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Who Are the Real Small Business Advocates in America?

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 08.27.2009 | Business

Read More: Small, Congress, Small Business, Abuse, Fortune 500, Middle Class, Obama Administration, Sba, Advocate, Lloyd Chapman, Loopholes, Business, Fraud, Barack Obama, Washington, Gao, American Small Business League, Business News
Lloyd Chapman

The ASBL is the only national small business group that does not take money from Fortune 500 firms or big businesses. We only fight for small businesses.

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National Small Business Groups Bristle in Response to ASBL Blog

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 08.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Lack of Oversight, Small Business, Abuse, Report 5-15, National Small Business Association, Middle Class, Obama Administration, Lloyd Chapman, Loopholes, Us Womens Chamber of Commerce, Fraud, Barack Obama, Eocnomy, Nsba, Contracting, Procurement, American Small Business League, Uswcc, Business News
Lloyd Chapman

Yesterday, I posted an article to the Huffington Post. This morning both the U.S. Women's Chamber of Commerce and the National Small Business Association fired back.

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Rep. Johnson Applauds American Small Business League for its Work on Small Business Contracting

Chris Gunn | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fortune 1000, Women, Small Business, Abuse, Fortune 500, h.r. 2568, Oversight, Lloyd Chapman, Loopholes, Veterans, Fraud, Hank Johnson, Fairness and Transparency in Contracting Act, Gao, American Small Business League, Minorities, Politics News
Chris Gunn

Johnson proposed the "Fairness and Transparency in Contracting Act of 2009," to provide small businesses across the country with billions of dollars in additional contracting opportunities.

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Obama Should Provide Financial Options to CIT Customers

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: 27 Million, Abuse, Bankruptcy, Election Day, Lloyd Chapman, Obama, Loopholes, Fraud, John Kerry, Barack Obama, Financial Crisis, A Lack of Oversight, Gdp, Al Gore, American Small Business League, Cit, Politics News
Lloyd Chapman

Obama should take a closer look at his administration's policies involving CIT and the over 40 million voters that could be impacted by those decisions. 2012 will be here before you know it.

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Mariel Hemingway: 3 Reasons To Heal From A Dysfunctional Family

Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 08.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Happiness, Meditation, The Inner Life, Abuse, Dysfunctional Family, Mariel Hemingway, Living News
Ed and Deb Shapiro

"My life is about survival," shares actress and HuffPost blogger Mariel Hemingway. "I come from a family of tremendous mental illness - great creativi...

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US Congress: Keep Your Word to Abused Women

Meghan Rhoad | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Women's Rights, Women, House of Representatives, Abuse, Violence Against Women, Emergency Shelter, Portland, Budget, Economic Crisis, Oregon, Appropriations, Pregnancy, Joe Biden, Women's Health, Family Violence, Domestic Violence, Politics News
Meghan Rhoad

When Michelle arrived at the shelter in Portland, Oregon, staff members had to help her remove her earring because the side of her face was so swollen from the last beating by her abuser.

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U.S. Hispanic Chamber Challenged on Its Small Business Credentials by ASBL

Chris Gunn | Posted 08.10.2009 | Business

Read More: Fraud, Small Business, David Lizarraga, Abuse, Barack Obama, Nydia Velazquez, Us Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Fortune 500, Oversight, Asbl, Lloyd Chapman, American Small Business League, Loopholes, American-Reinvestment-and-Recovery-Act, Business News
Chris Gunn

The U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce has shown no commitment to removing corporate giants from small business contracting programs.

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You Are Not Alone: Michael Jackson's Abusive Childhood and How to Heal If It's Yours

Janet Kinosian | Posted 08.01.2009 | Living

Read More: Violence, Childhood Trauma, Michael Jackson, King of Pop, Fear, Abuse, Control, Childhood Violence, Childhood Abuse, Childhood Exploitation, Living News
Janet Kinosian

Violence, control, fear and abuse thrive in silence. Merely aging doesn't make this pain diminish. In fact, it often gets stronger and louder.

