's fellow Republicans and conservatives, however, say those Sotomayor comments prove she is an activist judge. Senator Orrin Hatch told MSNBC yesterday that Sotomayor's 2005 claim "means you're going to get an activist justice on the Supreme Court." Americans United for Life denounced her as an "avowed judicial activist."

Steele doesn't agree. Yet.

David Brody, CBN News White House Correspondent, reports at CBN News, Conservatives Down on 'Policy Maker' Sotomayor

"This is a judge who has gone on the record in defense of the idea of judicial activism so it's pretty certain that she's going to approach the bench with an intention of imposing her own personal political preferences into the process," said Charmaine Yoest with Americans United for Life.

Campus Progress has talking points...that are actually quite good. Maybe not what the liberal Obama-lamas intended, Meet Judge Sotomayor.

Thank you (foot)notes:

Read the latest email from AUL at the jump.

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President Obama nominated Judge Sotomayor and Charmaine offered an analysis of her judicial temperament.

Charmaine on AP video

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Alert Readers following us on Twitter (@JackYoest; @CharmaineYoest) know that Your Business Blogger(R) performed duties today as wheel man of the monster SUV. The Dreamer filled the assignment as executive assistant as Charmaine did a number of media interviews across Your Nation's Capital.

But the real issue: How does Charmaine's hair look on camera? It was a humid mess in DC today...

Charmaine also made a number of terrific hires today at Americans United for Life. Announcements to follow.

Some of her media hits include;

The Associated Press

Sotomayor: A liberal record _ but not entirely so

The Associated Press

Charmaine Yoest, president of Americans United for Life, called Sotomayor "a radical pick that divides America." The most controversial civil rights lawsuit ...



Obama nominates Sotomayor to Supreme Court

CNN International - USA

Charmaine Yoest, head of Americans United for Life, ripped Obama's choice of Sotomayor, calling it "a radical pick that divides America. ...

Some Voices Rise Against Sotomayor's Nomination

ABC News - USA

Dr. Charmaine Yoest, the president of Americans United for Life, calls Sotomayor "a radical pick that divides America. She believes the role of the Court is ...

The Rational Hysterics

Newsweek - USA

And even though Sotomayor has decided only a single abortion case (against the abortion-rights side) Charmaine Yoest, president of Americans United for Life ...

re: National Abortion Control Board - Kathryn Jean Lopez - Bench ...

By benchmemos@nationalreview.com


Tuesday, May 26, 2009. re: National Abortion Control Board [Kathryn Jean Lopez]. I think Charmaine Yoest probably won't be a surrogate for the RNC on this issue. 05/26 10:43 AM · Share ...

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Sotomayor Blurs Lines in Abortion War

U.S. News & World Report - Washington,DC,USA

"She is a radical pick that divides America," Americans United for Life said this morning. "She believes the role of the court is to set policy, ...


See all stories on this topic

SaddleBrooke Democrats » Blog Archive » Neo-cons begin the nay ...

Charmaine Yoest, the president of Americans United for Life, blasted Sotomayor as "a radical pick that divides America." The Judicial Confirmation Network circulated a memo from its counsel, Wendy Long, calling Sotomayor a "favorite of ...

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TONY PHYRILLAS: 'Avowed Judicial Activist Judge Who Undermines ...

By TONY PHYRILLAS


From Americans United for Life (AUL) President & CEO Dr. Charmaine Yoest: "A vote to confirm Judge Sotomayor as the next Supreme Court Justice is a vote to strip Americans of the ability to choose for themselves how to regulate abortion ...

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Sotomayor: A liberal record _ but not entirely so - Kansas City Star

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Obama Supreme Court Pick Lacks Abortion History, but Criticized ...

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Americans United for Life (AUL) President & CEO Dr. Charmaine Yoest responded to the nomination, saying, "For all the President's talk of finding 'common ground,' this appointment completely contradicts that hollow promise. ...

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Is Sotomayor an Abortion Centrist? (Updated) - Steven Waldman

By Steve Waldman


"She believes the role of the Court is to set policy which is exactly the philosophy that led to the Supreme Court turning into the National Abortion Control Board," said the group's president, Charmaine Yoest. ...

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Opposing Views: THEY SAID WHAT?: Mixed Reactions Pour in on Obama ...

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PCC List: Majority of Americans Believe Abortion Hurts Women

By Michele Shoun


In a new national survey conducted by the Polling Company for the pro-life organization Americans United for Life, 68 percent said they know a woman who had one while 30 percent said they did not. Of those who knew a post-abortive woman ...

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BrothersJudd Blog: AN EASY RIDE:

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MEDIA ADVISORY

TELE-NEWS CONFERENCE

Memo to Senate Members: What do Americans Want in the Next Supreme Court Justice?
New Polling Data Reveal Answers

WHAT

Tele-News Conference to share a memo from Americans United for Life (AUL) urging all members of the Senate to consider fresh polling data on what Americans want in the next Supreme Court Justice. The data show that while the U.S. is supposedly a "divided" nation on the issue of abortion, overwhelming majorities of Americans agree on numerous issues relevant to the selection of a Supreme Court Justice, including:

· The role of interpreting the law vs. judicial activism based on personal viewpoints and opinion

· The role of states in regulating abortion

· Agreement/disagreement with positions held by potential nominees on

o Late term abortion

o Tax dollars paying for abortion

o Parental notification/consent before abortion

· Demographic preferences such as desired gender of the next Justice

The data also detail the political party, past voting record and demographic make-up of those polled. Q&A will follow a brief discussion of the poll findings.

WHO

Dr. Charmaine Yoest, President of Americans United for Life (AUL) (www.AUL.org)

Kellyanne Conway, President of The Polling Company, Inc. (www.PollingCompany.com)

WHERE

Tele-News Conference

For dial-in phone number and pass code to attend, contact:

Colleen O'Boyle (ext. 122) or Arina Grossu (ext. 104) at (703) 683-5004

WHEN Thursday, May 21st

10:00 AM ET

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Americans United for Life has released a state-by-state review of local abortion laws. The ranking is based on a numerical evaluation-criteria. See State by State Legal Guide to Abortion, Bioethics and the End of Life.

The Best States

1. Pennsylvania
2. Louisiana
3. South Dakota
4. Oklahoma
5. Mississippi
6. Texas
7. North Dakota
8. Nebraska
9. Arkansas
10. Indiana

The Worst States

50. California
49. Hawaii
48. Vermont
47. New Jersey
46. Connecticut
45. Nevada
44. Oregon
43. New York
42. Washington
41. Illinois

And please sign the FightFOCA petition!

Join Fight FOCA

Thank you (foot)notes:

The KansasJackass loves abortion and Planned Parenthood.

Also see LifeNews reports, Missouri Bill Introduced for Ultrasound, Better Informed Consent Before Abortion

See 12 States Weigh Ultrasound Abortion Bills, by Christianity Today.

Is The State You Live In For Or Against Life?

See Craig's Cogitations.

Is your state for or against life?

Read the outstanding writing by Meredith Turney at California Ranks DEAD Last.

SwampFox discusses FOCA

Jeremy Alford blogs How pro-life is Louisiana?

Dr. Charmaine Yoest, AUL president, says the ranking offers every reason for optimism for conservatives in Louisiana, especially with the election of Democratic President Barack Obama, who is pro-choice. "Since the election, we have seen a huge outpouring of grassroots support for our work opposing the radically pro-abortion Freedom of Choice Act as well as hundreds of inquiries about life-affirming legislation," Youest says.

Life as it Happens has more on Obama and FOCA.

Kyrie Eleison gives a link.

The Spin Cipher has Freedom of Choice for who?

Cellar dweller has California at bottom of list in pro-life group's ranking of states.

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Charmaine was busy with media interviews while she marched in the March for Life.

(This was quite an act: no child was left behind...) Obama is beginning to fulfill his campaign promises to bail out the abortion business.

Baby Boo working the crowd at the March for Life

If you support abortion or not, you are now going to pay for abortion...the world over.

Your Business Blogger(R) does not care for the government bail out of any business. Especially not the abortion business.

Obama lifts restrictions on abortion funding, 24 Jan 2009, Source: Reuters

By Jeff Mason and Deborah Charles (Additional reporting by Ed Stoddard)

WASHINGTON, Jan 23 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday lifted restrictions on U.S. government funding for groups that provide abortion services or counseling abroad, reversing a policy of his Republican predecessor George W. Bush...

"When we wake up every morning to a deepening financial crisis, it is an insult to the American people to bail out the abortion industry," said Charmaine Yoest, president of Americans United for Life.

"Planned Parenthood is a billion-dollar company and they do not need additional resources to burden the American taxpayer."...

The United States spends more than $400 million on overseas family planning assistance each year.

Jon Ward writes in The Washington Times, Obama changes policy on abortion, Saturday, January 24, 2009

"What a terrible way to begin a new administration: with an abortion business bailout that will exploit women in developing countries for political ends," said Charmaine Yoest, President of Americans United for Life Action.
...
Mr. Obama's promise to sign the Freedom of Choice Act, which would repeal all state and local restrictions on abortion, such as parental notification laws and measures allowing physicians to deny abortions based on their own faith convictions, came under fire Thursday from congressional Republicans.

Charmaine Yoest, president of Americans United for Life, thinks the change in policy amounts to U.S. tax dollars funding abortion and sees no positive outcome.

LifeNews.com Editor, Steven Ertelt, reports
Pro-Life Advocates: Obama Has Already Betrayed Promise to Reduce Abortions January 23, 2009,

Charmaine Yoest, [Ph.D.] the president of Americans United for Life, also responded to the news.

"What a terrible way to begin a new administration: with an abortion business bailout that will exploit women in developing countries for political ends," she told LifeNews.com.


"We should not export the tragedy of abortion to other nations, and we certainly shouldn't do so via the hard-earned dollars of American taxpayers," she said.

Denise Burke, [Americans United for Life] Vice President of Legal Affairs said the move also creates foreign policy headaches because it has the U.S. funding pro-abortion groups that are actively lobbying other nations to reverse their long-standing pro-life laws.

"Pro-abortion organizations like the International Planned Parenthood Federation are actively working to impose radically pro-abortion laws on developing nations, showing no regard for the will of the people in these countries," she said. "This move is a significant step backwards in respecting the sovereignty of nations, in empowering women, and in protecting unborn."

Thank you (foot)notes,

Notae Zuinglii, Bible and Theology writes, Legitimizing Murder
Yes we can, use your money to fund abortions
"The time has come to set aside childish things." Barak H. Obama 1/20/09

See Mike's Noise, We Surrender! "Bailout" plan is now law

Visit Tradition Catholic Reflections

President Bush writes,

In 2002, I was honored to sign into law the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, which extends legal protection to children who survive an abortion attempt.

Republican Leader John Boehner is blogging. Read his post at Americans United for Life Action, Mr. President: Reconsider FOCA

January 22, 2009

A Guest Post by Republican Leader John Boehner

Yesterday, on the eve of the 36th anniversary of the Supreme Court's Roe v Wade decision, 105 Members of Congress sent a letter to President Obama requesting that he reconsider his support for overturning pro-life laws--even laws enacted by the States. Specifically we asked the President to withdraw his pledge to sign the so-named Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA), which would in one tragic act overturn virtually all pro-life laws nationwide, and to refuse to support policies that incrementally enact the FOCA agenda by rescinding or weakening existing pro-life laws....

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While we were marching in yesterday's March for Life, Charmaine was interviewed by the WSJ on the Obama Abortion Bail Out executive order.

Cecile Richards, from Planned Parenthood and Obama

The reporter, LAURA MECKLER, asked about the current Mexico City Accord which prohibits USA taxpayers funding education on "reproductive freedom" to other countries. (The Alert Reader knows well that reproductive freedom/education is code for abortion.) The reporter also asked about Obama's "sensitivity" on not signing the abortion bailout on the anniversary of Roe v Wade; 22 January -- a day Pro-Lifers yearly recognize as the day the Supreme Court legalized abortion in all 57 50 states. Abortion is now legal through all nine months of pregnancy.

Meckler wrote,

...[A]bortion opponents were not mollified. Charmaine Yoest, [Ph.D.] president of Americans United for Life, thinks the change in policy amounts to U.S. tax dollars funding abortion and sees no positive outcome. But she called the delayed timing "a politically savvy move" by the White House.

Meckler also interviewed Cecile Richards,

Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, which offers abortion and family planning, says she doesn't care when President Obama changes the policy, as long as it is changed. "He has clearly stated his opposition to the global gag rule and his intention to overturn it," she said.

Cecile Richards makes money selling and preforming abortions. If women and other countries cannot afford an abortion. The American tax payer will now pay for them in a Planned Parenthood office.

There is one gag rule that Cecile Richards demands that Obama not change: No pregnant woman should see a sonogram of her baby.

85 percent of women who see the first picture of the child, do not have an abortion.

Planned Parenthood cannot have the science of the sonogram help women to choose.

Over 530,000 have signed the Americans United for Life petition to Fight FOCA. Be sure to sign up!

Your Business Blogger(R) and Charmaine spend time yesterday talking with Lila Rose who regularly captures on video Planned Parenthood covering up rapes. See
Planned Parenthood Rape Cover-up: Is a Sting Operation Ethical?

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Sanctity of Life Sunday is being celebrated on the 18th -- before the March for Life on Thursday, January 22nd.

In between these two dates, the most pro-abortion president in history, Barack Obama, will be sworn in on Tuesday the 20th.

What a week.

Americans United for Life has a church bulletin insert available to alert voters on the Obama abortion agenda. See the full page insert here. Read Charmaine's letter at the jump.

The Family Research Council writes,

"Blogs for Life is scheduled to take place the day of the 36th annual March for Life, during which hundreds of thousands of pro-life advocates gather in the nation's capitol to celebrate life and demand the reversal of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion.

The conference will feature several prominent conservative voices including Senator Sam Brownback, Amanda Carpenter, Jill Stanek, Michael New, Ph.D., Charmaine Yoest, Ph.D., Michael Illions, Chris Gacek, J.D. and Martha Shuping, M.D. all speaking with bloggers live from Family Research Council headquarters."

Join Fight FOCA To date almost 425,000 people have signed the FightFOCA petition.

It just might get Obama's attention.

Because it is the right thing to do.

How can Your Business Blogger(R) be so sure?

Because Chuck Norris approves of FightFOCA.

Chuck Norris writes at Human Events,

"Please, before FOCA flies onto the congressional floor in the upcoming days, sign the online petition to fight FOCA (www.fightfoca.com), and then contact your representatives and senators to tell them how you expect them to vote on the bill."

Chuck Norris is always right. He's smart. As The Dude says, 'Chuck Norris can divide by zero.'

Thank you (foot)notes:

The Dude worked backstage with Chuck Norris on the Huckabee presidential campaign trail in December 2007.

Pro-Choice abortion-approver Christina doesn't care much for the Fight against FOCA. She used to work for Planned Parenthood and says there is no such procedure as a partial birth abortion. I don't think she's seen the pictures...warning: graphic dead baby unwanted human tissue.

The Secular Heretic telling the news as it really is, has the FightFOCA code in his template. A good-guy.

UPDATE: Blogs 4 Life is on the Right Wing Watch list from People for the American Way. The anti-American PfAW has more time for abortion, now that Obama will soon be surrendering in Iraq and to Iran.

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If you fight against IL Gov. Rod Blagojevich, you might be a good-guy.

If you win against IL Gov. Rod Blagojevich, you might be on the side of the angels.

Charmaine was interviewed for CitizenLink, a division of Focus on the Family, Good News: Illinois Pharmacists Can Challenge Discriminatory Rule,

"This is a huge victory for the freedom of conscience of all health care providers," said Dr. Charmaine Yoest, president and CEO of Americans United for Life. "Pharmacists now have proper recourse against a discriminatory law that would force them to check their constitutional rights at the workplace door."

Here's how it started against Illinois governor Blago,

CitizenLink also quotes AUL's legal eagle Denise Burke,

in Good News: Regulations Protect Doctors' Freedom of Conscience

Life advocates are praising the timing of new government rules that protect health care providers' freedom of conscience.

The Department of Health and Human Services put the regulations in place last week to reinforce rules that protect doctors from being forced to participate in abortion and other anti-life practices.

"By releasing them now, they will be in the federal register for 30 days before the Obama administration takes office," said Denise Burke, vice president and legal director for Americans United for Life. "For that reason, the Obama administration cannot simply erase these rules."

Join Fight FOCA

"We are shocked that the Bush administration chose to finalize its midnight regulation and to take this parting shot at women's health and ignore patients' rights to receive critical healthcare services and information they deserve," said Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, in a statement. "We look forward to working with President-elect Obama and leaders in Congress to repeal this disastrous rule and expand patients' access to full healthcare information and services, not limit it."

Many of the abortions at Planned Parenthood are performed to rid the world of African-American babies. This is one lucky baby girl.

Thank you (foot)notes:

Other related news,

LifeSiteNews reports, Illinois Supreme Court Decision Supports Conscience Rights of Pharmacists

Dr. Charmaine Yoest, Americans United for Life (AUL) President and CEO, responded to the Supreme Court decision, stating, "This is a huge victory for the freedom of conscience of all healthcare providers. Pharmacists now have proper recourse against a discriminatory law that would force them to check their constitutional rights at the workplace door."

See the Americans United for Life Amicus Curiae Brief

CathNewsUSA writes, "Conscience" rule to cover health providers

Not everyone believes in conscientious objection. Not liberals, anyway. See, Are There Limits to the So-Called "Conscience Rule?"

Visit (and bookmark) Jill Stanek, Breaking news: IL Supreme Court rules for pharmacists/against Blagojevich

See AUL's press release, Americans United for Life Applauds Illinois Supreme Court Decision Supporting Constitutional Rights of Pharmacists

Deep Thoughts doesn't like the conscience clause either -- But note: Mojoey does refer to the Pro-Life position as, well, Pro-Life. An honest liberal! Who knew?

Alert the (Mainstream) Media!

...

Never mind.

See The Center blog.

Visit Social Developments Americans United for Life Applauds Adoption of HHS Rules Protecting Freedom of Conscience, Urges Vigilance in Protecting Both Providers and Healthcare Access

More from AUL on HHS conscience protection.

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Join Fight FOCA Log on.
Take a number.
Hit the lottery.

Sign on at www.FightFOCA.com and let us know if your number is 250,000.

A quarter million is a nice number. Will it be yours?

Dollars?

Nope.

Maybe something better -- if you are for Life.

FightFOCA is an on-line petition to persuade our national leadership: President-Elect Obama, Senator Majority Leader Reid and House Majority Leader Pelosi that limiting states rights is not what the voters want.

[Correction: Alert Readers will note that Pelosi is the Speaker of the House, Democrat Steny Hoyer from Maryland is the House Majority Leader.]

The public wants the financial market regulated.

The public wants the abortion market regulated.

The public wants common sense oversight of abortion.

Parents want to know if their child is having an abortion.

Women want all surgical procedures to be to the highest medical standards.

The public wants licensed doctors doing surgery; not social workers.

Women want information about their babies through the science of sonograms.

Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood, is against all these regulations. Why?

Quo Bono?

Follow the money. Planned Parenthood grosses -- so to say -- a billion (that's B as in Billion) (a 1,000 million) dollars each year.

L: A Baby
R: A BabyPlanned Parenthood profits from abortion.

Planned Parenthood gets a $300 million bailout each each year from the taxpayer.

Planned Parenthood wants a blind eye on their abortion money-machine.

Your Business Blogger(R) is a capitalistic-for profit kind of guy -- but who would want to earn earnings from the slave trade?

Or abortion?

If you want your state's rights to guard your child's health, sign the petition.

Their will be a special recognition for the 250,000 milestone.

Thank you (foot)notes:

Robert was Number 45,704. An early adopter, as we say in marketing...

FOCA Would Wipe Away Every Restriction on Abortion Nationwide.

This would eradicate state and federal laws that the majority of Americans support, such as:

* Bans on Partial Birth Abortion
* Requirements that women be given information about the risks of getting an abortion
* Only licensed physicians can perform abortions
* Parents must be informed and give consent to their minor daughter's abortion

FOCA would erase these laws and prevent states from enacting similar protective measures in the future.

Be sure to visit the Americans United for Life blog.

Even our liberal friends are noticing the work of Americans United for Life. Right Wing Watch writes,

"Any time you have a loss like that, you have an opportunity to reassess and come back stronger," said Charmaine Yoest, president of Americans United for Life. "If they want to see this as a big loss that will set us back, that's OK. Our people are very energized, and ready for Round Two."

Visit The Webbs, Fight for Life.

LifeNews.com, Election Results Don't Mean Pro-Life Movement to Stop, Limit Abortions is Dead.

ZENIT, Life and the Elections,

In 2008, 45 states considered nearly 450 measures related to abortion alone. Among 2008 pro-life victories are:

-- An omnibus measure in Oklahoma, requiring that a woman undergo an ultrasound prior to an abortion, regulating the provision of RU-486, and prohibiting coerced abortions;

-- New laws in Ohio, South Carolina, and South Dakota requiring that abortion providers offer a woman the opportunity to view an ultrasound prior to an abortion;

-- Legislatures in Colorado, Maryland, and Michigan limiting the use of taxpayer funding for abortions and abortion counseling;

-- Idaho lawmakers strengthening the state's informed consent law and prohibiting coerced abortions;

-- Meaningful funding of abortion alternatives in Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Pennsylvania.

DFW Catholic posts, Fighting the Freedom of Choice Act. And visit ProLife Dallas.

The international All News Web reports, Abortion: Obama's nightmare,

Obama has promised to restore federal funding to international family planning services, that is, his administration will financially support institutions around the globe that perform abortions. Obama has also promised to sign FOCA or the Freedom of Choice Act. Anti-abortion activists are mobilising for a battle as they now realise they no longer have an ally in the White House.

Americans United for Life is gathering up signatures at a frantic pace to oppose FOCA.

CNSNews.com has Catholics Who Vote for Freedom of Choice Act Could Face Automatic Excommunication, Cardinal Francis George of Chicago says,

"Parental notification and informed consent precautions would be outlawed, as would be laws banning procedures such as partial-birth abortion and protecting infants born alive after a failed abortion. Abortion clinics would be deregulated," said George.

"The Hyde Amendment restricting the federal funding of abortions would be abrogated. FOCA would have lethal consequences for prenatal human life," he said.

"FOCA would have an equally destructive effect on the freedom of conscience of doctors, nurses and health care workers whose personal convictions do not permit them to cooperate in the private killing of unborn children," George continued.

"It would threaten Catholic health care institutions and Catholic Charities. It would be an evil law that would further divide our country, and the Church should be intent on opposing evil. On this issue, the legal protection of the unborn, the bishops are of one mind with Catholics and others of good will."

