Rob Harper is a writer and former seasoned executive with 16 years combined experience in the banking and journalism fields.

Prior to entering the financial sector, Rob worked as a journalist for a major daily newspaper in Northwest Arkansas with a readership of several hundred thousand. He has relied on his analytical and communication skills honed as a journalist to aid him during his career in banking as a compliance officer.

Rob is currently working on three books. One is a mystery novel, a book of poetry, and a self-help guide to surviving in corporate America.

Rob currently resides in New York City where he is a writer for the the political blog www.andwearenotsaved.blogspot.com and part owner of the consumer website www.beenthereratedit.com.
He posts on the Huffington Post as robjh1.








Blog Entries by Rob Harper

"We're Having A Baby"

Posted September 2, 2008 | 07:16 PM (EST)


And baby makes six: five children and one grandchild that is to the Palin clan.

Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin announced recently that her daughter, Bristol is with child. The seventeen-year-old plans to keep the baby and marry the father. This revelation comes only a few days after John...

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Realizing A Dream

Posted August 29, 2008 | 01:24 AM (EST)


Forty-five years ago Martin Luther King Jr., delivered his famous "I have a dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC.

Now years later in Denver, Colorado, Senator Barack Obama made a down payment on the dream by becoming the first African American to accept the nomination of a...

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My Homeboy Obama

Posted July 31, 2008 | 10:16 PM (EST)


Hillary hated on you, so that bitch is irrelevant...McCain don't belong in ANY chair unless he's paralyzed. Yeah I said it cause Bush is mentally handicapped.

So raps the rapper Ludacris, aka Christopher Bridges, in his latest song "Politics." He continues: "The first black president is destined and it's meant...

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The 'N' Word is Never Acceptable

Posted July 18, 2008 | 12:02 AM (EST)


No matter what any one says, whether they are black or white or even God himself (not that he would use the word), it is never, ever OK to use the 'N' word. In a joke, in a song, in private conversations, never, ever should the word be seen as...

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