Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Tuesday's Daily Brief

Tuesday, July 19, 2011
POLITICS
Tea Party-Backed Debt Ceiling Plan Faces House Vote
POLITICS
Wisconsin Voters Head To Polls For First Recall Election
WORLD
Gaza-Bound French Ship Seized By Israeli Navy
BUSINESS
BofA Posts $8.8 Billion Loss After Mortgage Settlement
HEALTHY LIVING
Report Links Meat-Eating To Disease
BLOG POSTS
Bill Schneider: The Perils of a Balanced Budget Amendment
The balanced budget vote in Congress again this week is a contest between popular common sense and the informed opinion of the establishment. If you're a politician, you don't want to argue with common sense.
Keli Goff: Do Great Mothers Make Great Leaders?
Is the skill set required to effectively manage a home all that different from the skill set required to be an effective manager in the workplace or in government?
Paul Rieckhoff: VOW to Hire Our Heroes
Lost in the headlines about the mind-numbing debt ceiling debate and Japan's Women's World Cup victory, the unemployment rate for new veterans jumped to 13.3 percent in June, 4 percent higher than the national average.
Dr. Peggy Drexler: Are Men What They Used to Be?
While some wail over the declining state of manhood implied by statistics, maybe men are just evolving from swaggering through life in some cartoon interpretation of what men are supposed to be -- to becoming more fully-formed human beings.
John R. Talbott: Why Facebook Is Undervalued
While the latest valuations seem high for a company that was started just seven years ago by a Harvard undergrad in his dorm room, they don't even begin to touch the potential valuation that Facebook might attain in the very near future.

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