The liberal, etiquette-ly challenged Low and Left Part Deux will not link to Americans United for Life, behaving more like the liberal main stream media than a hard-working blogger. Spiteful when he should be cite-ful...The Pushback and 2012 Has Started. Note the link.

TIM DRAKE, Senior Writer at the National Catholic Register writes, The Abortion President? Pro-Lifers Sound Warning on Freedom of Choice Act.

Kenrick Social Justice blogs, Americans United for Life has Petition Against FOCA.

Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth, Study to show thyself approved unto God... (2 Tim. 2:15), writes, Fight FOCA.

Good links at Random Junk from an Intellectual Wannabe.

Vivificat! posted the code.

Women of Faith and Culture has FOCA on the Family. Bringing Faith and Reason to Life.

If you have posted the FightFOCA.com code on your template, please email us! We will be in your debt.

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Warning: Adult material. Safe for work, maybe. Charmaine's had a dozen gigs on Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher. The following episode features Hustler Magazine publisher, Larry Flynt, Musician Edwin McCain (no relation to John McCain) and Actor Steve Hytner.

Charmaine was on to flog her book Mother in the Middle: Searching for Peace in the Mommy Wars.

Jesus-loving normal mom on the same set as a porn-peddler.

Only in America.

The work an author has to do these days...

Bill Maher, Politically Incorrect
Charmaine Yoest on the right,
of course... The topic was kiddie pornography. Re: Chester the Molester .

So it was four Hollywood liberals against one normal conservative.

About even.

Thank you (foot)notes:

This show originally aired on February 2, 2000 on the ABC network.

Your Business Blogger(R) recommends Kiddie P*rn: Dirty Old Men Are Slow Learners

Also see Charmaine on CNN Debating Condoms;
Obama Will Export Abortion-Condom Funding Overseas

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Managing Management Time(tm)
Video production credit: Peter Shinn Your Business Blogger(R) opened up my Northern Virginia Community College classroom to guests and a camera to present an overview of Bill Oncken's Managing Management Time(tm)

The video clip is divided into five segments and totals some 70 minutes. Please comment on the section that worked best for you. Or the least.

Press Release: The William Oncken Corporation Announces Licensed Marketing Agreement With Management Training of DC, LLC

See Monkey Management Ad Campaign.

Harvard Paper on Managing Management Time(tm): Monkey Management

Instructor notes at the jump.

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"The hospital can get me the operation now?" Charmaine asked.

"Sure," I said. "Where do you think you are, England?"

Charmaine's gall bladder removal was uneventful and, more important, immediate. There was no rationing of health care -- which we will get under an ObamaNation Health Plan.

That was exactly one week ago -- the latest surgical techniques have made recovery times shorter, less painful and less expensive. Good ol' American know-how.

Alert Readers will recall that Your Business Blogger(R) ran a number of medical device start up companies where we risked investors' investments to lower a patient's hospital 'length of stay' or LOS.

And the products and services made the world a better place as we improved patient care in a cost effective manner.

We assumed a risk in hope of a big payday, a big reward. Obama will kill this golden goose of innovative entrepreneurship.

Charmaine will be discussing the future on The Live Desk panel this afternoon. The other panelists will be Doug Schoen and Alex Burns.

The topics will be:

1) Obama's Administration - a recreation of the Clinton Administration? What's in store for Obama and his new team? and

2) A discussion on how Sarah Palin handled the campaign.

Obama Congratulates McCain YouTube.

Hit time will be at 2:30pm eastern. Please tune or tivo and let us know what you think.

Background at the jump, Obama, Candidate of Change, Looks to Old Hands from Clinton Era By Catherine Dodge and Kristin Jensen,

Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Barack Obama, elected president as an agent of change, is building his new team with old hands from the Clinton administration.

His first appointment, chief of staff, went to Rahm Emanuel, an Illinois representative and veteran of the last Democratic White House. Leading Obama's transition team is John Podesta, who was President Bill Clinton's chief of staff.

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We had a film crew from South Africa at the house today interviewing Charmaine on the campaign.

The rest of the world is confused at our continuing frictional discourse on abortion. Most of the world has real restrictions on abortion on national levels. The world does not understand that we do not.

The USA is one of the few countries in the world that has abortion on demand for any reason through all nine months (and longer under the Obama Born Alive Abortion Plan). Including China where the government makes the demand -- not the mother.

Unless the baby is a girl -- then everyone wants the child dead...

Or in India where abortion also is used for sex selection to allow only male babies born. Because boys are superior to girls as all advanced nations know.

USA abortion proponents tell us that the "health of the mother" is the only exception. Scare quotes are used in print and air quotes are used in conversation as John McCain does.

The quoting is used because the "health" issue is the exception that swallows the rule as Clarke Forsythe at Americans United for Life reminds us. Because anything, anything can be interpreted as "health." As in mental health. As in a bad hair day. Any reason is sufficient reason to abort.

There are no exceptions.

The Supreme Court has so ruled. Not we the people.

This was the background for the reporting by Joan Biskupic at USA TODAY in
Election comes at key point for high court's stance on abortion,

"This is a historic election," says Charmaine Yoest, [Ph.D.] president of Americans United for Life. "With the next president having the opportunity to appoint one, two or even more justices," she adds, the election could change the law "on the life issue."

Ed Stoddard at Reuters writes, Win Or Lose, Sarah Palin To Be A Political Force,

If McCain loses the exit polls will be scoured but many pundits seem likely to blame it on centrist concerns about Palin during a financial crisis.

"It's really clear that there are some people out there who would like to make her a scapegoat if things don't go their way Tuesday," said Charmaine Yoest, president of Americans United for Life Action, which opposes abortion rights.

"But she's has very clearly connected with the base of the party and the life and family voters and I think that is going to give her a really strong base going forward whatever happens," she said.

Jessica Arons writing at the Huffington Post has the best summation of the state-by-state, incremental Pro-Life strategy in Not All Politics Is Local: Connecting the Dots on Abortion Initiatives,

California Proposition 4 is endorsed by Americans United for Life, among others.

This is an organization that has worked to slowly erode women's access to abortion care with bills that limit available abortion methods after 12 to 13 weeks of pregnancy; require waiting periods, biased counseling, and ultrasound viewings prior to an abortion; create burdensome and medically unnecessary regulations for abortion clinics; assert that fetuses feel pain during an abortion; and allow health care employees to refuse to counsel, refer, or treat patients for any service to which they object.

She intends it to be dire and evil, but it comes out good and accurate. Something Biblical in there...

Deacon Keith Fournier at Catholic On Line has SPECIAL: Interview with AUL Action's Charmaine Yoest on 'Open Letter to Barack Obama'

Your Business Blogger(R) also recommends Values Voters

CatholicWifeAndMom

Obama the Abortionist

Makeup of U.S. Supreme Court Hangs in the Balance

J. Margaret Datiles, staff counsel for Americans United for Life representing the interests of the weakest citizens of the United States and abroad has an article in The Washington Times, A price on your head. Good read. Would get us ready for money saving suicide plans under an Obama administration.

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The easiest tactic to sell anything is to find Pain. Maximize it, magnify it, monetize it.

We Are The Change, election night 1988

There is some economic Pain in the American people. Obama promises to heal this nation and heal this pain with Change.

Change from Capitalism to Marxism. To "spread the wealth around."

As Wes Pruden writes in A game-changer by Obama, we are at the close of the biggest sales and marketing pitch in history. Pruden reports,

To redistribute wealth, you first have to confiscate it from those who earned it with hard work, and the way to do that is with confiscatory taxes. Then you give it to those who didn't earn it.

But do the American people really want to change to a new economic system? A centrally controlled economy? A Change to Marxism?

Even with a half-billion dollar marketing campaign and its extension in the compliant main stream media and a single quarter of negative growth, the voters have still not bought the Barack bill of goods. Pain as bad as it's been in decades.

Barack Obama has trouble selling this Change to more than 50 percent of the public.

This means that there is still hope for capitalism in our country. Hope for our 200 year-old tradition.

Every new presidential candidate runs on some version of change. Your Business Blogger(R) joyfully attended the Election Night victory party on November 8, 1988.

The theme of the celebration? "We Are The Change." And this was from Reagan to Bush. (A Republican rockin' party...no alcohol was served 'til after 8pm.)

The word "Change" has come to mean a bit more in this campaign season in the Obama sales pitch.

We enjoy an orderly transition of power every few years. Let us pray that change is only in political individuals.

Not in an economic tradition.

This week, I asked my college business class when the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith was written.

"1930...?" guessed one of my better students. This was as far back as she would dare recede into ancient history. Not the 200 years to 1776.

Two hundred years of tradition that unleashed the individual's spirit to create and to provide and to enrich. Centuries of building an economic powerhouse that dominates the world. Created by American Exceptionalism.

Quin Hillyer writes at The American Spectator,

There is something special about this country. The United States is exceptional. We are blessed by the good Lord, and in turn we have done more, far more, than any other people to spread freedom across the globe, and prosperity across the globe, and human rights across this great good Earth. We are a particularly good people...

Benjamin Franklin wondered if we, a good and virtuous people, could keep a republic, a system of government that would enable the system of capitalism.

Obama promises a change to Marxism. Other changes are sure to follow, if he is elected.

Thank you (foot)notes,

Hillyer continues comparing McCain to Obama,

We are a particularly good people -- and John McCain understands all this and believes it with every fiber of his being, down to his very marrow, in a way that is deeply spiritual in nature.

There is nothing fake about McCain's belief in American Exceptionalism. His belief in this is as genuine, and as deeply felt, as is a son's love for his father. He will defend this country, fight for this country, with every last breath in his body...

So there you have it: John McCain as a patriot firmly rooted in the American traditions of free enterprise, limited government, strong defense, personal accountability, and a decent respect for the cultural standards of the broad middle of the American public.

Those are the constituent elements of American exceptionalism -- and to his great credit, John McCain is an American exceptionalist, and an exceptional American.

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Yesterday, Charmaine says, "We got hate mail."

"Success!" I replied.

Your Business(R) Blogger teaches marketing at the local college and advises clients on the effectiveness of advertising.

AUL's Open Letter to Obama

The return on investment (ROI) in the for-profit businesses should be sales generated.

But not-for-profits have a different type of "product" peddled. The purpose of a non-profit is to improve the human condition.

So when a non-profit places a media buy, how does Your Business Blogger(R) suggest measuring success?

Hate Mail.

In for-profit, we measure love.
In non-profits, we measure hate.

Our country is evenly and bitterly divided into two competing world views. The animosity is so great and the two camps have opinions so different that we all might as well be on different planets.

We non-profit marketers are now interplanetary ambassadors. Captain Kirk never had it so hard.

So measure the "good" ad with "bad" feedback.

The Alert Reader might suggest that media hits could be an immediate proxy for any ad campaign effectiveness. But here in the non-profit world, the marketing manager should measure opposing, hateful articles, not the friendlies. Getting your friends to agree is helpful, to be sure. Getting the opposition reacting is better.

On Reasoned Audacity we limit, moderate and edit hate-comments, because most are not helpful and make for atrocious reading. Motto: Delectare et Docere.

To Please and To Instruct.

Hate-mail is not pleasing to read. A wise marketer measures this mail, crunches this data, but uses only for internals, not public consumption -- which would look like whining. Complaining about all the stoopid people on that other planet.

As Jack Welch advises: Never be a victim.

And as politicians are wont to say, "Throw a rock into a pack of dogs: the one that yelps is the one that got hit."

Measure the hits by the number of yelps.

Americans United for Life Action published an open letter in a full page in the Dayton Daily News, an Ohio newspaper . Back page, section A. Good size and location. Marketers would prefer more frequency than a one-time media buy. But a good ad "sells" in more than the buy in a particular geographic location.

Today, effective prints ads are picked up by alternative media and broadcast-cable outlets.

(Goodness, during the Huckabee campaign, Ed Rollins got media attention for an ad he didn't even run.)

See Charmaine's Open Letter to Senator Obama here and at the jump.

Read the ad and let us know if you think it "sells" -- if it persuades.

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Thank you (foot)notes:

Letter to Obama Asks for Answer on Parental Involvement Laws

Group Reminds Voters Barack Obama Wants All Pro-Life Laws Overturned.

The patron saint of marketing John Wanamaker once quipped that "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half." Sometime a manager just gets lucky.

See LifeNew.com.

Americans United for Life Action Press Release.

From The Family Foundation.

Anglicans Ablaze.

Value Voters

Alliance Alert from ADF

Save the Little Humans.

Catholic Fire.

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FOX reporter Molly Henneberg is doing a story on Sarah Palin's speech on Special Needs Children for Special Report tonight Friday, 24 October. Hit time is 6pm.

A baby within its mother

Charmaine will be discussing Sarah Palin's passion on this Pro-Life issue. From RealClearPolitics,

One of the most wonderful experiences in this campaign has been to see all the families of children with special needs who come out to rallies and events just like this. We have a bond there. We know that children with special needs inspire a special love. You bring your sons and daughters with you, because you are proud of them, as I am of my son.

My little fella sleeps during most of these rallies, even when they get pretty rowdy. He would be amazed to know how many folks come out to see him instead of me.

When I learned that Trig would have special needs, honestly, I had to prepare my heart. At first I was scared, and Todd and I had to ask for strength and understanding. I did a lot of praying for that understanding, and strength, and to see purpose.

And what's been confirmed in me is every child has something to contribute to the world, if we give them that chance. You know that there are the world's standards of perfection, and then there are God's, and these are the final measure. Every child is beautiful before God, and dear to Him for their own sake. And the truest measure of any society is how it treats those who are most vulnerable.

As for our baby boy, Trig, for Todd and me he is only more precious because he is vulnerable. In some ways, I think we stand to learn more from him than he does from us. When we hold Trig and care for him, we don't feel scared anymore. We feel blessed...

John McCain and I have a vision in which every child is loved and cherished, and that is the spirit I want to bring to Washington.

Every Child. Born and Unborn. Please watch and let us know what you think.

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Charmaine was interviewed by Family News in Focus (called "FiNIF") a short radio program produced by James Dobson's Focus on the Family in Colorado Springs. It will run on Monday, 27 October, 2008.

The Yoests and

The Dobsons

A print version of the conversation is available on Citizen Link

Life Advocates Challenge Obama over Pro-Abortion Priorities

Americans United for Life Action is calling on Sen. Barack Obama to explain why he opposes parental-involvement laws, which are designed to protect girls from sexual predators.

The letter to Obama recounts the true story of a 14-year-old Cincinnati girl who was impregnated by her 21-year-old soccer coach. The coach, who signed in place of her parents for her to have an abortion, is in jail. Charmaine Yoest, president and CEO of AUL Action, said the story underscores the need for parental-involvement laws.

Yet, according to a promise made to Planned Parenthood, the first thing Obama would do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act -- a sweeping piece of legislation that could wipe away every federal, state and local law limiting or regulating abortion.

"I'd like to know why it he supports such radical legislation that would make it impossible for us to put any limitations whatsoever on abortion," Yoest said.

-- Family News in Focus

Pro-Life Michelle Bachmann is running for re-election to Congress in a close race. We spoke to Michelle during the GOP convention in Minnesota. She believes in limited government, low taxes, winning the war and the sanctity of life.

Charmaine on Roger Hedgecock's radio program with Michelle Bachmann

She is authentic. And not liked by the liberals in media and in congress. See her short clip on condemning Planned Parenthood on the floor of Congress.

Michelle, like Sarah Palin is real. They each have five children. Adding up the Bachmanns, the Palins and our Penta-Posse, we could fix Social Security all by our selves...

Not counting Michelle and her husband Marcus's 23 foster children.

That is public service. That is love.

Charmaine spars with David Gregory at the GOP convention.

Also check out this clip at Concerned Women for America:

Your Business Blogger(R) teaches sales and marketing at the Northern Virginia Community College. The CWA clip is a world class example that appeals to this sight and sound generation.

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Charmaine and Jonah at National Review both had speaking gigs at major schools.

Q: Who Knew?
A: No one.

Charmaine lecturing on campus

I drove the wife and The Dreamer, The Dude, The Diva, The Dancer, and Baby Boo* down to Mr. Jefferson's University so Charmaine could speak on women in leadership at Darden, UVa's business school. The first thing we see are well-armed police.

Uniformed dark blue. Unsmiling.

I ask the sergeant about his job and the small gaggle of 150 women, "Crowd control?"

He looks me over. I'm holding a four-year old's hand: I am not a threat.

I am the conservative.

The cop's face moves a millimeter into what passes for a smile. His head shakes a millimeter into what passes for no.

His eyes return to the assembly. He's looking for trouble.

I speak to one of the organizers about the number of attendees, the marketing of the event...the security. (Your Business Blogger(R) cares about such things; teaching Business at the Northern Virginia Community College. Where James Carville also taught.)

The event planner whispers, "We didn't publicize the event...we weren't sure who would come..."

Even though Charmaine spent ten years at UVA, earned her Ph.D. and taught (Politics and the Family) the organizers were fearful. Charmaine, a woman and a conservative who worked for Huckabee, Pro-Life, now a president and CEO of a law firm, might cause two horrors on the Campus Grounds:

1) A violent campus protest, or, worse,

2) A good conservative turn out.

The police were out in force to keep pie throwing liberals away from the conservative speaker.

Or keep a woman from making a citizen's arrest.

Or having a Democrat scratch KKK on our monster SUV, the Huck-a-Truck.

Jonah Goldberg
and wife Jessica Gavora

The police were there to protect us from the Brown Shirts with the party of death.

The police are on the side of law and order...so far.

We have been lucky with Charmaine's public speaking in academia.

It's particularly odd because the majority of the time I speak on a college campus -- even when debating a liberal -- I'm told that I'm the first conservative they've had there for a while and that I was brought in for "balance."
You'd think if that were the case, the various administrations would at least want some credit for providing equal time.
Even though, even a brief perusal of almost any college or university's events calendar will quickly show that they could have the entire masthead of National Review speak month after month and it still wouldn't equal balance...but the idea that simply inviting one or two objectively conservative speakers every couple years provides ideological balance is just absurd.

The joke is even bigger when you discover as I have at numerous schools that many professors tell their students they shouldn't go hear conservative speakers.

Jonah Goldberg gets this right: students should get both sides of any debate.

That would be, well, Fair and Balanced...

* Alert Readers know our five children are also known as the Penta-Posse.

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Charmaine recently debated Eleanor Smeal from the Feminist Majority Foundation on Abortion restrictions in the United Kingdom.

Alert Readers will note that the CNN International host identified Charmaine as Pro-Life. Something that never happens on this side of the pond.

The host did get a bit confused about fetus and baby. Impossible for the abortion supporter to say "baby" or "mother."

This debate becomes important here in US of A because of Obama's promise to eliminate parental notification state laws and any waiting periods. Obama does not want to regular the clinical cleanliness of abortion facilities.

The GOP is the party of life. Obama is the party of death.

Charmaine is now president and CEO of Americans United for Life.

This is a media war: abortion vs pro-life; liberal vs conservative; Obama vs McCain.

So. Your Business Blogger(R) homestead watched Family Guy last night.

We wanted to follow-up on the Fast Company article by Josh Dean on the Seth MacFarlane success and his $100 million deal with FOX.

The episode: Stewie, the British-accented baby and Brian the talking dog time travel back to September 1, 1939 when N@zi Germany invaded Poland. Stewie and Brian end up in Storm Trooper uniforms...with a McCain-Palin campaign button.

Funny.

But this speaks to the projection the liberals make of their world view.

Conservative politicians want to protect life. Liberals want abortion, euthanasia, denial of care.
Conservative politicians want people to keep their own money. Liberals want high taxes and your money.
Conservatives want abortion clinics regulated. Liberals want home schoolers regulated
Conservatives want to be left alone. Liberals demand power and intrusion.

Is it possible that the H!tler Youth of the 1930's might be more comfortable in today's Party of Death than with the Rascally Republicans?

Liberals have abortion clinics to get rid of unwanted life. The National Socialists had gas ovens to get rid of unwanted life.

Not that there is any connection...

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In media interviews, is it harder to be the host or the talent -- the guest? Charmaine has had both duties on both sides of the microphone.

Alert Readers will recall that Charmaine's first interviewer gig was substitute-guest hosting for Blanquita Cullum, BQ in the Richmond radio market. ("Talk Show Host" has now become an invective used by the liberals...who can't get an audience.)

Charmaine tells Your Business Blogger(R) that being the host was the harder job. "You've got to know the content, the guests, and the hardest for me: the technology and timing." To break in on a speaking guest for a commercial break.

She is having a conversation with Mike Judge from the Christian Institute U.K. in May of this year. Mike attempted to place pro-life ads on Google and was denied. Google took ads from pro-abortion groups but not pro-lifers.

Also see Charmaine's old FRC office (with Ronald Reagan's picture in the background). She is now the president and CEO of Americans United for Life.

The case was resolved in September 2008, Google settles abortion ad case

Free Speech exists in Britain for now, less so here.

Camera work and production by Kevin McCullough MuscleHead Revolution.

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AUL Action to Bob Schieffer: Americans Want to Hear a Question About Abortion

Last update: 10:21 a.m. EDT Oct. 15, 2008

WASHINGTON, Oct 15, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ --

Charmaine Yoest, Ph.D. president and CEO
AUL Action

As CBS News' Bob Schieffer prepares to moderate Wednesday night's final presidential candidate debate, AUL Action President Dr. Charmaine Yoest released the following letter.

Dear Mr. Schieffer,

As you prepare for Wednesday night's final presidential debate, I know that you will be working to raise questions on domestic issues that are of interest to a wide range of Americans. I encourage you to ask each candidate about his views on abortion -- something that has not been done at either of the previous debates.

Many Americans are single-issue voters when it comes to abortion, and many more view a candidate's position on abortion as one of a handful of issues on which they select a candidate.

While each candidate's position on Roe v. Wade is well known, it remains unknown what restrictions on abortion each candidate would support in order to achieve the widely agreed upon goal of reducing abortion.

And that is the question I encourage you to ask: What restrictions on abortion would you support in order to achieve the widely agreed upon goal of reducing the number of abortions in our country?

Possible follow up questions include:

-- A recent study by Dr. Michael New (University of Alabama) found that parental involvement laws reduce abortion by 13-31%.


Do you support the right of parents to be involved in the medical decisions of their minor daughters when abortion is being considered?


-- Do you support taxpayer funding for elective abortions?


-- Do you support laws that mandate abortion clinics meet minimum health and safety standards commonly applied to other types of medical practices?


-- Do you support laws requiring abortions be performed by licensed physicians?

Particularly given that Wednesday night's debate was scheduled to focus on domestic policy, the American voters need to hear each candidate respond to at least one question that addresses the topic of abortion, which is one of the central policy questions of our day.

