Saturday Fun: Oil Spills and Senator Roy Blunt
Democratic Underground carried this cartoon that combines the Exxon pipeline spill in Arkansas with Missouri’s U.S. Senator Roy Blunt’s payback legislation the Monsanto Protection Act. Enjoy.
View ArticleIs Your Waist The Key To Health & Lower Premiums?
This week the Post-Dispatch carried an interesting health story that relates directly to your paycheck. I’ll explain in a minute. Waist size gains attention as gauge for health compared the...
View ArticleNSA Wiretaps: Then and Now
Enjoy this video of Stephen Colbert roasting George W. Bush at the 2006 Correspondents Dinner. Besides world class sarcasm take note of the many references to the NSA wiretap programs. Funny how the...
View ArticleTariffs For A Level Playing Field or Bye Bye American Jobs
Nissan Yen-Aided Cuts Threaten Detroit Price Discipline is a well-written article that brings awareness to Japan’s history of currency manipulation and the consequences for Americans. Nissan’s sales...
View ArticleMost Important Issue Today: Income Inequaltiy
From Too Much Online… A CNN network reporter has been asking the online public to pick the topics he ought to be covering the rest of the year. The top pick, as of the end of last week: “America’s...
View ArticleGM Tops J.D. Power Quality Survey
Forbes, GM is surprise winner in benchmark auto quality survey, here’s how documents the steady rise in the quality of General Motors vehicles. General MotorsGM -3.03% cars have fewer initial quality...
View ArticleShort Video: 5 Things You Must Know About Obamacare
Yahoo’s Just Explain It video series focuses on 5 Things You Must Know About Obamacare. Did you know seniors will save $3500 thanks to Obamacare or millions will be receiving rebates from their...
View ArticleVideo: Chris Hayes Interviews Matt Taibbi About Ratings Agencies Corruption
This segment appears in the slot reserved for Saturday Fun because it is so enjoyable watching the best reporter in the world regarding the financial collapse be interviewed by MSNBC’s Chris Hayes....
View ArticleForeign Policy : Harry Truman Gets an A-
The June issue of the The Atlantic features Do President’s Matter? A look at the foreign policy of America and the role of the Presidency. This blog doesn’t focus on foreign policy but this...
View ArticleUSW President Leo Gerard Rips Bankruptcy Judge in Patriot Coal Decision
The following blog post by United Steelworkers President Leo Gerard is a can of whoop-ass for the reasoning of the bankruptcy judge in the recent mine workers/Patriot Coal case. Check out the numbers...
View ArticleDemocratic Radio: Can The Obama Coalition Stay Together?
This week’s audio netcast from America’s Democrats.org features an interesting interview with Ryan Enos regarding the stability of the “Obama Coalition”. Much has been made of the demographics in...
View ArticleU.S. Supreme Court: Upper Class Defends The Upper Class
With all the uproar over yesterday’s decision by the Supreme Court to gut the Voting Rights Act much of the talk has been abut race and deservedly so. I found this perspective from Too Much Online...
View ArticleShould You Have Been Paid For That Internship?
ProPublica has released When Is It OK to Not Pay an Intern. In a related note, the Fair Labor Standards Act, which banned child labor and set the 40 hour work week passed Congress this week in 1938....
View ArticleTrans-Pacific Partnership: If Free Trade Is So Great, Why The Secrecy?
From the Coalition For A Prosperous America… You remember that article reprinted in our TR blog about Obama’s Covert Trade Deal, showing that the Obama Administration is refusing attempts by Congress...
View ArticleSaturday Fun: More on the fake IRS scandal
Compliments of MattBors.com For more information read How Darrell Issa Manufactured The IRS Scandal.
View ArticleSunday Cause: Free Speech For People, Real People.
Move to Amend’s We the People Amendment clearly states that artificial entities (organizations created by government) have no inherent rights under our Constitution. That’s the level playing field we...
View ArticleRestaurant CEO’s Make 788 Times The Minimum Wage
The recent strikes by restaurant workers in New York, Chicago, and St. Louis among others have raised the question of inequality and what is a fair day’s work really worth. This new report from the...
View ArticleLow Wages Slowing Economic Recovery
Sunday’s Post-Dispatch featured an article by David Nicklaus, who’s record as a right-wing mouthpiece favoring Free Trade in all cases among other ridiculous positions makes his appearance in this blog...
View ArticleAudio Netcast: Government Should Protect Social Security, Infrastructure...
Michael Linden, Director for Economic Policy at the Center for American Progress contends that American is a rich country with relatively low taxes and should not be cutting “entitlements.” He also...
View Article10 Hour Day Collapes This Week In Labor History
This Week in Labor History… The Pacific Mail Steamship Co. fires all employees who had been working an 8-hour day, then joins with other owners to form the “Ten-Hour League Society” for the purpose of...
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