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A warning to the past
Breitbart´s InstaBlog, by John Hayward
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Posted By:KarenJ1, 2/18/2013 1:40:06 PM
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| In response to Is Social Media Breeding Monsters?: Another thought: there´s a passage in Mark Steyn´s most recent book where he muses that H.G. Wells´ Time Traveler, jumping forward from the latter days of the 19th century, would have been astounded at the changes the coming half-century held in store... but then rather non-plussed about the relatively modest practical improvements of the half-century after that. One of Steyn´s hypothetical observations is that the Time Traveler would be puzzled at the sight of adults walking around dressed like children, only a few decades after it was commonplace for men
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He is so absolutely right about what he says in this article. In the past these moral degenerates would have been shamed. Not anymore. The same could be said about Flacco dropping the f-bomb during a SuperBowl interview. Those of us who are offended about the direction our society is headed are treated like we are puritanical, unsophisticated rubes who must be naive enough to think swearing doesn´t occur among men, or anyone for that matter. There is a time and place for everything. You should be intelligent enough to know when it is extremely inappropriate.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
thomthomp, 2/18/2013 2:53:42 PM (No. 9183398)
See the movie "Idiocracy". Instead of comedy, it may be prophecy.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
veritas, 2/18/2013 3:11:30 PM (No. 9183436)
A good short blog post, and quite correct. Thanks, OP.
Disclosure: last year, fed up with how most men dress in public, I "drew a line" for myself, even though I always dressed decently. Now my usual street attire is (black) suit, solid-color shirt, tie, (black) fedora, and black wingtips. I know enough to only wear only one patterned item. I focus on striking ties, which do not have to be expensive. Taste is the key.
(Guys, think of dresswear like framed artwork -- the suit is the frame; the shirt is the mat; and the tie is the artwork, the focus. A solid-color shirt that complements the tie does wonders.)
I never fail to get approving glances, smiles, more respectful treatment, and usually, verbal complements on my appearance. YMMV.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
gijohn, 2/18/2013 3:44:18 PM (No. 9183486)
No Thank You. I´ll wear a suit for weddings and funerals. I still regard suit wearers as liars, charlatans, politicians or lawyers.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
thelmalou, 2/18/2013 4:48:21 PM (No. 9183580)
Men in black suits are dishy. Also, Mark Steyn is frickin´ brilliant.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
veritas, 2/18/2013 7:44:37 PM (No. 9183845)
#3: He´p me out here. I can´t figger out whether I´m among the liars, charlatans, politicians or lawyers, based on the fact-set in #2. And how in the wide, wide world of sports do you figger it out just from "wears a suit"?
Though, until I hit on the right line of ties [and some sharp pocket squares -- de rigueur!], with my small, black-cased notebook computer in hand, I was several times asked if I were a preacher. Which is really scary!
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NewsBusters, by Ken Shepherd
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/10/2013 10:07:45 PM
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NBC Meet the Press host David Gregory reportedly threw quite the tantrum on Tuesday over a charity event held on a street near his home that has temporarily caused a shortage of on-street parking. The Washington Post´s Reliable Source column has the story (emphasis mine): Note to David Gregory: If cars are parked in front of your house for a month, send someone else to complain about it. The “Meet the Press” host made a scene Tuesday when he lit into organizers of the D.C. Design House, located this year on Foxhall Road.
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Rush Limbaugh Left Off ´35 Most
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NewsBusters, by Noel Sheppard
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Rush Limbaugh is the most listened to talk radio host in America. Yet for at least the second year in a row, he´s been left off the Hollywood Reporter´s "35 Most Powerful People in Media" list. Those that made the list include MSNBC´s Mika Brzezinski, Rachel Maddow, and Joe Scarborough. Are these three folks really more powerful than Limbaugh? Apparently so are Stephen Colbert, Anderson Cooper, Bob Costas, Katie Couric, Jimmy Fallon, Piers Morgan, Kelly Ripa, Howard Stern, Michael Strahan, Jon Stewart, Wendy Williams, and Anna Wintour.
