Why did it take a comedian to demand answers about a blatant double standard embedded in Obamacare? On October 7, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was grilled mercilessly by Jon Stewart, who focused on why businesses can ...
On September 19, a federal court in Philadelphia ruled on a challenge to the 911 Landlord Law in Norristown, Pennsylvania. The lawsuit had been brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and a local law firm ...
J. Edgar Hoover and the Anti-Interventionists: FBI Political Surveillance and the Rise of the Domestic Security State, 1939-1945, by Douglas M. Charles (Ohio State University Press, 2007), 197 pages.
The domestic surveillance state is sometimes called the electronic police ...
California Senate Bill 131 is the latest volley in the political campaign against religious and private educational institutions, especially Catholic ones.
SB 131 raises the current civil statute of limitations on damage lawsuits that are brought on the ...
On June 10, the Guardian featured an article entitled “Edward Snowden: Saving Us from the United Stasi of America” by Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers fame. He stated,
The NSA, FBI, and CIA have, with the new digital ...
An estimated 103 prisoners have been on a hunger strike for well over three months at the American prison called Gitmo (Guantanamo Bay, Cuba). The protesters seem willing to die rather than live in the savage conditions ...
On December 8, the website Breitbart heralded, “Despite Tax Increase, California State Revenues in Freefall.” In the November state elections, a successful Proposition 30 imposed a 13.3 percent tax rate on income over $1,000,000 — an increase of 29.13 ...
“I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this — who will count the votes, and how.”
— Joseph Stalin (1923), as quoted in The Memoirs of Stalin’s Former ...
Organized labor has been a bedrock of President Obama’s political power. How far will he go to preserve support from this key Democratic constituency?
On April 16, the United Union of Roofers, Waterproofers and Allied Workers (UURWAW) became the first ...
Zeitgeist: noun, German. The spirit of the time; general trend of thought or feeling characteristic of a particular period of time.
The word zeitgeist occurred to me while reading a March 22 headline in the New ...
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