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Ryan Grim

Uighurs: U.S. Let Chinese Abuse Us At Gitmo

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Uighurs, Abuse, Gitmo, Chinese Government Torture, Uighurs Tortured, Uighurs Bermuda, Chinese Torture Guantanamo, Uighurs Torture, Uighurs Chinese Government Torture, Politics News

While at the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba in 2002, Uighur detainees were interrogated, abused and threatened by a delegation from the People's Repub...

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Obama is Selling the Small Business Administration to the Venture Capital Industry

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 07.12.2009 | Business

Read More: High Growth Companies, Small Business, Abuse, Economy, Middle Class, Small Business Innovations Research, Innovation Research, Nvca, Venture Capital, Loopholes, Democrats, Karen Mills, Fraud, Defense Contracting, Barack Obama, Anderson Cooper, Laura Tyson, Sbir, American Small Business League, Republicans, Winslow Sargeant, Business News
Lloyd Chapman

I'm going to sound the alarm on the latest threat to federal small business contracting programs: Obama is going to support legislation that will allow the venture capital industry to dominate them.

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Ex-Interrogators Are Mad as Hell About Torture, and They're Not Gonna Take Cheney Anymore

ZP Heller | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Moveon, Tom Hayden, Abuse, Barack Obama, Afghanistan, Dick Cheney, Guantanamo, Matthew Alexander, Iraq, Torture, Abu Ghraib, Detainees, Politics News
ZP Heller

More and more, former interrogators and counterinsurgency experts are using Dick Cheney's recent ubiquity to expose his iniquity regarding the torture and abuse of detainees.

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Cheney and Torture

Jesse Larner | Posted 06.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abuse, Charles Krauthammer, John Yoo, George W. Bush, Rule of Law, Guantanamo, David Addington, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Abu Ghraib, American Enterprise Institute, Jay Bybee, Constitution, Dan Froomkin, Benjamin Franklin, Torture, Gop, Politics News
Jesse Larner

Cheney and his ilk don't understand liberty, and they don't understand freedom, what it costs and what it's worth. They are small men and cowards, selling out the rule of law at the first whiff of danger.

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Former Senior Interrogator in Iraq Dissects Cheney's Lies and Distortions

Matthew Alexander | Posted 06.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Interrogations, Abuse, Vice President Cheney, Torture, Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, National Security, Abu Zubaydah, Cheney Speech, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Enhanced Interrogations, Waterboarding, Ksm, Dick Cheney Speech, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Matthew Alexander

Our greatest success in this conflict was achieved without torture or abuse. My interrogation team found Abu Musab Al Zarqawi using relationship-building approaches and non-coercive law enforcement techniques.

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What, Exactly, Was Pelosi Supposed to Do?

Chris Weigant | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Harman, Jingoism, Abuse, Central Intelligence Agency, Cia, Leon Panetta, Truth Commission, Jane Harman, Cheney, Democratic, Majority, Media, Policy, Bush Policy, Cindy Sheehan, Republican, Bush, Pelosi, National Security, Nancy Pelosi, Waterboard, Speaker, Briefed, House, Panetta, Interrogation, Amnesty, Democrat, Treason, Speaker of the House, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Congress, Press, Democrats, Detainee, Briefing, Classified, Prisoner, Secret, Chris Weigant, Traitor, Leak, Waterboarding, Minority, Senate, Classified Information, Torture, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Pelosi can be defended for being in an impossible situation at the time. Even if she disagreed with the policy, there simply wasn't much for her to do about it.

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Changing Our Minds, Speaking Up For The Truth!

Lisa Guest | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Truth Telling, Healing, Lying, Abuse, Making Peace, Torture, Politics News
Lisa Guest

The more we hide, the more we have reason to hide and the more such treacherous thinking causes missteps and wrongful living.

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Fifty Bucks and a Card Game: A Father's Gift

Sara Whitman | Posted 06.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Raising Children, Mental Illness, Abuse, Parenting, Family Relationships, Children, Fathers, Living News
Sara Whitman

A friend of mine, who I'll call John, phoned the other day. He was on the way to the nursing home to say goodbye to his father, long ill, and finally ...

