Posted on 14 December 2016. Tags: Andrew Puzder, Christine Owens, Donald Trump, Jeffrey Toobin, Labor Department, Supreme Court of the United States
The individual who will occupy the Oval Office is putting in place people in the government who will do unimaginable damage to the country and the planet. In this week’s podcast, I speak with CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin about the outlook for the U.S. Supreme Court and the real possibility that the conservative […]
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Posted in Audio, Labor, Podcast, Politics
Posted on 23 September 2011. Tags: Affordable Care Act, Bob Mcdonnell, Civil War, Health Care, Linda Greenhouse, Republicans, Secession, Supreme Court of the United States, Virginia
A good friend of mine often contends that we would have been a lot better off if the Confederacy had won the Civil War, grouping that whole swath of states south of the Mason-Dixon line into their own little country. Perhaps. But, it also seems like actual elected leaders of the country pine for […]
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Posted in General Interest
Posted on 21 June 2011. Tags: Class Warfare, Discrimination, Greed, Poverty, Supreme Court of the United States, The Audacity of Greed, The Waltons, Unions, Wages, Wal-Mart
Keep our eye on the ball. I’m sure the Waltons are doing a great dance over in Bentonville, Arkansas in light of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling blocking a class-action suit against the companythat, had it been successful, would have likely cost the company billions of dollars in damages. But, let’s be clear: Wal-Mart […]
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Posted on 14 January 2011. Tags: Antonin Scalia, Campaign Finance, Citizens United, Constitution, Corporate Power, Corporate Rights, Corruption, Justice, Linda Greenhouse, Robbery, Supreme Court of the United States
It is has been pointed out by others that when the Republicans chose to organize the reading of the Constitution on the House floor, they conveniently left out parts they didn’t like. But, they have intellectual–and I use "intellectual" loosely–support for this from Justice Scalia and his wing of convenient Constitutionalists who choose to […]
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Posted in General Interest