Blogs Posts on "Good Decisions"

Prefab Participation by Donklephant on Oct 29, 2009Whilst walking the dog this rainy evening, I happened upon an illuminated, inflatable lawn ornament of the Halloween variety. These decorations are an easy, relatively inexpensive way to acknowledge the holiday. They require little or no thought bey...

Successful companies: innovation or good decisions? by The LEADSExplorer blog on Sep 13, 2009Successful companies are those companies that take the least bad or wrong decisions during any day. Great companies are not solely made by having superb ideas that are brought successfully to the market or great innovations. Only a minority of compan...

No Mre Txting N Drvng? by Donklephant on Jul 29, 2009After the release of a study that showed somebody is 23 times more likely to get into an accident, Dems in Congress are working on legislation that would make it illegal across the country. From the AP: WASHINGTON — States would be required to ban...

Obama Challenges Agencies To Cut $100M From Budgets by Donklephant on Apr 20, 2009I’ve already seen many scoff at Obama’s pledge to go line by line through the budget, but aren’t those the same people who are calling for less government spending? It would be heartening to see the following mvoes applauded instea...

Obama to Change Government Contracting Procedures by Donklephant on Mar 4, 2009Here’s some change we can believe in: President Barack Obama plans to change how government contracts are awarded and who can earn them, a move his aides say would save taxpayers about $40 billion a year by making the process more competitive. Obam...

Russ Feingold Wants To End Governor Appointed Senators by Donklephant on Jan 26, 2009I like the idea in theory, but I always thought that Governors replaced Senators because it’s too costly to have special elections and somebody needs to serve in the interim. Still, this seems like the type of amendment that could easily garner.

Larry Kudlow Talks About Obama’s Dinner With Conservative Pundits by Donklephant on Jan 15, 2009By now you’ve probably heard about the dinner Obama attended that featured the stalwarts of the right-wing media glitterati, but you hadn’t heard about what actually went down. Kudlow doesn’t really spill the beans on the con

Obama To Create/Appoint Chief Performance Officer Position by Donklephant on Jan 6, 2009The announcement will come tomorrow, and the job description is all about reform: Go through the federal budget line by line and cut the fat. Hold agencies accountable. Restore fiscal discipline. In case you don’t remember, Obama outlined thi.

Pardon…Or No Pardon? by Donklephant on Dec 25, 2008No pardon. Here’s some background on the initial pardon… Toussie pleaded guilty to charges in two separate cases. In one, he admitted in 2001 that he had made false statements to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development,