Look at Alito's Economic Record - To repeat my mantra, if it is Alito, let's have progressives look over his economic record as an Appeals Court...
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This is the Real Scandal - This American Prospect article and other investigations by the Italian newspaper La Repubblica have focused on the role of Italian...
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Microsoft Antitrust Lawsuit Still Working - While the Justice Department significantly scaled back pressure on Microsoft after Bush's selection in 2000, the overall Microsoft defeat in...
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GOP Misses the Hammer - But the rest of us celebrate. Internal war is taking its toll on the GOP and Delay may be just...
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October 18, 2005
Substance over Tactics - David Sirota has an important article up at In These Times arguing that the militant anti-Bush movement is plagued by...
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Attack on Medicaid - God forbid the Bush administration allow more government spending for poor people. The Bush prescription drug plan for Medicare is...
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October 14, 2005
Why Courts Should Not Defend Darwin - TPMCafe is engaged in "evolution week", and I fully appreciate the need to publicly challenge the scientific idiocy of "intelligent...
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Rightwing Pissed off Over Miers - What's clear is that much of the rightwing is pissed off over Miers nomination not because they don't believe she...
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Racist William Buckley - Atrios reminds us, in celebration of National Review's Fiftieth birthday, that William Buckley and his magazine endorsed violation of the...
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Federalism Revolution Over - Based on John Roberts' questions during the oral arguments over assisted suicide, Tom Goldstein of SCOTUSblog has declared "Note to...
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An Encouraging Story on Miers - Okay, here's a case of Miers doing something straightup progressive: In what appear to be some of her only public...
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Kelo and Political Corruption - Kevin Drum, seconded by Todd Zywicki at Volohk think this story outlines exactly the kind of corruption that the eminent...
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Do You Need an Ivy League Degree? - The latest rhetorical ploy from the rightwing in defense of Harriet Miers is to accuse her critics of being snobs...
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Miers Worse than Roberts - Everything I've read so far indicates to me that Miers will be worse than Roberts if confirmed. Partly, it's because...
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October 04, 2005
And, yes, Miers is Anti-Choice - You want the most obvious evidence that Miers is hardline anti-choice? Look at her list of political contributions. No, ignore...
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Miers As Enron's Ken Lay - One of Miers only qualifications for her nomination is that she was the head of a major corporate law firm,...
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Michael Brown on the Supreme Court - Okay, Harriet Miers has slightly better qualifications for the job of Supreme Court Justice then Michael Brown did for FEMA,...
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Who Should Rule the World? - Well, Nelson Mandela topped the online poll at the BBC, with Bill Clinton coming in second. Here's the 11-person "team"...
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Iraq Summer Camp is Over - So what Afghanistan was to terrorist training in the 1980s and 1990s, Iraq has been for the next generation of...
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October 01, 2005
Potty Training Sexual Harassers - Mark A. R. Kleiman is complaining that the state of California is requiring all supervisors on state payroll to attend...
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More than Words- Bennett was Wrong - Armando at Daily Kos is outraged that Brad Delong and Matt Yglesias are offering a qualified defense that Bill Bennett...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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- Valuing Families: State Legislative Models Brought to you by Progressive States and MomsRising What would a policy that really values families look...
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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...
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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...
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