- Sen. Mike Lee Calls Child Labor Laws Unconstitutional
- [Think Progress - Ian Millhiser]
The same legal theory Lee uses to impugn child labor laws applies equally to the federal minimum wage and the ban on whites-only lunch counters. And Lee doesn’t even stop there.
- Enough With Teaching The History of Minorities
- Tennessee tea partiers lay out their demands to state legislators about what should and should not be taught in public schools, including:…
- Has Feminism Gone Too Far in Sweden????
- [Echidne of the Snakes]
The headline of an MSNBC blog post about Assange and all that crap…
Nobody beats Suzie's post on this particular topic, and you should read it again, just to set your head back straight about this world in which, somehow, feminism can go too far, but no amount of patriarchy appears to be too far.
- Can ‘Buy American’ For The Miltary Boost The U.S. Solar Industry? | TPM LiveWire
- The "Buy American" amendment, added to the bill by Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY), states that every contract awarded by the Department of Defense must include language guaranteeing that all "photovoltaic devices" provided to the department comply with the 1933 Buy American Act, which requires federal procurement contracts to have at least 50% of a procurement produced in America — with very few exceptions.
- Boehner Didn’t Really Snub Obama, Tucson Memorial | TPMDC
- If Boehner had accepted the invitation, then the leaders of both parties would have missed the Wednesday vigil.
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[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. Signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
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