~Back in 2008 I pointed out that the Democrats had been steadily moving Right after Mondale got trounced by Reagan in 1984, and that the GOP in response had itself moved more to the Right and had now found itself painted into a corner way out in Bat Country. Well, over the past four years we have discovered just how very very far out that corner of ( Read more... )

Originally posted by boingboing_net at Philadelphia schools have $5/student/year for supplies

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"Obamacare is a classic example of how a really good idea is perverted by The Corporate State. Universal Health Care in a Modern Industrial State should be a Civil Right ( Read more... )

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"The Hamlet chicken processing plant fire was an industrial fire in Hamlet, North Carolina, at the Imperial Foods chicken processing plant on September 3, 1991, due to a failure in a hydraulic line. Twenty-five were killed and 54 injured in the fire, trapped behind locked fire doors. In 11 years of operation, the plant had never received a safety ( Read more... )

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From America Blog
Friday, September 12, 2008

So will the Fed bailout Lehman as well? Just because they couldn't find a buyer after of trying is not our problem. Let them go under and let Detroit figure out how to get money like every other business in America. We can not afford to keep bailing these companies out and taking on the extra financial ( Read more... )