May 3, 2010

Balancing budget really not so hard to do

After spending more than a trillion taxpayer dollars in his first 15 months, President Barack Obama has appointed a debt commission to advise him on how to reduce the deficit and balance the budget. Any American family that has to live with a budget could tell him that spending more money than you take in will eventually lead our country into bankruptcy. Here are my recommendations:

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May 3, 2010

Birthday Gifts: Find Some Exquisite Birthday Gifts to Amuse Your …

A birthday gift can mean a lot than expectation. The birthday gifts signify love, affection, giver’s caring nature and also how special the recipient is. In the market there is wide range of exquisite and fabulous gift items

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May 3, 2010

Embrace your eccentricity this Bank Holiday

Seen anything daft yet? The May Day Bank Holiday weekend is the time of year when every eccentric in the land first comes out to play. But it is far more significant and telling than that about who we are and what we really believe in, particularly with just days to go to the election

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May 3, 2010

I want The West Wing, not The Office politics

As just about the only game show that Britain had not previously imported from America, the TV leaders’ debates made a lot of people uncomfortable. They seemed to reduce the election campaign to a popularity contest between three guys — and their choice of tie.

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May 3, 2010

Sanctions on Iran have failed. The US must target its oil

When Mahmoud Ahmadinejad walks up to the podium today in New York to deliver another blast of venom, the only proper response is for the US to hit Iran’s economy with much tougher sanctions than anyone has yet tried. That means targeting its oil industry, not just its leaders and its banks.

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May 3, 2010

Cleggmania could change the world’s elections

It used to be the case that UK campaigns were thought to follow the US lead closely: Clinton’s War Room in 1992 became Blair’s Millbank in 1997; Bush’s Compassionate Conservatism in 2000 became Hague’s in 2001.

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May 3, 2010

Once upon a time there were three leaders . . .

Fortuitously, as Greece struggles in financial meltdown, its satirists are this year’s stars of the Cartoon Festival exhibition in Shrewsbury. They are funnier than I had (naively) expected, but what struck me most was the glee with which these modern Greek cartoonists plunge into their heritage of myth for inspiration in their fiscal crisis.

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Once upon a time there were three leaders . . .

May 2, 2010

Tany et La Mode: Presentes de Aniversário – Birthday Gifts

These are some of the gifts received from friends and family, hope you like them. My Birthday was on the 24th of April but since I had to attend to a certification course last week (I’ll take the written exam on Monday so wish me luck), …

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May 2, 2010

The best tip for women wanting to have it all is: don’t bother

A wave of sympathy broke over the media sisterhood last week when the writer Allison Pearson confessed in her Daily Mail column that she was suffering from depression and was therefore no longer able to carry on; she said goodbye to her readers. The Guardian was quick to respond with dramatic headlines: “Women on the verge”, “Why do so many women have depression?” and “All too much”.

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May 2, 2010

It’s not just the Greeks – beware of all the siesta states

A new maxim for a new age: beware of Greeks bearing hastily written promissory notes. Or, actually, just beware of Greeks, full stop. It’s not looking good for them, is it?

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May 1, 2010

The internet election that never happened

When I covered Barack Obama’s campaign trail, I was struck by the incredible political activity and energy on the web. The targeted e-mails, the fundraising, the co-ordinated news releases and the way in which Facebook and other social networks came into play created a level of participation we had never seen before

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May 1, 2010

How dare you diss Mrs Duffy? That’s my aunt

The most poignant moment of that dreadful day in Rochdale was when Gillian Duffy asked the Sky reporter exactly what the Prime Minister had said about her in his car. You could see from her beaming expectation that she’d counted on a “marvellous woman!” at the very least. Maybe even a chuckling “she should be in the Cabinet”

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April 30, 2010

Birthday Gifts- Tips to Get a Perfect Birthday Gift « Shopping …

Birthday gifts make birthday occasions extraordinary. Gifts conveys your message what role the person has in your life and how much you care for his/her happiness. Therefore you should always take some extra care while purchasing a …

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April 30, 2010

Scalpel! This NHS red tape needs removing

It’s election time, apparently, and our glorious political classes are marching forward on the massed ranks of the electorate with banners that claim that their party, only their party, will save the NHS.

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April 30, 2010

Einstein’s tongue – or why science is tedious

Clearly, Professor Stephen Hawking is an heroic figure — a man who’s so damned clever even extreme physical disability couldn’t prevent his ascent to intellectual star status. But, this week, he’s pushing product

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April 30, 2010

Stalking is a crime, not a gesture of extreme romance

Last year a film called He’s Just Not That Into You came out. It was based on a bestselling book of the same name, that was in turn inspired by the TV series Sex and the City, and, in turn, by a whole slew of advice manuals from The Rules to Women Who Love Too Much.

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April 30, 2010

Europe’s economy is the sick man of the world

It wasn’t very nice to liken the Greek debt crisis to the Ebola virus but, as a former Mexican finance minister, Angel Gurria knows a thing or two about contagion and financial sickness. “When you realise you have it,” he said, “you have to cut your leg off to survive.” As the head of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development was standing next to Angela Merkel, Germany’s tough-minded chancellor, at the time, his message will surely have got through.

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Europe’s economy is the sick man of the world

April 30, 2010

We came, we saw, but what did we really learn?

Since the whole business kicked off in Manchester two weeks and a day ago, my profession has looked with ambivalence at the leaders’ televised debates.

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April 29, 2010

Two Hands Full of Daisies: My Birthday Gifts Arrived Yesterday!

My Birthday Gifts Arrived Yesterday! I have made it a tradition of choosing a new spring bag for my birthday and I thought it was very nice of Kate Spade to honor me with a Friends and Family sale! Yesterday I received the Mini Michaela …

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April 28, 2010

The Complete Guide to Father’s Day – Part Three

Fathers, they can be incredibly funny but incredibly annoying at times, they know just how to pull your strings – but you can’t help but love them for it!! Today at Treat Him we’re celebrating all the things that make dad, well dad. So check out our Top 10 Things We Love About Dad, it’s bound to make you smile..

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