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Category Archives: News
COUNTER RELIGIOUS RIGHT CAMPAIGN AGAINST FFRF
The Freedom From Religion Foundation needs your help to support our court victory last week, when a three-judge panel of the Colorado State Court of Appeals ruled unanimously in our favor that gubernatorial proclamations of an annual Colorado Day of … Continue reading
Productivity Doubled — And The Middle Class Got Screwed. What Went Wrong?
I would also like to add that I believe in the past 10 years there has been a new “wedge”: demanding employees work every waking moment in order to boost productivity without appropriate compensation. 40 hours work-week? You’re dreaming. Almost … Continue reading
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Breaking: Obama Endorses Same Sex-Marriage
Today, less than 24 hours after North Carolina’s hateful passage of the discriminatory Amendment One which bans gay marriage and curbs civil unions, President Obama announced his support of same-sex marriage in an interview with ABC. Earlier in the day, the … Continue reading
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How Hedge Fund Vampires Use Insider Info to Extract Their Dishonest Fortunes
Ever wonder how hedge funds can make 20 percent returns during the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, while your savings account grows smaller? Ever wonder how it’s possible for the top hedge fund manager in 2011 to make … Continue reading
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What’s in a Label? Why the Package Insert for Plan B is Wrong… and Why It Matters.
So why does it matter? The standard legal and medical definition of the beginning of pregnancy in the US is the implantation of a fertilized egg in the uterus. By that definition, even if LNG EC did interfere with implantation, … Continue reading
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Robert Greenwald on the New Film ‘Koch Brothers Exposed’ — the 1% at Its Very Worst
Koch Brothers Exposed weaves together a series of short films produced over the course of the last year or so as part of an online video campaign of the same name. As principals of Koch Industries, the second-largest privately held corporation … Continue reading
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GE Unleashes Propaganda Campaign To Hide Its Tiny Tax Burden and Mass Layoffs
No corporation has surpassed General Electic’s mastery of profit-maximization, or its use of public-relations (“corporate propaganda”) to mask its true aims behind the widely-supported goals of expanding scientific horizons, “bringing good things to life” and rebuilding America’s industrial base. But … Continue reading
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23 States with “Stand Your Ground” Gun Laws Like the One that Let Trayvon Martin’s Killer Go Free
23 States with “Stand Your Ground” Gun Laws Like the One that Let Trayvon Martin’s Killer Go Free Here’s a rundown of the states with laws like the one in Florida, where there’s no duty to retreat in public and … Continue reading
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United Nations Commission on the Status of Women Fails to Uphold Women’s Human Rights
This year marked the first time in history that the CSW did not produce “Agreed Conclusions” (the closest they ever came was in 2006 on Violence against Women but an agreement was reached the following week). The most contentious issues, … Continue reading
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The JOBS Act: Dumbest ‘Bipartisan’ Move Since Repealing Glass-Steagall
Here we go again. Once again the ‘bipartisan’ consensus in Washington, fueled by an intoxicating brew of conventional wisdom laced with campaign cash, has repealed some of those ‘cumbersome regulations’ that do nothing of value – nothing, that is, except … Continue reading
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