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Michelle Obama Compares
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In a speech that addressed youth violence in Chicago, First Lady Michelle Obama compared herself to Hadiya Pendleton, a 15-year-old girl murdered soon after attending President Obama´s Second Inauguration. "Hadiya Pendleton was me, and I was her," said the first lady. "Thousands of children in this city live in neighborhoods where a funeral for a teenager is considered unfortunate, but not unusual; where wandering onto the wrong block or even just standing on your own front porch can mean putting yourself at risk," Michelle Obama told the Chicago crowd, according to a transcript provided by the White House.
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MSNBC Hires DNC Video Director To
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Mediaite, by Andrew Kirell
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/10/2013 9:39:13 PM
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Politico’s Mike Allen reported this morning that MSNBC has hired the Democratic National Committee’s director of video production to become a producer for one of the cable network’s weekend political talk shows. DNC video production director Anne Thompson was reportedly given a farewell party at the DNC, replete with ice cream and refreshments, as she sets out to become segment producer on Up with Steve Kornacki, MSNBC’s new weekend show. As Politico reported, Thompson was behind dozens of the DNC’s 2012 election videos and ads, notably including the parodic song, “Mitt Romney & Paul Ryan:
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Obama Targets Retirement
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Cybercast News Service, by Fred Lucas
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/10/2013 9:30:40 PM
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President Barack Obama talked again in the Rose Garden Wednesday about making work pay off, even as his $3.77 trillion budget proposal calls for capping the amount of tax deferred retirement savings for high earners. “To make sure hard work is rewarded, we’ll build new ladders of opportunity for the middle class for anybody who is willing to work hard to climb it,” Obama said, speaking of another aspect of the tax and spending plan. “So we’ll partner with 20 of our communities hit hardest by recession to help them improve housing
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Mother Jones’ Source May Be
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PJ Media, by Hans A. von Spakovsky
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/10/2013 9:22:18 PM
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Left-wing magazine Mother Jones made news this week with a report based on a secret recording of a Feb. 2 meeting of Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell with campaign strategists. Federal and state law prohibits publication of information acquired through secret recording, but a 2001 Supreme Court ruling gives publishers like Mother Jones a get-out-of-jail-free card. But whoever taped the private conversation can’t wiggle off the hook so easily. Whoever bugged the meeting room or secretly placed a recording device will be in serious legal trouble — unless he or she was one of the strategists.
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School Cancels Santorum
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A Michigan high school canceled a speech by former Sen. Rick Santorum after teachers became outraged over his opposition to gay marriage and threatened to stage protests and a possible work stoppage. Santorum had been invited to deliver a upcoming speech on leadership by the Young Americans for Freedom chapter at Gross Pointe South High School. But the speech was canceled on Monday after the school district’s superintendent heard from angry teachers. “It’s a sad day when liberal educators are allowed to influence young minds – extending free speech rights only to those who share their liberal views,” Santorum said
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AG sues florist who refused
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer [WA], by Joel Connelly
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State Attorney General Bob Ferguson on Tuesday filed a consumer protection lawsuit against Arlene’s Flowers & Gifts, a Richland florist that refused to supply flowers to the same-sex marriage of a longtime customer. Ferguson said he sent a March 28 letter to owner Barronelle Stutzman asking her to reconsider and supply flowers to customer Robert Ingersoll. Through an attorney, Stutzman declined to change her position.“As Attorney General, it is my job to enforce the laws of the state of Washington,” said Ferguson. “Under the Consumer Protection Act, it is unlawful to discriminate
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Breitbart´s Big Journalism, by Larry O´Connor
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/10/2013 1:57:20 PM
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When Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) asked the FBI to investigate how a recording of a private meeting at his campaign headquarters in Kentucky was secretly made and then released to Mother Jones, the reaction from Washington DC political reporters was curious , to say the least. At a press conference on the matter Tuesday, reporters pressed him on what was said about his presumed opponent in next year´s senate race, actress Ashley Judd. McConnell pointed out that liberal groups in Kentucky had earlier maligned his wife, former Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, and attacked her
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Obama: Put Nation´s 4-Year-Olds
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Cybercast News Service, by Terence P. Jeffrey
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In the message he issued along with his budget proposal on Wednesday morning, President Barack Obama said he wants to see 4-year-old children in the United States enrolled in public schools. Obama said America needs to start enrolling 4-year-olds to make sure the children are “better prepared for the demands of the global economy” and to help parents save on "child-care costs." After saying the United States needs to “equip our citizens with the skills and training” to fill jobs in manufacturing, energy and infrastructure, Obama said, “And that has to start at the earliest possible age.”
