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September 2002 Page

September 30, 2002
  • Labor Monday 9-30 - Roundup of labor stories, September 30 West coast ports have locked out longshore workers. The Bush administration, which condemned the... MORE...
  • How to Replace Torricelli - With Torricelli dropping out -- thank god -- the question is how to legally replace him. Assuming that the Dems... MORE...

    September 29, 2002
  • The Unemployment Rate Lie - Today, the real level of unemployment for men probably approaches the level of the recession-mired early 80's. * From Sunday's... MORE...
  • S&P Companies in Pension Deficits - Here is where the decline in the stock market is hitting the bottom line of corporations-- in shortfalls in their... MORE...
  • Iowa- Center of Political Universe? - Prospects for Dem success in the fall elections are looking up and the reason is Iowa. Why Iowa? Because in... MORE...

    September 28, 2002
  • 350,000 March in London Against War - See this video commentary by the leftleaning mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, on this joint anti-Iraq war/solidarity with Palestinians march.... MORE...
  • First Amendment Suspended - MaxSpeak rightly titles his post on the DC protess "The Terrorists Have Won" as the police have used mass arrests... MORE...
  • A Major Problem with Libel - It turns out that ex-Prime Minister John Major had a major affair during the 1980s on his climb to top... MORE...

    September 27, 2002
  • Anti-Union Group Loses 700K Lawsuit - The key Oregon antiunion and antitax Oregon organization lost a $700,000 civil suit for forging signatures on antiunion ballot initiatives... MORE...
  • Here comes Lula! - Factions of the government coalition in Brazil have switched sides to leftwing Lula's candidacy. See here. This is important for... MORE...
  • Poetic Irony- Estrada Screened Clerks on Ideology - As today's NRO notes, Estrada has been hit with a stealth bomb that will probably kill his nomination. It turns... MORE...
  • Syria's Got a Point - Syria's state-run TV is blasting the US for double standards in calling for invasion of Iraq for ignoring UN resolutions,... MORE...

    September 26, 2002
  • The Torricelli Memo - Well, the memo from the US Attorney's Office detailing David Chang's claims against Torricelli-- from taking $25,000 in cash over... MORE...
  • Gore Jags Left on Civil Liberties - From AP: The former vice president says some of the administration's security measures in the past year amount to an... MORE...
  • So Who Hasn't Bush Pissed Off? - With Bush getting into an international snit with Germany and with the mild-mannered Daschle erupting with fury at Bush's implication... MORE...

    September 25, 2002
  • Lack of Paper Trail May Doom Estrada - Some worried after Bork that a strong legal background with its associated paper trail would doom judicial nominees, encouraging submarine... MORE...
  • Bin Laden Wants You to Invade Iraq - Today's "Op-Ad" in the New York Times from TomPaine.com... MORE...
  • Gore on Iraq - After a slow media start, Gore's speech on Iraq is becoming a flash point for discussion of opposition to the... MORE...
  • How Judges Make Law - The judicial branch's "top policy-making body" (bet you didn't know they had one) just developed new rules for class actions... MORE...

    September 24, 2002
  • M$ Dealing with Open Source Challenge - Steve Balmer in this interview admits that the real source of open source strength is not its price, but the... MORE...
  • Why Borking Became Popular - Many people bemoan the rise of rough judicial treatment of Presidential nominations in the last couple of decades, but as... MORE...

    September 23, 2002
  • Where's the Dem Opposition? Cali - Once again California Dems have thumbed their nose at Bush, passing legislation to strongly support stem cell research in a... MORE...
  • Labor Monday (9-23) - Roundup of Labor stories, Sept. 23rd- For the German unions view on yesterday's election, see this interview with the head... MORE...
  • Bush Loses German Vote - Well, it's Gerard Schoeder who was reelected to the Chancellorship yesterday in Germany's vote, but it was Bush who lost... MORE...

    September 21, 2002
  • For Those Not Named Bush - This LA Times piece on a new study by the Sentencing Project highlights once again the brutal racist effects of... MORE...
  • Joss Whedon Worship - I'm pointing to this New York Times Magazine piece on Joss Whedon and his new show, Firefly, partly out of... MORE...

