COLOMBIA: “CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY BEING CARRIED OUT IN OUR NAME.” This is labor activist Daniel Kovolak’s characterization of the Free Trade Agreement passed by Congress and signed by the President. This agreement, when implemented, will result among other things in huge amounts of U.S. agricultural products being “dumped” tariff-free in Colombia, creating wholesale displacement [...]
“KINDNESS HOLDS A PLACE ON A PAR WITH INTELLECTUAL ATTAINMENT.” This admonition, given to incoming freshmen at Harvard University as they are required to take an oath to exercise “sensitivity” in their public utterances and demonstrations, highlights a tendency across the country for students on college campuses to be restrained in their “speech” [...]
WHAT’S MORE “INEFFECTIVE”? PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS OR NEW STUDENT/TEACHER EVALUATIONS? Principals and teachers in New York state are witnessing the first round of student and teacher evaluations under the new test-based achievement guidelines championed by education “reformers.” The results have been as flawed as many expected leading thousands of teachers and principals to protest [...]
IT’S ELECTION TIME, ISN’T IT? TIME FOR BOTH PARTIES TO DO A LITTLE CHINA-BASHING. Both Romney and Obama vie for union votes by blaming trade policies of China for the woeful state of the labor economy in the U.S. Romney accuses Obama is being too “soft” on China while the President announces at a [...]
A FEW FACTS, PLEASE, AMIDST THE WORLD CELEBRATION OF THE REPORTED DEATH OF OSAMA BIN LADEN. (Brasscheck TV) Brasscheck TV offers some facts, via a 10-minute video by Adrian Salbuchi, who reviews the strange “nine lives” of a man repeatedly reported as dead long before this week’s officially announced death. Salbuchi also reviews some of [...]
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