Chrysler Scrubbed Pro-Union Signs From Footage Used In Super Bowl Ad
Chrysler's "Half Time in America" Super Bowl ad touts economic recovery in Detroit, but scrubs recognition for union activists in Wisconsin. The highly-praised spot, which...
Howard Foster: The Obama Labor Department Suppresses the Facts
Union membership by public employees was banned until the 1960's. Now it is commonplace and causes the taxpayers billions of dollars for those pensions.
David Isenberg: SIGIR Reports: Hey, Anybody Know What Happened to the $2 Billion?
The latest Quarterly and Semiannual Report of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction was released January 30. What follows are relevant excerpts of some of the more noteworthy contractor related activities.
William K. Black: A "Capitalist Tool’s" Defense of Apple Morphs into an Anti-Obama Screed
Contrary to a recent screed by Rich Karlgaard, taxing corporations is not an "anti-business" policy, and all modern presidents have taxed corporations. A "tax holiday" is an extraordinary subsidy to corporations that already pay an exceptionally low effective income tax rate.
Radcliffe: The Rich Should Subsidize Poorer People ‘Who Work Just As Hard’
Daniel Radcliffe has already defeated Voldemort. Now he's moving on to the tax rates of one percenters like himself. The actor, best known for his...
Records Complicate Newt’s Lobbyist Denial
WASHINGTON -- Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich says his consulting group never lobbied for clients. But his business hired state and federal lobbyists to work...
Olive Garden Owner Targeted In Race Discrimination Suit
Last week, Restaurant Opportunities Center United (ROC), an advocacy group dedicated to equality for restaurant workers, filed a federal employee discrimination suit against Darden Restaurants,...
Adam Hanft: Capitalist Porn – Behind the Fetishization of Super Bowl Commercials
If "advertising is dead," like many say, then the two weeks before the Super Bowl are the kind of mortality that American manufacturing would like to experience.
Ron Ashkenas: Learn to Trust Your Gut
Most of us are programmed from an early age to defer to authority even if we don't understand or agree with the instructions. So how can you counter your conditioning and question authority? Here are some ways to start.
Google, Facebook Cave To India’s Demands For Web Censorship
NEW DELHI (AP) -- Google India has removed web pages deemed offensive to Indian political and religious leaders to comply with a court case that...
‘Green Acres’ Effect For New Farmers Seeking Better Quality Of Life
* U.S. goal is to create 100,000 new farmers * $1.8 billion in U.S. loans to beginning farmers in 2011 * Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota top...
NBC Goes Big For Super Bowl Broadcast
NEW YORK (AP) â Clint Eastwood's patriotic pep talk about "halftime in America" might just as well have applied to NBC. The languishing, fourth-place network,...
