From Jeff Jacoby : JEWISH SONGWRITERS have created some of the most enduringly popular songs of the season — Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas,” of course, but also “The Christmas Song,” “Silver Bells,” and “I’ll Be Home For Christmas,” among others. Some people might view that as a heartening, only-in-America expression of interfaith goodwill and warmth.
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Jewish Songwriters and Christmas
Karen writes: I had an interview yesterday, and during the interview I was told they would be calling some applicants back for a second interview next week… When I was told the pay range of my position I did not speak up then that I felt it was too low for my skills and ask if it was negotiable. If I am called back for the second interview, or they just call to offer the position to me, how do I handle salary discussion? The pay range was between $8 and $10
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Can She Negotiate Salary After Failing to Speak Up Earlier?
Amy writes: I have been working for the same company for more than five years and am currently starting an active job search because of a downturn in business. I cannot give anyone in my current company as a reference because of the need to keep the job search completely confidential, and the company I worked at previously is a key client of my current company, so giving a reference from there is not possible either. Neither company has had turnover to the point I could use someone as a reference that is now at another company
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Struggling to Find References
From Politico : The New America Foundation’s poll of Israelis, released today, contains a finding suggesting campaign-trail rumors about Barack Obama’s religion penetrated deeply in the Jewish state. The survey, by Jim Gerstein, asked Israelis (both Jewish and Muslim) whether a series of terms describe President Obama well, and 39% of respondents said the term “Muslim” describes the president, who is Christian, well. Of those, only 15% said the term described him very well.
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Poll: 39% of Israelis believe Obama is Muslim
From the American Spectator , some selected parts of the article: As Britain approaches a general election, commentators on the present “British sickness” or “British crisis” usually dwell on one of several areas. Here are some of them: • Destruction of trust in the Parliamentary and political system. About half Britain’s MPs have been found to have broken either the spirit or the letter of the law with dodgy expense claims, “flipping” primary and secondary residences to avoid capital gains tax and in other ways showing contempt for the taxpayer — a contempt now being heartily reciprocated.
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Political Correctness: There Won’t Always Be an England
From Jeff Jacoby : Of all the ways in which the United States marches to the beat of its own drummer, few are more striking than the American people’s consistent and deep-rooted support for the Jewish state. In a recent nationwide survey , the Gallup organization asked Americans: “In the Middle East situation, are your sympathies more with the Israelis or more with the Palestinians?” For the fourth year in a row, 59 percent — nearly 6 in 10 — said their sympathies were with Israel, while just 18 percent sided with the Palestinians.
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Why Americans Favor Israel
From an e-mail correspondent, an interesting example of irresponsible driving behavior: A slow-moving horse and buggy led to the arrest Sunday night of a Paradise man, who was charged with drunken driving. Police said Elmer Stoltzfoos Fisher, 22, was found slumped over and asleep in a buggy that was moving slowly in the first block of North Ronks Road. East Lampeter Township police received a call around 9:05 p.m.
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Problems That Only Exist in Lancaster, PA
Anonymous writes: I am currently trying to follow the advice of career-planning and job-hunting books regarding how to find a job — by networking, conducting informational interviews, and sending the word out to as many people as possible that I am looking for a job or that I would like to ask them questions about their career fields. While I have had some success in getting interviews and getting some information, the sad fact that the books never prepared me for is dealing with REJECTION. Not rejection by prospective employers since I haven’t started applying yet, but rejection from people I ask for information and who tell me that I need to know what I want
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Dealing with the Rejection of the Job Search
Anonymous writes: I am desperate for some assistance!! My former supervisor was recently contacted by one of two persons who interviewed me. After follow-up with the interviewer, I was told that my former boss was rude and did not want to answer questions regarding my employment. Needless to say, I did not get this job! What do I do? I have always given very positive responses to interviewers when asked about my former supervisor, and I’ve had no reason not to do so until now. Of course, I know not to express anything negative about my former job. You should know that I worked under her supervision for 5+ years and received outstanding evaluations! The Career Doctor responds: Many job-seekers are under the mistaken view that former bosses and supervisors are the only ones who can provide references when applying for new positions
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Former Boss Won’t Answer Questions about Performance
ClimateGate, much in the news recently , is a scandal that erupted when a bunch of e-mails from a British climate center were leaked, showing scientists literally conspiring to cook data to support the idea of global warming, conspiring to withhold data from critical scrutiny, and to prevent the publication of views they didn’t like. While it has made a big splash only recently, it is merely an outcropping of something that has been around for years. A climate “concensus” in the political and scientific communities has taken on the character of a relgious dogma, with heretics being fired, banished, threatened or shunned.
