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This is how its done in DC.... Need someone to help write a resume? The DC Spin....................... Judy Wallman, a professional genealogy researcher here in southern California , was doing some personal work on her own family tree. She discovered that Harry (senator (D) from Nevada) Reid's great-great uncle, Remus Reid, was hanged for horse stealing and train robbery in Montana in 1889. Both Judy and Harry Reid share this common ancestor. The only known photograph of Remus shows him standing on the gallows in Montana territory. On the back of the picture Judy obtained during her research is this...

GAZA CITY, Gaza – Israeli airstrikes and Hamas rockets resumed after a brief pause Wednesday to allow food and fuel to reach Palestinian civilians in Gaza, where an Israeli warplane dropped leaflets urging some residents to flee because of imminent attacks. Even as the Israeli government tentatively welcomed a cease-fire proposal from Egypt and France, its military was instructed to continue its assault on Hamas.

Are you looking for a job? (#4) [Look here first!] I know professional resumes are very important in some careers, so I advise you all to check out the first site below. Search Google for tips on finding jobs in your profession. Tell everyone you know that you are searching for work. The more eyes looking for you, the better. If you have questions, remember that someone on FR.com DOES KNOW THE ANSWER. So don't be embarrased to ask for assistance! Resumes - Jobs Guaranteed Only $99-If you're not HIRED, we'll refund your money AND pay you $50! Have you...

Barack Obama turned his gaze yesterday towards the economic storm gathering around ordinary Americans as he began trying to navigate an election landscape transformed over the past ten days by Sarah Palin. The Democratic nominee, whose presidential bid has often been dominated by his compelling life story, said that he had developed a distaste for personality politics. “You know, this whole résumé contest is not what the American people are looking for,” he said. “I have to make it clear what is at stake in this election.”

“But when the cloud of rhetoric has passed … when the roar of the crowd fades away … when the stadium lights go out, and those Styrofoam Greek columns are hauled back to some studio lot - what exactly is our opponent’s plan?” –Sarah Palin at the 2008 Republican National Convention When Barack Obama was asked about his executive experience on Anderson Cooper's 360, he claimed that running a Presidential campaign was more "executive" experience than Governor Sarah Palin's tenure as mayor of a town in Alaska. Aside from the fact that Obama deliberately left out Palin's current executive experience...

The mainstream Leftist media has been attacking Sarah Palin for her inexperience today. I would like to point out that she has more executive experience than Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and Barack Obama combined. Take a look at this video that lines up Sarah Palin and Barack Obama's resume. She blows him out of the water.... Sarah Palin's Resume vs. Barack Obama's Resume

When Husain Mahmoud was hired as head coach of Chicago State University's baseball team last year, his resume looked impressive: A 30th-round draft pick for the Cincinnati Reds. A college football and baseball star who held a collegiate punting record. A professional football player with the Chicago Fire of the now-defunct World Football League who had also been a league-leading quarterback in the Continental Football League. But a Sun-Times examination found Mahmoud was never drafted by the Reds and didn't play for either football league. Central State University in Ohio, from which Mahmoud graduated, could not confirm his claimed record.

SARASOTA, Fla. - With recession fears growing, Mitt Romney’s latest television ad is part resume, part resolve. And all reassurance. "I know how America works because I spent my life in the real economy," says the man who made millions as a venture capitalist. "My plan will make America strong." No mention of John McCain, Rudy Giuliani or Mike Huckabee, Republican presidential rivals whose campaign credentials lean heavily on government service. The point is unmistakable, all the same. The ad is the most visible element of Romney’s strategy for the final week of the Florida primary. After a series of...

As first lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton jaw-boned the authoritarian president of Uzbekistan to leave his car and shake hands with people. She argued with the Czech prime minister about democracy. She cajoled Roman Catholic and Protestant women to talk to one another in Northern Ireland. She traveled to 79 countries in total, little of it leisure; one meeting with mutilated Rwandan refugees so unsettled her that she threw up afterward. But during those two terms in the White House, Mrs. Clinton did not hold a security clearance. She did not attend National Security Council meetings. She was not given a...

Her railing against the harmful pressure on youngsters to bolster their resumes and applications when applying to college made Marilee Jones one of the nation’s best known deans of admissions. But the college crusader was forced to quit her prestigious post at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology this week when the school learned she embellished her own resume and lied about her college degrees. “This is a very sad and disappointing story. She really is a quite competent person, a leader in her field,” said Chancellor Phil Clay. “But this is a case where integrity and honesty trumps everything.” For...

