Snowden Debacle Spotlights Contracting Hazards

Harvard Business Review's Tammy Erickson describes in glowing terms "The Rise of the New Contract Worker ". The Defense Department would appear to be reevaluating this popular labor trend, though. The Huffington Post reports that while contractors comprise less than a quarter of the Defense Department's labor force, they account for 50 percent of its cost. …

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High Contrast: Thomas Kinkade’s Art, Life & Controversy

There is something attractive about defrocking a figure of faith-and-family-values virtue, particularly one of great commercial success who has endeared himself to an endangered minority: the American middle class. The late Thomas Kinkade, who died of unnamed causes Friday, made an easy target. The self-anointed "painter of light" specialized in idealized scenes hearkening to a more …

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Straight Talk to Conservatives: What it Will Take in 2012

Looking forward to the 2012 election, how will Republican leaders regroup? What should the GOP learn from the election of 2008?