I wish you all the best as you prepare for and moderate the debate.
Sincerely,

Charmaine Yoest, Ph.D.
President & CEO
AUL Action

About AUL Action,
AUL Action is the legislative arm of Americans United for Life (AUL). The first national pro-life organization in America, AUL has been committed to defending human life through vigorous judicial, legislative, and educational efforts at both the federal and state levels since 1971. In addition, AUL has been involved in every pro-life case before the Supreme Court since Roe v. Wade.
SOURCE Americans United For Life

Copyright (C) 2008 PR Newswire. All rights reserved
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Obama will not salute our flag Your Business Blogger(R) did a tour of duty in combat arms.

One of the first tasks to learn on assuming a military position was

(as Bill Clinton was slow to learn) the military salute.

Another Democrat, Obama

and the war hero,
the war injured McCain

have one thing in common with the military.

If either is elected, neither will salute.

Obama: Because he won't.

McCain: Because he can't.

It was a delight to be in a very large room with with people with big ideas. Each who loves his country.

One of the Hosts, Colin Hanna, from Let Freedom Ring, was about to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance and reminded us of legislation allowing veterans to render a hand salute, even if out of uniform, even if separated from active service.

The law was made possible by Senator Jim Inhoufe of Oklahoma -- a Republican, of course.

A conservative, of course. Who loves Jesus. Clinging to his religion and his guns...

So the next time you are at a ball game look for veterans during the National Anthem.

They'll be the ones saluting.

Inhofe Legislation Allows Veterans to Salute the Flag

By Ryan Cassin,
Thursday July 26, 2007
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) today praised the
passage by unanimous consent of his bill (S.1877) clarifying U.S. law to allow veterans
and servicemen not in uniform to salute the flag.

Current law (US Code Title 4, Chapter 1) states that veterans and servicemen not in
uniform should place their hand over their heart without clarifying whether they can or
should salute the flag.

"The salute is a form of honor and respect, representing pride in one's military service," Senator Inhofe said.

"Veterans and service members continue representing the military services even when not in uniform.

"Unfortunately, current U.S. law leaves confusion as to whether veterans and service members out of uniform can or should salute the flag. My legislation will clarify this regulation, allowing veterans and servicemen alike to salute the flag, whether they are in uniform or not.

"I look forward to seeing those who have served saluting proudly at baseball games, parades, and formal events. I believe this is an appropriate way to honor and recognize the 25 million veterans in the United States who have served in the military and remain as role models to others citizens.

Those who are currently serving or have served in the military have earned this right, and their recognition will be an inspiration to others."

See
Gold Star Moms
Visit a cranky vet
Respect for the Flag

Alert Readers have also noticed that Barack Obama has no American Flag on his campaign aircraft. It is not known if he will remove the flag from Air Force One, if he is elected...

Barack Obama also demonstrates that it is impossible for him to support the troops. He took millions from Bill Ayers, the domestic terrorist who attempted to blow up the Pentagon.

How can Obama support the troops and support a terrorist who tried to kill the troops? Obama is not qualified to be commander in chief.

From NRO,

"There's reason to doubt that oft-repeated pledge of 'supporting the troops' when you've worked for a man who tried to kill the troops."

UPDATE on new regs at the jump.

UPDATE: 23 Dec 2008, New York Times, Obama Tries Out His Salute, By Jeff Zeleny,

KAILUA, Hawaii - He's not the commander in chief yet, but was President-elect Barack Obama briefly practicing his salute on Sunday?

On the first morning of his vacation here, Mr. Obama arrived at the Marine Corps Base Hawaii for his daily workout. As he walked out of the Semper Fit Center, his gray T-shirt soaked in sweat, he lifted his right hand and gave a quick salute to two Marines in fatigues who were standing in the distance.

[Reagan knew how to salute; it was within his experience.
The Cubscout is saluting.
Expect homosexuals in both the military and the Boyscouts
under Obama.]

The brief moment was not captured by cameras. Photographs and video were not permitted to be taken on the military base, according to campaign aides.

Mr. Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, opened their day with a 45-minute workout inside a large gymnasium at Marine Corps Base Hawaii, which is located on the Mokapu Penninsula on the windward side of Oahu, about 30 minutes outside Honolulu. It is sunny and warm here, a world away, at least in terms of the weather, from Chicago.

Alert Readers well know that Reagan served in uniform, like most patriots, in WWII.

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Bill Maher doesn't care much for babies. And less for marriage.

Charmaine on PI
with (the liberal) Bishop Spong.
Part One, circa 2002 Charmaine made over a dozen appearances on his old Politically Incorrect show.

So all our paths have crossed a time or two in the Green Room in his LA studio.

Usually after Your Business Blogger® just changed a stinky diaper on one of the infant Penta-Posse .

I probably did not make a compelling case for fatherhood...

Anyway.

Charmaine did work on Bill Maher's eternal perspective.

At one point Maher asked us, not rhetorically, "So what is death; a dirt nap?"

Maher sums up neatly the atheist's worldview: there is no God, no Heaven.

No Hell.

At death, it all ends on this celestial sphere. A dirt nap in a grave.

Dinesh D'Souza addresses atheism in his New York Times best seller, What's So Great About Christianity?,

From page 274,

What's So Great
About Christianity?"If sex is unhooked from the old moral restraints [marriage], there are going to be unwanted pregnancies [babies]. Here we get to atheism's second sacrament, which is abortion. [The first sacrament is orgasm.] The real horror of abortion is not that a woman kills an unborn child

but

that a woman kills her own unborn child. [Emphasis mine.]

The guilt in doing this, for all morally healthy persons, can only be tremendous.

So it is necessary for atheism to pave the way for abortion with a clear conscience.

The first step is to get rid of God, because then there is no spirit of the dead child to disturb the conscience, no hell to pay for violating the commandment against the deliberate taking of life."

Politically Incorrect,
Part 2One pregnancy in five ends in a miscarriage.

Charmaine and I had one. We still dream of that baby. Now safe on the other side.

The death still hurts and time does heal. But how much more would the hurt be if the mother was responsible for the loss of the baby?

How much more the pain if the mother murdered her baby?

The guilt these women feel must be horrendous.

Can Obama feel no pain?

I will take their heart of stone and replace it with a heart of flesh.

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The following video clip is based on the actual Obama-cult song recorded by (non-aborted) children who were manipulated into supporting a presidential candidate...and, of course, a clip from the famous movie "Cabaret."

This might be a more accurate representation than the letter sent to the Americans United for Life office in Chicago this week. From the Party of Death.

Eyeblast at the jump.

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Your Business Blogger(R) just returned from meeting a number of conservative friends in Minneapolis-St. Paul in preparation for the GOP convention. It was exciting to talk with the good-guys from across the country especially during the Palin pick for VP.

I ran into my good friend Morton Blackwell who has run conservative politics in Virginia for decades and heads up the Leadership Institute in Arlington, Virginia.

Recently, I was honored to give a brief presentation on management to LI. The overview requested was on Managing Management Time(TM) created and developed by The William Oncken Corporation.

LI also asked about some time management techiques and I certainly obliged.

But.

But Alert Readers will know that Managing Management Time(tm) is a philosophy created to teach managers to be more effective; to control events. MMT is NOT a time management course.

The briefing is divided into four short segments.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Thankyou foot(notes):

Full Disclosure: Your Business Blogger(R) is a licensed agent for The William Oncken Corporation.

Charmaine and I spent last week in Minneapolis and we just put her back on a plane this afternoon to attend the GOP convention. See her quotes in The Wall Street Journal. She is the president and CEO of Americans United for Life and former senior advisor to the Huckabee for president campaign.

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Your Business Blogger(R) once asked writer and reporter Richard Miniter about the sales process. He described sales as The Transference of Emotion.

Nothing was transferred last night.

The political confab is designed to sell both a tangible and an intangible: A Person and his Ideas.

Neither was sold on Day 1 of the Democratic National Convention.

Mary Jo Kopechne, Born: July 26, 1940;
Died: July 18,1969

Charmaine is currently in Minneapolis and I will be joining her soon for a series of meetings.

One of our favorite constant questions is, "Will it sell?"

In any human transaction, someone is selling and someone is buying. The Democrats did not have much of a pitch last night.

The were attempting to sell Michelle Obama. But I kept thinking of another Democratic woman.

The video brought a flood of tears to all eyes who watched it. The Democrats were swooning, estatic, drowning in thier adulation.

But not conservatives. We cried for other reasons.

The Ted Kennedy video was horrifying. The opening scene was of water lapping up on a quiet shore. I kept looking for a half submerged car -- at least there wasn't a bridge in the picture. He kept talking about his connection to the water.

The Democrats have all the resources of the best minds in Hollywood and the mainstream media -- and this is the best they could do? Goodness.

The footage of a smiling Ted Kennedy sailing his 80 foot something sailing yacht made me think of all the maintenance that somebody does to keep that old boat barnacle-free (no, no, not Teddy).

Work not done by the Kennedys. Elitists don't polish brass.

The Democratic marketing machine did not deliver its intended message. This is the party of abortion, of darkness, of death.

The Democrats, as Romesh Punnuru writes, are The Party of Death.

Mary Jo Kopechne, Requiscat in Pace

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Thankyou (foot)notes,

Alert Readers wll recall that Your Business Blogger(R) teaches sales training -- but still learned something from the former Wall Street Journal reporter Richard Miniter.

Proving that it is possible to learn something, even from a journalist...

Senior Editor, National Review, Ramesh Ponnuru will be the keynoter at the Americans United for Life gala on October 9th in Chicago. We will celebrate Life.

From NNB,

Near midnight on Chappaquiddick Island, a possibly drunk and definitely married Senator Ted Kennedy takes a right turn instead of a left. His car winds up skidding off Dike Bridge and is quickly submerged upside-down in salty Poucha Pond.
His passenger, RFK office secretary Mary Jo Kopechne, is knocked into the back seat. Kennedy swims to safety, whereupon he fails to rescue his companion or even simply report the incident to authorities until the following morning.
Because no autopsy is ever performed on Kopechne's body (her body had been promptly whisked out of state) it is uncertain how long it took her to drown, if she wasn't killed on impact. Likewise, it is never established whether Kopechne was pregnant or exhibited signs of recent sexual activity.

See Sandler Sales Technique: Selling Tangible and Intangibles.

Update: 26 August 2009, Ted Kennedy dies. Perhaps Mary Jo can now Rest In Peace. From Myrna Blyth, NRO,

This week we may hear a little about the 35th anniversary of Neil Armstrong's moonwalk, but there is another anniversary that has already gone unnoticed. On July 18, 1969, a couple of nights before Armstrong took that "giant step for mankind," Ted Kennedy took a turn onto a narrow bridge in Chappaquiddick. The passenger in his car that night was Mary Jo Kopechne, a pretty, blond Capitol Hill secretary, just about to celebrate her 29th birthday. The two events are inextricably linked in my mind because my husband, who was a correspondent for a British newspaper, instead of reporting on our glorious odyssey into space, ended up at police headquarters on Martha's Vineyard covering that sordid story.

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Friday was Charmaine's last day at FRC. They gave her a nice send off. It was less like a funeral and more like a celebration -- a celebration like many funerals should be: She's going to a better place, but we wish she were here.

Later, Your Business Blogger(R) returned with the Penta-Posse to her office to gather up the pictures and files and stuff and stuffed all into the monster-SUV. We left no action, email, paper, or child behind.

It took 'til 9pm to clear out. This is how job changing is different from death:

Crossing over to eternity: Your inbox will be full.
Crossing over to another job: Your inbox will be empty.

The only thing she took with her were the memories and the comfort that she would be seeing all of her old friends again somewhere, sometime again.

Some things don't die...

Friendships endure: Relationships in the Body are eternal.

Then again, maybe job-changing and death are exactly alike.

From the Family Research Council,

Our Loss is AUL's Gain

It is with mixed emotions that we announce that Dr. Charmaine Yoest, VP for Communications, has accepted the presidency of Americans United for Life.

While this is great news for Charmaine and even better news for AUL, it is a deep loss for us.

During Charmaine's time at FRC, we have gained a whole new level of visibility in the national media, developed an excellent new web site, built out the first video studio in FRC history, overhauled our media center to make it state-of-the-art, obtained record op ed placements, and maintained quality radio programs heard on hundreds of stations nationwide.

Charmaine and her entire team can be justly proud of these accomplishments. It's good to know that her gifts will now be deployed at the helm of one of best-known and most successful pro-life groups in the country.

We wish her and her family well in the weeks and years to come, and we're confident our paths will cross many times as we work to protect innocent human life.

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PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Contact: Matthew Eppinette
Matthew.Eppinette@AUL.org
312.568.4701

Chicago, Illinois -- Charmaine Yoest, Ph.D., a well-known pro-family leader, author, and media commentator, takes the helm of Americans United for Life (AUL) as president and chief executive officer on August 11, 2008.

Robert Harvey, Chairman of the AUL Board of Directors said, "Dr. Yoest's experience in pro-life issues, in political strategy, and in organizational communications make her the ideal person to lead the team at AUL in taking on challenges and capitalizing on opportunities in the present legal and political climate."

The U.S. Supreme Court's 2007 Gonzales decision upholding the Federal Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act marked the beginning of a new era in the battle over life issues. In short, the decision dramatically opened up new doors for protecting life through the law.

In striking contrast, the U.S. Congress and five states this year considered Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) legislation, which would wipe away virtually every law on abortion nationwide, allowing abortion-on-demand in all nine months of pregnancy for any reason, without any restrictions.

"It is a great honor to join AUL, an organization with a remarkable reputation for excellence and achievement," said Yoest. "AUL has been involved in every pro-life case before the U.S. Supreme Court since Roe v. Wade, and AUL-authored legislation is in place all around the country, saving lives every day."

Yoest added, "I look forward to exciting days ahead, building on this rich legacy and working to increase the legal protection of human lives."

Most recently, Yoest served as vice-president of communications at the Family Research Council, one of the largest pro-family public policy organizations in the country.

Her political experience spans working in the Reagan White House to serving as a Senior Advisor to the 2008 Huckabee for President Campaign.

A regular political commentator, Dr. Yoest has appeared on all of the major networks and cable outlets. In print, she is quoted regularly and has been published widely. She is also the author of Mother in the Middle (HarperCollins), an examination of work/family and childcare policy.

Yoest holds a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. She lives with her husband, Jack, and their five children in the Washington, D.C. area.

Dr. Yoest succeeds Clarke D. Forsythe, Esq., a 22-year AUL veteran who served as interim president and who will continue in senior leadership of the organization.

About Americans United for Life

Americans United for Life (AUL) is a nonprofit, public-interest law and policy organization whose vision is a nation in which every human being is welcomed in life and protected in law. The first national pro-life organization in America, AUL has been committed to defending human life through vigorous judicial, legislative, and educational efforts at both the federal and state levels since 1971. The Wall Street Journal has profiled AUL, and PBS's Frontline program chronicled AUL's successful efforts in Mississippi.

Website: http://www.AUL.org

Blog: http://Blog.AUL.org

Media Contact:

Matthew Eppinette

Matthew.Eppinette@AUL.org

312.568.4701

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Your Business Blogger(R) teaches business, marketing and management at the local college.

I like to remind students and clients that the hardest product to sell is an intangible, an idea. The easier product to pitch has tangible characteristics -- it has a form that can be introduced through the senses, a product that can be seen and touched.

One of the most interesting marketing campaigns of the century is the promotion of abortion as 'choice' and 'reproductive freedom.'

And for many, abortion has become a vote-changing issue during the current presidential campaign.

To learn more about this interesting abortion-vote market segment, I stepped out of the DC summer heat in Your Nation's Capital and sat in on an off-the-record meeting on abortion polling data for battle ground states.

The confidential numbers revealed that 57% of the public was self-identified as Pro-Life.

This raised two marketing questions:

1) Why is Obama still actively embracing an abortion position? And,

2) How did the country move from supporting abortion rights to Pro-Life?

I was curious about the Obama Abortion Marketing Machine. He is in favor of abortion and in denying medical treatment of some infants born alive. He aggressively supports the feminist's power position of control of a mother over her baby.

Power is an intangible and intangibles are normally a 'difficult sell' as we old sales guys are wont to say. It seems odd that any seller of public policy would take pride in working this hard.

But this intangible is what has sold in the past -- a woman's complete control over her body and absolute power over her destiny, even if this meant killing her unborn baby. Power sells and people will pay most anything to get it, use it and to project the appearance of power.

It was absolute power. And Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

But it was not Lord Acton's theorem that changed the mind of the American public. It was a picture. Or rather two pictures:

A) If a woman sees a picture, a sonogram of her baby, she will not have an abortion.

B) The Chicago hospital room where babies can be left to die.

Nurse Jill Stanek has the story and original reporting of the Chicago hospital's "Comfort Room" where babies born alive are left to die without medical intervention. She has more pictures.

Polite society might call this 'infanticide.' Calling the venue a "Comfort Room" is clever marketing. Like "Pro-Choice." A case study on word framing to sell. Brilliant.

But the new pictures are powerful images that can now sell the product: a child.

The tangible child is trumping the intangible power.

This provides a clear choice this presidential election between a women's power and a person's right to life.

McCain is Pro-Life.

Obama has a clear pro-abortion position: He would sign the Planned Parenthood backed Freedom of Choice Act which codifies Roe v Wade:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf0XIRZSTt8

Thank you (foot)notes:

Bill Bennett and Jill Stanek on Obama Abortion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPZCXcTwZPY&NR=1

Jack and Charmaine also blog at Reasoned Audacity. Your Business Blogger(R) of Management Training of DC, LLC, is a licensed agent for the William Oncken Corporation presenters of Managing Management Time(TM) fondly known as Monkey Management.

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"It is something you only want to do once," said Gary Bauer.

"What's that?" I ask. "Running for president?"

"No," he says. "Falling backwards off the platform."

Alert Readers will well remember Gary Bauer falling off the podium while flipping flapjacks on his run for president. It was funny and no one got hurt.

Except, maybe, his chances for president...

The Baby-Boo, the caboose on the Penta-Posse, made a similar slip and fell off the elevated platform at a press conference today.

Falling is something everyone has to do. Baby-Boo has got his 'falling' out of the way -- and is now ready to run without a slip for president.

Baby-Boo may not be 35 years old, but, then, he's not that much younger than Obama.

Gary Bauer still laughs about his tumble and the uncertainly all presidential campaigns generate on the trail. Gary is a class act. (Your Business Blogger(R) would still be mad and a-blaming someone...)

Watch Baby-Boo's fall and his quick recovery. Click here for the Family Research Council site and then click on Judy Bruns's talk.

Pictured behind Judy Brun is Baby-Boo, The Dude and The Diva.

Incidentally, Judy's speech is terrific on the meaning of words.

Following is The Diva's YouTube of her pro-life encounter with teachers at her school. See Pro-Life Student Forced to Remove Abortion T-Shirt.

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Charmaine is taping an interview for CNN American Morning on the Senator Barack Obama flirtation with Bible believing, Jesus loving, Evangelicals who hold for the Right to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.

Charmaine Yoest, Ph.D. is pictured at left during a taping of Ethics in America with Barney Frank(D).

Obama has a chance with some church goers. About 30% of self-identified Christians voted for Bill Clinton.

Obama believes reporter Michael Weisskopf who wrote that members of the Christian Right are, "largely poor, uneducated, and easy to command."

So while the poor impoverished are clinging to guns and religion, how would the elitist Obama lead the nation?

1) Bring legislation forcing citizens to embrace homosexual demands: Homosexual Marriage and the Homosexuals in the military.

2) Raise taxes.

3) Raise gas prices by punishing oil companies. He refuses to explore and drill for energy.

4) Demand that some babies born alive be left to die.

5) Force citizens how and what to think. Mark Steyn is being sued under hate-crimes law in Canada for his writing about Islam in America Alone, a must read. Barack X. Obama supports this mind-thought control through legislation.

The ObamaNation will force churches and the Boy Scouts to hire Homosexuals.

The ObamaNation will force government-controlled doctors on the country.

The ObamaNation will place women in land combat and in submarines.

The ObamaNation will take more of the citizen's money in taxes and fees.

The ObamaNation will force these government doctors to perform abortions.

The ObamaNation will force babies born during a botched abortion (re: live birth) to die.

The ObamaNation will continue the African-American genocide thru Planned Parenhood.

The clip will air next week. Hit times will be announced. Please let us know what you think. Comments are now open.

Thank you (foot)notes,

Obama may be a disciple of Jesus Christ, but he doesn't understand the Bible. And after attending Jeremiah Wright's church for 20 years, it figures. For example, the Old Testament dietary restrictions no longer apply. This is a "new" teaching in the New Testament that is different from the Old. Obama is going to be confused about these Old and New Testament issues:

Dietary restrictions.
Circumcision.
Animal sacrifice.

Homosexual abominations remain in effect.

Obama is fuzzy on his Biblical interpretations. And a bit confused on secular matters -- but he is consistent with the old-style liberal world view.

Your Business Blogger(R) looks forward to the continuing debate between Obama and Dr. Dobson of Focus on the Family.

Obama might come to Jesus yet...

Voters will not answer the ObamaNation altar call, Lord willing.

Click here for more on Ethics in America.

Larry Cirignano sends us this article by Bishop Harry Jackson on Planned Parenhood.

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Your Business Blogger(R) has a degree in Education and was pressured by the National Education Association (NEA) to join the union years ago.

"The NEA is great when you get sued," said the (very large) union rep.

I declined to teach and went into a less violent business: The Army.

The NEA is having their convention in Your Nation's Capital next week. On July 2nd Pro-Life Educators and Students (PLEAS) will be conducting a rally at the Washington Convention Center from 10:00am and 2:00pm.

This press conference would have my attention even if I didn't have 5 kids in the public schools or if Charmaine wasn't speaking.

If Charmaine is speaking, you'll want to listen. And this time we own the mic.

Charmaine is pictured above elbowing aside pro-abortion NOW President Kim Gandy at a open press conference in 2005. This is the only Women in Combat of which conservatives would approve.

PLEAS Coordinator Bob Pawson says, "Pro-Life teachers, school employees, parents, and students are invited to come pray and peacefully picket...Hillary Clinton and/or Barack Obama will surely address NEA's 9,000 Delegates, as they did last year."

Pro-Life teachers are concerned that their teacher union dues support and promote abortion and political candidates who tolerate the holocaust of the unborn.

Pawson explains, "Late-term abortionist George Tiller spoke at NEA headquarters for the [pro-abortion] Feminist Majority Foundation's Leadership Conference in March 2008." Watch the YouTube video here. Warning: graphic pictures of dead children.

No pro-life speakers or political candidates are supported by the NEA.

NEA union President, Reg Weaver is backing Obama; "every public school employee needs to get squarely behind the Obama candidacy."

The union tells us,

"The National Education Association supports...the right to reproductive freedom" -- the abortion code-words.

The "NEA supports the ...Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision which now permits abortion on demand through nine months of pregnancy. The NEA is silent on the Dred Scott decision which also codified the ownership of one human being by another. The Dred Scott slave owner is the Roe v Wade feminist.