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Global Warming Fascism: A Roundup
Anne writes: As a “mature” woman (57 years of age) being in the position of looking for a new job, what advice can you offer me to sell my diverse skills? I have the feeling that while I have management, training, administrator, executive assistant and event planning skills, I’m “too old.” My frustration level is very high right now, as is my depression level. Any advice? The Career Doctor responds: Even though one of my students just referred to someone in their 40s as “old,” many employers are slowly coming around to valuing the experience and skills of mature job-seekers.
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Concern about Being Too Old to Find a New Job
We have blogged before about how Marquette’s Les Aspin Center has a pattern of honoring members of Congress who not merely take positions contrary to Catholic teaching, but extreme positions contrary to Catholic teaching. Two egregious cases: Congresswoman Gwen Moore and Congressman John Lewis .
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Aspin Center Honorees: Push Gay Agenda to Persecute Christian Social Service Agencies
From Bob Hamer on Biggovernment.com : Earlier this year as I was filling up at the gas station I noticed a faded bumper sticker – vintage Bush 43 – on the car next to me: “Dissent is Patriotic.” When I pointed to the bumper and asked the driver if she still believed that, she suggested I do something to myself which I am certain is physically impossible. I just laughed and said, “I’ll take that as a no.” It does seem to matter a lot who is doing the dissenting, doesn’t it?
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Is Dissent Patriotic?
UCC supposedly stands for “United Church of Christ,” but the old jibe is that it really stands for “Unitarians Considering Christ.” A very liberal denomination, its ruling elites (and to a considerable extent, the members who haven’t yet left) use Christian rhetoric, but they won’t assert anything that rankles the secular politically correct sensibility — opposing abortion or gay marriage, for example.
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United Church of Christ: Stifle “Hate Speech”
From Martin Feldstein, in the Wall Street Journal : Although administration officials are eager to deny it, rationing health care is central to President Barack Obama’s health plan. The Obama strategy is to reduce health costs by rationing the services that we and future generations of patients will receive. The White House Council of Economic Advisers issued a report in June explaining the Obama administration’s goal of reducing projected health spending by 30% over the next two decades
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Obama Health Care Means Rationing
Chris writes: I just finished reading an article you wrote regarding interview preparation. You briefly mentioned potential employers using assessments, testing for personality and skills, to help in their hiring decisions. I am curious to hear your honest opinion on the subject of assessments which attempt to measure potential — assessments that are supposed to be able to predict a candidate’s job performance and potential for growth and advancement.
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Should Assessments Be Used in Hiring Decisions?
From the Media Research Center , an account of how the Mainstream Media, which is having a conniption fit about protesters coming out to oppose ObamaCare, sung a very different tune when the left was protesting Bush. Some examples: “When those who dissent are told time and time again — as we will be, if not tonight by the President, then tomorrow by his portable public chorus — that he is preserving our freedom, but that if we use any of that freedom, we are somehow un-American; when we are scolded, that if we merely question, we have ‘forgotten the lessons of 9/11;’ look into this empty space behind me and the bipartisanship upon which this administration also did not build, and tell me this: Who has left this hole in the ground?
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Mainstream Media: Protests Were Great When They Were Anti-Bush
Virginia writes: I am looking to change careers from the clerical and retail fields into working full-time with animals, people, or plants/flowers, as my career counselor has advised. I don’t know where to begin — any advice? The Career Doctor responds: I think you are on the right track in identifying a new career field that you want to change into — one based on your interests and abilities — but I think you need to take a two-prong approach to make a successful transition from your old career to the new one
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Career Change to Work with Living Things
From the Telegraph : Tens of thousands with chronic back pain will be forced to live in agony after a decision to slash the number of painkilling injections issued on the NHS, doctors have warned. The Government’s drug rationing watchdog says “therapeutic” injections of steroids, such as cortisone, which are used to reduce inflammation, should no longer be offered to patients suffering from persistent lower back pain when the cause is not known
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The Future of American Medicine, If Obama and the Liberals Get Their Way
Laura writes: I am trying to get work in production companies as I want to make the move into helping people make TV programs and documentaries. It has proven extremely difficult, but I will continue to keep trying this year. Because I don’t know the position I am applying for — it makes it hard for me to write a letter to the company because I don’t really know what’s involved in making a show I don’t really know where I want to be in that plan… does this make sense