The Advantages of Small Banks
Sometimes it takes a small bank to make a community grow. From granting SBA loans quickly and easily to offering Massachusetts Free Checking Accounts with no strings attached, small Massachusetts banks are a helping hand in the community. In fact, that interpersonal connection is a crucial element in what makes small ...
If Greece gets its own Currency, why shouldn’t States?
Various experts have been saying that Greece’s problems would be mostly solved if the country had its own currency. The Greek population is just over 11 million, somewhere between that of the Chicago and Los Angeles metropolitan area populations. With its own currency, Greece could devalue its debts and pension obligations ...
Activists Celebrate Gay Marriage Victory In New York; But The Battle Goes On
Gay Rights activists in America were celebrating yesterday after New York became the biggest state in the country to allow same-sex couples to marry.
It has become the sixth state in America where gay marriage is legal, but this only happened after a ferocious battle that had put its government on virtual ...
Contests that require Facebook/Twitter or How Facebook excludes the poor from its API
OK, this is getting old. Today I received an email from Amazon about a “contest” to win a digital camera. I read it, and it sounded interesting, so I clicked the link in the email and arrived at .. Facebook.
The contest rules are simple – “Like” the contest on Facebook ...
Google tests a new interface
Another day, another Google experiment. This time, Google tests a new search button inspired by Bing and removes the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button from the homepage, probably because it's no longer useful. Google Instant makes the search button unnecessary most of the time, so Google could remove it altogether. It's interesting ...
Syria and the “Popular Will”
Against a backdrop of anti-government protests and his regime’s brutal response to them, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad addressed the country on Monday (June 20). Downplaying both the demonstrations and the dissatisfaction that they result from, Assad called on “the people and the state [to] come together.”
With the death toll climbing, Assad’s assurances ...
Atlas isn’t shrugging, he’s migrating
If you're wondering why Illinois simply can't flip the switch and return to the days when it was the effective center of the nation, American Thinker's Monty Pelerin gives a sobering and powerful assessment of what the problem is.
Those valuable producers - Ayn Rand's "Atlas" that went on strike in her book "Atlas Shrugged" - are taking a different ...
Axelrod Destroyed the Democratic Party in Order to Save It — Destroyed Democracy for Ego and Gamesmanship
Boy, you just can’t make this stuff up.
Weiner exhibiting his “package” via email.
Thank you, Anthony. Exhibit A. That just about sums up what the ruling patriarchy is all about. Power and competition and the biggest “package” whether of a person, a party, a nation or nations. The killer ...
On NATO, Libya and Holbrooke
NATO
Apparently Robert Gates, Secretary of Defense, dressed down NATO members for not pulling their full share for the sake of US-led imperialism.
This provocative statement from Marti Hiken:
While Gates says, “Part of this predicament stems from a lack of will, much of it from a lack of resources in an era of ...
Content Marketing Institute
If you work in the marketing industry, you’re familiar with Content Marketing. Maybe you know it by another name, but the concept of providing customers, potential customers and other stakeholders with content of value rather than just jamming advertising down their throats is now accepted wisdom. Joe Pulizzi has been at the forefront of this movement ...
