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By Steven Greenhouse The New York Times (5/7/13) A federal appeals court on Tuesday struck down a National Labor Relations Board rule requiring most private sector employers to post a notice informing employees of their right to unionize. Ever since … Continue reading →

By Greg Coleridge Op Ed News (5/9/13) 127. That’s the number of years corporations, artificial legal creations of government, have possessed inalienable rights protected by the U.S. Constitution. The idea that corporations are “persons” with constitutional rights is a radical … Continue reading →

The Everlasting GOP Stoppers (5/8/13) On Wednesday, bona-Fide ass-kicker for the middle class and freshman Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren D introduced her very first piece of legislation, called The Bank on Students Loan Fairness Act. Set to double from it’s … Continue reading →

  (Editor’s Note: Yes, the quote below contains a vile word, but read the explanation in the column. The writer, quoting Cornel West, is making an excellent point. — Mark L. Taylor)     “The niggerization of America is an … Continue reading →

The workforce faces disintegration. Dominque Paul Noth Working In These Times (5/2/13) Good news has been rare in the Rust Belt since the 2008 economic collapse. But in Milwaukee, the rise of Bucyrus International Inc. provided a sorely needed model of … Continue reading →

By Anomaly Freak Out Nation (5/4/13) Gov. Scott Walker (R-Koch) urged Republican activists to make it clear that their party is not just focused on austerity and tax cuts, but to stress that they are the party that (wait for … Continue reading →

He’s certainly done any plutocrat could have asked on that score; I’m surprised they aren’t digging for iron ore under the dome of the state capitol by now. By Charles Pierce Esquire (5/3/13) Once again, it hasn’t been a good … Continue reading →

Fitzgerald shot back, “Dick, you have to remember one thing, the insurance companies give us a lot of money at campaign time.” By Pat Nash Baraboo News Republic (5/2/13) Gov. Scott Walker’s empire is beginning to crumble from within. Republican … Continue reading →

Mind you, these are no longer warning signs of a steadily encroaching police state. The police state has arrived.       By John Whitehead The Rutherford Institute (4/22/13) Caught up in the televised drama of a military-style manhunt for … Continue reading →

By Paul Buchheit Buzz Flash (4/22/13) Too many Americans are unaware of the extreme disparities that have been caused by the unregulated profit incentive of capitalism. Our winner-take-all system is flailing away at once-healthy parts of society, leaving them like … Continue reading →

By Isaiah J. Poole Campaign for America’s Future (4/22/13) A critique of the impact on African Americans of using the chained CPI to limit the cost-of-living adjustment on Social Security benefits and my criticism of President Obama’s jobs proposals were … Continue reading →

“We’re finding out with how little wisdom the world is governed, one Excel error at a time.” By Matthew O’Brien The Atlantic (4/16/13) Well, it turns out history does repeat itself as farce. Especially when it comes to selling austerity. … Continue reading →

By Ray Pensador Daily KOS (4/18/13) I ask this question in all honesty: Have the American people accepted the imposition of a fascist Corporate State? This morning someone sent me a message asking this question, so I decided to go … Continue reading →

“The success of a terrorist operation depends almost entirely on the amount of publicity it receives.” —Walter Laqueur, Terrorism (1977) By John W. Whitehead The Rutherford Institute (4/18/13) Just imagine that you’re a terrorist with limited funds and you want … Continue reading →