Working Life

Obviously, the answer is no, is you caught today’s story in the The Wall Street Journal: For the first time since 2003, General Motors Corp. is giving bonuses in the form of stock to Chairman and Chief Executive Rick Wagoner and other top executives, a move that could complicate GM’s efforts to get further concessions […]

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Last Fall, during the election, I mused numerous times about the worrisome phenomena of Democrats hugging corporate lobbyists (for example, here). Yeah, I know, this isn’t new. The point was that if Democrats wanted to take power and really be different, they needed to reject those kind of relationships. Well, The Politico has a story […]

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Nancy Pelosi, in a move that is still perplexing to me, is going all out to pass the supplemental appropriations bill that funds the war for a very long time. According to The Hill, she’s playing hard-ball with the anti-war caucus: Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is holding the implied threat of lost committee seats over […]

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I am perplexed and aghast that the Democratic leadership is moving ahead to fund Bush’s continued war in Iraq. That is the upshot of the supplemental appropriations bill that is moving to a vote as early as Wednesday. But, a handful of courageous progressives could stop this shameful funding of the war and bring the […]

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In lamenting the devastation of the war, the media typically focuses on the 3,216 American soldiers who have been killed in the war. And, yes, I can’t stand reading the lists of the dead because you just see the lives of 20-year-old kids gone, poof… But, let’s remember that over half a million–500,000 AND UP, […]

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The other day I had an update about Wal-Mart’s attempt to get into banking. Well, lo and behold, The Beast is running for cover–this is from yesterday’s New York Times: Few efforts illustrate the breadth of Wal-Mart’s ambitions — and the fears that they at times generate — as much as a nearly decade-long drive […]

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Oh, you know, I thought I’d have a nice quiet morning, work out at the gym, read a bit…and, then, I had to look at The New York Times’ editorial page, and it was all downhill from there, forcing me to fire up the computer to post this… The Times continues its rant in support […]

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I’ve not been drinking the Obama kool-aid. And here are two reasons why. First, it was the well-publicized unwillingness to state clearly that there is nothing immoral about homosexuality. Like the junior senator from New York, Obama subsequently issued a second statement saying he did not think homosexuality was immoral. But, you have to wonder, […]

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It’s interesting to look at the tone of two different reports today on new information about the push by the Beast of Bentonville t get into the banking industry (hey, maybe The Beast can buy up all those subprime mortgages that are starting to tank the real estate market). The Wall Street Journal opens up […]

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I’m shocked, shocked, that the Republican mayor of New York would stoop to union-busting–particularly after so many of the city’s unions supported him for re-election (there is a healthy dose of sarcasm there): Day-Care Group: City Union-Busting By MEREDITH KOLODNER THE CHIEFMarch 16, 2007 The city’s day-care union and several elected officials charged last week […]

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