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Cruz: Obama´s gun push will
cost Dems the Senate in 2014
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The Hill [Washington, DC], by Daniel Strauss
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/10/2013 1:11:41 PM
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President Obama´s push to pass stricter gun control laws will cost Democrats in the 2014 midterm elections, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said Wednesday. "I think the president has shown he is willing to demagogue an issue and that it is ultimately going to backfire," Cruz said in an interview on Laura Ingraham´s radio show. Cruz´s comments come as Congress debates passing a set of gun control measures meant to reduce gun violence and prevent shooting massacres similar to the one at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
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Former EPA head defends
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Lisa Jackson, the former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, told an audience at Princeton University politics are to blame for the uproar over her “Richard Windsor” alias email account, but she wishes she had chosen a less-obscure name for the account. Jacob Reces, former head of Princeton’s College Republicans, asked Jackson during a talk on Tuesday if she regretted using the alternate email account, according to the New Jersey Star-Ledger. Using two email accounts for work isn’t a new practice, and was also done under President Bush, Jackson said.
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The murder trial of abortionist Kermit Gosnell largely is being ignored by the mainstream media, even in the face of grisly testimony, such as what we heard yesterday. Life News reports: ...a former employee described how she heard a baby scream during a live-birth abortion. Abortion clinic employee Sherry West described an incident which "really freaked (her) out" and related to the jury how she heard a child who was born alive following an abortion scream.
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Obama says he´s ´determined
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Associated Press, by Nedra Pickler
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/8/2013 10:27:49 PM
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HARTFORD, Conn. -- With time running out on the chance to pass gun control legislation, President Barack Obama on Monday warned Congress not to use delaying tactics against tighter regulations and told families of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims that he´s "determined as ever" to honor their children with tougher laws. Obama´s gun control proposals have run into resistance on Capitol Hill, leaving their fate in doubt. Efforts by Senate Democrats to reach compromise with Republicans over expanding required federal background checks have yet to yield an agreement, and conservatives were promising to try
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White House: Planned GOP
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Washington Times, by Dave Boyer
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/8/2013 11:08:31 PM
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Beginning a week of high pressure on gun control, the White House on Monday accused some Republican senators of cowardice for planning to filibuster gun legislation without allowing the full Senate to vote on President Obama’s initiatives. “If they oppose this legislation, have the courage to say so on the floor and vote no,” said White House press secretary Jay Carney. “Don’t block it. Don’t hide behind a procedural action to prevent a vote. That’s the wrong thing to do, and that’s how the president clearly feels.”
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Obamacare architect Rockefeller:
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Washington Examiner, by Paul Bedard
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Posted By: Drive- 4/10/2013 7:17:19 AM
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West Virginia Democratic Sen. Jay Rockefeller, one of the towering architects of Obamacare, on Tuesday openly criticized program managers for not moving quickly enough to build the system, warning that if it gets off to a bumpy start it will just get worse. Decrying the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as way too complex, he warned the acting Medicare director that Obamacare is "so complicated and if it isn´t done right the first time, it will just simply get worse."
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Obama enjoys ´sequester soul concert´
at White House amid massive budget
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Business Insider, by Staff
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/10/2013 4:24:28 AM
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The sequester may have many across the country singing the blues, but for President Obama, it was all about Memphis Soul. Even with the threat of furloughs and government cuts sparked by the sequester, Obama took the time to enjoy a star-studded concert at the White House tonight. The White House celebration of Memphis Soul music in the East Room--which included special guest appearances by Queen Latifah and Justin Timberlake--is likely to rile Obama´s Republican foes. Some conservatives have called on Obama to give up golf, especially since popular public tours of the White House have been canceled because of
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Obama: Put Nation´s 4-Year-Olds
in ‘Public Preschool;´ Will
Save on ‘Child-Care Costs´
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Cybercast News Service, by Terence P. Jeffrey
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In the message he issued along with his budget proposal on Wednesday morning, President Barack Obama said he wants to see 4-year-old children in the United States enrolled in public schools. Obama said America needs to start enrolling 4-year-olds to make sure the children are “better prepared for the demands of the global economy” and to help parents save on "child-care costs." After saying the United States needs to “equip our citizens with the skills and training” to fill jobs in manufacturing, energy and infrastructure, Obama said, “And that has to start at the earliest possible age.”
