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Crooked Timber: Rights of Labor < Tyranny of Capital
Remember that National Labor Relations Board regulation instructing employers to post notices in their workplaces informing workers of their right to organize under the law? I described this regulation last year:
This is just a requirement that employees ...
Dateline: 2013-06-17 8:46am -07:00T (413 words)
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Sister Toldjah: #Obamacare: Party of the working man to shaft hourly workers
**Posted by Phineas
This is what happens when Washington tries to dictate “one size fits all” regulations for a very complex national market, such as health care.
As Jillian Kay Melchior explains in National Review, the authors of Obamacare fa...
Dateline: 2013-06-17 2:45pm -07:00T (491 words)
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Althouse: "Ask yourself: if I were a Chinese spy, why wouldn't I have flown directly into Beijing? I could be living in a palace petting a phoenix by now."
Edward Snowden answers questions, including "Edward, there is rampant speculation, outpacing facts, that you have or will provide classified US information to the Chinese or other governments in exchange for asylum. Have/will you?" His answer is such a co...
Dateline: 2013-06-17 5:16pm -07:00T (512 words)
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The Impolitic: Obamacare must die
For the GOP's hardcore crackpot caucus there is only one overriding mission. They must kill Obamacare by any means possible and they don't care who gets hurt in the process. So this presents an interesting test for the more practical establishment GOPers....
Dateline: 2013-06-17 6:31pm -07:00T (374 words)
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Crooks and Liars: Chicago Hospital 'Accused of Cutting Throats for $160,000'
This is absolutely unconscionable.
Via Bloomberg News:
Based in part on surreptitious tape recordings, an FBI affidavit lays out allegations that a Sacred Heart pulmonologist kept patients too sedated to breathe on their own, then ordered unneeded tra...
Dateline: 2013-06-17 11:16am -07:00T (303 words)
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American Power: Why Johnathon Carrington Fears Georgetown University
This beautiful young man was valedictorian at his D.C. high school, Dunbar High, and he's afraid that as well as he's done, he could struggle when he starts at the university in the fall.
I read this story earlier on my iPhone. It's not just kids like ...
Dateline: 2013-06-17 6:35pm -07:00T (512 words)
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The Moderate Voice: Salinger vs. Murphy -The Press Secretary and the Movie Star
Returning en route to Tokyo after the assassination (fifties.web.com)
1964 was the “Let Us Continue” election. Americans, still shocked and numb from the assassination of President John F. Kennedy a year before, were solidifying their tribute...
Dateline: 2013-06-17 7:45pm -07:00T (1899 words)
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Doug Lamborn for Congress - Award winning Congressman: Tancredo Rages Against Federal Immigration Reform
Tom Tancredo.
In a column for famously hard-right World Net Daily, GOP gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo writes:
Genuine border security will not be a part of the bill.
Sadly, this kabuki dance around fake amendments is what passes these da...
Dateline: 2013-06-17 8:47am -07:00T (382 words)
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The Moderate Voice: Supreme Court Strikes Down Arizona Voter Law
The United States Supreme Court by a vote of 7-2 has ruled that the Arizona law requiring voters provide proof of citizenship is unconstitutional.
The case at hand was Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc.
The majority ruling was written by Jus...
Dateline: 2013-06-17 10:00am -07:00T (352 words)
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The Impolitic: Snowden isn't lying, he's bragging
Been processing this story for a while now and reviewing the sum of Snowden's leaks so far. The more Snowden talks the less credible he seems, particularly when he has to revise the dramatic details of his life as Edward Snowden, international spy. Looki...
Dateline: 2013-06-17 1:31pm -07:00T (272 words)
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The Brad Blog: 3 Bush-Era NSA Whistleblowers: 'Snowden Has Succeeded Where We Failed'
I'm prepping to guest host the Ed Schultz Radio Show tomorrow morning (9a-Noon PT, Noon-3p ET), so, for now, I'm gonna leave you with just the request that you go read some of the transcripts and/or videos available at USA Today.
Over the weekend, they pu...
Dateline: 2013-06-17 5:16pm -07:00T (472 words)
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Balloon Juice: PSA: President Obama on Charlie Rose Tonight
Set the DVRs for 11pm EDT. Joe Coscarelli at NYMag:In his first public comments on Edward Snowden’s NSA leaks, President Obama tells Charlie Rose, “The way I view it, my job is both to protect the American people and to protect the American w...
Dateline: 2013-06-17 6:30pm -07:00T (229 words)
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Not Right About Anything: When comedy is not at all funny
On the same day Sports Illustrated ran this excellent guest column by Steve Gleason, two Atlanta DJs and a third employee were fired for mocking his ALS affliction.My immediate reaction was, "good." But after talking with two journalist friends about it, ...
Dateline: 2013-06-17 6:31pm -07:00T (698 words)
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Balloon Juice: Obama on Charlie Rose — Drunk-Blogging!*
They’re discussing the Syria situation now. Obama is throwing cold water on the notion that the US will escalate in any significant way. He said everyone should be reluctant to rush into another Middle Eastern war since we know how that turns out.No...
Dateline: 2013-06-17 9:00pm -07:00T (311 words)
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The Moderate Voice: CNN Poll: Obama Drops 8 Points in One Month
An array of controversies and scandals (and controversies over whether some scandals are scandals) has now taken it’s toll on President Barack Obama: a new CNN poll finds his approval rating has dropped 8 points. But the bad news for Obama gets wors...
Dateline: 2013-06-17 7:30am -07:00T (781 words)
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