Priorities
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By Henry Meyerding on May 5, 2013 - 12:02:02 AM
UNITED STATES—We have got some pretty weird priorities in this country. Sometimes I think that this is because of historical coincidence and sometimes I am not so sure.
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Enterprise Equality
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Labor Week
By Henry Meyerding on Apr 7, 2013 - 12:56:20 PM
UNITED STATES—The ENDA is currently being considered by the US Congress, again. Proponents say its only fair and opponents say it is grossly unfair. What does it really mean?
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Hobbycare
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Labor Week
By Henry Meyerding on Jan 6, 2013 - 11:09:33 PM
UNITED STATES—An Oklahoma based chain of stores called Hobby Lobby has publicly defied federal law by refusing to provide insurance that covers contraception.
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Disabled
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Labor Week
By Henry Meyerding on Dec 13, 2012 - 4:43:53 PM
UNITED STATES—Every time I think that we have hit bottom morally as a nation, some new horror unfolds and makes me reassess our position in the world.
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Exceptional Politics
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Labor Week
By Henry Meyerding on Nov 1, 2012 - 12:38:44 PM
UNITED STATES—Does anyone vote for things anymore, or do most folks vote against things? In an increasingly polarized world, it is perhaps not surprising that many people vote according to what they fear rather than what they want.
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Presto Cogitation
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Labor Week
By Henry Meyerding on Oct 12, 2012 - 11:08:05 AM
UNTIED STATES—What do you think is real and why do you believe it? Because you were told it by someone you trust? Because it is consistent with other things you believe?
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Aristocratic Prejudice
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Labor Week
By Henry Meyerding on Apr 28, 2012 - 6:17:32 PM
WASHINGTON D.C.—We have now in this country a ruling class composed primarily of millionaires: 87% of top government positions are millionaires - 7 out of 11 Supreme Court judges are millionaires. What does this mean?
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Textbook History
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Labor Week
By Henry Meyerding on Feb 27, 2012 - 5:35:31 PM
WASHINGTON D.C.—Remember a couple of years ago, when some people raised a big stink because some textbook publishers planned to cut Jefferson and Labor Unions from American History curriculum and replace them with Phyllis Schlafly and Prosperity Theology? It’s faded from the front pages, but what is happening on this issue?
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Choices
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Labor Week
By Henry Meyerding on Feb 19, 2012 - 5:12:10 PM
WASHINGTON D.C.—There is a controversy brewing at the state and federal level about church-owned enterprise employees and health insurance. What is it all about?
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Manufacturing Ignorance
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Labor Week
By Jessica MacGilvray on May 29, 2011 - 8:54:19 PM
WASHINGTON, D.C.—As our great country becomes more and more polarized and divided, more and more simple truths become unacceptable to more people.
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Starvation For Profit
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Labor Week
By Jessica MacGilvray on May 22, 2011 - 1:44:59 PM
WASHINGTON, D.C.
—The cost of food has doubled in the past two years. There are many injustices in this world, but few are so plainly wrong as the profiteering of food.
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Legislating Intolerance
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Labor Week
By Jessica MacGilvray on May 12, 2011 - 7:30:11 AM
WASHINGTON, D.C.—What if my sincerely held religious or moral belief made me unable to work with black people or with Hispanic people or women or Muslims?
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Values
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Labor Week
By Jessica MacGilvray on May 7, 2011 - 12:37:48 AM
WASHINGTON, D.C.—It is interesting to compare the rhetoric and actions of groups like National Organization for Marriage (NOM) and Focus on the Family (FOF).
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Union Uprising
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Labor Week
By Jessica MacGilvray on Apr 24, 2011 - 2:06:15 PM
WISCONSIN—The fracas in Wisconsin between the governor and the Public Sector Unions received considerable press play, the follow up activities received almost no coverage.
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Organizing Chaos
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Labor Week
By Henry Meyerding on Jan 16, 2011 - 8:46:27 AM
WASHINGTON D.C.—It is no surprise that government in the hands of people who do not believe in government does not work very well. They believe in profit.
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Oily Nightmare
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Labor Week
By Henry Meyerding on May 9, 2010 - 11:13:08 PM
WASHINGTON D.C.—The prospect of ruining the entire marine habitat of Atlantic Mexico and the Southern US is bad enough, but could there be worse damage?
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Creeping Conservatism
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Labor Week
By Henry Meyerding on Jun 28, 2009 - 5:08:43 PM
UNITED STATES—Why do so many people become more and more conservative of view as they get older? Quite often, people adopt views as seniors that they would have made fun of as teenagers.
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Education In America
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Labor Week
By Henry Meyerding on Mar 1, 2009 - 10:04:22 PM
I believe in government as more than a vehicle for comic relief, but sometimes you have to wonder about the collective intelligence of people drawn to government service as a profession.
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Banking Bandits
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Labor Week
By Henry Meyerding on Oct 19, 2008 - 9:41:33 AM
The thrift industry has concluded a major bailout deal with the federal government that will have us paying for their mistakes for decades to come. How and why did this debacle come about?
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Counter Education
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Labor Week
By Henry Meyerding on Nov 25, 2007 - 6:48:57 AM
It is so depressing to discuss labor issues or labor unions with the typical American worker. One after another come the same inane clichés that everyone has been taught, which they've never examined, but which they spout as if they'd thought them up.
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News Squint
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Labor Week
By on Sep 5, 2007 - 7:59:46 AM
All the news coverage about Senator Craig of Idaho and his alleged bathroom habits demonstrated very well how news coverage can be slanted to prove things that aren't so.
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In Their Court
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Labor Week
By Henry Meyerding on Jul 15, 2007 - 6:08:00 PM
The US Federal Appeals Court overturned a ruling by a lower court to shut down the NSA warrentless wiretap program implemented by the Bush administration. Now the case will go to the US Supreme Court. How they rule may set the tone for this nation for the next century.
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