Also, a few quotes about Thomas Jefferson. “Jefferson’s sense of Britain as a perennial foe is unsurprising and essential to understand.” Meacham writes. “He thought he was in a perennial war. And if we are to understand what he was like and what life was like for him, then we must see the world as […]
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How often do hiring managers consider the fact that their candidates and the readers of their job descriptions may also be their customers? Companies often do the same thing that they complain that candidates do. Several months ago, a candidate came into our office and just about commanded us to find a position for her […]
“There is nothing new under the sun.” – Ecclesiastes 1:9 Do any of the following: sound familiar? Two political parties are very distrustful of each other and thought the other party was a danger to the country. One of the most influential politicians of the time, also a future president, becomes very “conspiratorial” and believes […]
Image attribution from “The American Journalist in the Digital Age” The Ad Fontes Media bias chart, often referred to as “the chart,” is not particularly helpful. The chart seeks to show where the major media outlets, publications, or websites land on the spectrum of left to right, or liberal to conservative. It also ranks them […]
It’s interesting to read this article by the Brookings Institute from 1996. “Lawrence Greenfeld of the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics has shown conclusively that fully 94 percent of state prisoners had either committed one or more violent crimes (62 percent) or been convicted more than once in the past for nonviolent crimes (32 percent). […]
