A Mess of a Column, Cuz News papers are Raaaacist -By Warner Todd Huston
For the Chicago Sun-Times, columnist Laura Washington laments the degraded state of American newspapers. She says that “hard news” has been replaced by “fluff and titillating trash.” Washington also cries that real news is an “endangered species.” But if newspaper writing has been laid low, Laura Washington’s column is an example of [...]
Tuesday Debate: Are National Worker ID Cards A Good Idea? Would you be surprised to learn that Lindsey Graham is working with Chuck Schumer to push this idea?
Lawmakers working to craft a new comprehensive immigration bill have settled on a way to prevent employers from hiring illegal immigrants: a national biometric identification card all American workers would eventually be required to obtain.
Under the potentially controversial [...]
Westboro Cult Creeps Go to Supreme Court One would think this would be a slam dunk case, being that there isn’t much evidence needed to know they intended to create emotional distress on this family.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a case involving Fred Phelps and his Topeka congregation, whose protests at military funerals have angered families across the [...]
‘Restoring’ Unions ‘Right’ to Bargain Collectively -By Warner Todd Huston
Not long ago union advocate Stewart Acuff penned a piece for the Huffington website that was filled with soaring rhetoric about unions “creating the middle class” and pleading for voters to pressure Congress to pass the absurdly named Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). He claimed that this piece of… legislation would “restore [...]
