Ending Patent Extortion - The Supreme Court will be considering a case of crucial importance for the health of economic innovation in this country:...
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November 27, 2005
Worse than Under Saddam - The last threads of justification for the Iraq War have fallen apart: Abuse of human rights in Iraq is as...
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November 23, 2005
The John McCain Scam - One of the danger signs for Democrats that a Bush collapse doesn't necessarily mean much for progressive gains in policy...
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[Torture] School of the Americas - Frank Joyce at TPMCafe reports on the protests at the School of the Americas in Georgia, the annual vigil against...
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November 19, 2005
GOP Bill: Selling Off Public Land - This is what happens with dark-of-night bills-- they stick in full-scale assaults on communities around the country, allowing old mining...
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Of Course the US Uses Torture - ...or we subcontract it to our intelligence services: See this story about the conviction for torture by a US-trained head...
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November 18, 2005
The Dirty Dozen - So here's a great poster from ECAP on vulnerable GOPers who voted to cut spending on the poor to fund...
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Comments not working - A massive spam attack means I've had to suspend comments until I figure out how to prevent them from overloading...
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Alito Against Democracy - The release of Alito's 1985 Job Application is causing ripples because of his clear statement that "the Constitution does not...
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I Told You So - With the PlameGate indictment, I worried that this would just open a floodgate of investigations into leaks of CIA misdeeds....
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While I was gone - Didn't I say don't start the revolution 'til I got back? France Anti-FTAA protests in Argentina Protests in the Phillipines...
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November 04, 2005
Off to Get Married - I'll be in radio silence until Tuesday, since I'm off to get married this weekend to a wonderful woman. So...
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Undercover Spies with Secret Prisons - If you have secret government employees whose activities are hidden, you end up with atrocities like secret prisons. Civil rights...
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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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