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by Chuck Norris www.townhall.com On Glenn Beck’s radio show last week, I quipped, in response to our wayward federal government, “I may run for president of Texas.” That need may be a reality sooner than we think. If not I, someone someday may again be running for president of the Lone Star State, if the […]...
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Ann Coulterwww.townhall.comWednesday, February 11, 2009 It’s bad enough when illiterate jurors issue damages awards in the billions of dollars because they don’t grasp the difference between a million and a billion. Now it turns out the Democrats don’t know the difference between a million and a trillion. Why not make the “stimulus bill” a kazillion […]...
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FEBRUARY 3, 2009 Emarketer Safe assumption: Teens are online.Unsafe: Retirees aren’t. About nine out of 10 US consumers ages 12 to 24 use the Internet. That is not surprising. But more than one-half of those ages 65 to 69 are online as well, and Internet-using 70-to-74-year-olds make up 45% of people that age, according to […]...
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By Chris AndersonThe Wall Street Journal Over the past decade, we have built a country-sized economy online where the default price is zero — nothing, nada, zip. Digital goods — from music and video to Wikipedia — can be produced and distributed at virtually no marginal cost, and so, by the laws of economics, price […]...
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by Jeffrey M. JonesTHE GALLUP ORGANIZATION PRINCETON, NJ — An analysis of Gallup Poll Daily tracking data from 2008 finds Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Hawaii to be the most Democratic states in the nation, along with the District of Columbia. Utah and Wyoming are the most Republican states....
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Hot off the keyboards from the Department of the Treasury, the first banks to get TARP money in the era of Obama. How Much Did You Get?...
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From Staff ReportsCorsicanaDailySun.com With corporate managers under enormous pressure to control costs and maintain liquidity in the current credit crisis, advertising budgets often appear to be a dispensable luxury in the struggle to survive. Executives who succumb to that temptation, however, put the long-term future of their companies at risk, according to Wharton School of […]...
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What were the top social media sites of 2008? ComScore came out with its worldwide traffic stats for November a few days ago (so these don’t include December). They are a mix of social networks and blogging platforms. Blogger, the orange line in the chart above, still rules the roost with an estimated 222 million […]...
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Now that we know we’re in a recession, the pressure is on to create the best marketing results with limited and, possibly, shrinking resources. In 2009, prioritizing expenses will remain top of mind, and marketers are going to increasingly need to demonstrate they can manage, if not increase, return on investment (ROI). Budget decisions may […]...
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Faced with writing a school report on an Australian animal, Tyler Kennedy began where many students begin these days: by searching the Internet. But Tyler didn’t use Google or Yahoo. He searched for information about the platypus on YouTube. “I found some videos that gave me pretty good information about how it mates, how it […]...
