The Bush administration’s assault on organized labor is well-known, as the current union organization system is tilted against America’s workers. Each year, over 20,000 U.S. workers are illegally fired, demoted, laid off, suspended without pay, or denied work by their … Read more »
The American military command in Iraq is regularly sponsoring 19 focus group consultations, conducted by outside contractors, in five Iraqi cities. The findings are presented to General David Petraeus as part of the Battle Update Assessment his staff compiles daily.… Read more »
Today, President Bush will sign the historic Energy Independence and Security Act, which will raise vehicle fuel efficiency by nearly 30 percent by 2020 and mandate a massive increase in the use of biofuels.
As readers of this column know, I have a rule that there is a simple way to test whether any Arab-Israeli peace deal is real or not: If you need a Middle East expert to explain it to you, it’s … Read more »
Every day in the United States, 10,000 young people acquire a sexually-transmitted disease. Teen pregnancy rates in this country are rising, and 2.5 million people worldwide contracted HIV in 2007.
Wall Street banks are an honest audit away from bankruptcy. Housing prices are plummeting at rates not seen since the Great Depression. Mortgage foreclosures are ravaging neighborhoods and knee-capping state and local budgets. Incomes decline even as the cost of … Read more »
Today, Bush-appointed Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin rammed through a 3-2 partisan vote to remove the longstanding “newspaper/broadcast cross-ownership” ban that prohibits a local newspaper from owning TV and radio stations in the same market.
For the second time in three months, President Bush yesterday vetoed bipartisan legislation that “would have expanded the State Children’s Health Insurance (SCHIP) program “by $35 billion over five years and would have boosted its enrollment to about 10 million … Read more »
Hoping to replicate the successful Jewish-Christian outreach of the past 50 years, a group of mainstream rabbis and imams is launching an ambitious attempt to forge a national dialogue between American Jews and Muslims.
“The earth has a fever. And the fever is rising,” warned former vice president Al Gore yesterday, accepting the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his work as “one of the world’s leading environmental politicians.”
