Month: October 2007
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Wal-Mart Shuts Down Quebec Store to Stop Unions
Wal-Mart has been found guilty by the Quebec labour board of closing its Jonquiere store last spring to avoid dealing with unionized workers – not because it was losing money as it claimed at the time. After hearing four of 79 illegal dismissal complaints filed by workers at the store, the board concluded that the […]
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Job Tenure By Country
Guess who has the shortest?
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Lieberman Skips Oversight Blackwater
Not shocked at all: Joe Lieberman (I-CT), who chairs the Senate committee responsible for government oversight, says he has no plans to investigate Blackwater and other Iraq war contractors accused of potentially criminal wrongdoing.
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Ron Paul's Pro-Life Stance
Tucking this away for reference: I am also the prime sponsor of HR 300, which would negate the effect of Roe v Wade by removing the ability of federal courts to interfere with state legislation to protect life. This is a practical, direct approach to ending federal court tyranny which threatens our constitutional republic and […]
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James Dobson Confirms Pro-Life Ultimatum
Theocracy here we come! After two hours of deliberation, we voted on a resolution that can be summarized as follows: If neither of the two major political parties nominates an individual who pledges himself or herself to the sanctity of human life, we will join others in voting for a minor-party candidate. Those agreeing with […]
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Kim Jong-Il's Orwellian Truman Show Nightmare
Peter Hitchens visits North Korea: But where Orwell’s ministry was a glittering white, the abandoned Ryugyong Hotel is a dingy dun-brown, its hundreds of glassless windows like sockets gazing at what its maker, the Great Leader Kim Il Sung, has wrought. … Every machine in the country is close to breakdown. This even affects parts […]
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Honor Killing: German Man Stabbed Wife to Death, Set Her On Fire
On trial in Munich: “I don’t regret that I killed my wife.” He would do it again. She would have earned it. And above all the politics of the Federal Republic of Germany are also guilty of her death. Why: “Because the women here have so many rights, they become immodest”…. The crime of the […]
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Archimedes Was on the Verge of Discovering Calculus
An ancient text reveals: The results were more revolutionary than anyone had expected. The researchers have discovered that Archimedes was working out principles that, centuries later, would form the heart of calculus and that he had a more sophisticated understanding of the concept of infinity than anyone had realized. Archimedes wrote his manuscript on a […]
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Strained
Listening to Barney Frank on Signiorile’s show. His voice is so strained it makes my throat clench.