UPDATE: Press Conference at the Family Research Council building at 9:30 to 10:15am, then on to the presser at the Convention Center at 10:30am.

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Charmaine on an earlier
CNN appearance Charmaine will be recording a taped interview to appear on CNN's Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer.

She will be discussing the recent court actions in California on homosexual marriage.

One of the questions these court rulings have is to remind us that we have allowed ourselves to be governed by judges. Five Guys now rule America: An oligarchy.

When Benjamin Franklin was asked what kind of government our infant nation had created for ourselves, he replied, "A republic, if you can keep it."

So what is the problem with homosexual marriage? Maggie Gallagher tells us that the homosexual activists are equating homosexual preferences with racial civil rights. Conservatives who disagree with homosexuals are called bigots and worse.

There is no free and open and honest debate with the members of the North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA). (Motto: Sex by 8 or it's too late.)

Just as racists these days cannot get, say, an FCC license, Gallagher says that the homosexuals will make it impossible for "homo-phobes" to be a part of the mainstream of society. "Gay Pride Parades" will be considered first normal then mandatory. And you better be there with your children, smiling. At all the nekked men.

John McCormack writes in The Weekly Standard, May 26, 2008,

...[T]wo Christian doctors [in California] are being sued for refusing to artificially inseminate a lesbian, and last summer four firefighters sued the city of San Diego on sexual harassment grounds after they were required to participate in a gay pride parade over their objections. How would California deal with doctors who refused to treat an African American? Revoke their licenses. How would San Diego treat firefighters who objected to marching in a Martin Luther King Jr. parade? Fire them.

Is this self-governance as envisioned by our Founding Fathers? Nope.

The homosexuals are on a marketing campaign using marriage and the military through the courts for acceptance.

Robert P. George, Ph.D. believes that we should have open vigorous debates on marriage, abortion, stem cells; the big moral issues of our day. George writes in First Things, January, 2008,

We will be advised to frame arguments in coded language so as not to scare off the soccer moms or whoever is playing their role in the next election cycle.

All of this must be resisted...

The question, then, is not whether there are truths about such things as the morality of abortion and the nature of marriage; the question in each case is, What is true?

The homosexual activists do not want truth or government by the citizens. Liberals and the homosexuals in the Obama-Nation are happy with the dictatorship of the courts.

Most people want the self governance of a constitutionally-limited republic -- protected by good Republicans...

CNN is attempting to open up the conversation on homosexual marriage. We are anxious to see how they edit the tape.

Hit time for Charmaine is between 4 and 6pm today. Tune in and let us know what you think.

Thank you (foot)notes:

Dr. George teaches at Princeton University and sits on a number of boards, including the Family Research Council and Americans United for Life.

Your Business Blogger(R) also blogs at Management Training of DC, LLC.

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Charmaine will be in New Hampshire tomorrow, Friday the 6th to give a talk to strengthen the conservative, pro-life movement.

See the Family Forum Flyer,

Learn how to recapture Traditional American

FRIDAY, JUNE 6 – 9AM-3PM*
WHAT: A grassroots training seminar designed to educate and equip citizens to promote traditional family values in your community. Learn practical how-tos for effective communication and creating and managing your message to be persuasive in the public debate!
WHERE: Thomas More College
Merrimack, NH

Charmaine will be speaking on the power of words to frame a debate. She noticed that Your Business Blogger(R) has a line drawing of the HMS Victory over his desk; a profile of the body of the ship that Lord Nelson made famous in the sea battle at Trafalgar against the French; against Napoleon. The English won, as usual.

VICTORY. There is no ship in the Royal Navy named "Success." And this is where President Bush gets the Global War on Terror wrong: Men don't die in combat for "Success in Iraq." They will sacrifice and die for "Victory."

We don't have "Success in Jesus." We have Victory.

The wordsmith knows the difference. (And the Christian...)

Charmaine will also speak on Bimbos. If you are anywhere in the Northeast, go visit and sey hey to Charmaine.

"Bimbos" as we are using it, is the intellectual property of Merrie Spaeth. Another brilliant women who knows the power of words. And like Charmaine, she worked for Ronald Reagan, of course.

Spaeth reminds professionals and public speakers to always recite the positive and to never repeat the negative accusation -- usually advanced by a commie reporter. Public affairs should only be handled by professionals.

When I say 'public affairs' I am not speaking of Bill Clinton's weaknesses...

See Indra Nooyi: $5 Million Gets You Bimbos . . . and Boycotts. . .

Most Americans think the country is on the wrong track. Representatives like Heather Wilson may have been a part of the deterioration of the GOP branding and why citizens are dismayed: Republicans are not behaving like Conservatives. Wilson she wanted women in combat. She advanced abortion. This is not a conservative. Wilson just lost her primary race. Thank goodness.

Watch Charmaine's debate with Heather Wilson(R) from New Mexico a few years ago on women in combat. Ignore the Army women exposing their breasts.

More at the jump.

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In Remembrance of
those in the
Submarine Service 40 Years ago the USS Scorpion was due in Norfolk, VA. She never returned.

She is, as the veterans say, on Eternal Patrol.

John Howland at USNA-AT-LARGE has set up a group for the boat,

Dedicated to and in honor of the 99 U.S. Navy submariners who perished in the loss of SCORPION in May 1968. The 40th Anniversary of that tragedy ...[is] (May 2008), yet the cause(s) of the loss remain a complete mystery.

USS Scorpion
40 Years on Eternal Patrol

This lack of clarity and closure has created a void into which charlatans now have full play in creating bogus theories for profit.

This unsatisfactory situation may result in the SCORPION 99 going into history forever at the mercy of the unscrupulous.

The solution that this group will work toward will be to encourage the U.S. Navy to, at the very least, put to rest the loss scenarios which have MINIMAL TO NO PROBABILITY of having actually occurred.

Your Business Blogger(R) wrote an article for National Review Online about those left behind from the loss of the USS Scorpion.

Five Days in May: The loss of the USS Scorpion.

By Jack Yoest

Yolanda Mazzuchi was about the prettiest girl in our school class. Our dads were in the Navy, often gone for months at a time. And they would be welcomed home at dockside with cheers and homemade signs. These gatherings at the D&S Piers at the Naval Base in Norfolk, Virginia, were a regular part of our lives growing up. Families often took children out of school to celebrate a ship’s homecoming.

At 1 in the afternoon on Monday, May 27, 1968, at the height of the Cold War the USS Scorpion was due in port.

Yolanda didn’t know it then, but her dad was already dead....

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Thank you (foot)notes:

More from BubbleHead.

And read about the Loss of the Bonefish.

Your Business Blogger(R) of Management Training of DC, LLC, is a licensed agent for the William Oncken Corporation, presenters of Managing Management Time(TM) fondly known as Monkey Management.

Remember Me at the jump.

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Your Business Blogger(R) just received an email from Alert Reader Janice who tells us about Hillary's presence at the State Street United Methodist Church in Bowling Green, KY,

I just received an email letting me know that, yes indeed, the Paul Fryman who was our former student at Asbury was the pastor who preached at State Street UMC in Bowling Green, KY this past Sunday when Hillary was there. He has been the subject of abuse because his sermon was on adultery. He has received hate mail and all sorts of attacks – including accusations of being a pedophile and needing therapy, etc. He has chosen (wisely) not to react or respond at all. Paul is a humble, guileless servant of Christ.

The service and Paul have been distorted unbelievably.

Here are some facts, in case someone asks you:

· Hillary's people called Paul and told him she would be in his church, it was not a request.

· He told her people that they were in a series of sermons and that the morning sermon would be on adultery from the Sermon on The Mount, making sure she knew what she would hear, the bulletins were already printed.

· Paul’s sermon was 12 minutes (not the hour-long that was in the press – that was the length of the whole service)

· Paul acknowledged the presidential candidate’s presence in the service (some reports said that she was ignored and unwelcomed).

· Reporters sat in the service with their laptops – did not participate in the service respectfully.

· His sermon will be put online as soon as possible so that people can judge for themselves. [he called for members of the congregation to make a new commitment to their own marriages and to be aware of the temptations that they face – it was not an attack against Hillary

Thank you (foot)notes:

Alert Reader Janice is a former Board Member of Asbury College and, with her husband were professors at the Methodist institution of higher learning.

See, While Campaigning in Kentucky Hillary Clinton Hears Sermon On Infidelity.

Read where CNN gets it wrong. This is not news.

But what is news is that CNN can't spell. Nancy writes into CNN,

May 18th, 2008 5:15 pm ET

Just a note - please check the spelling on the word "alter," which I belive [sic] should be "altar". Or at least that's how it's spelled at my church. See, all democrats are not Godless heathens.

Nancy must be pro-life...

CORRECTION: Janice Crouse, Ph.D., is a current member of the Board of Directors for Asbury College in Wilmore, Ky.

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WARNING: Bad Language Links.

Charmaine on an earlier
appearance on C-SPAN

Charmaine returns to Neil Cavuto to discuss an on-air(head) talent dropping the F-Bomb on an open mike.

The Sue-Simmons-talking-head said one word too many. And the station did NOT fire her.

She though the mike was off...

Hit time is today, Wednesday at 4:40pm eastern on FOX, of course.

Sue Simmons
berates a staffer
Watch Simmons out of control here.

She apologized for saying "A word many people find offensive..."

That would be normal people.

Sue Simmons is not normal, of course.

The word does not bother her or her liberal friends on NBC --

Coarsening the culture.

Fortunately, nobody watches NBC anymore.

Please tune in and let us know what you think. Comments are down, so please email me.

UPDATE: School Officials direct student (our Diva!) to remove Pro-Life T-shirt. DEVELOPING...



The Penta-Posse L to R: Baby-Boo, The Dancer,
The Diva, The Dude, The Dreamer
The Roe Effect Today is the Sixth Annual National Pro-Life T-Shirt Day.

The bright blue t-shirt shows a baby growing and growing then black -- nothing. So simple even school age children understand what abortion does.

So compelling that even the teen-aged Dreamer donned the shirt.

Our five wee-ones will be wearing the garment-billboard today at school and around town.

Here comes trouble.

Our public school system is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Democratic party, Planned Parenthood and the teachers' union.

(The only debate allowed is who would be better for the country, Obama or Hillary. And how awful Ronald Reagan governed and when global warming will kill us all. War is not the answer, etc and etc...)

National Pro-Life T-Shirt Day So our city is our mission field.

The schools will not be happy to see Pro-Life T-Shirts. We will be setting up a legal defense fund when the sheriff comes a-calling. Details to follow.

The American Life League sponsors the annual trouble-making event. The legal eagles at the ALL non-profit have provided a helpful handout for the students if they are confronted with the intolerant abortion lovers.

Free Speech in the public schools? We'll see.

Growing, Growing...Gone Pro-Lifers are the new Progressives.

Thank you (foot)notes:

UPDATE: It took 8 minutes before one of the Penta-Posse principals called -- comparing abortion to the disruption of "liquor, cigarettes or guns..." The school is really unhappy with the Pro-Life T-shirt. Your Business Blogger(R) was most polite. DEVELOPING...

UPDATE: The school leadership has made The Diva turn her shirt inside out -- Charmaine found out and lost her sense of humor -- the t-shirt is right side out, we think. A school official asks The Diva, "What will you say when the kindergarteners ask about your t-shirt?" The Diva doesn't miss a beat, "That doctors kill babies..."

The Diva hits the mark.

From the American Life League,

Harassment

The Diva protesting at the Afghan Embassy, 2006
She is no stranger to controversyIf you are a student at a public school, you have a right to wear a pro-life shirt to school. Our experience is that most young people who wear a pro-life shirt to school on National Pro-life T-shirt day do not have any problems. Occasionally a misguided school official may ask you to remove the shirt. This is a violation of your rights.

Read more at the jump from the good-guys at the ALL.

The Diva making phone calls for Mike
at the Huckabee for President headquarters in Des Moines, Iowa
Video Credit: The Dreamer

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Watch Kristi Burton, founder Colorado for Equal Rights
She is The Roe Effect. She is the future. She is the Change.

Thank you (foot)notes:

The Roe Effect on Wikipedia,

The Roe effect is a hypothesis about the long-term effect of abortion on the political balance of the United States, which suggests that since supporters of abortion rights cause the erosion of their own political base, the practice of abortion will eventually lead to the restriction or illegalization of abortion.

James Taranto, from The Wall Street Journal, says,

[o]ur theory is that abortion is making America more conservative than it otherwise would be.

We base this on two assumptions. First, that liberal and Democratic women are more likely to have abortions. Second, that children's political views tend to reflect those of their parents--not exactly, of course, and not in every case, but on average. Thus abortion depletes the next generation of liberals and eventually makes the population more conservative. We call this the Roe effect, after Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court's 1973 decision that established a constitutional right to abortion.

An Alert Reader sends an old Paul Greenberg column; at the jump.

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Charmaine and Your Business Blogger(R) will be attending MRC's Gala tonight with some 3,000 of our closest friends in Washington, DC.




Brent Bozell L. Brent Bozell III and the Board of Directors [presents]
Media Research Center’s
2008 Gala
The DisHonors Awards
Roasting the Most Outrageously
Biased Liberal Reporting of the Year

Master of Ceremonies
Cal Thomas
Presenters
Ann Coulter, Larry Kudlow, and Mark Levin

William F. Buckley Jr. Award for Media Excellence
Honoree: Tony Snow
A Special Tribute

Thank you (foot)notes:

Full Disclosure: Your Business Blogger(R) is a freelance journalist for the Business & Media Institute, a division of MRC.

See last year's Big Winner.

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Our liberal friends at PBS have put together a program on the Navy.

Remember, any time 'Hollywood' gets near the military, the result always degenerates to an anti-war film.

USS Nimitz From: Chief of Naval Operations...

Beginning Sunday, April 27, PBS will air a reality-TV documentary
entitled "CARRIER", filmed while the production company was embarked
during the entire USS NIMITZ's 2005 deployment. The program will air
over five nights from Sunday, April 27, to Thursday, May 1, 2008,
9:00-11:00 p.m. ET.

Ten hours of film will be aired, selected from almost 2,000 hours that
were shot over the course of a 6-month deployment to CENTCOM. I have
viewed the production and want to share context and some thoughts
with you.

While "Carrier" shows the outstanding work our young Sailors do every
day and the opportunities the Navy offers, it also shows Sailors
making mistakes in their personal and professional lives. The
snapshot is frank and may be somewhat disconcerting to some who came
into the Navy some time ago. However, that said, I believe it will
also resonate with a significant segment of our country, especially
potential recruits and young Sailors serving today.

1) What we did. We provided unprecedented access to our Sailors,
and this production tells their story in a very personal way. There
is no narrator -- the stories are told by the Sailors themselves.
You get unvarnished views from junior personnel about their hopes,
aspirations, and challenges of life in the Navy aboard the carrier.
We did not get between the film crews and the Sailors.

2) What we got. The production highlights the racial, gender,
religious, and socio-economic diversity of our Navy. The hard work
our Sailors perform and the remarkable feat of forging thousands of
individuals on a carrier into a truly unique team really shines
through. Culling through hundreds of hours of video, the producers
created a 10-hour reality-TV documentary that shows selected aspects
of our Sailors' personal and professional challenges. The
cinematography is very high quality and the visuals and music are
sure to appeal to younger audiences.

3) What we did not get. We did not get a Navy "commercial" in the
traditional sense. "CARRIER" is very different from the hardware
documentaries we have supported in the past. This program focuses on
our people and the reality-TV approach gives it a sense of
authenticity and credibility. Since we did not monitor the
individual interviews and ongoing production, the program contains
material that does not always and fully represent the discipline,
values and mission of the U.S. Navy.

You will see some Sailors making personal and professional mistakes,
and expressing opinions that are different from the Navy's. However,
the production shows that these are the exception, not the norm, and
that leadership is engaged to shape lives and appropriate outcomes.
There are abundant examples of how the Navy changed Sailors' lives
for the better by giving them opportunities and a disciplined
environment.

4) Why did we agree to the project? This production, although not an
all-inclusive picture of the Navy, will give potential recruits and
those who influence them a glimpse of what life is really like in the
Navy. We want the American people to know, understand and appreciate
the contribution our Sailors make each and every day while deployed
around the world. We also want them to know us, not as a monolithic
bureaucratic entity, but as a diverse organization of individual
Americans who have set aside the comforts of home and have put
themselves on the line to serve a greater cause. You already know
how inspiring our people are, but few in our Nation get to see our
people in an operational environment.

Some of you may be called upon to offer public comments about this
film to the media or to community groups. We will soon distribute PA
guidance to support your efforts and will be putting additional
information on www.navy.mil in the near future. If you need any
additional information, please contact CHINFO, RDML Frank Thorp.

Thank you for all that you do.

All the best,

Gary Roughead

Thank you (foot)notes:

Thank you to John Howland at USNA-AT-LARGE for sending this out.

See more pictures.

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Mark Siljander and
Your Business Blogger(R) And I'm not alone.

"You know about that cliche: Want a friend in Washington, DC, get a dog?" Mark asks me.

"Yep, Truman, I think..."

"Not true," says Mark, laughing.

"Johnson?"

"No, no, the cliche is wrong." He's upbeat. A former public servant, currently indicted, unworried, unhurried.

Another congressman, Asa Hutchinson emailed us, "I consider myself an informal advisor and friend" of Siljander.

He still has friends. In this town! Alert the media...

Well, maybe not that.

Mark has been unjustly targeted and will be cleared. But this is when -- with most indicted congressmen -- friends who were actually "friends" and don't recall knowing le accuséd.

This is a case study on having friends. (Mark does have the added benefit of being innocent...)

"No one has left me," says Mark. "Except the media, thank goodness."

The helicopters, the satellite dishes, the circus have stopped blocking his drive way.

His friends stayed with Mark. Clients, however, have become a bit skittish. It is business, you see.

So his business has stopped, the bills have not. And the kids refuse to stop eating.

So what has caused all the ruckus? The government is confused over the source of funding for Mark's research. (Yes, yes, confused government is redundant.) Alert Readers can read the product of the work.

Get Mark's new book is A Deadly Misunderstanding, published by HarperCollins.

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A Deadly Misunderstanding
by Mark D. Siljander
Buy the book,
I did. His 13 trips to Sudan in 2007 seem to have raised some concern. And Mark speaks lotsa languages.

This is getting Siljander in trouble. Perhaps he should have traveled with Louis Farrakhan. And worshiped with Jeremiah Wright.

But instead of running for President, Mark Siljander was teaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ attempting to bridge cultures.

And is paying for it dearly.

But Mark is taking this well and is not whining about the injustice --

(Nobody likes a martyr: that's why they killed so many of them...)

Alert Readers will recall that Congressman Siljander was the author of the Siljander Amendment to HR5490[5], which says simply that life begins at conception and would be under protection of the 14th Amendment.

Al Gore voted for it.

Mark has spent his life working on the issues that conservative, pro-life, God-fearing citizens care about.

He needs your help today.

Friends have set up a defense fund to help cover his legal costs. Please buy his book and contribute to his defense.

Please send contributions payable to:

"Greenberg Traurig, PC",

put on memo "Siljander Trust" and mail to:

The Honorable Edwin Meese
c/o Mr. Joe Reeder
Greenberg Traurig, PC
2101 L Street, NW
Suite 1000
Washington, DC 20037

Donate to this hard working friend. One never knows where random injustice will strike again.

Thank you (foot)notes:

Debbie Shlussel wonders, What Happened to My Former Boss Mark Siljander?

See A Deadly Misunderstanding.

From NRLC,

On June 26, 1984, the U.S. House of Representatives was considering the Civil Rights Act of 1984, a bill to expand the reach of key provisions of four previously enacted federal civil rights laws, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Pro-life Congressman Mark Siljander (R-Mi.) offered a one-sentence amendment to revise the bill's definition of the key term "person."

The Siljander Amendment read, in its entirety, "For the purposes of this Act, the term 'person' shall include unborn children from the moment of conception."

The House conducted a straight up-and-down vote on the Siljander Amendment which failed, 186-219.

Mark Siljander is a car-guy. Elected to congress at 29, he tooled around town in DeLorean. (Jalopnik reports a comeback in 2008.) One of his projects was a frame-off restoration of a Hurst Olds 442.

Mark's wife sent us an email. Excerpts at the jump.

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It is an unwritten rule that media outlets, friendly or not, will use the most unflattering picture-portrait in the universe.
Note UPDATE at end.
If an editor must choose between the subject in, say, post-marathon svelve-ness -- or a picture after an all-nighter finishing a tedious chapter on statistics after two years of desertion writing.

And after having that baby...

The editor will, of course, pick the poorest. This is editorial bias.

So if an editor can choose between this,



Charmaine Yoest, Ph.D. or this.

The Alert Reader knows which way the call is going to go.

Charmaine is less bothered by this than Your Business Blogger.

Thank you (foot)notes:

Dan Gigoff writes,

Yoest returned to FRC last month, when Huckabee’s cash flow got too tight, but she had this interesting insight in what keeps Huckabee going in the face of very long odds:

"It fits with a worldview that sees life as being dependent on God’s will... and a Christian following God’s will means taking the next step that’s in front of you.

That’s where I think he’s coming from to a large degree.

It’s entirely consistent to say, “I’m going to play that out—it’s not over till it’s over.”

...There’s a route to a brokered convention. It may not be pretty, but it’s possible."

Update/Correction: Dan Gilgoff, the Politics Editor at Beliefnet, Inc. substituted a newer picture as requested. He was very gracious. Alert the Media.

Beliefnet, Inc tag line: Inspiration. Spirituality. Faith. Award-Winning Content. - Winner, 2007 National Magazine, Award for General Excellence Online. Largest Spirituality & Inspiration Website with 3.2MM site visitors and 11.0 MM newsletter subscribers.

DoS problems persist -- email comments here.

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Official
CPAC
Blogger
Here in Your Nation's Capital, at CPAC this week conversation has centered on our Presidential candidates -- and the acceptability of their positions.

Mike Huckabee and John McCain are said to be imperfect candidates because there are some disputes with one position or another.

But if they are "not conservatives" as some would say, then why are conservatives voting for them? And not a Romney or a Thompson?

Back in Iowa, Your Business Blogger asked Frank Luntz about his book on Words That Work, and what he thought was going on with the electorate.

He said that voters seem to be interested, "less in issues -- but in the attributes of the candidates -- are they believable?" Are they likable?

This seems to at least partially explain the success of Huckabee and McCain -- there may not be perfection on issues, but people like and trust and believe these candidates: the attributes of the candidates are more important; in some ways even more than the positions on issues.

This also explains the success of Obama. Who has a rather thin record of achievement . . . but has an infatuated following. No one can point to what Obama has done, but he's done it with panache.

