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Don't Throw out Your Holiday Cards!

Reyne Haines, 12.30.2009

Appraiser - Dealer, 20th Century Decorative Arts, CBS Early Show, NBC Art of Collecting

Every year we send holiday cards to friends, family, and clients. Some of us wait until the day after Christmas to hit the stores for their after C...

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Natural Home and Michelle Obama Love Decoupage Ornaments

Robyn Griggs Lawrence, 12.28.2009

Editor-in-chief, Natural Home Magazine

When we chose projects from the Natural Home arsenal to decorate the president's guest house, we had no idea we were so in tune with the Obama family's ideas. We were all thinking decoupage.

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How a Billionaire Can Make a Billion Dollars

Toby Barlow, 12.27.2009

Author of Sharp Teeth

I would like to present a simple plan that will make anyone in the top income bracket an appallingly huge amount of money: Buy Detroit.

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Gambler Loses $127 million in Vegas

Don McNay, 12.18.2009

Award-winning financial columnist, author, commentator and personal finance guru.

Beautiful loser Where you gonna fall? When you realize You just can't have it all -Bob Seger In casino circles, the name they use to refer to p...

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White House Guests See Green at Blair House and State Department Magazine Holiday Design Showcase Reception

Robyn Griggs Lawrence, 12.17.2009

Editor-in-chief, Natural Home Magazine

We were one of six magazines invited to decorate rooms at the U.S. State Department and Blair House, the president's guest house--and we had to get gorgeous, green decor installed by December 4

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The Middle Class Collapse

Les Leopold, 12.16.2009

Author, "The Looting of America"

Do the super-rich really earn their wealth? Financial wealth is a slippery concept especially as it slithers through a mountain of bailouts now running somewhere near $13 trillion.

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"Don't Be Evil": How Larry Page and Sergey Brin Really Think and Should We Worry About Google's Dominance

Anis Shivani, 12.03.2009

Writer

We shall see if Larry and Sergey's collective brain can keep up with the spontaneous evolution of the Internet.

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Mom, the Holidays Are a Time to Chill

Peggy Drexler, 12.03.2009

Author, assistant professor of psychology at Cornell Medical School

Children know family when they see it. The idea that "traditional" families are the only source of healthy children and a happy holiday and that Mom bears ultimate responsibility for both is as much a fantasy as Santa Claus.

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The Top Ten Things I Learned From Sir Richard Branson

Gail Lynne Goodwin, 12.01.2009

Ambassador of Inspiration, InspireMeToday.com

I had the honor of spending a few hours with Sir Richard Branson at his home in the British Virgin Islands. Since my return, the one question I've been asked is, "What Did You Learn From Richard Branson?"

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Natural Home Decorates Blair House For Magazine Holiday Design Showcase

Robyn Griggs Lawrence, 11.30.2009

Editor-in-chief, Natural Home Magazine

With our decoration of the Blair House, we aim to show that simple, elegant, and responsibly made holiday décor is an attainable and viable option for everyone.

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Avoid The Frenzy And Epic Lines: The Season's Luxe Indulgences

Felicia C. Sullivan, 11.27.2009

Felicia C. Sullivan is the author of The Sky Isn't Visible from Here (A Memoir).

Personally, I'd rather set my hair on fire with an acetylene torch than hit department stores in the wee hours of the morning. I plan on avoiding vertigo and panic attacks by doing all my holiday shopping online

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Five Reasons Martha Stewart Can Take On Sarah Palin

Joanne Bamberger, 11.25.2009

Political/media analyst, author, founder of PunditMom political blog

My favorite recovering felon, Martha Stewart, was asked her thoughts on our most recent political pin-up girl Sarah Palin. I wasn't surprised that Martha didn't pull any punches.

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Sarah Palin Goes Rogue On Martha Stewart

Matthew Filipowicz, 11.23.2009

Comedian, Cartoonist, Satirist

As you may have heard, in an interview on CNN's Showbiz Tonight, Martha Stewart had some less than flattering things to say about Sarah Palin. Stewar...

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Please Welcome Peter W. Galbraith and Andrew J. Hall to the Billionaire Bailout Society

Les Leopold, 11.13.2009

Author, "The Looting of America"

Galbraith reportedly got himself a $100 million piece (or more) of a Kurdish oil field. Hall's oil trading scams are picking our pockets by driving up the price of oil just enough for him to make a killing.

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Met Home Gets the Hatchet

Charlotte Safavi, 11.12.2009

Anglo-Iranian-American Journalist

Only yesterday Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S. announced the closure of the magazine fondly known as Met Home to the urban, sophisticated home decor cognoscenti.

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Howard Stern: Diamond in a Rough Patch

Mario Almonte, 11.13.2009

PR Strategist and Pop Culture Analyst

For a man who almost single-handedly revolutionized the broadcasting industry, Stern continues to be spectacularly disrespected by the media that he so radically transformed.

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The Billionaires' Latest Guerrilla Musical

Clifford J. Tasner, 11.02.2009

Composer/Lyricist/Satiriest

When CIGNA Representatives refused to speak with protesters at their offices last Wednesday morning, the Billionaires For Wealthcare decided to speak on CIGNA's behalf, and a guerrilla musical broke out.

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At Bette's Hulaween: Mayor Bloomberg "Dressed" as Matt Damon

Andrea Chalupa, 11.01.2009

Editor at Walletpop

Friday night, in the razzling-dazzling Waldorf-Astoria, Bette Midler entertained a packed ballroom of ghostly and goofy guests, raising over a million dollars and counting, for the New York Restoration Project.

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Geithner Advocates Permanent Billionaire Bailout Society?

Les Leopold, 10.30.2009

Author, "The Looting of America"

We can either prop up the billionaire bailout society as Geithner wants or we can begin the necessary process of breaking it up. You know what the financial interests want.

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Halloween? Bah, Humbug!

Michael DeJong, 10.29.2009

Environmentalist, artist and author

Now don't get me wrong, I enjoy festive holidays as much as the next person, but we eco-freaks can't help ourselves from sucking the fun out of things, particularly when it comes to harming children.

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Breaking out of the Billionaire Bailout Society

Les Leopold, 10.28.2009

Author, "The Looting of America"

Perhaps we need a new vocabulary that helps us describe a society that promotes the accumulation of vast riches, bails out the rich, and avoids responsibility for the common good.

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