For various reasons that are always questioned by conservatives, I served as an AmeriCorps VISTA for two years after college. I don’t regret it. I worked with an amazing nonprofit in Chattanooga that made my first two years in the professional world a dream. However, I was clued into a new universe of “community organizing” [...]

Update: Independent Women’s Forum also picked up this story. Imagine that you’re graduating from college soon. With unemployment at 10%, do you have a chance of getting a job when competing with experienced workers? What are your options? For many recent college graduates, they take internships. It’s not ideal, but it often gives new workers [...]

One of the first taxes to start is the 10% tax on tanning salons. While Obamacare was passed with no regard or even logic with the way that economics work, I wonder if the Obama Administration anticipated who this tax would affect the most. Guess who owns the majority of tanning salons? The majority of [...]

Today is the much-hyped political circus. I can’t help but think this going to be like a big Hollywood movie. Some special effects, dramatic pauses and feel-good platitudes but at the end of the day the same old scene that gets played over and over again. Susan B. Anthony List announced that Congressman Marsha Blackburn [...]

The images from Haiti have been horrifying. Americans have an amazing tradition of helping others in need and coming to the rescue during tragic events. Since I don’t know much about Haiti, I’ve been confused about what organizations to trust. After 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, I just don’t trust the Red Cross. I’d much rather [...]

Recently, The Economist ran an article on the emergence of feminism within management theory: But some of today’s most influential feminists contend that women will never fulfill their potential if they play by men’s rules. According to Avivah Wittenberg-Cox and Alison Maitland, two of the most prominent exponents of this position, it is not enough [...]

This week, we heard another story of stimulus fraud sending millions of dollars to nonexistent zip codes. Prior to that, Americans learned that funding was going to fake congressional districts. Then Senators McCain and Coburn’s released a report that highlighted 100 wasteful projects in the stimulus. I can’t be the only one outraged that digging [...]

Does it cost more to be a woman? We’ve seen the debate that insurance is more expensive than women. That’s frankly a silly debate since women’s bodies have a few more complicated parts that birth babies, get hurt, diseased or are more likely to get cancer. Women are also far more likely to go to [...]

Earlier today, I wrote a post in response to AC Kleinheider’s column. It was getting lengthy, so I broke it into two parts. Below is Part II. Click here for Part I. It’s not very often that I find myself agreeing with Tennessee bloggers, Betsy Phillips at Tiny Cat Pants or Newscoma. While always provocative, [...]

Have you ever been frustrated at work because policies are outdated and won’t allow you to be as productive as you could be or work from home when it is feasible? You’ll find this video interesting. We all focus on technology and the methods that companies and organizations are using to communicate to external audiences, [...]