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Thank a union member.
Posted in Historical Information, how we live, music, Public Policy, tagged Almanac Singers, labor unions, Labory Day, music video, pete seeger on September 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Special Comment on Health Care
Posted in Economy, health, Public Policy, Reality Bites, tagged health care reform, Keith Olbermann, medical care, National Association of Free Clinics, politics on October 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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“I want you to start singing.”
Posted in music, Public Policy, Videos, tagged Country Joe McDonald, Fish Cheer, healthcare bill, politics on August 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
God, the lies conservatives spout when it comes to the perceived evils of giving people rights. During a good chunk of the 20th century, we were told such convenient myths about desegregation like property values would decline if black people moved into a neighborhood (a lie created by real estate agents looking to artificially deflate [...]
Give This Guy A Cigar.
Posted in Economy, health, Public Policy, tagged Economy, healthcare, national health, public health, wages on May 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
(TPMCafe) The media coverage of the auto bailouts has focused on the need for union autoworkers to take big pay cuts, causing them to once again miss the real story. The Fiat-Chrysler deal shows that the pay problem is at the top, not the bottom. At the end of the day, the new Chrysler is [...]
End Marijuana Prohibition.
Posted in Historical Information, Public Policy, tagged hemp, Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, marijuana, prohibition on February 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is a perfect argument for ending the prohibition on marijuana use in this country. No surprise we haven’t heard a report from Lou Dobbs about Americans selling AK-47s and other weapons to drug gangs in Mexico. As long as we’ve opened the subject, let’s look at some other reasons why the prohibition should be [...]
The Darby Free Library
Posted in how we live, Public Policy, tagged Darby Free Library, massachusetts, new hampshire, public libraries, virginia on January 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
(Philly.com Daily News)Delaware County’s Darby Free Library, which was founded in 1743 and is believed to be the oldest continuously operating public library in America, will be forced to close its doors at year’s end if somebody doesn’t write a fat check, the Daily News has learned. * * * Founded by 29 Quaker townsmen, [...]
Schadenfreude, Indeed.
Posted in how we live, Public Policy, tagged madoff, planned parenthood, sex ed, teen pregnancy on January 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Maggie Gallagher, inmate at The Corner: Oh, let us search for the silver lining! Planned Parenthood is cutting 20 percent of its staff due to the Madoff-involved fall of the Picower Foundation, as Crain’s Business reports, “The $1 billion foundation was one of the few major funders of reproductive rights issues.” Is this the “silver [...]
