NPR story on Texas construction industry highlights GOP hypocrisy, harm
A two part news series on NPR by Wade Goodwyn displayed the Texas construction industry as harmful to itself and its workers. Worker injury and death is much higher than the national average and twice...
View ArticleThe business case for why chained-CPI is theft and breach of contract.
We have been told that the savings gained by switching from the Consumer Price Index (CPI) to chained CPI will be used to pay for balancing the federal budget instead of getting that money from tax...
View ArticleThe case for why NSA surveillance must be proven to work or be shut down.
What these massive spying "security" programs utterly lack is any accountability for their cost and wide reach. The monetary cost is huge, in the billions of dollars. The down-side is clear: spying...
View ArticleHelp needed tracking back astroturf petition against "Environment Renewable...
There is a petition against the "Environment Renewable Fuel Standard" showing up as a sponsored ad on the web. It is clearly astroturf, given the website has no indication of the group sponsoring it-...
View ArticleI have seen a lot of "I'm leaving" diaries today. These are my reasons for...
I have seen a lot of "I'm leaving" diaries today. Here is why I am staying.I understand that people are very upset about Markos’ post announcing his intent to limit primary battle stories after March...
View ArticleJust three national gun control laws could save many thousands of lives per...
When passed at the national level, just three fairly popular laws could save many thousands of lives per year, according to a recent article in the Lancet. The Lancet is an old and very reputable...
View ArticleA jury just let the Bundy gang go with no convictions.
The Washington Post just reported that a jury found the Bundy gang not guilty on all counts of illegal occupation and use of firearms. The group that illegally occupied the Malheur Wildlife Refuge,...
View ArticleAstroturf group "Judicial Crisis Network" launches $10M ad buy to promote...
I do not know who they are, but they’re well funded. An astroturf group calling themselves the “Judicial Crisis Network” at judicialnetwork.com is spending $10 Million to promote DT’s new Supreme Court...
View ArticleShould the KKK, neo-Confederates, and Nazi Party lose 1st Amendment free...
First, both these KKK/Confederates and Nazi-wannabes either do not understand or do not want to understand the modern science of genetics, which has shown that what we call “race” is a social...
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