March 2008 Archives
March 28, 2008
Written by: Pat Cleary
We've posted big time-wasters here before, like Watch It Shred. This one might be even more dangerous. Thanks to Nancy Nickerson for passing along this gem from AndieAndMike.org, a live video feed of a garden somewhere in the sunny climes...
March 21, 2008
Written by: Pat Cleary
This one made the rounds a few weeks ago, a prank involving 207 people at bustling Grand Central Station in New York City. At the same agreed-upon moment -- all at different places walking through Grand Central -- the pranksters...
March 16, 2008
Written by: Pat Cleary
Interesting series on global poverty in the Christian Science Monitor this past week written by my good friend (and former White House speechwriter) Mark Lange. It's a five-part series that makes for good and thought-provoking reading. Part one explodes some...
March 14, 2008
Written by: Pat Cleary
It's been a tough week for virtue what with this Eliot Spitzer thing playing out. It has certainly set a bunch of us to thinking about the hereafter, wondering where we all might end up -- like Clients # 1-8...
March 13, 2008
Written by: Pat Cleary
Yesterday the Pacific Research Institute released its annual Tort Liability Index, a ranking of states according to the relative friendliness or unfriendliness of their legal climates. There's a lot in this report but you can click here to see a...
March 11, 2008
Written by: Pat Cleary
As the political career of the sanctimonious and self-righteous Eliot Spitzer unravels, there is real news going on out there. Under the radar yesterday, the EPA issued its annual report on greenhouse gases (GHG), finding that GHG emissions in the...
March 7, 2008
Written by: Pat Cleary
WARNING: If you hope to get anything done today, DO NOT read this post, do not click on the link below. If you hope for any semblance of productivity today, best not to risk it. Let us introduce you to...
March 6, 2008
Written by: Pat Cleary
If you ever wonder, "Who reads blogs?" we can tell you that the GOP's Chief Deputy Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) is one of them. Cantor (a very web-savvy guy) posted a comment to our entry below on US competitiveness. We thought...
March 6, 2008
Written by: Pat Cleary
Since this is a business blog, we'll be writing frequently on issues impacting US competitiveness, like taxes, trade and regulation. In that vein, here's an interesting study from the good people at ContentFirst, done on behalf of the Software and...
March 4, 2008
Written by: Pat Cleary
Two good pieces on the pending free trade agreement with Colombia, the largest market for U.S. agriculture exports in South America: One, this excellent op-ed by US Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue in The Poltico (our new favorite pub...
March 3, 2008
Written by: Pat Cleary
Well at least something good has come out of the Dems' debate on NAFTA: It seems to have brought all the free traders out of hiding, including the New York Times, the WaPo and today, Fareed Zakaria, editor of the...
March 2, 2008
Written by: Pat Cleary
Welcome, everyone, to BizCentral.org, the first-of-its-kind business association community blog. What's that mean? It means that it's a blog with a dozen or so contributors drawn from the business association community -- and one wannabe. If you click on the link...
March 2, 2008
Written by: Pat Cleary
A double dose of NAFTA defense from the WaPo this weekend. First there was this editorial in Saturday's paper, entitled, "At Best, a Pander," subtitled, "The Democratic candidates' intemperate promise to renegotiate NAFTA." It blasts Democrat Presidential candidates Clinton and Obama...
