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Nina Easton

American Journalist

Born: Oct 27, 1958

Conservative Free Political Think Will You

Related authors: Ambrose Bierce Dave Barry Erma Bombeck Hunter S. Thompson Mignon McLaughlin Walter Cronkite William F. Buckley, Jr. William Lloyd Garrison

Great leaders don't rush to blame. They instinctively look for solutions. Nina Easton

Great Blame Solutions Great Leaders Rush Leaders Instinctively Look

The longer people are unemployed, the less employable they become. Skills become rusty; managers look more suspiciously at someone who has been out of work for years than a candidate already employed. Nina Easton

The guardians of your company's cyber security should be encouraged to network within the industry to swap information on the latest hacker tricks and most effective defenses. Nina Easton

Hacker Guardians Latest Security Tricks Network Most Industry Within Encouraged Effective Information Swap Should Cyber Your Company

It's become glib political conventional wisdom in Washington that a massive spending plan will provide a parachute rescue for a cliff-diving economy - landing it safely and with strong enough legs to move toward a healthy future. Nina Easton

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Fame legitimizes. Being conspicuous gets confused with being illustrious. Nina Easton

Confused Conspicuous Fame Gets Being Illustrious

Direct mail was the basis of a lot of new Right organizations in the '70s and early '80s, and it actually led to the downfall of the majority of them. It's very expensive, and you end up putting your organization more and more in debt if you're not successful with it. Nina Easton

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I always thought that Grover Norquist had a - he really is a true ideologue, in every sense of the word. Nina Easton

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Ralph Reed is deeply ambitious and always was so. There was a time when he... in one of my interviews, he said he pondered running the Ross Perot campaign, and he wasn't sure he wanted to do the Christian Right thing; he was worried that it boxed him into a corner. Nina Easton

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One of my most vivid memories from 1974 was the gas station at the foot of the hill below my Southern California high school - car lines snaking out into the street, heralding the failure of the government's price controls and lame ideas such as odd-even rationing. Nina Easton

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Reality shows serve up juicy drama out of human shortcomings. Nina Easton

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We like to think that a free market's greatest strength is its self-corrective nature. Nina Easton

Strength Nature Free Think Market Like Greatest Greatest Strength

Jobless workers, especially those out of work for months and years, don't have the skills to multitask in a fast-paced economy where medical workers need to know electronic record-keeping, machinists need computer skills, and marketing managers can no longer delegate software duties. Nina Easton

Economically, long-term joblessness means fewer dollars for consumption. For deficit control, it means fewer taxpayers contributing to government revenues and tens of billions more spent on unemployment insurance. Nina Easton

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Anyone who has been around Washington politics long enough can't avoid this truism: Election-year money is like a rushing river that invariably finds cracks in any dam the reformers erect. Nina Easton

The Citizens United ruling did not invent special-interest spending; it enables corporations and unions to advocate directly on behalf of a candidate rather than running more subtle 'issue ads.' Nina Easton

A desire to rescue secular America from fallen grace has driven conservative evangelicals at least since the 1970s, when Jerry Falwell formed the Moral Majority as a vehicle for conservative Christians to muscle their way into national politics. Nina Easton

We like to think of women as peacemakers, not purveyors of violence. Nina Easton

Women Think Like Violence

Presidential coverage used to be a very serious endeavor. Nina Easton

Endeavor Presidential Coverage Very Used Serious

It's really important, whether you're a conservative or a liberal, to always challenge the conventional wisdom, which is what I've tried to do in all my work. Nina Easton

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Message to all you crazed parents desperately hiring tutors and padding your kid's thin resume: Chillax. Attending an elite college is no guarantee of leadership, life success, or earnings potential. Nina Easton

It's true that many of the leaders who started at non-elite colleges as undergrads later attended prominent graduate schools in law, business, medicine, and so on. But the point is that they found their own way there - as young men and women in their early 20s, not teenagers pressed into action by parents and peers. Nina Easton

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Birth mothers choose life, and a family, for their child. But this choice is rarely celebrated. Women routinely face family, friends and even health-care providers who think that adoption equals abandonment, according to researchers and conversations with birth mothers. Nina Easton

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