Little Miss Attila, Charmaine and
Baby Boo at CPAC

Thank you (foot)notes:

Charmaine has served as an adviser to the Mike Huckabee campaign. Huckabee will be speaking at CPAC tomorrow, Saturday, at 9am. Be there!

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Alert Readers know that the best indicator of future performance is...past performance.

Is it possible to change at the age of 60? Your Business Blogger would hope that we all would embrace continuous learning and update our skills. And to embrace truth. At whatever age.

But.

How many convictions can one man change -- all at once -- all at a mature age?

Change on Reagan?
Change on abortion?
Change on guns?
Change on homosexuals in the boyscouts?

And each of the changes of heart happens to coincide with position of the Republican conservative base?

This does not seem, as we say in academia, to be authentic.

Watch the clip: Huckabee suggests that Romney found conservative puberty at 60.

Voters should be slow to completely trust any teenager...

Thank you (foot)notes:

Full Disclosure: The wife of Your Business Blogger, Charmaine, has been a paid senior adviser to the Huckabee presidential campaign.

Correction: It is not known if Romney has changed his position on allowing homosexual Boy Scout Masters.

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Charmaine in the arena Tim Russert walked in smiling and shook a few hands. He was traveling alone. (No Security!) This was the presser not to be passed up.

135 members of the press showed up at the Marriott in downtown Des Moines for the Huckabee press conference. Beginning at noon, there was news to be made and reported and editorialized. (Sometimes hard to tell the difference. MSM sometimes read like a blog.) (Not that there's anything wrong with that...)

It was New Year's Eve and there was celebration in the air. Huckabee was going to come out swinging. He was going negative. There was gonna be a fight. Politics as bloodsport. Fight! Fight!

There comes a time that campaigns must go negative. Bad form, bad feelings -- but negative sells.

Huckabee flew down from Des Moines to Little Rock and taped three ads on Sunday the 30th. Two were the good positive pieces. One was 'going negative.'

The fastest, easiest tactic to get a few polling points is to get nasty...or so the political scientists would lecture. A typical politician can win big by going small.

Charmaine and her (modest) team were up past midnight getting the posters, the banner, the handouts, the fact sheets, the power point powered up. The ad was produced and loaded on the projector.

But Mike Huckabee changed his mind. He wanted a clean campaign.

He pulled the ad from the TV outlets.

Thank you (foot)notes:

There was no 'floating cross' super brilliant move, or "triple bank shot," as one reporter suggested, when the audio didn't work right at the press conference. The press conjecture was of the planning and foresight and manipulation and maneuvering of the audio problem. There was a story in there somewhere.

The truth was simpler, as Occam's Razor would remind us.

The ad was tested some four times through the complex cabling to service the dozen news cameras placed on line.

But more cameras and press kept a-coming and a second 'mult box' was set up to accommodate the added hardware -- the box was added seconds before Huckabee took the stage.

But the additional box was not tested with the current configuration. And the demon-gremlins worked their evil.

And the evil tried. But good prevailed. The skeptical press later suggested, off the record, that the not-going-negative campaign just might work.

And make political history.

With Reagan's 11th commandment.

See massachusettsforhuckabee

Too Conservative

See more Huckabee video at huckabee08

Good research at The Huck Report.

ElephantBiz gets it right.

Happy New Year!

Full Disclosure: Charmaine is the wife of Your Business Blogger

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What is the one thing that Presidential Campaigns have in common with military campaigns?

Nobody sleeps.

Not even Fred Thompson, truth be told.

Last week Your Business Blogger was curious about Iowa in the winter. We had been in the state in the summer when the temperature hit 100 degrees. Now the temperature is in single digits. A top coat in Washington, DC is a fashion statement.

In Iowa in Winter coats are survival equipment.

So we load up the Penta-Posse in the monster SUV at O:Dark-thirty for the drive from Little Rock to Des Moines.

Coats alone take up half the truck. (We hope to do some skiing.) Before we depart, I yell out for a Kid Count. The responses are muffled from the kids under coats.

We stop at MacDonald's to get super-sized with biscuits, coffee, bacon, eggs, cheese, sausage and hash browns in Fayetteville, Arkansas. We consumed breakfast on the road after the meal consumed a week's pay. I'm considering direct deposit. Or maybe get a job at Hamburger University near Chicago.

It was a long drive. Alert Readers will note that there is no direct Inter-State highway connection between the two state capitals. Governor Huckabee was criticized for his road building initiatives, but we did drive on improved hard surface roads. Thank goodness. Publicly-funded public works at their best.

Full Disclosure: Charmaine, the wife of my life is advising the Huckabee bid with campaign veterans Chip Saltsman and Ed Rollins.

Charmaine was doing a bit of flying but decided to ride to spend quality and quantity time with the wee-ones before the Iowa Caucus. She also wanted to get some work done on the trip up, perhaps.

But she got distracted in the middle of a press release composition, where Your Business Blogger almost lost his composure.

The Darling Baby Boo got ill and lost more than his composure.

In the working of governments there is accepted practice of keeping the drafts of proposals and ideas and the log-rolling-record of the bargaining to get deals done, off the public record. At the state level, these trial balloons are called the "Governor's Working Papers." All political parties respect the practice. The papers are confidential.

The papers reflect the "Sausage Making" as Bismark said.

But I'm not sure it was not only the making of law he was referring to.

When the Baby Boo got sick, he threw up his sausage all over the governor's briefing papers.

I don't think this is what Bismark was talking about.

Thank you (foot)notes:

Huckabee will be conducting a press conference at high noon today. Must view.

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"Give me lucky generals," Napoleon.

The Mike Huckabee Christmas video is getting praised/condemned as a political ad. Many pundits are calling the ad the product of (a nearly evil) genius. Alert Readers will see a 'floating cross' moving behind Huckabee.

Your Business Blogger was curious about the video clip so I loaded up the Penta-Posse in our giant SUV and headed to Little Rock for a look-see.

I sat down for lunch with Chip Saltsman, Mike Huckabee's campaign manager. I ask about the technical aspects of the cross placement in the ad. "How did you do it?"

"I didn't," says Chip. He is amazed at the end result, but honestly didn't know how the barren bookshelves morphed into a cross on camera. He is believable. It would be simple to accept credit for the perfect pitch.

Chip continued, "A cross in the background? I didn't have time to plan that. Wish I did..."

So Huckabee's campaign general gets credit for the comforting Christmas message with just the right touch with the right symbolism.

Chip is a lucky man.

Chip Saltsman

Thank you (foot)notes:

For the record, Your Business Blogger thinks the 'cross' is a large 'plus' sign. And a terrific addition to the campaign.

Even Peggy Noonan missed the story.

Story of the week.

And be sure to visit Mike Huckabee President 2008.

The Christmas message:

As usual TownHall gets it right.

Full Disclosure: Charmaine is on paid staff for Huckabee for President.

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I Like Mike When The New York Times Attacks.

Charmaine kept saying that the so called "media tail-wind" behind Huckabee would end -- not when he climbed in the polls -- but when the Main Stream Media thought Huckabee might beat Hillary Clinton.

Drudge Report headliner reads: DEMS HOLD FIRE ON HUCKABEE; SEE 'EASY KILL' IN GENERAL ELECTION.

But. When the time came if the MSM thought Hillary might loose, then they would be on to the rescue.

Like the Reagan poster says in Charmaine's office, "The Time Is Now." (As usual, Charmaine got it right.)

The New York Times is coming out Sunday with a not unexpected article, with the predicted, expected bias against Huckabee. As the Alert Reader will surmise, The NYT will not make a move that does not benefit Hillary. Or indeed, without her approval.

So Huckabee is ahead. And Times is behind Hillary.

From the MIke Huckabee for President website,

News Release: Huckabee Campaign Responds to AP/New York Times Report December 11, 2007 LITTLE ROCK, AR – A report released tonight cites an upcoming article in the Sunday edition of The New York Times Magazine which quotes former Arkansas Governor and Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee asking a question about the content of the Mormon faith. In fact, the full context of the exchange makes it clear that Governor Huckabee was illustrating his unwillingness to answer questions about Mormonism and to avoid addressing theological questions during this campaign.

And here is the response from the Huckabee campaign,

“Governor Huckabee has said consistently that he believes this campaign should center on a discussion of the important issues confronting our nation,” said Senior Advisor, Dr. Charmaine Yoest, “and not focus on questions of religious belief. He wants to assure persons of all faith traditions of his firm commitment to religious tolerance and freedom of worship. Governor Huckabee believes that one of the great strengths of our nation lies in its diversity of thought, opinion and faith.”

The Alert Reader will remember that Huckabee, governor from Arkansas, knows how to beat the Hillary political machine. He is the only contender who can beat her operation, because he has beaten it in the past.

Thank you (foot)notes:

From CBS News, Suddenly A Contender, Huckabee Scrambles
Despite Shooting To The Top Of The Polls, GOP Hopeful Is Still Running Like A Long Shot

Charmaine is on the campaign trail in Iowa today for the NPR GOP debate. Unfortunately, it will not be broadcasted nationally. More later.

Please let us have your questions and ideas.

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Mike Huckabee for President
Faith Family Freedom Alert Reader Patti Brown, a grad student from Greenlee School of Journalism at Iowa State University is now the one of the foremost experts on a marketing niche of political campaign advertising: Bumper Stickers.

This is the stuff of academic-Ph.D dissertations: knowing more and more about less and less.

Except that Mrs. Brown is not (currently) working on a terminal degree.

So Your Business Blogger was interested in why she would devote so much valuable grad-student time on her blog about bumper stickers.

"What is your motivation?" I asked Patti Brown.

She emailed me back,

Part of my interest in studying the bumper sticker came about when my "Women deserve better than abortion" bumper sticker was removed from my car on campus. So much for the great spirit of tolerance practiced at American universities today.

Her experience is consistence with the theme of the movie on higher education, IndoctrinateU. Educational Intolerance.

Patti Brown was interested in a source citation for my claim that a bumper sticker is worth a $250 in-kind contribution to a political campaign.

Thank you (foot)notes:

See Patti Brown's blog, Driving Political Opinion, Presidential Campaign Bumper Stickers.

More on Patti Brown's blogging notoriety at the jump.

Full Dislosure: Your Business Blogger is an Adjunct Professor of Management at the Northern Virginia Community College. Where real diversity of thought is welcomed.

Huckabee bumper sticker courtesy of Alamo City Cards,

Howdy from south Texas. Alamo City Cards doesn't have a flashy website with the lowest prices or biggest gimmicks, but we will ship your cards faster than our rivals and at a fair price. We ship all orders in 24 hours or less! Give Alamo City Cards a try, and you'll be glad you did. Military active duty members, veterans and families, don't miss our shopping discount codes for 20% off available at www.military.com and www.militaryspot.com in the discount sections. No benefits for us, just savings for those who help keep us free.

Alamo City Cards is one of the good-guys. Give him a link and he'll give you a Huckabee bumper sticker.

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News Release: Mike Huckabee Brings on Dr. Charmaine Yoest as Senior Advisor

December 05, 2007

Little Rock, AR – Former Arkansas Governor and Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee announced today the addition of noted political analyst Dr. Charmaine Yoest as a Senior Advisor in policy and communications to his presidential campaign.

"I am pleased to welcome Dr. Yoest to our team," said Governor Huckabee. "She brings with her an in-depth knowledge of the issues and policy expertise, as well as over two decades of experience in the conservative movement. Her addition represents increased strength both substantively and organizationally. She joins us at an important juncture as we are working to communicate our policy agenda for the future."

Dr. Yoest’s involvement in the conservative movement began when she worked in the Reagan White House. She is now an author, political analyst and commentator and holds a Ph.D. in American Government from the University of Virginia.

“This election represents a pivotal moment for our country,” said Yoest. “We need principled and courageous leadership to confront the challenges in front of us. Governor Huckabee has a refreshing and deeply held belief in the strengths of our country, and an optimistic vision for how to address our difficulties. I am so pleased to have an opportunity to work actively on behalf of a consistent, authentic conservative who has proven himself to be committed to promoting and protecting faith, family and freedom.”

Dr. Yoest is on leave of absence from her position as Vice President of Communications at the Family Research Council. (Noted for identification purposes only.)

Press Release on Huckabee website.

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The Washington Briefing hosted by the Family Research Council in Your Nation's Capital this weekend was a success.

Over 400 people were issued media credentials. The media hits are still being counted. The FRC straw poll was mentioned a half-dozen times on the FOX debate last night.

This just in from FRC,

...the Briefing was covered by well over 400 members of the media, including 31 bloggers. C-Span broadcast the event live gavel-to-gavel and camera crews from all five networks and countries including Norway, Italy, Germany, Japan, Canada, and the Netherlands were present. The Briefing ended up with over 1200 media "hits" -- 1000 stories in print, as well as 235 in television coverage.

Thank you (foot)notes:

Be sure to read Management of New Media: 4 Lessons From The Washington Briefing by Your Business Blogger

Also see evangelical outpost: Reflections on culture, politics, and religion from an evangelical worldview.

And visit: Dr. Charmaine Yoest

And another view at Another monkey put in charge of the zoo

Family Research Council: General Schedule

More at the jump.

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Charmaine at the podium
addressing last year's
crowd of 1,700 The Family Research Council is having their annual Briefing in Your Nation's Capital.

This year will be interesting. All GOP presidential candidates will speak. Sen. Sam Brownback, Rudy Giuliani, Rep. Ron Paul, Gov. Mike Huckabee, Rep. Duncan Hunter, Sen. John McCain, Gov. Mitt Romney, Rep. Tom Tancredo, Fred Thompson.

No Democratic candidate has accepted.

Liberals: won't fight; won't debate.

From FRCAction,

The Washington Briefing 2007: Values Voter Summit is cosponsored by American Values, Focus on the Family Action, Alliance Defense Fund and High Impact Leadership Coalition.

The Briefing will be held October 19-21 at the Hilton Washington Hotel in Washington, D.C. A presidential straw poll, exhibit hall, radio row, book signings, bloggers' row, and much more will be packed into this three-day conference. Saturday evening Dr. James Dobson will be honored at a gala dinner where he will receive FRC's inaugural Vision and Leadership Award.

Members of the media must register for FRC media credentials prior to the event.

Contact J.P. Duffy at jpd@frc.org or fax, names, numbers and e-mails on company letterhead to 202.393.2134.

For more information regarding the log onto www.frcactionwashingtonbriefing.org or call the FRC Press Office at (866) FRC-NEWS.

More from FRC Action, the C(4)

In addition to the GOP presidential candidates, the speaker line-up includes Sean Hannity, Newt Gingrich, Chuck Colson, Gary Bauer, Bishop Harry Jackson, Alan Sears, Mark Levin, Roger Hedgecock, Rich Lowry, Paul Weyrich, Dr. Richard Land, John Fund, Ed Meese, Ben Stein, Rabbi Daniel Lapin, Representatives Marsha Blackburn and Jean Schmidt, Star Parker, Phyllis Schlafly, Senator Rick Santorum, Michael Steele, Father Frank Pavone, Bill Bennett, and Judge Robert Bork.

Charmaine, as Vice President for Communications for FRC will be working The Political Blogosphere with Soren Dayton, Political Consultant; David All, The David All Group; Matthew Eppinette, Americans United for Life; Erick Erickson, RedState; Joe Carter, Director of Web Communications for FRC

Thank you (foot)notes:

From last year: The Real Story: The Values Voter Summit in Washington, DC

The Family Research Council, FRC Action Briefing: Family, Faith and Freedom

FRC Action Briefing September 2006

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This post is under the category of war. Here is a review of Reasoned Audacity's 9.11 posts over the years.

Following is background from Your Business Blogger in an article published just after 9.11. Things have changed since then. A little.

Booby traps at the Pentagon: Charmaine and Jack Yoest introduce you to the Pentagon's babes in arms. What do they want? An "open dialogue" on breastfeeding. (Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services)

Originally published in The Women's Quarterly; January 01, 2002;


Pentagon attack
ON SEPTEMBER 10TH, [2001] the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services, the group most responsible for promoting women in combat, gathered in Pentagon Conference Room 5C1042. This civilian advisory committee, whose members have the protocol status of three-star generals, monitors the concerns of women in uniform. And what was the topic on the eve of the worst attack in U.S. history?

After briefings from representatives of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Coast Guard, DACOWITS, as the committee is known, issued a formal request for more information on what they deemed a matter of paramount military significance:

breast-feeding.

As the terrorists prepared to hit the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon itself, our military leaders were directed "to engage in open dialogue" on lactation tactics.

The Defense Advisory Committee on Women celebrated its fiftieth anniversary last April. At the birthday party, President Bush's deputy secretary of defense, Paul Wolfowitz, a man well regarded for his level-headed and conservative approach to military issues, lauded DACOWITS in his address as an outstanding organization" and told the assembly of earnest women that he "looked forward to [their] advice."

Read the article.

Dad & The Dude
prepared for war
September 11, 2001
photo credit:
Charmaine Yoest, Ph.D. Just after 9am on 9.11, I was doing what all business owners were doing: selling something. I was on the phone with a client. Making a pitch to attend a series of seminars, with CNN on in the background. I was a bit distracted by the live feed of a burning building.

While making 'the ask,' it was clear that my customer was not aware that we had just been attacked. I wanted to say something, like, Turn on your TV and stare at real pain. It just didn't look real. I continued instead with the conversation. Your Business Blogger is not normally so focused. In denial, perhaps. Disasters are not normally good for business.

There was work to be done. My next class was on September 19.

And I didn't want the customer on the other end of the phone distracted until the sale was closed. Then we could go to war.

The deal done, I noticed my boy, The Dude, was concerned that the attacks would continue down to us in Charlottesville, Virginia. "We got to get ready!" he shouts and scampers around digging up my old uniform, boots, saber and his grandfather's bayonet. (Old soldiers never die, they just file away. Apologies to MacArthur.)

The Dude spent the rest of the morning marching outside our front door. Looking out for terrorists. It must have worked.

Charlottesville was not attacked.

But we were affected. Everyone was. But I wasn't sure that the bank was going to delay getting their money over a pesky act of war. I still had to earn a living.

How would the war affect business? Not the macro, but mine? I had a seminar and clients coming into town in little over a week and the world was on fire. Would anyone show up? Would anyone care?

We North Americans do business like we do war. We win. Donald Trump becomes Victor Davis Hanson. At 8 am on 19 September 2001, 86 professionals showed up and got down to business. A packed room.

The free lunch helped.

Even my business partner, Faisal Alam, came down from New York City to join us. He is Muslim.

The country was mourning, but on the move.

I started with a minute of silence in remembrance of those lost in the World Trade Towers.

Then we all got back to work. Each making the world a better place. Even with a war on.

King Kong in New York CityFrom time to time, Your Business Blogger works out of a client's offices at the edifice at 350 Fifth Avenue in NYC.

Also known as The Empire State Building.

It is still standing.

So what didn't happen on New Year's Eve?

Nothing.

Enemy Jihadists didn't blow anything up. And they didn't touch Times Square packed with people at midnite 31 December.

President George Bush has been keeping us all safe since 9.11.

Even Michael Moore.

In war every soldier's death is a public event.

The Falling Man

credit: Richard Drew, AP

Because of 9.11, we are all soldiers now.

The Pentagon circa 9.11.06. Lit by 184 lights to commemorate each life lost there on 9.11.01
Credit: Unknown

A Thank you note to Michelle Malkin on 9.11 for Tom Junod's The Falling Man in Esquire.

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Your Business Blogger likes to keep score. As an old sales guy, my day was made (or ruined) by my numbers tallied at the close of business. I got paid for performance.

I ate what I killed.

Our culture is moving toward a much more, well, tolerant view of performance.

Liberals do not like to keep score. Everyone gets a trophy. Even at our local high school, Yorktown, players are not even cut from the try-outs for football. Every attempt is rewarded with a spot on the team, and more likely, the bench. It's called a "no cut policy."

And no feelings are hurt.

In the absence of empirical data and real numbers and real measurement and real performance -- any thing goes.

Alberto GonzalesPolitics then becomes the measure. Of good intentions. Feeling your pain. It seems that delivering numbers is becoming as backward as the hill-billies in the movie Deliverance.

Tom McMahon shows us, simply, the result when we don't pay attention to delivering numbers. Here is how the elite, sophisticated anti-Deliverance liberals win with the modern score-card:

Attorney General Scorecard: Janet Reno vs Alberto Gonzales

I ate what I killed to live. Under Clinton, they simply were killed.

Thank you (foot)notes:

In Management Training I teach my students to love, to embrace Office Politics, as a method to make the numbers. Not to avoid the numbers.

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Boo, The Diva and The Dancer
with Your Business Blogger's
Mao Man Bag (for diapers) I asked the woman why she wanted to work for us.

"The Terrorists are trying to kill me."

I knew this was not to be an ordinary job interview.

Charmaine and I were hiring a housekeeper in the early 90's, and Mrs. C was referred to us, because she was well qualified. She used to own a day-care business.

In Peru.

And her husband was a manager for a manufacturer for a US based company. The rebel communists, the Sendero Luminoso -- or Shining Path -- had picked up the local company organization chart and began picking off the managers in quick order.

A well executed plan.

Like a good org chart shaped like a pyramid, the terrorists started at the bottom and were working their way up the corporate ladder fast.

The hierarchy of the career path was easy to follow for the Shining Path. The communists are nothing if not consistent. Just as they were in Stalin's day, the communist's were executing the managers, killing their way up the org chart.

Mr. C thoughtfully decided to leave the company, wanting to spend more time with the family...in another country.

So Mrs. C packed up her two girls and hubby and moved to America and was given earned asylum. I admired her resilience. Her ingenuity. Her gumption.

Her green card.

Filled with compassion, as is my nature, I hired her and her valid status.

We learned a bit about Peru and the kind of terrorism that kills immediately and immediate family. The terrorists, with the accent on the last syllable. We learned that the people of Peru loved freedom, hated communism.

Cameron Diaz
with Mao bag in PeruSo we were surprised that the well-briefed commie babe Cameron Diaz would go to Machu Picchu, Peru with her trendy, yet practical, Mao Bag with bold Red Star and well-placed slogan Serve the People in the ever- popular military drab olive green.

Peruvians did not appreciate her "style."

The nation of Peru is still healing from the almost 70,000 murdered by the Shining Path. Not quite the head count of Stalin or Mao, but still a not-too-shabby benchmark in the Commie Accounting.

Cameron Diaz did apologize for her thoughtlessness.

But it is not just the thoughtless commies in Hollywood who are insulting the people of Peru. Our very own (elected) commies Democrats in Congress are insulting Peru.

Democrats are insulting the government of Peru by modifying trade deals. Not content with attempting to run our lives here in the States, the Dems are micro-managing in Peru. And are screwing up a good trade deal.

But Your Business Blogger wants to assure our friends in Peru that the American People are not represented (so to say) by the Democrats in our Congress. That our government really wants free trade and free people to do business.