    September 19, 2002
  • Clean Flix- Will Liberals Embrace this Techie Hack - Most online techie liberals embrace Napster and other tech hackers looking to give consumers more choice in how to use... MORE...
  • Attack of the AMT - When the GOP designed their tax plan last year, they used two tricks to balloon its costs beyond its stated... MORE...

    September 18, 2002
  • Why Oppose McConnell- It's the Economy Stupid - The next judicial nomination fight is over Michael McConnell, a law professor from the University of Utah. Well respected by... MORE...

    September 17, 2002
  • More on Sweden's model - Vaara wrote:But Sweden is poorer than Mississippi!! At least that's what passes for received wisdom in certain corners of blog-land.... MORE...

    September 16, 2002
  • Sweden Stays Left; Germany Tomorrow? - The Social Democrats in Sweden defied the swing to the Right across Europe and won a convincing victory in yesterday's... MORE...

    September 15, 2002
  • Germany Defying US on Iraq - Gerhard Schoeder, up for reelection as Chancellor of Germany, was looking at polls showing him likely to be replaced. Then,... MORE...

    September 13, 2002
  • Advancing Abortion Rights in States - California is mapping the way for advancing abortion rights at the state level through four recently passed laws. They range... MORE...
  • So do we Want International "Cooperation"? - Demands by progressives for United Nations agreement to any military action by the US against Iraq sounds like a good... MORE...

    September 11, 2002
  • CA Shows How To Hit Corp Scofflaws - California has shown how to hit companies setting up offshore headquarters to evade taxes - or hit them for any... MORE...

    September 10, 2002
  • Mandela Denounces US - Nelson Mandela has denounced the United States as a "threat to World Peace" based on its miscalculated support for authoritarian... MORE...
  • Housing Bubble Bust? - The continuing consumer spending through this recession has been the wonder of economists, but with housing prices continuing to soar... MORE...
  • Bush and Crack - Okay, Jeb's daughter Noelle had another drug relapse and other than the hypocrisy of the nice rehab treatment she receives,... MORE...
  • Not Enough Hate in the World - Rush Limbaugh is lamenting that there are Too Many Memorials, Not Enough Anger in the US over 911. Freepers like... MORE...
  • Blacks and Jews Again - Okay, Off the Pine argues that since liberal Jews raise a lot of money for blacks, the fact that Jewish... MORE...
  • Being GOP Star Made Him a Cokehead - One of the bigger recent defections from the Right is Glenn Loury, one of the stars of the black conservative... MORE...
  • Edwards and the Rural Vote - A good indepth article on John Edwards campaign to win rural voters nationwide by emphasizing down-home culture and a pro-gun... MORE...
  • Haliburton Raids Employee Pensions - One more example of Halliburton malfeasance-- when it acquired a company called Dresser-Rand, it raided the pension fund then spun... MORE...

    September 09, 2002
  • Another Roach Gem - Morgan Stanley's Stephen Roach continues his on-target economic analyses-- this week analyzing how the hysteric focus on fighting consumer inflation... MORE...
  • Is Death Penalty worth the attention - This posting on the death penalty by Politics and Policy blog captures some of my sentiments on the death penalty--... MORE...
  • Labor Monday (9-9) - Roundup of labor stories on August 9th Here is the AFL-CIO's Honor Roll of union victims of the 911 attacks.... MORE...

    September 06, 2002
  • Rhetoric and Nominations - It's all part of the game, as conservatives vent with Casablanca-style outrage that they are shocked, shocked to find politics... MORE...

    September 04, 2002
  • Paying for Transit - I posted an article below from Chris Caldwell about competition for scarce land due to gentrification driving class politics. This... MORE...
  • Lefty Rich States-Righty Poor States? - Christopher Caldwell is an often interesting contrarian conservative (in the true sense) at the New York Press. In a column,... MORE...

    September 02, 2002
  • Labor Day Monday - A special roundup of Labor Day "deepthink" articles, ongoing news, and resources for folks wanting to find out more about... MORE...
  • GOP to Push More Churches in Politics - The GOP will be introducing a bill to give churches greater leeway to engage in politics without losing their tax-exempt... MORE...
  • A Blow for Open Justice - This article highlights a real gain for justice, the decision by South Carolina's 10 active federal trial judges to ban... MORE...
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    February 21, 2007
  • Amnesia on the Death of Reconstruction - I am going to pick on Brad Delong precisely because he is a brilliant and well-educated academic-- and his list... MORE...