SEOUL (Reuters) - North and South Korea said on Wednesday they had agreed to resume ministerial talks, a day after a breakthrough energy-for-arms deal at six-party talks on the North's nuclear programs in Beijing. The dialogue between the two Koreas -- still technically at war -- collapsed in acrimony after Pyongyang tested a volley of missiles last July. The South's Unification Ministry said delegates would meet in the North Korean border city of Kaesong on Thursday to discuss when to open new talks. North Korea's state-run news agency said Pyongyang agreed to the proposal for renewed contact between the two...

BEIJING - Talks on North Korea's nuclear programs resumed on a positive note Thursday, with the Chinese hosts distributing a draft agreement and the North agreeing in principle to initial steps to disarm. Envoys from six nations are trying to agree on steps to implement a September 2005 deal in which North Korea pledged to disarm in exchange for aid and security guarantees. The 2005 deal — the only one to emerge since negotiations began in 2003 — was a broad statement of principles that did not outline any concrete steps for dismantling North Korea's nuclear program. The main U.S....

January 16, 2007 Obama To Announce On His Website Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) has decided to run for president and will file exploratory committee papers later today, Democratic sources said. At 10:00 am ET, Obama will post a video announcement on his website. http://www.barackobama.com/main.php

A young Yale overachiever just wanted a job on Wall Street - but his overblown video resume is triggering an Internet firestorm rivaling Paris Hilton's sex video. Aleskey Vayner, a senior history major, envisioned himself as a perfect candidate for Wall Street power, boasting of an "insatiable appetite for success" and a credo to always "ignore losers." Instead, he unleashed a torrent of outrage and jokes on the 'Net, where his slick video resume was derided as egotistical bunk loaded with fakery, such as a karate chop through seven red bricks and a scene supposedly portraying him bench-pressing 495 pounds.

Sorry, no one's reading that resume you sent Computers now doing most of the weeding out By Loretta Grantham Cox News Service September 27, 2006 WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Baffled because you nailed the qualifications for a job and never heard a word? Peeved because you blew an entire weekend polishing your resume? Here's the likely truth: No one ever saw it. "The first thing that job seekers have to get over is that it's not personal," says Gerry Crispin, a recruiting technology expert. "The chance when you apply for a job that someone actually sees your resume is...

WASHINGTON, July 31, 2006 – A tradition that lasted a half century is being renewed on the shores of Lake Michigan. In the aftermath of World War II, Irv “Kup” Kupcinet, a columnist for the Chicago Sun Times, wanted to reach out to servicemembers to show his gratitude for their service to the country. Kupcinet would take patients from veterans hospitals to Lake Michigan for a day of food and fun, said Eric Schuller, senior policy advisor to Illinois Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn. From 1945 to 1995, Kupcinet offered Purple Heart recipients the opportunity to spend a day on a...

NAVAL STATION GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, April 24, 2006 – U.S. military commission proceedings will resume this week in the cases of three enemy combatants held here since 2002. Proceedings will resume in the case of Sufyian Barhoumi, an Algerian man accused of being an explosives trainer for al Qaeda. Proceedings will begin for Jabran Said Bin Al Qahtani, a Saudi man accused of constructing circuit boards to be used as timing devices in bombs, and Ghassan Abdullah Al Sharbi, a Saudi man accused of providing English translation for a terrorist training camp and receiving training on how to build and...

NAVAL STATION GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, April 3, 2006 – U.S. military commissions proceedings resume this week in the cases of four enemy combatants held here since 2002. Proceedings will resume in the cases of Ali Hamza Ahmad Sulayman al Bahlul, a Yemeni man accused of crafting terrorist propaganda, and Canadian teen Omar Ahmed Khadr, who officials say killed a U.S. servicemember while fighting for al Qaeda in Afghanistan. Proceedings will begin against Abdul Zahir, an Afghan man accused of working as a translator and accountant for al Qaeda in Afghanistan and planning explosives attacks against U.S. forces, and Binyam Ahmed...

For the past few days, I’ve been out of the political news-blogosphere loop, so I don’t know what’s going on. Let’s do something different: CONFESS! I suspect that most people, at one time or another, have lied on their resumes. I’ll tell you about one of my resume lies. When I first arrived in the nation’s capital back in 1998, I was using a resume with a big fat whopper on it. At that point I wasn’t using a computer regularly and didn’t own one. I’d prepared papers in some prehistoric form of MS Word while in school, but...

NAVAL STATION GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba (Army News Service, Feb. 28, 2006) – With commissions slated to resume March 1 for four detainees at Guantanamo Bay, and about 16 international media outlets expected to report on the proceedings along with several other organizations that will observe the hearings, officials said security will be nothing short of tight. The Joint Task Force-Guantanamo leadership and security teams kept the commissions running smoothly in January. “One of the toughest challenges we had was that the security element had no idea of what ‘right’ looked like,” said Army Capt. David Murphy, officer in charge of...