Category: Politics
Gaming the System/Catch Me if You Can/Small Change You Can Believe In/Big Coal Big Bucks
by WS Editors | May 15, 2010 | Economy, EnvironmentGaming the System—The death of 29 coal miners in Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch Mine in April was not exactly predicted when the House Committee on Education and Labor met on February 23—to address a failed safety inspection process. But the industry’s response to tougher regulations that followed a spike in miners’ deaths midway through […]
Arizona’s Alien Exclusion Act
by WS Editors | May 15, 2010 | Legal AffairsThe (Supreme Court) Case for Immigration ReformSheer incapability or lax enforcement of the laws barring entry into this country, coupled with the failure to establish an effective bar to the employment of undocumented aliens, has resulted in the creation of a substantial “shadow population” of illegal migrants—numbering in the millions—within our borders. This situation raises […]
New Economy | The $62 Trillion Question | Swap Fraud at Goldman Sachs | $2 Trillion
by WS Editors | May 1, 2010 | EconomyThe New Financial Economy—In 1948, 56 percent of profits in the U.S. economy derived from manufacturing, while 8.3 percent came from the financial sector. In 2007 (the year the financial collapse began) manufacturing produced 10 percent of profits, while the financial sector produced 26 percent of profits. The $62 Trillion Question—Eighteen months ago, Iowa Democratic […]
A War on Drugs Or a War on Juárez?
by Judith Torrea | May 1, 2010 | Legal AffairsDon’t Call the Cavalry Homicides have soared since the president deployed the army in Juárez in January of 2008. In 2007 there were 317 reported killings; in 2008, 1,623; in 2009 the number reached 2,754. Judith Torrea is a Spanish journalist who reports on drug-trafficking, organized crime, the death penalty, and immigration. Her work […]
Health-Care Reform Backlash Looks South
by WS Editors | Apr 15, 2010 | PoliticsHow Frivolous is Frivolous? “I don’t want to say that they are out and out frivolous. But it’s extraordinarily unlikely that the Supreme Court will be sympathetic. Unless they want to provoke the greatest constitutional crisis since the 1930s.” —Constitutional Law Professor Sanford Levinson AT THE AGE OF 12 I jumped from the back of […]
Bad Faith Documentary
