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Would the Employee Free Choice Act have saved the lives of those coal miners in West Virginia? I guess we’ll never know.
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Archive for April, 2010
April 13th, 2010
Category: Unions and organizing
April 13th, 2010
Category: History
Ta-Nehisi Coates writes on how white Southerners and African-Americans deal with the history of slavery.
April 13th, 2010
In support of Friedman´s low view of corporate personality.
April 12th, 2010
Category: Uncategorized
When an organization issues a formal directive to its units telling them that they ought to comply with the law, that organization is in trouble. The Vatican just issued such an edict. But why should it need the law to tell you that when you discover that an employee has been sexually molesting children that employee needs to be reported to the police?
April 12th, 2010
Category: MSM (mainstream media), Polling
Ed Kilgore points out that a lot of the predictions of a rout in November rely on double-counting voter enthusiasm.
April 12th, 2010
Category: Uncategorized
John Tierney has a good summary in today’s New York Times. This line of research, shut down in the 1960s, is coming back, and a good thing, too.
April 11th, 2010
Category: Language and usage, Watching Conservatives
The accusation by a Republican member of the House Armed Services Committee
April 11th, 2010
Category: Uncategorized
The libertarian paradise of 1880 was lacking some important liberties.
April 10th, 2010
Category: Religion and Politics
Jason Berry, who broke the Fr. Maciel story more than a decade ago, has a bombshell account of how that polymorphously perverse sociopath bought influence and protection by spreading his money around the Vatican.
April 10th, 2010
A proposal for carbon offsets in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest.