IT’S NOT EASY BEING A PELICAN IN COSTA RICA—NOR A PORPOISE NOR AN ALLIGATOR EITHER. These animals, among others, are given protection in a Marine Park in Puntarenas from the hazards of their life styles (like water dives of pelicans) and of the human animals who sometimes harass them. A gated park provides a [...]
The percentage of American workers belonging to labor unions has sunk to a nearly century-old low, representing the changing dynamics of the nation’s workforce and the consequences of a headlong rush by lawmakers to adopt “pro-business” economic polices. Organized labor has come under assault by legislators from Capitol Hill to statehouses across the country [...]
Just over a month after an election in which the role of Corporate America in the nation’s governing philosophy played a key role, champions of the “pro-business” and anti-labor agenda are shrugging off defeat with swift action in the heart of the American manufacturing center. Quite literally the home of organized labor in the United [...]
DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS: ISLAMOPHOBIA TAKES A SET-BACK. Irving school officials, responding to a rash of complaints that school children were being “indoctrinated” with pro-Islamic propaganda, hired a “socially conservative” educator to evaluate these claims. What he found, instead, was that the school curriculum in fact lacked such propaganda, and that pro-CHRISTIAN [...]
One of the legacies of the year 2011 will be the nationwide campaign to restrict and repeal the rights and benefits of public employees and unionized workers. Emboldened by the election results of the previous fall, lawmakers and their business allies from Wisconsin to Florida rushed through unprecedented legislation taking aim at the rights of [...]
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