Posted on 17 August 2008 by Nathan P. Origer
From the 31 July 2008 Washington Times:
Legislation that would make it more difficult for workers to hold a private ballot vote in unionization drives, which critics say would lead to harassment and intimidation, has spurred a pitched battle between powerful labor unions supportive of Sen. Barack Obama and big business in the presidential campaign.
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Filed under: Abortion, American Politics, American hypocrisy, Get Real, Human Rights, Liberty and Security, Obama, Political corruption and scandal | Tagged: AFL-CIO, American working man, Card-check, draconian, Employee Free Choice Act, FOCA, Free Congress Foundation, Paul Weyrich, secret vote, Union bullying, union organization | 2 Comments »
Posted on 6 August 2008 by Nathan P. Origer
Sixty-three years ago, to-day, Harry Truman became one of the worst war criminals known to man-kind, authorizing the dropping of an atomic bomb on the innocent people of Hiroshima, despite the helplessness of Japan at that point in the war.
God bless America.
Filed under: American hypocrisy, Human Rights, War, World affairs | Tagged: Atomic bomb, Harry S Truman, Hiroshima | 1 Comment »
Posted on 7 July 2008 by Nathan P. Origer
Pleas for top-down aid to the world’s hungry, about which I have mixed feelings (Yes, I should like to witness the eradication of poverty and hungry; no, I don’t have any particularly affinity for World Bank, not to mention G8.), notwithstanding, Zoellick’s call for “reform of biofuel policies in rich countries, urging them to grow [...]
Filed under: Agribusiness, Agriculture, America, Economy, Food, Human Rights, World affairs | Tagged: Bio-fuel, Ethanol, G8, World Bank | 1 Comment »
Posted on 30 June 2008 by Nathan P. Origer
My timidly confessing to agreement with JA’s comment in response to Jim Manzi notwithstanding, I do believe in the (non-absolute) right to arm oneself appropriately as a matter of personal defense, against both common street thugs and the same sort of government that enforces the USA PATRIOT Act. (Paranoid? Maybe. Only maybe.) This being the [...]
Filed under: American Politics, D.C., Human Rights, Second Amendment, Supreme Court | Tagged: Gavin Newsome, Heller, NRA, San Francisco | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 30 June 2008 by Nathan P. Origer
Posted on 1 April 2008 by Nathan P. Origer
Four Florida men face hate crime charges for allegedly beating an elderly woman and her two disabled friends for not paying a white person fee, police said.
Filed under: Human Rights, Race | 1 Comment »
Posted on 13 March 2008 by Nathan P. Origer
I can’t disagree totally with this. Though I contend that our abuses pale in comparison to those of the Reds, we certainly lack a clean record.
Filed under: American hypocrisy, Human Rights, Red China | Leave a Comment »