Working Life

   This will be a bit of a tough week to blog (in theory, I’m on vacation…ha!!!) but you will get what I can sneak in here. Today, my heart goes out to the journalists at The Boston Globe: Months of labor acrimony at The Boston Globe will come to a head on Monday, when […]

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   The debate I took part in yesterday–well, it’s hard to call it a debate when your opponent is not operating with a full deck of cards…meaning facts–on CNBC really illustrates, in the most starkest terms, the two visions of America. One vision sees unionized jobs, like those that many people have had in the […]

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   For at least three years, I’ve been arguing that one of the problems we have, in the larger economic scheme, is that the value of the dollar is too high. Yup–a high dollar basically helps American tourists traveling abroad (and I am sympathetic to that) and Wal-Mart (because a high dollar means, basically, that […]

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   As I noted yesterday in connection with the bankruptcy of General Motors, I am in favor of spending money on trying to save peoples’ jobs–we are talking about the survival of communities and the lives of thousands of people. But, having now spent the morning reading various media reports about the GM bankruptcy, it’s […]

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   I suppose some of us may be on the wrong side of this or perhaps weird…or maybe un-American…because we think that, hey, it isn’t a bad thing to spend taxpayer money on saving jobs and communities. If you gave me the choice, I’d be pretty damn proud to know that my money is going […]

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  Meticulously anal pundits, like Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh, intellectual heavy weights Tom Tancredo, and ex-convict/current actor/ radio personality G. Gordon Liddy have exposed Judge Sotomayor for what she really is: a KKK-supporting, racist, menstruator/pre-menstruator who hates white people and speaks to aliens. Sotomayors’ own beliefs confirm she is a Racist, Sexist, Elitist, Class-Warfare-Inciting […]

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   It is curious, if not maddening, to observe the unwillingness of our economic and political leaders to admit that the bankruptcy of General Motors is a verdict on a much broader failure of the economic vision of the country. Sure, the incompetence of GM management, over a long period of time, is stunning. But, […]

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   My obvious failure to post in the morning was not due to laziness or sleeping late (oh, that would be nice). Rather, it was a hectic morning but, here I am, back at my post and…I will be on Larry Kudlow’s show tonight (7 Eastern time) to talk about the bankruptcy deal reached between […]

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Everyone is speculating about the ways Sotomayor’s personal background will compromise her judicial integrity. I mean, it’s pretty hard to hold a gavel while eating arroz con pollo, let alone while having a vagina. Here is a list of some glimpses into the personal lives of Supreme Court judges. Judge Breyer opens up about exploring […]

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   I’ve been honored to be part of a campaign in New York to try to win some basic rights for the 200,000 women who labor every day as domestic workers in New York–200,000!!! So, to get to the point, here is an update and some thing you can do: You’ll be happy to know […]

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