So we put The Dreamer, our first born, on Copa Airlines this morning out of Dulles Airport with a suitcase full of new shoes for children in Lima.

The Peruvians fought communism and are now fighting Democrats, the least we can do is support these freedom fighters.

The Dreamer, being brighter than Cameron Diaz, did not take her Mao bag to Peru. She is taking our good will and a big heart and a suitcase full of shoes.

To make a difference one child to one child.

The Penta-Posse minus The Dreamer
at a Potomac Nationals minor league game in
Northern Virginia. We won beating the Salem Avalanche,
farm team for the Houston Astros.

Thank you (foot)notes:

The Dreamer blogs at A Different Kind of Drama. Visit for another shot of the Mao bag.

Last year, when our church went to share Jesus with the people of Peru, they found many children arriving to Bible studies in bare feet. . . this year, our group from McLean Bible Church will arrive with over 500 pairs of shoes so that they can practice "Feet-First" evangelism.

Your Business Blogger bought the Mao bag on a trip to China. It was, I believe the only item in the entire country that was not violating American intellectual property.

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He fired his Deputy Campaign Manager. Also known as The Lad.

Rich Galen
Courtesy: Mullings Also known as Rich Galen's son.

Rich Galen, Charmaine's green-room buddy, writes,

"The Presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain (R-Az) imploded yesterday...

Everyone knows the income and cash-on-hand (CoH) levels of the major campaigns. The McCain campaign made news last week when it announced it had raised just over $11 million and had only $2 million CoH.

The true test of a campaign's financial condition is: Cash-on-hand plus planned fundraising minus on-going expenses and unpaid obligations.

I have no idea what will happen to the McCain campaign now. I suspect it will continue to drift downward, but that depends upon the release of the official filings for the second quarter on July 15.

If the McCain campaign's balance sheet shows that it is serious - or even modestly - under water then it is hard to see how the campaign can continue. What will continue is finger pointing and emails to reporters and Bloggers making certain everyone knows whose fault this wasn't."

The finger pointing may have started some time ago. See Is John McCain Courting the Religious Right? from July 19, 2006.

Charmaine and I saw McCain at the graduation ceremony at Liberty University recently and watched McCain up close. Our good friend, Gary Bauer was also giving a speech and praised McCain...

McCain glowed and smiled at Gary's compliments. But McCain turned dark when Bauer talked about gay marriage or abortion. McCain would fidget, pick lint off his pant legs and stare off in another direction when abortion and babies were mentioned. McCain is a master politician, but not a master of body language

Maybe McCain isn't a master politician either.

Thank you (foot)notes:

Gary Bauer has moderated his McCain comments since July last year.

Captain Ed has more.

The Wall Street Journal has more on The Lad resignation. Subscription required.

See Wizbang.

See the front page, above the fold, with a McCain picture of the story, Top Aides Leave McCain Camp in the Washington Post.

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Two years ago Your Business Blogger sent the Little Woman to the G-8 with the B3: Bono and Branson and Bush. Scotland and England are still being bombed by the jihadists.

Not the US of A. Not yet. We must be doing something right.

Follows is a re-post of Charmaine's reporting from Edinburgh and London on 7.7.05.

Charmaine on the plane with Richard Branson

Following is an edited cross post from Charmaine's Reasoned Audacity, July 1 - 7, 2005.

A year ago, Charmaine calls early morning from Edinburgh. "I'm having trouble flying into London," she says.

I'm still waking up. I ask, "When can you come home?"

"I don't know," she says, her voice unsteady, "They're still clearing the bodies."

A wake up call.

London, welcome to the war.

It started, as most things these days do, with Powerline.

Following is original posting from London as Charmaine called it into me, when her site went down. Any inconsistencies may be due to transcription overload.

This is Jack, the husband: Charmaine called. Her site is still down, but she wanted to file a report to Powerline.

"Flew into Heathrow airport and took a $150 cab ride into north London to conduct interviews and document the bombsites. Bobbies cordoned off area around the sites sealing the scene of the explosions. I got to within a block or so of Edgware Tube station entrance with Londoners sitting calmly, relaxing in pubs. Everything is strangely calm, business as usual. I interviewed a woman, an interior designer, expecting some emotional display. There was none. "We don't do a lot of group hugging in England," she said, making me think of the stiff-upper lip. "We are not sentimental."

And she seemed to reflect the mood of the London population. Not for what they were doing but for what they were not doing: No candles, no out-pouring of grief, no hoards of gawkers milling around police tape, no teddy bears, no bouquets of flowers. No movement. No tears. Everything normal, except, maybe for that bus with the top blown off. Workers cleared and cleaned up the area real well. Spiffy. And got back to their pints.

I visited hospitals and learned that 'only' 37 were confirmed dead at that time. More confirmations were expected.

There were no moms with little children in downtown London. I interviewed middle-aged businessmen on cell phones and kids with Mohawks, none who were surprised.

Londoners gently reproached me about my concern over the bloodshed, "You Americans get sentimental over silly things. We're used to getting bombed." The IRA Troubles had hardened hearts as well as the London infrastructure.

I expected some grief, at least as much as there was when Lady Di died. And grief I got. I interviewed three very ordinary, normal teenaged English Muslims, one with short spiky hair (dressed not unlike my 10 year-old-dude). All three seems to be parroting Muslim talking points. "The bombings were a conspiracy by Blair to generate support for the war," they recited in a charming British accent.

The bombers were quite indiscriminate. Edgware is not far from the heart of Little Beirut, a Muslim ethnic neighborhood.

A young British black woman told me, "The bombings are Tony Blair's fault -- they killed a 100 thousand Iraqis -- and it's like a boomerang [coming back at the British]." Most everyone I talked to believed that the British caused the bombing or had it coming.

Of the dozen or so people I interviewed only white males in business attire expressed surprise that anyone would think the British were at fault in anyway.

But these gentlemen were the minority. Most felt that the Brits were complicit. The people at London's ground zero were sounding like the "wobbly" Spanish after their train bombings.

The day is a cloudy, cold, rainy 7.7."

Charmaine is still out on the streets -- 9pm local London time and will be sending pictures soon.

Read the entire story at My Wife Flew off with Bono and Branson; Bombed in London 7.7.05 .

See Charmaine and Michelle Malkin work to keep the Muslims from sawing off more heads.

CMR Salamander points to HotAir with video.

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Every misstep captured will by the camera,
or today, YouTube The Dude was having a challenge getting the moves right for his team. -- everyone noticed and criticized. He was a bit depressed.

So Your (compassionate) Business Blogger offered gentle counsel, "Don't worry about it son. It will get worse..."

The Dude was not amused.

To paraphrase General Douglas MacArthur, what counts is the Team, the Team, the Team.

No matter our individual contribution, the only thing that counts is that the team wins.

To make the boy feel better, I show him how Your Business Blogger got the snot kicked out of him in high school. Which the camera caught. Of course.

The Dude wonders, So why is it they will take pictures of the losers and not the team?

Losers? This is not going quite the way I planned. Father/son lectures seldom do. I soldier on, "Well, son, no matter how well the team does an individual can still screw up -- remember, if it bleeds..."

"...It leads." The Dude is a fast learner.

The moral of the story: When fighting in the arena -- sports or ideas -- all eyes watch your every move. And in the end, there is no substitute for victory.

Charmaine Cheering Whatever the camera caught during the game, I still got the prettiest girl after.

Hey Dude, sometimes things do work out in the end.

Thank you (foot)notes:

My game mentioned above and the girl-getting were years apart. I was having enough trouble explaining the story to The Dude without this minor detail.

General Douglas MacArthur's Farewell Speech at the jump, and his love for the Corps, the Corps, the Corps.

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Amazing Grace Your Business Blogger and kith and kin were invited to a private pre-screening of Amazing Grace last February. The movie is about England's Wilberforce and his fight to end slavery.

Slavery has still not been rid from our planet and is still practiced in China and sex slavery in Mexico.

The existence of slavery is beyond comprehension.

The movie is perfect. A must see, must DVD buy. However, our hosts from CRC Public Relations warned us that,

One thing to note: There is a brief scene or two that depict the brutality that was endured when slaves took the passage from Africa. However, in my opinion, it serves to awaken the senses and not to frighten. Just a thought.

Anyway, I hope that you and yours enjoy the film and I look forward to any feedback you may be able to offer!

The point of the movie Amazing Grace is that one human being does not own another. This is evil. Because each created person belongs to the Creator.

The movie's relevance for today is not, I think, to call attention to the continued existence of slavery. This analogy is a little too easy. Contrary to the PR campaign against today's slavery, I would suggest a more compelling analogy. The comparison should be between the Wilberforce fight against slavery, and today's fight against abortion.

Slavery and Abortion are the taking of innocent life. The only difference is venue.

Thank you (foot)notes:

We were privileged to see the advance trailers Easter before last. See Wilberforce and Gapingvoid.

Jamaican FlagAlert Readers will remember that slavery is a function of power. When the British were subduing the Scots, the captured Kilted were herded up by the hundreds and sold as slaves and shipped to the sugar plantations in the West Indies. Which may be the reason Scottish and Jamaican flags are somewhat similar. Both depict the Cross of St. Andrews.

Scottish FlagFreedom for All says,

As human beings we all have histories to tell and West Indian history is linked to hundreds of years of British (Scottish) history. There are many black people in the West Indies with Scottish surnames. For example, in Jamaica, there are more Scottish surnames such as Campbell, Grant, Graham, MacFarlane and Reid per square mile in Jamaica than they are in Scotland. Four of the National heroes of West Indian rebellions, who were hanged by the British, were: Sharpe, Gladstone, Bogle and Gordon. The name of the present Colonel of the famous Maroons warriors that won their freedom from the British in Jamaica during slavery is, Wallace Stirling...a very Scottish name. We are a part of the fabric of this country in many ways and no one can tell us to leave.

See Biblios for an interesting detail.

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Some time ago, Your Business Blogger was invited by FOX NEWS to discuss social programs in the military and the new Congress. Following are the back of the envelope notes for the show prep.

Damascus Nancy Pelosi
Courtesy: Rush Limbaugh Liberal Democrats have taken control of Congress in this terrible time of war. What does this mean for the armed services?

High on the law makers' agenda is the Global War on Terror. The debate raging over our involvement in Iraq has been high profile and headline-grabbing.

But there is another agenda; a hidden one that isn't making headlines. An agenda that is attempting to change the culture of our military.

High on the hidden agenda is to advance liberal ideologies by remaking the military. This re-engineering campaign is a three-pronged effort:

1) Reinstituting the draft
2) Entrenching women in combat and
3) Encourage homosexuals in the military.

The Draft

Democratic Congressman Charlie Rangel is pushing the draft, using involuntary conscription as a legislative tactic to end what he sees as an unpopular war by having even smart rich white kids get killed.

But what is driving the congressman’s hidden agenda is to provide manpower in the cultural war. A few years ago army veteran Rangel first introduced legislation to bring back the draft for both men and women; with no exception for conscientious objectors. Draftees would “volunteer” for some approved social public-works. Liberals want legions of indentured servants for government programs.

The purpose of the draft is to maintain military numerical strength in an extreme national emergency. Because the draft is designed for combat replacements, only men -- not women must currently register.

But many social engineers including Rangel would want women drafted to fight in combat.

Women in Combat

Men have to do 3 chin-ups to be in the
Marines. Women don't have to do any. Zero. None.The hidden agenda also includes advancing women in land combat. President Bush has clearly stated that women will not be placed in land combat and be subjected to Direct Ground Fire. But the left-leaning Flags of senior generals and admirals are not only placing women in harm’s way but also into combat. 77 women have died in our current war, where only 16 died in Vietnam, most of them were nurses.

Feminist have long preached that men and women are interchangeable and that being a male or female was simply a social construct. The new congress will want to advance these egalitarian goals in the mistake of pursuing the women’s vote as (former) senator George Allen did. (See Allen's support of women at VMI.)

But the military is not subject to the Equal Opportunity and Employment Commission. The battlefield is not regulated by the Occupational Health and Safety Administration.

Combat is violence against women.

Liberal Democrats in the coming months will force the armed services to evolve, to grow; to achieve higher consciousness. Liberals in Congress will demand EEO hires into OSHA compliant combat to remake a new and improved military.

The end result is a liberal Department of Defense which may or may not win any wars but will pass EEO muster.

After training by feminists in Anger Management.

Over the past few years, armed forces policy has been the domain of the generals and less of the civilians elected and appointed. The civilian leadership ceded control to the Pentagon Brass. Empty civilian Armani’s were replaced with Class A military Uniforms.

Not that there's necessarily anything wrong with that...

Except the military leadership was as liberal as the civilians they replaced. Forgetting the true job of the armed forces. The purpose of our military has a single goal: To defend our institutions. Our way of life. Freedom. Congress is charged with providing for the common defense.

Unfortunately Democrats in Congress will demand control to change the culture of the military.

Lifting the Homosexual Ban

As recently as 1993, Congress affirmed in law that homosexuality is incompatible with military service. But Clinton-era "Don't Ask; Don't Tell" regulations contradict the law and cause confusion. Democrats and homosexual activists will use the confusion to work to remove the regulation and change the law, in a single synchronized move.

The key difference in our current culture wars is in understanding unit cohesion. This is the unique bond that is needed for survival in combat necessary for victory. Unit cohesion is all but unknown and nearly unnecessary in the civilian world.

In 1982 the Department of Defense said that he presence of homosexuals, adversely affects the ability … to maintain discipline and morale; to foster mutual trust. And unlike the civilian workplace military men and women, …must live and work under close conditions affording minimal privacy…. Sexual attraction and tension destroys unit cohesion and may detract from mission accomplishment.

Few civilian shift managers expect employees not to date each other. Few first line supervisors expect staff to jump on stray hand grenades.

What should Congress do?

Liberal Democrats have a hidden agenda for changing the military culture. But what should our law makers do instead to improve military readiness?

Keep the volunteer army. As recent studies by The Heritage Foundation have shown, our current All-Volunteer Army is well motivated, well education and truly looks like America. If the Pentagon needs more young men for combat, President Bush can lead the recruiting drive by call to arms from his bully pulpit. We have heard no such exhortation from the President.

The Army can follow the president’s orders and keep women away from Direct Ground Combat. The president can order the Pentagon to stop the charade of assigning women to non-combat units, then attaching and “co-locating” women with combat units. At the very least, the military can hold women to the same physical training standards as men.

The Pentagon can repeal the Don't Army Don't Tell regulations. And keep the current laws against Gays-Lesbian-Bi-sexuals and Transgender genders from serving in the military. Even Hillary Rodham Clinton, then-Vice-President Al Gore and President Bill Clinton have admitted that Don’t Ask; Don’t Tell was a failure.

Homosexuals can honorably serve our country in many ways, including,

Peace Corps,
America Corps,

But not the
Marine Corps

We are a nation with citizen soldiers. We should not burden combat leaders with the needs of citizen cross-dressers. "Unfair" as it may be.

It is enough to ask the combat leader to fight and win battles with out being worried about the special needs of gender-identity politics.

By taking these actions we might have a prayer in the Global War on Terror. Because if we fail, any prayers we have will be toward Mecca.

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Jingo-Jihadists Cheerfully Surrendering Mike Jingozian, candidate for president (of the United States) has begun his political campaign.

With a surrender.

Using the banner "Jingo-Jihadists for Surrender Soonest" the JJ for SS hopes to mobilize the America-Firster voting public into surrendering, a la French, to Al Qaeda.

However. It might be a mistake for a politician to throw his hands into the air and cry "Surrender Now!" This makes for a compelling picture message, that didn't even work for Cindy Sheehan.

The first rule of politics, as in medicine is First Do No Harm.

Which is close to a motto in our household: Don't screw up.

(Alert Readers understand well that Your Business Blogger rather enjoys a [calculated] risk. Don't Screw Up is not a retreat from trying, but an invective to be smart.)

Smart politics has yet to be found in the Jingo-Jihad Surrender presidential campaign. The first item on which Your Business Blogger advises clients is to get the big, simple things right.

Like your name.

And the domain. This being the internet age and all.

Which makes the Jingo-Jihad Surrender campaign so sad. Mike Jingozian claims a degree from Harvard and various technology awards.

You'd think he'd get the basics right. Him running a super-duper tech company as he is wont to remind us voters. And running for President (of the United States!).

Basics like:

www.MikeJingozian.com

Mike Jingozian
visionary on a pedestal The Jingo-Jihadists might also reconsider the Reset photo shooting. It is very difficult to get a good publicity shot of a client where the audience is looking up his nose holes. Even assuming excellent nose-hair-hygiene.

So, we start with three minor campaign criticisms:

1) Surrender is bad bannering
2) Claim your name domain
3) Make your picture perfect

Yes, there's more. Continue reading the Jingozium Erratum at the jump.

Reset American banner

Thankyou (foot)notes,

See "First, do no harm": Not in the Hippocratic Oath sans abortion.

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Five Days in May: The loss of the USS Scorpion.

By Jack Yoest

Yolanda Mazzuchi was about the prettiest girl in our school class. Our dads were in the Navy, often gone for months at a time. And they would be welcomed home at dockside with cheers and homemade signs. These

USS Scorpion gatherings at the D&S Piers at the Naval Base in Norfolk, Virginia, were a regular part of our lives growing up. Families often took children out of school to celebrate a ship's homecoming.

At 1 in the afternoon on Monday, May 27, 1968, at the height of the Cold War the USS Scorpion was due in port.

Yolanda didn't know it then, but her dad was already dead.

The families gathered on Pier 22 and huddled together in the wind and rain. And looked out over the storm, over white-capped waves.

They waited for the USS Scorpion without any word for five days.

Women for millennia have waited by the sea for their men to return. In bygone eras, a hand-railed walkway was built along the rooftop of sailors' homes. So that the wives and mothers, and daughters and sons could look out for returning ships. Sometimes the boats didn't come back. But the women and children would still watch and pray and hope.

In those days, like Penelope, they often waited for months, even decades.

Frank Patsy Mazzuchi, QMSC, a senior chief quartermaster, was looking for a berth teaching at nearby Fort Eustis. The chief and his Navy wife traveled to the Pentagon to work out a deal on his next duty station. The Navy assignment desk persuaded Chief Mazzuchi to take a last submarine tour in the Mediterranean.

The senior, experienced chief was needed on the USS Scorpion: A capstone to his career before retiring. He would make the last voyage. Then shore duty with normal hours, normal life. Instead, the capstone became a headstone.

The submarine "silent service" is an elite, intimate sea-duty. The Scorpion was not a big vessel for her day with 99 men in tight quarters. She was 31-feet wide, powered by a nuclear reactor and armed with two nuclear-tipped torpedoes.

The Scorpion carried Russian-speaking experts for espionage to fight Soviet subs in the Cold War. The Scorpion had just finished its three-month deployment in the Med and was headed home when new orders arrived. The nuclear sub was diverted from its trip home to the Canary Islands off the coast of Africa for a spying mission on Soviet ships.

A high-speed run to the Soviet fleet. Then silence. It is believed that an accidental internal explosion doomed the boat. Questions remain on maintenance.

Without closure.

She was overdue in Norfolk on 27 May and probably sank on 22 May. The Navy declared the sub "presumed lost" on 2 June, 1968.

Finally, in October of that year, the Scorpion's final resting place was discovered some two miles beneath the surface, west of the Azores. The sub became a coffin to the 99. She will not be raised.

Yolanda says, "Before he left, we had a big argument and I told him that I wished he would go to sea and never come back."

And he never did. Those departing words haunted her for years. "It took a very long time to get over that remark," she says.

Her son, the grandson Chief Mazzuchi never saw, joined the Navy. He serves now on the USS Washington in the Caribbean. And doesn't write as often as he should.

But Yolanda has already forgiven him. As she is sure her father had forgiven her for a little girl's thoughtless final words.

She says, "In fact, it was not until my children became teenagers that I understood that my father forgave me as quickly as I said it."

Forgiveness and loss; sorrow and hope and sacrifice. Even today, the Cold War long past, the warriors remain on eternal patrol and the Widow's Walk continues on Navy Pier. Tracing the steps of those who waited in vain for five days in May, so many years ago.

Penelope and Telemachus, awaiting the return of Odysseus.

Jack Yoest, is president of Management Training of DC, LLC and a former Army Captain. His father served on the submarine Bonefish in WWII and in the Navy for 30 years.

Thank you (foot)notes:

The article originally appeared in National Review Online.

See USS Bonefish, Lost June 18, 1945 originally published in the Virginian Pilot.

USS Scorpion (SSN 589)

Spectre of the Scorpion

Local author exposes Cold War cover-up And see the correction.

Silent Steel: The Mysterious Death of the Nuclear Attack Sub USS Scorpion

John Howland has advice at the jump.

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Mike Jingozian
founder of AngelVision
announces political ambitions "You will hear more about my political plans in the months ahead. For now, I wish you peace and harmony. Be well, Jingo."

A number of Alert Readers have been following our case study of AngelVision. The founder, Mike "Jingo" Jingozian has been most unhappy with Your Business Blogger's analysis and has hired (at least two) lawyers and a private investigator in response to the critique and the comments.

(A private investigator??!! I'm honored.)

Jingo will be running for an elected or appointed public office -- but has taken some time off the campaign trail and his business to address Reasoned Audacity's review of the unusual AngelVision management style.

Jingozium Erratum
Your Business Blogger at
Oxford's circular library
May 1995Over the next few weeks we will discuss the challenges of crisis management in dealing with the blogosphere.

AngelVision continues to be an outstanding case study -- on a "distinctive" reaction to public criticism.

Meanwhile Jingo should consider CampaignSiteBuilder.com to help him launch his political career. (See compensated link on sidebar.)

Continue reading at the jump. Hint: Don't hire expensive private investigators to spy on bloggers.

Thank you (foot)notes:

Be sure to visit AngelVision and take the Jingo on-line poll on what to do with Your Business Blogger. Here's how I voted:

Number three: Don’t be a wimp! Kick some @ss! Sue the b@stard out of principle! [Expletives modified]

The vote results will surprise you.

(Charmaine voted for "ignore him." She's no fun.)

Here's my advice and bumper sticker for his political world view.

UPDATE: 16 May 2007, Mike Jingozian claims that Your Business Blogger is a Washington government insider. Very flattering, but I must not be much of a political insider because I just now noticed that Jingo Jingozian is really, really running for public office. No, not town council. Not for congress. Nope. Jingo is going the Full Monty. Mike Jingozian is running for President. Goodness.

Blue state Oregon is now in play for the GOP.

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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 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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Ronald Reagan
addressed the 1984
NRB Convention Charmaine and The Diva flew south to Orlando, Florida this morning for the annual NRB convention and exposition. Charmaine's team will be manning the Family Research Council's trade show booth.