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Goodbye/Hello 7 "Human Rights Gone Wrong"

Patt Cottingham | Posted 06.13.2009 | World

Read More: Failure, Human Rights Council, Vaclav Havel, Courage, Human Rights Activists, Un, Zimbabwe, Terror States, Abuse, Governments, Uzbekistan, China, Myanmar, Dictators, Iran, Death Sentences, Belarus, Credibility, Russia, Executions, Sudan, Cuba, Us, Humanity, North Korea, Regimes, Expediency, World News
Patt Cottingham

Goodbye to seating inhumane governments and regimes at the human rights table. Hello to removing inhumane governments and regimes at the human rights table.

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'Italian Fritzl' Arrested With Son For Enslaving Daughter: Police

Huffington Post | Jessica Gusman | Posted 04.27.2009 | World

Read More: Italian Fritzl, Child Abuse, Abuse, Crime, Josef Fritzl, Italy, Josef Frizl Sentence, Sexual Abuse, Europe, Italian Josef Fritzl, Josef Fritzl Trial, Sexual Violence, Rape, Austria, Fritzl, Italian Frizl, Turin Abused Daughter 25 Years, Italian Man Who Raped His Daughter, World News

An Italian man from Turin has been arrested for sexually abusing his daughter for over 25 years and encouraging his son to do the same. This case has...

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Bolivia: Girl In Coma Almost Buried Alive

CNN | Posted 04.23.2009 | World

Read More: South America, Abuse, Child Abuse, Toddler in Coma, Buried Alive, Latin America, Bolivia, La Paz, World News

A 3-year-old Bolivian girl whose parents thought was dead and were preparing to bury remained in a coma but was improving Friday, while her mother and...

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What We Lost When We Lost Rocky -- Paper First Exposed Teen Torture

Maia Szalavitz | Posted 04.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Boot Camps, Tough Love, Rocky Mountain News, Media, Abuse, Wwasps, Teens, Rocky Mountain News Closing, Death of Newspapers, Media News
Maia Szalavitz

Just last week, Denver lost the Rocky Mountain News and before its website disappears, I wanted to share an example of just how much newspapers matter.

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Bush Administration Policy Cost Small Businesses Over a Trillion Dollars in Federal Contracts

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 02.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Fraud, Biden, Bush Administration, Lloyd Chapman, Small Business, Abuse, Barack Obama, Economy, Middle Class, Asbl, Loopholes, American Small Business League, President, Business News
Lloyd Chapman

To date, President Obama has not proposed a single policy to stop the flow of federal small business contracts to corporate giants.

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Lloyd Chapman: Obama's Broken Promise to Small Businesses

Chris Gunn | Posted 02.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Fraud, Biden, Lack of Oversight, Small Business, Abuse, Inauguration, Economy, Fortune 500, Middle Class, American Small Business League, Asbl, Lloyd Chapman, Loopholes, Business News
Chris Gunn

The Exception Magazine published the following story this morning. On February 22, 2008, Barack Obama released the following statement: "It is time ...

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Obama Stimulus Plan Breaks Campaign Promise to Small Businesses

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 02.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Fortune 500, Small Business, Abuse, Barack Obama, Economy, Middle Class, American Small Business League, Lloyd Chapman, Loopholes, Fraud, Business News
Lloyd Chapman

Obama has failed to include any provision in his economic stimulus plan to stop the diversion of billions of dollars in federal small business contracts to Fortune 500 firms.

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24: A Thriller With Few Surprises

David Danzig | Posted 02.14.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Interrogations, CIA Interrogations, Abuse, Brigadier Genderal Patrick Finnegan, Human Rights First, Terrorism, Junior Soldiers, Interrogation Techniques, Fighting Terror, Military Educators, West Point, Soldiers, Military, Abusive Interrogation, 24, Fox, US Military Academy, Torture, Entertainment News
David Danzig

Junior soldiers have imitated techniques they have seen on the program. And military educators report that "24" is one of the biggest problems they have in their classrooms.

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Pelosi-Backed Loophole For Venture Capitalists Will Damage Middle Class Economy

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 02.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Fraud, Fortune 500, Small Business, Abuse, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Economy, Middle Class, Lloyd Chapman, Venture Capital, Loopholes, Karen Mills, President-Elect, Business News
Lloyd Chapman

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D - CA) is leading congressional support for a new loophole in federal contracting law that will allow some of the wealthi...

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