Afternoon Show

Can we learn a valuable lesson from what happened to Lance Armstrong and Manti Te'o and apply it to branding?  According to Jaci Russo, you can.  She stopped by the Afternoon Drive Home to talk about how easy it is to break your brand and how hard it is to rebuild it...

Harry Reid, the small, the large and the downright embarrassing. Obama appears to be helping Biden build a case for 2016...for right now anyway. Obama Phone Lady is back and gives an interesting interview. Jerry Lewis is set to star in a movie again...

Republicans in the House have announced that they plan on a short term increase in the debt ceiling.  There will be no spending cuts attached and no other terms, save one.  They are asking their friends in the Senate to actually pass a budget, something the Senate has not done in 4 years...

Do you think many Americans will participate?

Now that Republicans are looking ahead to renew their image, who is the new face of the party?  There are many that are being brought up, including Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal. Who do you think the new face of the party is?  Let us know in the comments section below...

The President has presented his plans and it not only includes some measures that Congress will have to look at, but also 23 different executive orders from the President having to do with gun control and mental health issues.  But, do they pass muster...

The President has big plans on the gun control debate for tomorrow, with an announcement involving the President, Vice-President and a group of children surrounding them.  Jay Carney said that the announcement will include a package of gun control proposals including assault weapon bans, high capacity magazine bans and closing loopholes on background checks...

So just what is responsive design?  Jaci Russo stopped by the Afternoon Drive Home and talked about what it is and how it applies to your business. First, responsive design is simply designing your website so it is easily readable across a large sphere of platforms...

Obama tells Boehner, "We don't have a spending problem." Social Security is worse than anyone realizes. Senator Lindsey Graham says that Congress should all be fired if they can't solve the deficit problem. Democrats could be looking for $1 Trillion in new taxes...

It is a topic that no one gives you as a primer when you are putting together a kitchen.  What do you need?  You normally get a lot of different items from a coffee pot to a collection of hand me down spatulas to that thing that Aunt Sylvia gave you that you have no idea what it is and neither did she...

Governor Jindal's office is not sharing specifics yet, but they are looking at a plan that would cut out income taxes for individuals and corporate taxes.  The Governor says that they would be replaced with a sales tax in a revenue neutral way...

We are, according to a Fox News Contributor by the name of Dr. Keith Ablow.  He says the reason is that many people going into college are convinced that they are gifted and talented, even though they are getting lower grades and studying less...

A recent poll found that Congress is not terribly popular.  The poll rated Congress as somewhere in between carnies, root canals, colonoscopies and the ebola virus. What do you think?  Where does Congress rate for you?  Tell us what you find more appealing than Congress...

With the coming of the new year, do the rules stay the same on using social media to build your brand?  Jaci Russo visited the Afternoon Drive Home to talk about it, particularly in the realm of Ecommerce. Russo said that 2013 will be the year of Ecommerce...

John Boehner wins over New York Representative with an obscene reference and a smile. Speaker of the House will continue to be John Boehner, but the vote was very close. Chris Christie was not a happy person after Congress put off the vote on Sandy relief...

Lots of interesting material in the news today as we hear about John Boehner being reelected.  Still, Former Congressman Jeff Landry says that his leadership is a bad idea for Republicans. In addition, Al Gore says he was concerned about who they sold Current TV to...

It could be said that Congress and the President made a deal at the eleventh hour, but it was actually made after we went over the cliff.  Still, the bill passed both houses of Congress and the President is set to sign it, even though he is back in Hawaii with his family...

Who is responsible for creating mass shooters?  Roger Ebert says it is the media. It is possible that we have not seen the last of former Democratic Candidate for President, Michael Dukakis. Pelosi says Hillary in 2016. Time's Person of the Year could have ended up being "Undocumented Americans...

Both Speaker John Boehner and President Obama have spoken about the negotiations and things are getting strange.  First off, the speaker, who said that the President could sign the bill that they will pass or be responsible for the largest tax increase in history...

Governor Jindal has said some interesting things after the election.  One of the most interesting happened a few days ago when he mentioned that he thought birth control pills should be sold over the counter.  Jindal gave his reasons in an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal, saying, As a conservative Republican, I believe that we have been stupid to let the Democrats demagogue the contraceptiv