President Bush at a previous
NRB convention
Reagan and Bush appreciated the NRB. And so, it seems, some of the current (GOP!) presidential candidates also appreciate the gathering of Jesus-loving media professionals. Charmaine is scheduled to link up with Mitt Romney on Sunday and John McCain on Monday. She'll do updates here and at the FRCBlog.

If you are anywhere near Orlando or at the convention -- go visit the FRC booth!

Thank you (foot)notes:

See 7 Steps in Making Money at Trade Shows
Which answers the following issues for trade show attendance:
Why are we here?
Get professional help.
Logical Logistics.
Center of Attention.
Propaganda.
Follow Up.
Return on Investment.
I am an enthusiast for Trade Shows. But remember, the purpose is to sell.

See Charmaine at last year's convention Lawyers and Good Books for the Middle Kingdom.
Blogging from NRB: Calm Before the Storm.

Is John McCain Courting the Religious Right?

Charmaine Debates the Mitt Romney Presidential Bid on FOX

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Academics disdain "the shouting shows" as they call them. Dismissing the rapid fire debate of the 8-second sound bite. University professors sniff at ordinary talk shows.

Until they are asked.

Then the professors instantly love the glare of blinding lights and lust for a producer's call.

These days, even the academy is interested in the power of mass marketing through the mass media. As the best channel of distribution to sell ideas and to sell books.

Bill Mahr holding up
Charmaine's book on
Politically IncorrectHere's a back story on Charmaine.

The University of Virginia school newspaper did a very nice piece on Charmaine a few years ago.

Some might call it a 'puff piece.' But Your Business Blogger only saw it as journalism that finally got it right and lurched into the truth.

Yoest makes appearances on talk shows

by Laura Schmoyer, Cavalier Daily Staff Writer

While perusing her research in Alderman Cafe on Wednesday, Charmaine Yoest is interrupted by her cell phone. It's the producer of CNN's "Greenfield at Large," and she wants Yoest to appear on the show that night to discuss the current state of American patriotism.

"Producers call me at random times and if I don't take the call, then I might lose the chance to be on the show," the young, bright-eyed Ph.D. candidate said.

[Charmaine has since earned her doctorate.]

Yoest, a Bradley fellow in the department of government and foreign affairs, is accustomed to receiving calls from television producers without any notice.

She has appeared on a variety of political talk shows, normally invited for a conservative viewpoint.

Her most recent appearance was on Wednesday night's "Greenfield at Large," but she also has been a guest on "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, "Crossfire" and "Politically Incorrect."

Frequently called upon to speak as an expert on family or women's issues, Yoest rarely turns down an opportunity to voice her opinions on-air.

"It gives me a chance to talk about issues that I really care about," Yoest said.

Some of Yoest's colleagues are impressed with her composure on television.

"I am amazed at how calm she is in front of millions of people," said Steven Rhoads, Yoest's advisor who is a government and foreign affairs professor. "Most would be more nervous in her situation."

Yoest fist was asked to appear on television 10 years ago after a producer spotted her work in Policy Review and USA Today.

Because of her lack of experience, Yoest was canceled five times in a row before she spoke for the first time on "CNN & Company."

Continue reading at the jump

Thank you (foot)notes:

The following article first appeared on Friday, February 08, 2002 in The Cavalier Daily.

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Charmaine will be debating values voters on ABC's Good Morning America on Sunday morning, around 8 to 8:30, November 12th. Tune in GMA Weekend and let us know what you think.

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Morgan Fairchild Marketing is composed of Reach, Frequency and Awareness. And the fastest venue to reach large numbers of ears and eyeballs is to mention your business on radio and TV.

Everyone who pines to be on radio or TV wants to "be something" or "do something." But usually if you want to do something for your company, you must be somebody. And shamelessly self-promote.

Just like Carly Fiorina from Hewlett Packard...

uhmm...nevermind...

The large number of talk/debate shows, pod-casts, radio and TV have created an exploding demand for on-air experts. Talented talking heads.

Tammy Haddad is the executive producer of MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews and was recently quoted in The Wall Street Journal about her expertise in picking talent.

A few months ago, Charmaine and I visited Tammy in her beautiful Georgetown home in Your Nation's Capital. She put up a tent in her back yard and had a few of her closest A listers over for an off the record party. OTR. Which means I couldn't talk about what Micheal Barone said about CNN nor who Chris Matthews was talking to. Contacts connected. Deals got done. (All I got done there was to get confused.)

Hint: When talking to Morgan Fairchild look at her eyes, gentlemen, her eyes.

Tammy had advice for 'talking head' wanna be's. (And who wouldn't wanna be?)

Jeffery Zaslow wrote America's Next Top Pundit, What does it take to be a talking head for The Wall Street Journal and explains,

Every morning, Tammy Haddad...hears from more than 100 aspiring commentators. They each explain why they'd be the perfect guest to spout off on the issues of the day. "We call them 'street meat,' " says Ms. Haddad. "They're always available, walking the streets, waiting for your call on their cellphones."They are the minor-league pundits ...using 21st-century stunts to troll for airtime. ... And many are turning to media advisers ... where they learn new rules of engagement, ...The ploys can work, as networks like CNN regularly survey the field, looking for new contributors.

...A-list pundits make thousands of dollars per show. In lieu of payment B-listers receive coffee mugs with a show's logo.

We have a shelf full of logo'ed coffee mugs...in the basement.

But you, the business leader need to be on radio and TV to flog, to promote your product and service.

How to start:

The Virginia
Piedmont
Technology
Council 1) Get under an umbrella. Join a group of recognized experts. Get yourself invited to serve on a board of directors or advisors or committees of your local favorite non-profit and business association. Then volunteer to be the spokesman. Join and volunteer for your local chamber of commerce.

The Business Monthly:
The business newspaper for
Howard & Anne Arundel Counties
and BWI Business District in Maryland2) Write a article for your local business monthly magazine or newspaper. And interview key business leaders in town. You then might get asked to comment on-air. For instance, I recently did a series on Rotorary and its corporate governance.

3) Start with local and not so local radio talk shows on weekends. For example, go smooze job coach expert Sue Tovey at Catapult Your Career.

4) Become a deep expert in a narrow field, then mission creep away from your expertise. What box do you fill, what do you wish your business to be known for? Make like a hedgehog: know a lot about a single topic. Generalists don't get called.

5) Write a blog and a book. Then your publicist will flog you and the book. So that your name will show up in a Google search. A lot. Your book won't sell much and will soon go out of print. But your authorship and introduction is forever. Ladies and Gentlemen, Here's Small business owner Mr. Big Ideas, author of Small Business Trends. (Book titles cannot be copywrite protected; apologies to Anita Campbell.)

6) Find a friend. Network. The WSJ speaks of "three dozen donuts" delivered to bookers to be remembered. Hokie, yes, but memorable. Remember not all advertising must be good to be remembered. Just remembered.

(I wish someone would send me three dozen donuts.)

Professional Public Relations should be a component of your marketing department or outsourced. Kristi Hamrick, about the best in the business says, "To get on air, somebody has to bird dog the bookers." You, the small business owner, better be too busy, and are far too important to be your own flack. Not unlike a representing your self in court. A lawyer with a fool for a client.

Have your secretary or marketing pro's make the calls -- they are not busy anyway.

7) Keep your day job.

And finally, be sure to alert your company and friends when your big show biz break breaks.

And let me know how it goes. I'll be cheering for you.

Thank you (foot)notes: Your Business Blogger once served on the Board of Directors of the Virginia Piedmont Technology Council.

Management Training Tip: Don't let the urgent push out the important, increase your network of contacts and friends. Do lunch and do business: exchange business cards with someone today. Then tell me.

And be sure to visit the Carnival of the Vanities.http://www.silflayhraka.com/archives/2006/11/carnival_of_the_vanities_216.html

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When you tangle with print, radio, or visual media your name and identifiers are sometimes going to be mangled. It is not always deliberate. Donald Rumsfeld, Our Secretary of Defense, says to never confuse a conspiracy with incompetence.

But how does one tell the difference?

Charmaine, Right (as usual) on MSNBC

The wife of Your Business Blogger, Charmaine, appeared on Joe Scarborough's show the other night. She prepped using the 10 Tips for Your Big Show Biz Break. She was debating a some liberals over a New York Times article.

It said that cheating on a spouse can be good.

Your Business Blogger advises against cheating on a spouse. Bad for the job. And business is a jealous mistress.

Who?

Anyway, Charmaine does her homework. And provides name, rank and serial number to the producer. Including her Ph.D. suffix. Those three letters cost me a million dollars and ten years. I insist on the lettering. She doesn't care -- I do. I'm the shallow one; she's not.

Anyway, MSNBC would be considered -- by some -- to be a world-class organization committed to attention to detail.

But an MSNBC producer slipped up on the names and by-lines. Mistakes will happen. Guaranteed. Like leaving off suffixes.

And when the goofs go live, the professional doesn't say die.

Whenever there is any kind of error in any form, in any forum, continue with your act.

Keep talking; keep singing; keep dancing, keep moving.

The show must go on.

At Last, The Correct By-line

Most of the time, your audience will never see the goof-up. The audience will see and remember the passion in your play.

It doesn't matter if there is a conspiracy. Or if merely incompetence.

Deliver your sound bite. Make the sale. And you will please your audience.

Thank you (foot)notes: See the adultery clip on Scarborough Country, MSNBC, here. Courtesy Peter Shinn.

Management Training Tip: If you will cheat on your wife, you will cheat on your business partners. Even if the New York Times approves.

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Woody Allen once said that 80 per cent of success is showing up.

Radio Row at the
FRC Briefing
And to succeed in business as well as show business: you must show up.

Your Business Blogger was observing (and trying to stay out of the way of) a radio and blogger row a few weeks ago at the Family Research Council Briefing. We were lucky -- guests and hosts seem to link up with minimal scheduling challenges.

But this is becoming somewhat more unusual.

Your Business Blogger is seeing a most disturbing trend: Guests who don't show.

In sales training 101, the first step is always to establish rapport. But it starts before that, of course: First, You must get the appointment and Second, you must Show Up.

Smart business leaders know that part of the good marketing equation is pushing the broadest reach. Radio and TV are still effective.

But it seems that some business leaders are not bothering to do this basic marketing and not showing up for a scheduled appearance. Something will come up -- something always does -- and the small business owner does not show up for the radio or TV interview.

The broadcast interview has two purposes. For the host, it is only ratings and revenue. For the guest, it is a display of your expertise: a pitch for the small business; an infomercial.

Your pubic relations consultant is well compensated to get you in the starting -- gate groomed and ready to go. But after your PR pro's get you an invitation to the track you must take the bit and give your sound bite.

If you cannot take the hassle of the harness, stay in the barn. Radio and TV are for the race horses, the big dogs.

It is not for the weak of heart.

And the no-show guest always has good reasons. It is the tyranny of the urgent pushing out the important. And dealing with some routine business emergency is easier to handle than the fear of facing a microphone.

Public speaking always causes anxiety; if you are not nervous, you are too complacent. Adrenaline is a good chemical.

And it can make for good business. The small business owner better be the company's most passionate pitchman -- and better be able, available and willing to step onto the race track; into the arena and sell.

If you are invited to be a guest on radio or TV, understand that it is a very rare privilege and should be accepted and better be honored.

Don't let the host say, Our schedule guest, President of Wonderful Widgets had a quarterly report to finish and thought that a spreadsheet was more important than Mega Media and cancelled....The Jerk.

You, the small business owner must always show up for the radio or TV interview.

This does not go both ways. Even though you RSVP'ed and showed up and kept your appointment with destiny, Mega Media outlet is not bound by the same rules.

Charmaine on C-SPAN

This is not fair.

You must show up. If you are not sure you want to play in the big league, then fire your PR guru and rein in your marketing department. Do not commit to an interview, then have a change of heart and change your mind.

Your Business Blogger has been on both sides of the interviewing/reporting equation and has had to deal with reluctant business owners.

So. Here's the secret. The unwritten rules of journalism in radio and TV. Knowing them will make it easier to decline the interview. Yep, walk away. And save everyone a lot of time.

1) You will probably be cancelled or bumped.

Thank you (foot)notes:

This is a modified cross post from Small Business Trends Radio.

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The Bullet Hole at
Focus on the FamilyThe bullet hole is still in the wall. A reminder that radio and TV interviewing can be lethal.

Alert Reader Steve Rucinski at Small Business CEO read Mastering the Mic for Sound Management from a column in Small Business Trends Radio. And he suggested we review tricks suggestions for the other side; the interviewer side of the mic. Following are nine tips for interviewers.

Which might avoid bloodshed.

A few weeks ago a Fox reporter was beaten bloody doing an interview. A few years ago a Denver DJ was murdered. The list of murdered radio personalities is quite long.

Larry King is not on the list.

Anyway, Your Business Blogger decided to research radio interview techniques and dispatched the Wife and The Dude to Focus on the Family in Colorado Springs to get background on what it takes to entertain twenty million listeners a week at their radio program.

The Dude at the dials. Be sure to catch his blog post.

The smart interviewer is always aware that all that counts is ratings and revenue. The interview is a vehicle to get numbers. Here's how.

1) Why are we here? I once had a press secretary who was a pro. She had the skills to deftly make connections between content, current events and the needs of a particular audience. She constructed "The Hook" and sold it. The rarest of skills which are in high demand. I can no longer afford her.

2) Script out the intro. Better yet, have the guest draft out the two-minute introduction.

3) Calm the guest. Remind her that she's a source; a resource, for your vast listening audience. Not a target.

4) Flash Report. Have the guest write sample questions. Our goal is to help people. Delectare et docere, to please and to instruct. Leave the 'gotcha game' to the mainstream media. And stick with scripted pre-questions as much as possible.

5) Short and Sweet. Begin questions with Who, What, When, Where, Why and How. Keep these six honest serving-men, and you will be well served. As Rudyard Kipling was. They taught me all I knew.

My favorite question to a guest is, What does that mean? Professional interviewers usually know the answer. But use this question to have the guest explain something to the audience. I ask because I usually don't know. Another question is, "Tell me about..." A non-directive interview technique designed to prompt the guest to tell a story. Do the questions you want early in the interview, in case you run out of time.

6) High energy is overrated. You, the professional interviewer, will be more nervous than the interviewee. This can be countered by relaxing. Get your mantra motor. Calm and slow and boring is not bad for a questioner. Problematic in a guest. But the audience really wants to listen to the energized experts on your show. Not you the interviewer. They want Larry King to shut up.

(I ran into King at the CNN studios a time or two. No, he doesn't have any bullet holes in his office.)

7) Surround Sound. Be careful of the on-the-road interview, when you are away from your comfy digs. Background noise can be distracting (restaurants) and unpredictable (ambulance sirens).

8) Ask only one, single question at a time. Multiples get confusing.

Remember, your guest is appearing on your show for one reason: to communicate her message. You have the guest on for one reason: money (that ratings thing again).

9) Finally, never get angry. You might get a bullet... in your wall.

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This is a modified cross post from Small Business Trends Wire.

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The deadliest skill a leader can possess is the ability to persuade.

Rush Limbaugh
Photo Credit:
Your Business Blogger As Alert Readers know, Your Business Blogger is a cheerleader for lifelong learning. If there is a class that can improve my skills, such as they are, I'm in.

So to improve my ability to communicate, I though I'd sit at the feet of a wise instructor. And ask stupid questions.

(Which are the only kind I ask.)

I needed to pick an instructor who could help me in this continuous learning. I wondered -- who has Rush Limbaugh worked with?

That would be Stephen D. Clouse who teaches at the highest levels in the intersection of entertainment and politics.

I joined Stephen as he lectured at the Leadership Institute in Arlington, Virginia. The purpose and passion of Clouse's work is to train leaders to communicate -- to persuade.

To be effective, Clouse says, you must be likeable. Willie Loman, in Death of a Salesman, would step out into the world with a shoeshine and smile. And have a desperate need to be liked.

Which is not unlike the first step in the sales process of establishing rapport.

But Clouse was talking about more than a need to be liked -- he emphasized that to succeed at the highest levels and to persuade, you must truly like people.

Enjoy people? Like people?

I'm doomed.

But there might be help for you. Clouse gave a number of tips to improve your likeability -- by improving your vocals.

1) Speak slowly. Clouse reminds us that the great communicators from Larry King to Bill Clinton to Ronald Reagan have a very slow speech delivery.

2) Enunciate each word completely. Many of us will trail off at the end of our sentences. Clouse says, "A microphone is cruel to those who do this because everything is captured and conveyed."

3) Punch key words. Your listening audience wants to learn, and more important, to be entertained.

4) Extend vowels. Conveys warmth and emotion.

5) Natural voice in an 'audio check.' The sound tech will adjust levels to your voice. Be natural.

Which may require practice. The professionals make it look easy.

And professionals use professionals to coach. If you would like to contact Stephen D. Clouse, I'd be honored to make the introduction.

To communicate well will require practice. And practice. For your big show biz break read these 10 Tips. And remember...

Ronald Reagan had six years of voice lessons.

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This is an unpaid endorsement for Clouse.

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The wife of
Your Business Blogger
at an impromptu
press conference.In your business promotion, you the boss, will someday be called to speak before a handheld microphone or a bank of microphones to talk about your particular expertise.

If you deign to be interviewed by a reporter, or instead will speak at a planned, orchestrated press conference, here are 7 tips to remember for the handheld or externally fixed microphone.

1) The microphone comes to you. When speaking to a reporter who is holding the microphone, she will move the mic to you. Or there will be a boom mic floating near-by. You do not move to the mic or bob around speaking here or there. Be still. Remember, you are the expert. The center of the Universe. The pro has measured movements.

2) Remain in the frame. Your mouth should be a spread-hand's width from the mic, just below your mouth. This is to allow cameras to get a better show of your fab face. And to prevent 'popping' into the mic -- 'd's,' 't's,' or 'p's' are explosives if directed straight into the microphone. If there is a bank or cluster of microphones, any cameras or the reporters will be centered directly in front of the of the mic stands. Do not move around. Don't make the camera guys or sounds guys work too much.

3) Watch your back. If the presser is planned by your PR flacks, your backdrop will have your company logo behind you. If not, see what's over your shoulder. Look for naked statues behind you.

4) Start with your name, rank and the mundane. Practice your FireDrill, your pitch. And like any good lawyer you already know all the answers, but more important, you know and have heard all the questions. Stating the obvious gets your mouth a-motoring and helps the sound guys start to fiddling with the knobs if needed -- your self intro will probably get edited out, but it will serve as sound check until you say something important. Assume they can hear you; don't ask.

5) Don't handle the microphones. Unless you are giving a 45 minute key noter and the mic belongs to you -- leave the equipment alone. There are apt to be a number of speakers coming to the mics. Handling the machinery might create noise picked up by the other mics. But if you must touch them, do it while talking in some connective or redundant phrase in case of noise. That will get edited out.

6) Bend your knees to get in range of an extremely short mic. This is, of course, the trick of tall teenage girls when dancing with short guys. Bending over at the waist gives an ungainly, slouching appearance. You, Gentle Reader, are no slouch. Stand tall. Bow to no man.

7) Lower your voice. Lower your pitch. Your voice may get high pitched as you get nervous. And you better be nervous. If you do not have any adrenaline flowing when speaking publicly, you are too complacent.

The successful small business owner is a successful promoter and leader and speaker. The microphone is now another tool in your professional hands.

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Be sure to review Management: 10 Tips

And visit k-log On Speaking: Being Heard

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Lori Piestewa,
single mother of two,
killed Katie Couric recently refused to go to Iraq. She gets this right,

Katie Couric, who takes over the CBS Evening News in September told Access Hollywood that at this point, she would not venture into the Middle East hot spot.

"I think the situation there is so dangerous, and as a single parent with two children, that's something I won't be doing," Katie said.

Couric lurches into the truth: War zones are not safe for anyone. Especially for moms and the kids left behind.

Elaine Donnelly, President of the Center for Military Readiness reminds us that,

To date 60 women have been killed in Afghanistan and Iraq since 9/11. By contrast, only 16 women killed in all the years of Vietnam, most of them nurses. In the First Persian Gulf War, 33,000 women were deployed, but only 6 perished due to scud missile explosions or accidents.

Women should not be killed in combat.

No single mother with children should go to war. Not Katie. Not Lori.

Katie Couric

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Thank you (foot)notes:

Kathryn Lopez at NRO points us to Access Hollywood, blockquote above.

Full Disclosure: Your Business Blogger also serves as the Vice President of the Center for Military Readiness.

See Saving Private Lori.

Get Women Out of Combat.

Mudville Gazette has Open Post.

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World Trade Center "Redemption," wrote Cal Thomas earlier when he saw Oliver Stone's movie. Stone may have redeemed himself.

Tonight, Thursday, The Washington Insiders were invited to a private screening of World Trade Center. I got in on a waiver. I would have been easy to pick out of this cool crowd: I was the only one with a bucket of (fattening) buttered popcorn, slurping a giant Coke.

Your Business Blogger, Charmaine
Melissa and Rob Bluey

Charmaine and I joined Rob Bluey, blog editor at Human Events and his wife Melissa from The Atlantic Monthly and the smart crowd at a Cinema near Charmaine's office to see Stone's newest movie.

What it was and what it was not.

It was not a conspiracy movie.
It did not bash Bush.
It was not sappy.
It was not about stupid, church-going nuts.
It did not mock marriage.
It did not blame America.
It did not support radical Islam.
It did not mock Marines.
It did not mock Jesus.
It did not mock cops.

It did not mock family, faith or freedom.

Charmaine says, "It was a Hallmark Hall of Fame special...on steroids." Jim Pinkerton, from the New America Foundation DID NOT tear up. Me neither.

But the theater was a bit dusty. That stuff can get in your eyes. Or was it dust from the movie?

This is a movie that you will see in a few weeks and you will be glad you did. After the viewing, there was no applause, little talking. At the end, the crowd audibly exhaled, as one.

People moved out as if leaving a wake. Tony Blankley and his significant other were the last, the very last to leave. They were moved.

Laura Ingram moved out quick; she was among the first out. Dr. Land, President of the Southern Baptist Convention expected to walk out early and didn't.

We spoke to Blankley. He was surprised at Stone's movie, "Good, True, Patriotic, Religious."

Kate O'Beirne from Nation Review was a bit more skeptical about Oliver Stone, "His other movies don't sell, nobody goes to them. So he made this to appeal -- to sell. He wants to make money."

And so he will. You must see how Stone can make a movie with Jesus, yes Him, without a smirk. Mel Gibson can do Passion, sure. But Oliver Stone?

Better check the temperature in Hell. The impossible has happened. Oliver is redeemed.

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The movie will be theaters August 9, 2006

Special thanks to Mike Thompson, Senior Vice President of Creative Response Concepts, who coordinated the event for Paramount Pictures.

More on the movie at the jump.