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Obama´s Army Outmaneuvered by the NRA
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NationalJournal, by Beth Rinehard
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Posted By: FlyRight- 4/10/2013 7:18:37 AM
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Although the first votes on gun -control legislation have yet to be cast, by some measures the National Rifle Association has already won. Obama’s ambitious plans to ban assault weapons and limit magazine capacities are off the table, while the NRA suggested it could support the most likely outcome -- expanded background checks -- as recently as 1999. The NRA claims that the president’s efforts have triggered a fundraising surge and boosted its membership from 4 million to nearly 5 million.
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Outraged Liberals Say Obama Is
About To Screw Over The Very
People Who Got Him Elected
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Business Insider, by Grace Wyler
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/10/2013 6:35:42 AM
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Liberals descended on Pennsylvania Avenue Tuesday to protest President Barack Obama´s decision to include entitlement cuts in his upcoming budget, delivering 2 million petitions demanding the White House back off its support for the chained CPI. As we reported this weekend, liberals have been seething over the inclusion of the chained CPI in Obama´s budget, which they see as a huge betrayal by the Democratic president. This week, progressive groups, including MoveOn, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, and Democracy for America, have mounted "emergency" online campaigns against the proposal, accusing Obama of
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Sebelius: Implementing Obamacare
More ´Difficult´ Than Anticipated
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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Tony Lee
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/10/2013 7:21:14 AM
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Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius conceded Monday that implementing the Affordable Care Act has been more complicated and frustrating than the Obama administration expected, largely due to Republicans who have opposed the law´s state-based exchanges and Medicaid expansion. "The politics has been relentless and that continues," Sebelius said. "There was some hope that once the Supreme Court ruled in July, and then once an election occurred there would be a sense that, ´This is the law of the land, let´s get on board, let´s make this work.´"
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AG sues florist who refused
flowers to gay wedding
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer [WA], by Joel Connelly
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/10/2013 2:28:46 PM
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State Attorney General Bob Ferguson on Tuesday filed a consumer protection lawsuit against Arlene’s Flowers & Gifts, a Richland florist that refused to supply flowers to the same-sex marriage of a longtime customer. Ferguson said he sent a March 28 letter to owner Barronelle Stutzman asking her to reconsider and supply flowers to customer Robert Ingersoll. Through an attorney, Stutzman declined to change her position.“As Attorney General, it is my job to enforce the laws of the state of Washington,” said Ferguson. “Under the Consumer Protection Act, it is unlawful to discriminate
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4 annoying ways climate change
will make your life a bummer
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The Week, by Chris Gayomali
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/10/2013 7:30:26 PM
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Within the next few decades, carbon emissions could cause global temperatures to rise between 4 and 11 degrees Fahrenheit, melting ice caps and causing sea levels to rise. The price of crops like coffee and chocolate will skyrocket, and countless cuddly animals around the globe could be wiped out. And yet, a lot of people find it hard to really care about climate change. But don´t be fooled: Climate change will affect you. Here´s a brief sampling of ways that warmer temperatures will suck the fun out of your life: 1. Your flights will be more turbulent
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Ron Johnson’s JCPenney:
Anatomy of a Retail Failure
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Yahoo! Finance, by Jeff Macke
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Posted By: athina- 4/9/2013 9:45:34 AM
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In a stunning end to one of the most aggressively unsuccessful tenures in retail history, JCPenney (JCP) last night announced that CEO Ron Johnson would be leaving effective immediately. Myron Ullman, Johnson´s predecessor at JCPenney, takes office as CEO. When Johnson was initially wooed by JCPenney, it was to serve as CEO with Ullman as Chairman. In January 2012, Ullman was unceremoniously removed from the board. Gone with Ullman was any control the Board of Directors had over Ron Johnson and his control of JCPenney resources.
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