So now GOP Senator Orrin Hatch is proposing a law to mandate drug testing all unemployed workers. You would have to test negative for drugs to receive unemployment compensation.
Small, minor detail: Such a law would be unconstitutional. It would be a major violation of rights.
OK, we all know that the Republican claim to be fiscally [...]
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Drug Test the Unemployed? Is Hatch a Conservative, or not?
How Haiti Got This Way and Why We Owe Them Help
Haiti is an amazing country. Sure, it is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. But that is not the fault of the brave and generous Haitian people.
Haiti was formerly one of the most brutal French plantation colonies. Some of the planters there were monsters of sadism and depravity. Read the history.
The rum and sugar [...]
Forced Labor (Slavery?) in Florida!
What is it with Florida? The reports just keep coming in about Immokalee County, where poor immigrant workers are lured with the promise of jobs and then trapped in brutally inhumane conditions and not allowed to escape.
Over and over we have been asked to boycott this or that fast food restaurant in the last few [...]
Remembering the Preventable Tragedy of Hurricane Katrina
Four years after Hurricane Katrina, only 19 percent of residents have returned to the poorest neighborhoods. That is not an accident. As a wealthy New Orleans resident told the Wall Street Journal in 2005, “we do not want them back”.
Right-Wing Organizes Unruly Mobs to Prevent Healthcare Discussion
The Insurance industry is spending $1.4 million a day to fight reform. The right-wing is organizing “unruly mobs” to disrupt healthcare town meetings across America. The behavior is so obvious, obnoxious, and antidemocratic that reporters have written about it all over the country.
Disbelief That We Allow Harm for Profit Is “Why Evil Can Exist”
Anne Dunev urges us to do away with insurance entirely, because it costs too much and contributes nothing to healthcare. In fact, she feels that insurance companies by their nature are bad for healthcare.
She also shows that the pharmaceutical industry spends more on advertising and promotion than on research and development. Properly prescribed prescription drugs now kill 2 1/2 times as many people as car wrecks ever year.
Right-Wing Fomenting Hatred So Effectively on Purpose
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Six months ago if anyone said there could be a civil war in America (again), I would have thought they were being right-wing ridiculous. (Remember the corporate-sponsored Tea Party nonsense?) Now I’m not so sure.
In just a few months, the ultra right has begun to reap the harvest of hatred they so shamelessly [...]
Coleman Finally Concedes—7 Months Late
So Norm Coleman finally conceded his loss in the Minnesota Senate election to Al Franken—-only 7 months too late for even a shred of dignity.
It took a unanimous vote of the Minnesota Supreme Court to finally make Coleman give it up. Talk about making a fool of yourself—at the expense of your former constituents. And, of course, making sure that no one in MN will ever vote for you for anything again…
Is StarBucks the new WalMart?
StarBucks (otherwise known as AstronomicalBucks), it turns out, treats its workers like dirt.
Just like WalMart, StarBucks plays dirty tricks to (illegally) keep workers from unionizing. To find out more, watch this video:
It’s Official: Republicans Fear Facts
It has been obvious for some time that Republicans suffer from (or enjoy) factophobia. They fear the facts.
They hate science and distort, deny, or subvert it at every opportunity. They claim there is no global warming (or if there is, it’s caused by chipmunks, or something). Remember when Ronald Reagan asserted that “trees cause more [...]