The Raw Story has more. Read the Comments, liberals still believe "9/11 was an inside job no doubt." And my favorite, "Hey cons, Jesus says watch this film or you'll go to hell."

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There's a war on. It's been in all the papers. And we all have to pay for it. Sacrifice somewhere.

But not the liberals at National People's Public Radio. They demand continued tax payer funding...for Big Bird.

When should entertainment have claim on the public purse?

Congress wants to reduce the NPR and PBS budget by $115 million. This is not as aggressive as the planned cuts hoped for last year that would have taken the welfare payment from $200,000,000 to a mere $100 million. Our friends on the left are Outraged! Outraged!

Cartoon credit: Blue Girl's "better half"

Our lefty friends (no friends of the free market) have different takes. Over at Blue Girl in a Red State there seems to be some confusion between work and charity.

For years now the Feminist Minority has feared for a free press:

Take Action for Independent Media

The U.S. House of Representatives is ...considering ...an appropriations bill which will make drastic cuts in the budgets of the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) and National Public Radio (NPR) ...

In their ongoing efforts to control the media, the right wing is using the Congressional appropriations process to decimate public radio and television. We could lose this critical independent voice and quality programming.

Take action today! Click here to urge your Representative to stand up for the independent media free from partisan and ideological control by voting for full funding for PBS and NPR.

Charmaine, The Dreamer and
Your Business BloggerBig Bird can fly on its own. When The Dreamer was 18 months old we comforted her on camera when interviewed -- by a stuffed animal we had paid for with real money. Plus tax. (Or more likely, a grandmother paid for with real money. . .) The Yellow Bird to the rescue!

A cool 100 million dollars. We could get one very nice, brand new F-22 Raptor. And the world would be a better place.

Peggy Noonan says, news flash: PBS is liberal. . . and that Democrats may even admit as much. . . (though, obviously, not the Fem Minority who seems to think PBS/NPR is an "independent critical voice").

Our leftist friends at The Washington Monthly are upset.

A civil hat tip to the liberal GrubbyKid.

See Mudville Gazette with the unsubsidized Open Post.

Right Wing Sparkle has more at PBS Funding: Is It Worth It?

Trey Jackson sick of taxes for Lefty Liberal Bile Hat tip to Trey for pointing us to Atlas Shrugs...

Atlas Shrugs can lift and move any debate especially on PBS

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As George Bush started to run for president, the story is told about Dick Cheney and his work to help find a Vice President. Numerous talented candidates were evaluated. But none were quite as good as...Dick Cheney.

(Cheney did this before. Dick Cheney says that he set up an exploratory committee for Lynn as she was looking for a husband.)

So I followed the Vice President's example when Elaine Donnelly asked about hiring staff to help her at the Center for Military Readiness.

I volunteered to set up an exploratory committee and helped evaluate candidates. There were many outstanding contenders. Not-so-Secretly, I wanted the job.

And you can't beat the Cheney model.

Jack Yoest Appointed Vice President

of the Center for Military Readiness

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

June 6, 2006

Contact: Elaine Donnelly (734/464-9430 ) or Jack Yoest (202/215-2434);

Website: www.cmrlink.org

Elaine Donnelly, President of the Center for Military Readiness, is pleased to announce the appointment of John "Jack" Wesley Yoest, Jr., as Vice President of CMR.

Mr. Yoest will represent the Center for Military Readiness in the nation's capital, and will work with Pentagon policy makers, legislators, and the media on wartime military personnel policies of concern to CMR. He will also be involved in research and production of CMR Policy Analysis reports and publications, and will manage initiatives in development, marketing, and new media on the Internet.

Donnelly predicted that the expertise and vision that Yoest brings to the new position will heighten the organization's presence and influence in Washington D.C., and further extend the organization's reach into the ranks of active duty men and women worldwide. "Jack's abilities as a writer, successful entrepreneur and business consultant, plus his military background, will help CMR to increase awareness of policy decisions that affect discipline, morale and readiness, especially in time of war."

Mr. Yoest has started successful manufacturing and software businesses, advised non-profit CEOs on fundraising and strategic direction, and has consulted with domestic and international companies in the fields of high technology, biotechnology and medical devices. He served as an Assistant Secretary for Health and Human Resources during the administration of Virginia Governor James Gilmore. He was Chief of Technology during the Secretariat's Year 2000 (Y2K) conversion, and was a key advisor on the state's website development and policy construction for electronic commerce (e-business).

Mr. Yoest earned an MBA from George Mason University and completed graduate work in the International Operations Management Program at Oxford University. A former Captain in the U. S. Army and son of a 30-year Navy submariner, Yoest served in combat arms and on the U.S. Armor and Engineer Board, which directed research and conducted testing with night vision and electro-optics.

His articles on business, military, and social/cultural subjects have been published in National Review Online, The Women's Quarterly, and Small Business Trends, and syndicated by the Scripps-Howard News Service. Yoest resides in the Washington D.C. area with his five children and wife Charmaine, who is Vice President for Communications at the Family Research Council.

The Center for Military Readiness is an independent, non-partisan public policy organization, founded in 1993, which specializes in military personnel issues.

Center for Military Readiness P.O. Box 51600 Livonia, Michigan 48151

Phone: (734) 464-9430

The press release was picked up by The Washington Times.

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All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players:...And one man in his time plays many parts, said Shakespeare.

Leaders, like the Alert Readers of this humble blog, have a part to play. Lines to read, marks to hit. Here's your first lesson.

Naomi Judd, Bill Maher, Charmaine Simon Cowell, the acerbic judge on American Idol, knows how to pick talent.

When Simon evaluates the likeability of a performer, he looks not at the action on the stage. He looks at a feed on a monitor at his elbow. To see what the singer looks like on a flat screen. Two dimensional. To see what the camera angle captures.

Randy Jackson, Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul

The first rule in camera love:

Show Your Left Face.

The left side of the human face has the subliminal effect of being more likeable, more approachable.

See Naomi Judd with Bill Maher, above. Bill, as you notice, looks directly to the camera. Maher doesn't have a good side. (Charmaine was pulled into the frame, the shutter snapped as she searched for the camera. Hazards of a fast moving show-bizie bash.)

Even Naomi's drunk daughter, Wyonna, posed properly for her police mug shot.

Wyonna Judge
Facing Right
Showing Left

When facing the camera, look to the right and show your left side. It will be your best.

Some 85% of communication is non-verbal. (Dr. Dad says it can be 100% if your wife is mad at you.)

Alert Reader, Steve Rucinski, comments that,

The ... lesson I learned early in my business career... is 'business composure.' People respect that composure even when circumstances are hectic. My belief is composure is not stilted, never out of control; passion yes, anger no.

As Steve reminds us, composure and image is every leader's business.

The recent pictures and images of Jack Abramoff, Condoleezza Rice, and even the wife of Your Business Blogger, demonstrate that how you look communicates who you are.

How shallow. How petty.

How true.

Jack AbramoffThe Jack Abramoff scandal is a complicated web of political financing. Neatly topped off with natty headgear. When the press summarizes the story, the picture shortcut is a black hat on Jack. Bad.

Volokh says:

Unfortunately, the one image the public holds of Abramoff is the infamous photo of him leaving the federal courthouse--a shifty-eyed crook clad in trench coat and black hat, bridging the sartorial divide between Al Capone and Boss Tweed.

This will ruin men's head wear for years. I've stopped wearing my hat.

And Charmaine bought boots.

Rice's black high-heel boots:
As a fashion statement,
absolutely powerful.
Photo Credit:
Michael Probst -- APCondoleezza Rice is our brilliant, effective Secretary of State. Who looks the part and more. Robin Givhan at The Washington Post writes:

Rice's appearance at Wiesbaden -- a military base with all of its attendant images of machismo, strength and power -- was striking because she walked out draped in a banner of authority, power and toughness. She was not hiding behind matronliness, androgyny or the stereotype of the steel magnolia. Rice brought her full self to the world stage -- and that included her sexuality. It was not overt or inappropriate. If it was distracting, it is only because it is so rare.

Condi, about the best Secretary of State we could have during the current asymmetrical war, --with Islam, not image-- is noted for her footwear. Boots (not) made for walking. Sales of high heeled boots must be spiking.

Condi has the boots; Charmaine has the "Republican-red dress." (Which is not as nice as Pat Nixon's Republican cloth coat.)

Last year, in an article on Katie Couric, Vogue magazine covered the Charmaine, Reasoned Audacity v. Naomi Wolf image duel from a November "04 Today Show appearance.

Does Vogue talk anything about competence? A female conservative Ph.D. with five kids? Nooooo. Vogue is only interested in looks and appearances. Much like the rest of the world -- only a bit more honest about it all. Vogue writes Charmaine was dressed in a "sharp" red suit, while Naomi looked, well, "luscious" in pink... Vogue thinks Naomi was using pink to send a message -- Pink now means: my candidate just lost . . .but don't move to Canada, the sun will rise tomorrow?

Dr. Mom, aka Janice Crouse, teaches that,

"People will believe the non-verbal, if there is a conflict between what you say and how you look."

Your Business Composure is your Business Presentation.

Image counts.

Thank you (foot)notes:

See the Today Show video. Click here for the clip.

Janice Crouse, Ph.D. was a speechwriter for President Bush, 41, and former debate coach at Ball State University.

Steve Rucinski blogs at Small Business CEO and Small Business Trends Radio.

Tom McMahon says image is important, even when kidney stones are attacking and why liberals hate Rush Limbaugh; hint: Big Fat Idiot.

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Hugh Hewilt, 3-Time Emmy Award Winner;
Charmaine Yoest
photo credit: Jack Yoest Yesterday was Cinco de Mayo. The fifth of May is our wedding anniversary. Chuck deFeo, Director of Online Strategy for Town Hall, Beyond the News.com, with the Salem Web Network, asked us to join him with 300 of our closest friends in Your Nation's Capital. Karl Rove would say a few words.

Which is odd since he didn't know it was our anniversary. And no one mentioned it. The dinner was off the record, but I think I can report that Karl Rove was silent about Your Business Blogger and the Little Woman.

Other than forgetting our anniversay, Rove was quite engaging.

Charmaine, Mark Steyn making a point,
Michael Medved backgroundThere was a panel with Dennis Prager, Mark Steyn, Bill Bennett.

In the audience, asking questions, was Hugh Hewitt, James Dobson, Frank Gaffney, Mike Gallagher.

We picked up a copy of Hewitt's new book, Paint the Map Red. The Entertainment Industry has the best SWAG.

Janet Parshall; Elaine Bennett of Best Friends; Michael Medved. Some of the brightest stars and thinkers in the business.

Ken Blackwell, the next president Governor, of Ohio spoke.

There were some very, very smart people in that room. I wasn't one of them. I felt like a, well, journalist.

David Aikman moderated the panel. He spent two decades with Time magazine. He's the former Beijing bureau chief. He is such an unTimely kind of guy. (David and Dennis Prager greeted each other speaking fluent Russian.) Anyway, he wrote Jesus in Beijing: How Christianity is Transforming China and Changing the Global Balance of Power. David says that China is changing. They are beginning to understand the rule of law. Lex Rex. He says most of the young lawyers--lawyers! there are Christians. Go figure.

I read Aikman's book. He starts his book with a lecture from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing in 2002. Aikman quotes a Chinese academic speaking to a group from the USA visiting China:

One of the things we were asked to look into was what accounted for the success, in fact, the pre-eminence of the West all over the world...We studied everything we could from the historical, political, economic, and cultural perspective. At first, we thought it was because you had more powerful guns than we had. Then we thought it was because you had the best political system. Next we focused on your economic system. But in the past twenty years, we have realized that the heart of your cultural life was what made possible the emergence of capitalism and then the successful transition to democratic politics. We don't have any doubt about this.

The Chinese don't doubt the source of our cultural heritage. Sadly, American liberals do.

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The National Day of Prayer was Thursday, May 4th. George Bush spoke.

Ed Atsinger
Salem President
and CEOSalem Communications Corporation, NASDAQ SALM,

... is the leading provider of radio programming, online resources and magazines targeted to the Christian and family themes audience. ...Salem Communications currently owns and operates 95 radio stations nation-wide, with 60 stations located in the top 25 most populated U.S. markets. ...Religious formats constitute the third largest radio format in the United States. Currently, over 2,000 radio stations are identified as having primarily a religious format. Approximately 52% of Americans been identified as listeners to religious formatted radio.

Read more on Salem's Editorial Board: Hugh Hewitt, Terry Eastland, Janet Parshall, Albert Mohler, Jr., Michael Medved, Phillip Johnson and David Aikman.

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L to R: Elaine Donnelly, President,
Center for Military Readiness;
Charmaine; Chris Buckley;
Your Business Blogger "Isn't that Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame up ahead?" Asks Charmaine.
"I think so," I said. "Quick, let's get in their frame."

Charmaine and Your Business Blogger are on The Red Carpet. Roped off from the unwashed masses as we enter the Washington Hilton for the White House Correspondent's Dinner Saturday night. Cameras, flashing lights, squeals.

No. Not for us. George Clooney is here somewhere. Probably trying to get in our frame.

We are there for the reception only, courtesy NRO. But we still get a walk on the red side.

There is a science to RCW, Red Carpet Walking. It takes years of study. But this should be a part of your business etiquette.

Here's Walking in 7 Steps:

1) Never a wear name tag. Ever see Madonna with badge on her breast? Or anything at all, besides traffic cones?

2) Drop the drink. It may be sparkling water, but looks like scotch and soda. Your board will think you are boozing it up. Or worse -- you're having a good time. Smiling with the staff.

3) Look back at your backdrop. Your assistant should handle this, but be aware of what's behind you. If I did, I would have noticed the light poles growing out of our heads. See pic above. Not cool -- even if the light poles were for the tennis courts where Justice Scalia was headed.

4) Delay at the door. This gives the person ahead of you time to clear out. It will also compress your posse behind you, if your entourage is to trail. Count to Five. Expectation mounts. Walk in with your head back and smile. They've been waiting for you.

5) Stop for the Paparazzi. And cameras. Even fast shutter times might blur. Walk slow. Smile. Again. The cameras never blink, as Dan Rather said.

6) Never wear a coat. Fur yes, but not outer winter wear. You are walking only from the limo car to the door. No need for a coat. And it hassles the staff. You don't do coat checks.

7) Get in the picture. Now if Maria Bartoloma is ahead of you, cameras will follow her. Camera equipment, as has been well documented, is carried by lonely, sex-starved men. Photo-journalists are like 14-year-old boys, but on the payroll. Get close behind the celebrity, especially if it's a woman. It makes it difficult to photoshop you out.

Now you know The Red Carpet. In case your daughter is part of the Academy Awards, or for your blockbuster IPO, or if you simply walk through the wrong door.

Like we did.

Thank you (foot)notes:

Cross Post at Management Training.

Read on the marketing brilliance of Chris Buckley's Smoking at Tony Snow, Bimbo's.

Be sure to read more at NRO's The Corner.

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Tony Snow at
The White House Tony Snow goofed. Pay attention, because it won't happen often.

The
Bimbo
AwardThe new Presidential Press Secretary Bimbo'ed.

This is the media mistake where the interviewee repeats back the negative content from the interviewer.

Here is the headline on Drudge today:

Tony Snow: 'People blast me because I'm too squishy...'

Tony's (rare) mistake was forgetting that the human mind cannot process a negative. Readers will only remember that Tony Snow is squishy.

Fall Hawn 1987 Bimbo comes from Merrie Spaeth at Spaeth Communications who developed this concept. Based on Fawn Hall's difficulty while working at Oliver North's office. And her denial before the press:

Maggot infested press jackal: Are you a bimbo?

Radiant, lovely Fawn Hall: No. I am not a bimbo.

So what does the world remember? Fawn Hall is a bimbo.

NIXON WAS

not A CROOKRichard Nixon is another example, "I am not a crook."

What does the world remember? Richard Nixon is a crook.

Repeating back a negative? Methinks the Lady doth protest too much.

Now. A good marketing campaign can turn the Bimbo to advantage. A Reverse Bimbo.

As in Thank You for Not Smoking, by Christopher Buckley. (Another conservative!)

Buckley, son of William F., parodies the brilliant tobacco marketing mind. They know that the brain will only compute,

THANK YOU FOR

not SMOKING

Smoking, The MovieThat's not so bad. The words are helpful. And compliant with the Surgeon General. But they communicate the opposite of the stated wording. Good marketers know this.

Knowing Bimbo's will help you change your life. Even with your kids.

Remember how your mom would say, "Don't forget your lunch!!!"

And all your little head could handle was "Forget your lunch!!!"

And obeying mom, you forgot your lunch.

From this post forth, always remember to frame (life!) in the positive.

To, "Remember your lunch."

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Full Disclosure: Mom used to work for Tony in the White House. It kept mother and daughter out of Nordstroms.

See David Sirota on attacked.

Tony Snow reads Smash at Indepundit.

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Real Women's Voices Babies. Lots of them. And business is noticing.

If your job is strategic planning, you should know where Charmaine is today, instead of lounging in Nordstrom's.

My Helpmeet and her cohort are making news; making a market. And creating a trend line. With who has children and who does not. The Wall Street Journal plotted out this graph in Best of the Web in '03,

Not all women, after all, are equally likely to have abortions.

It also seems reasonable to assume that parents have some influence on their children, so that if liberal women are having abortions, the next generation will be more conservative than it otherwise would be.

The next big thing will be little bundles of joy by a particular market segment: Conservative, Church going, Traditionalist, Republican.

This strategic trend will also have political muscle. These consumers are voters.

Today, I sent off the Little Woman with two of our girls for a real 'take your daughters to work' experience. To join lobbyists on Capital Hill.

Charmaine, The Dreamer and The Diva have appointments in Senator Hillary Clinton's office this afternoon. We'll let you know what happens.

The Dreamer is equipped with a camera.

From the Susan B. Anthony List:

WHY IS AMERICA TRENDING PRO-LIFE?
A Panel Discussion at the National Press Club with release of
NEW POLL on Americans' views regarding Roe vs. Wade

WASHINGTON - Ten years ago, Congress was on the brink of passing the Freedom of Choice Act. Today, from parental notification to informed consent laws, state after state is passing more restrictions on abortions. Some suggest the watershed moment for pro-life forces was the introduction of the Partial-birth Abortion Ban. Others point to the growth of pregnancy resource centers and the improvement of medical technology, such as 4-D ultrasounds. Whatever the cause, the case can be made that America is trending in the pro-life direction. An expert panel will discuss this phenomenon and its implications for the 2006 elections and beyond. A new poll regarding Americans' views on Roe vs. Wade will also be released.

WHAT: PANEL DISCUSSION FEATURING:

Kate O'Beirne - Author, "Women Who Make the World Worse"
Ramesh Ponnuru - Author, "The Party of Death"
Kristin Day - President, Democrats for Life
Karen Smith - the polling company,inc/WomanTrend
Moderator: Marjorie Dannenfelser, President, Susan B. Anthony List

Finally, a warning. If your strategic planner is a woman, or if your chief marketing officer is a woman, she will not know, nor care about these demographic shifts. She might very be an abortion advocate, with a particular bias and blindness.

So test her. Ask her what the Roe Effect is and how this will affect business for the next decade.

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Wall Street Journal blockquote BY JAMES TARANTO, Friday, January 17, 2003 1:47 p.m. EST citing Sex and the GOP

More at the jump.

See Uncorrelated for more analysis.

See Daily Pundit on Roe Effect Multiplier.

Visit ProLife Blogs for the Party of Death.

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MRC's Founder...at the Media Research Center's DisHonor Awards. Your Business Blogger and Charmaine attended last night's fund raising dinner with 960 of our closest DC friends.

Typical rubber chicken talk-a-thon? Nope. Steak at the Grand Hyatt Hotel. Humor and hand-held noise makers. Real Laughter.

Brent Bozell, with his master of ceremonies, Peabody Awarding winning Cal Thomas, had terrific material to work with.

Poking fun at the liberal media bias. With actual footage of the nincompoopheads that bring us the news. The Goliaths.

The Army of Davids was in the audience.

Media Research CenterThere were multiple categories. Nominees included Andrea Mitchell, Chris Matthews, Nina Totenberg, Jack Cafferty, Keith Obermann, Nancy Giles, Rick Kaplan, David Gergen, Ted Turner, Harry Smith, Mary Mapes, Kathy Griffin, Alec Baldwin, Rosie O'Donnell.

Oddly, none of the nominees were in attendance.

The presenters included Tony Blankley, Larry Kudlow, Mark Levin, Brent Bozell.

The winners were Chris Mathews, Rosie O'Donnell, Ted Turner.

The West's Last ChanceHigh class swell swag was to be had. Courtesy MRC: copies of Tony Blankley's new book.*

Ted Turner's award winning interview was his political analysis. Critical of the USA, and fawning of North Korea and Kim Jong-il. Oppression, torture, starvation north of the 38th parallel? He didn't see any. "I saw thin people...riding bikes," lectured Turner.

Odd to hear an American hating southern accent. Well, his and Jimmy Carter's.

Conservatives have a liberal sense of humor. Mark Levin said, "...Rosie O'Donnell went to charm school...on a football scholarship."

Tony Blankley mused that CNN's AAron Burr Brown believes all conservative policies and programs are delivered from "the anus of satan."

Larry Kudlow comma Capitalist, as he always introduces himself on CNBC, rolled the Chris Matthews clip. This is where the host of Harball says, "We've got to get out of our American skin...the North Vietnamese were ...objectively the good guys..." in the Vietnam War. This is what passes for journalism. And is failing.

Stan Evans bemoaned the lack of liberal's grammar. "Brokeback Mountain?...It's not Brokeback -- it's BROKENback Mountain..."

See the video at the Media Research Center.

The evening closed with A Tribute to the American Military. Some cried. Out loud.

Brent Bozell is a class act. Who loves America.

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* I picked up a few extra copies of the Blankley book. Leave me a comment on liberal bias and the benefit of blog reading and I'll mail you a FREE copy. Include mailing address, will not be published. While supplies last.

The DisHonors Awards have been held since 1999. More at the jump.

Soldier's Angel has more on the media bias.

Visit Pundit Review for real analysis.

Full Disclosure: Brent Brozell has said nice things about Your Business Blogger's wife and one of her appearances on Bill Maher's Politically Incorrect.

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National Public RadioClients have asked Your Business Blogger, "What topics do managers never discuss with the media?"

Charmaine is debating one such business taboo topic today: Homosexuality.

Today on National People's Public Radio at 2pm EST, Talk of the Nation
Thursday, March 2, 2006

Tune in and let us know what you think!

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Charmaine on ABC World News TonightCharmaine recently was interviewed on ABC.

She was selling the most challenging type of product -- an intangible.

If you are marketing with success and making a difference in your business, you will be in demand as an on-air talent.

Get ready.

Here's a compressed c