from Mother Jones
Oct 312012
Oct 282012
Ryan doesn't even give them enough figures to spin.
from Politics USA
Fox News Sunday’s Chris Wallace turned on the Romney campaign today.
Oct 232012
Host calls Black a crook, Black calls host a fool.
Disgraced former newspaper tycoon Conrad Black has come out swinging against his critics in a television interview in the UK.
Black, who served a 42-month prison sentence in America for fraud and was released from jail last May, has insisted that he is not a criminal and has been unfairly targeted by the U.S. justice system.
“(These charges) are rubbish and anyone can see that they are rubbish,” he told interviewer Jeremy Paxman on the BBC who is one of Britain’s best-known television journalists.
It was terse, at times the pair exchanging verbal blows….
Oct 232012
from The Nation
James Carville said on CNN that if this debate last night had been a Little League game (I have a lot of experience on those fields) they would have called it after four innings, due to the “mercy rule.” That’s when one team is more than ten runs ahead…
Oct 222012
from The Edmonton Jounal
EDMONTON – Five people are dead in as many days after a spate of workplace accidents around the province this week.
Occupational Health and Safety spokesman Brookes Merritt said the incidents are not related but appear to be “a tragic coincidence.”…
Oct 222012
from The Guardian
Conrad Black's appearance on Have I Got News For You won't do anything to
rehabilitate the reputation of an unrepentant fraudster, but it will allow him to
show that he at least believes he has nothing to be ashamed of and that he can re-
enter British society with his head held high…
Oct 192012
from The Tyee
OTTAWA – The latest omnibus budget bill from the Harper government makes changes to everything from the Indian Act and the Canadian Labour Code to the Canada Shipping Act.
The bill kills off independent tribunals that examined things such as hazardous materials in the workplace and set the rates for employment insurance premiums, while making workers pay taxes on their employers' contributions to group health and accident insurance plans…
Oct 172012
Pushed to appoint more women, Governor Romney complied for a while.
by Greg Sargent
There’s a lot of chatter this morning about Mitt Romney’s claim last night that as Massachusetts Governor, he directed his administration to reach out to women’s groups to find female applicants for government jobs, resulting in them delivering him “binders” full of qualified women.
The tale isn’t quite how he told it, according to Liz Levin, the chair of a women’s group that was right in the middle of the story at the time.
In fact, Levin tells me, the groups initiated contact with him and urged him to hire more women — when he was still a candidate — and began creating the binders themselves on their own initiative before he took office. In fairness to Romney, she says, he did agree to work with them….
The truth about Romney and those ‘binders’
Oct 172012
from The Nation
In quite a switch from debate No1, all of the scientific polls afterward gave President Obama a clear win last night.
The CNN poll found Obama won debate 46 percent–39 percent. Wolf Blitzer, this time, admitted up front that it was 8 percent skewed to GOP — just like the last two polls. (I hope my hammering at this for the past week did some good.) So a big win for Obama, and if you count “skew,” a huge edge….
Oct 162012
from The Toronto Star
Managers at a Mississauga hotel acted illegally when they used misinformation and threatened job losses to stop employees from unionizing and removed the key organizer from the workplace, the Ontario Labour Relations Board has ruled…