    February 18, 2007
  • So What if Mitt Wants A Person of Faith as President? - There's a bit of a furor that Mitt Romney declared:We need to have a person of fiath lead the country.So... MORE...

    February 16, 2007
  • States Taking Action Against Iraq Escalation - So the New York Times is covering the story that resolutions denouncing Bush's Iraq Escalation have been introduced in over... MORE...

    January 01, 2007
  • Wal-Mart Doing Good for Environment - Seriously. This initiative by Wal-Mart to promote energy-saving light bulbs is a major environmental initiative. "Compact fluorescent" bulbs fit in... MORE...

    December 22, 2006
  • Dems' Stupid Positioning on Minimum Wage - As a followup to discussing why politicians need to appeal to a broad consensus, it's worth emphasizing that it's easier... MORE...

    December 21, 2006
  • Obama and the Need for Large Progressive Majorities - I've been as disappointed as many other progressive bloggers with Obama's bad votes on tort reform and seeming trimming of... MORE...

    December 13, 2006
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    November 27, 2006
  • Ecuador Goes Left - Another country moves left-- whatever you want to say, Bush has been very good for reviving the global left, especially... MORE...
  • Building a Progressive Majority in the Statehouses - The Progressive States Network today rolled out its legislative agenda for the 2007 session and is looking to promote it... MORE...

    November 13, 2006
  • The Future Belongs to US - While the actual results seem razer-thin in this election, I'll be bold and argue that they are part of a... MORE...

    November 11, 2006
  • Pro-Labor "Conservative Democrats" - One more nail in the narrative that the victory of a few moderate Democrats means this election is really a... MORE...

    November 10, 2006
  • The Collapse of Tax Cut Politics - You can check out Progressive States rundown of progressive successes in the states on Tuesday, but I want to focus... MORE...

    November 08, 2006
  • A Good Night for Progressives - Let's be clear-- this wasn't just a good night for Democrats. It was a good night for progressives, and no... MORE...

    November 01, 2006
  • Labor Cold War Ends - New International Labor Federation - At the dawn of the Cold War, the international union movement divided up between the ICFTU, dominated by US and Western European unions, and the World Confederation of Labor, largely allied with the Soviet Union. It's taken a decade and a half, but the irrelevancy of that division will end today as the two federations merge-- bringing together 241 labor organizations from 156 countries representing 190 million workers. The new International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) is a good step for a labor movement looking to globalize itself in the taking on global capital power.... MORE...

    October 19, 2006
  • Immigrant Poor Send More Foreign Aid than US Govt - The United States government spends less money on foreign aid as a percentage of its budget than almost any other... MORE...

    October 17, 2006
  • - Valuing Families:  State Legislative Models Brought to you by Progressive States and MomsRising What would a policy that really values families look... MORE...

    October 09, 2006
  • Emaciated Models, Labor Regulation - There's a bit of debate in the blogosphere around Spain's new law banning underweight models from the runways in that country. See Jordan, Amanda at Pandagon and Lindsay Beyerstein at Majikthise on whether this is an intrusive regulating violating free expression or something like that and whether OSHA safety regulations are appropriate. Just to throw my two cents in-- any broader OSHA approach would seem cumbersome and bureaucratically intrusive in a deep way. But the original Spanish proposal is brilliant in its high-impact, low-intrusion approach. Regulate only the fashion week type runways, where in a single spotcheck, models can be... MORE...

    October 03, 2006
  • Big loss for Labor-- - The National Labor Relations Board ruled today that a range of professionals are now deemed "supervisors" and thus lose all protections under labor law. That means if they say a positive thing about unions, their bosses are free to fire them at will. The AFL-CIO has more here. To put this denial of labor rights in perspective, 32 million workers or 25% of the workforce already have no right to form a union under federal, state or local law (see this GAO report and this ARAW summary). This includes: Supervisors 16.6 million workers, 8 million new supervisors plus traditional 8.6... MORE...

    September 27, 2006
  • Civil War on the Right- Dick Armey trashes Dobson - The economic business- right and the religious right are moving towards total civil war. This piece by former GOP Majority... MORE...

    September 24, 2006
  • Allen the Racist - Three college teammates confirm that George Allen regularly used the N- word: Allen said he came to Virginia because he... MORE...

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