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Let the nation own Big 3
November 25, 2008When H. Gaylord Wilshire sought the Southern California congressional seat in 1890, he ran on a very simple platform: 'Let the Nation own the trust.' The part time farmer and full time reformer was responding to...
Read moreA letter to my brother Newt Gingrich
November 25, 2008From Huffington Post Dear Newt, I recently had the displeasure of watching you bash the protestors of the Prop 8 marriage ban to Bill O'Reilly on FOX News. I must say, after years of watching you...
Read moreThe stories that matter: Workers making things better
November 25, 2008WASHINGTON, D.C. – “I remember what she did every weekday in the 1950s, riding the back of that bus in Austin, Texas so she could clean other people’s houses. I remember how he, as a day...
Read moreAFTs Weingarten puts everything but vouchers on the table
November 24, 2008WASHINGTON (PAI)--In her first major policy address since being elected President of the American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten put “everything but vouchers” on the bargaining table--including merit pay and tenure--as long as the results help...
Read moreBushs Midnight Rules include weaker family leave, longer driving hours for truckers
November 24, 2008WASHINGTON (PAI)--Call them the “Midnight Rules.” In haste, and to meet legal deadlines, the GOP Bush regime pushed through approximately 90 pro-business federal rules before Nov. 22, trying to lock them in so the incoming Obama...
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