VLEMX "keep informed"

Your Twitter Weekend Homework: Monitor Your Keywords Last week's homework was to create a list of keywords to monitor on Twitter (don't worry, you can catch up if you didn't finish it last week). This week, your Twitter homework is to get down to monitoring those keywords so you can keep up with what's going on in your niche. read more>> With Their New 'People' Tab, Is Twitter About To Start Categorizing Users? Twitter has made some cosmetic alterations to the profile pages of users, adding new buttons and making some adjustments to copy. They've also tweaked the pages that show the people we're following. Which has made me wonder: is Twitter about to change the way users are managed on the network? read more>> McDonald's Wants To Give You $10,000 If You're Part Of "The Perfect Pair" On Twitter Do you have a Twitter doppelganger? Someone you have delicious back-and-forths with? McDonald's wants to know, and the...

Every afternoon we surf your sites for the most popular stories of the day. Here are the top headlines for April 19, 2011: Washington Post: Why Glenn Beck lost it Washington Times: Afghanistan ‘death squad’ killings fail to get media, political attention Washington Examiner: Giant of Maryland politics, Gov., comptroller, Baltimore mayor William Donald Schaefer, R.I.P. Bloomberg: Obama Embarks on Tour to Sell Debt Plan, Not Dwell on S&P USA Today: Obama to reporter: ‘Let me finish my answers’ next time The Hill: Rep. Frank: Administration ‘wasting time’ with online poker crackdown Politico: Watergate’s ‘last chapter’ Roll Call: FEC Launches Audit of Obama’s 2008 Campaign National Journal: Wave Elections Might Be Washed Up for Now Talking Points Memo: Leaked Tell-All Manuscript By Former Aide Suggests Sarah Palin Broke Election Law The New Republic: Raise My Taxes The Daily Caller: TheDC Exclusive: Conservatives hit Beck for taking content without attribution

Barack Obama made George Bush the target of his 2008 campaign. He blasted President Bush repeatedly for the “ failed policies of the last 8 years. ” He said it was a defining moment in this nation’s history and his policies would bring the country more prosperity and employment. He lied. Now we know the truth. Not only were more jobs lost after the 9-11 attacks in 2001 than in the 2008 market crash, but more jobs were created by President Bush’s pro-business policies and tax cuts than by the Obama-Pelosi “spend your way to hell” Keynesian failure . The Foundry reported, via HotAir : For objective observers the failure of President Obama’s $862 billion stimulus has become increasingly difficult to deny. But not for the White House. Last week, Vice President Joe Biden told Charlie Rose on PBS that the stimulus was  “an absolute success.” Betraying a common perception about unemployment, Biden  told Rose: “[W]e lost 8 million brand new jobs … s...

On February 25, 2010 our president will be in a meeting with officials from both parties, discussing a health bill that the U.S.A. does not want. The president will be at this meeting from 10a.m. till 4p.m. The U.S.A. is in a recession with high unemployment. We have troops all over the world. We are in two wars. Our government wants to talk health bill. Why? The proposed government health bill does nothing for prescriptions. So what is it they will be talking about? Our government is involved in almost every facet of our life. They are involved in most business except our health and now want the ability to dictate what care we may get. What does health care have to do with our government? Nothing! If our citizens want health care then let them decide in a free market what to get.

The fall in employment is so bad that last year's decline of 3.7 percent was the worst since 1938, when Franklin Roose­velt misjudged an incipient recovery and cut public investment, resulting in a 5.8 percent plunge in employment. We must put "our" people back to work. The administration must initiate policies that help reignite the investment-driven engines of our economy. One worker in an infrastructure project leads to almost 1.7 jobs for others. And we will be fulfilling a desperate national need. It is time the obstacles created by the profusion of bureaucracies at the local, state, and national level were cleared away. And, Drill here, Drill there, Drill everywhere!