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Vicki McClure Davidson | August 6, 2010

Despite what the Community Organizer in Chief claims, unemployment is bad. How bad IS it? THIS BAD: From Wall Street Journal, U.S. Employers Shed Jobs: The government’s latest snapshot of the job market was bleak, a sign the economic recovery is running out of steam with 14.6 million Americans still searching for work. Job growth [...]

Category: Business & Economy, Entertainment, Celebrities, Holidays and Family, Media & Communication, Social and Political Climate | 4 Comments »
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Vicki McClure Davidson | August 6, 2010

Spain must be simply lovely this time of year… especially for Michelle “Uptown Girl” Obama and 40 of her closest BFFs. She, daughter Sasha, those 3-dozen-plus close friends, and a tripled-up security entourage of Secret Service will be cavorting through Spain and staying at the premier luxury, five-star resort hotel Villa Padierna in Marbella adjacent [...]

Category: Business & Economy, Holidays and Family, International Relations, Social and Political Climate, Videos, Audio Files | 7 Comments »
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Vicki McClure Davidson | February 4, 2010

Katie Couric = Marie Antoinette “Let them wear haute couture!” Good grief, this video below is UNREAL. Unbelievably insensitive, tacky interview just two days after countless CBS Evening News employees, some who had given their all to the news station for decades, were tossed out in the cold this week. Couric should be ashamed of [...]

Category: Business & Economy, Entertainment, Celebrities, Media & Communication, Social and Political Climate, Videos, Audio Files | 8 Comments »
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