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Thinking Back to Hillary Clinton's Finger-Wagging at Circuit City Today brings news that electronics retailer Circuit City will be liquidated. Back in April of 2007, then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton objected to Circuit City's announcement of layoffs, sending the company a letter, accusing Circuit City's management as behaving "inconsistent with the fundamental compact between your company and its employees." At the time, I wrote: From her words, you would think that Circuit City’s management woke up one morning, cackled and rubbed their hands together, and decided to fire a large swath of their employees in order to cover the costs of reupholstering their new Bentley.Army Corps of Engineers Blamed for Katrina Flooding
Corps' operation of MR-GO doomed homes in St. Bernard, Lower 9th Ward, judge rules
By Mark Schleifstein, The Times-Picayune
November 19, 2009, 6:00AM
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In a groundbreaking decision, a federal judge ruled late Wednesday that the Army Corps of Engineers' mismanagement of maintenance at the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet was directly responsible for flood damage in St. Bernard Parish and the Lower 9th Ward after Hurricane Katrina.
The Going Rogue Index
Sarah Palin didn't put an index in her book. So we made one for her.
By Christopher Beam
Posted Tuesday, Nov.
Picking a Name for Your Own Beauty Pageant
You decided to push ahead and start your own Beauty Pageant. Then you decided on the type of business structure to incorporate your production company. Now you need to decide on a name for your Pageant. These are two separate entities.Who Killed California?
by Troy Senik http://nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/who-killed-california My apologies for having nothing originally in this post. The text was here but didn't show up. Apparently this article is too long to be printed here, at about 11 pages. It is nevertheless worth reading, unless, as someone has already done, you have made your mind up what to believe before reading.SCOTUS Gun Case Could Broaden Other Rights
In announcing on Wednesday that it would review a case that asks whether individuals have a fundamental right to bear arms under the U.S. Constitution, the Supreme Court did more than just step into a heated debate over gun control. Although McDonald v.Adding Some Color to Sunday Morning Talk Show Circuit
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama sprinted through appearances on five consecutive news shows last Sunday, but other African-American lawmakers and opinion-shapers have a hard time getting face time on those programs. Although an African-American is serving as the third-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives, four African-Americans are chairing important House committees and 17 other Congressional Black Caucus members are holding subcommittee chairs, they haven't made many appearances on the Sunday talk-show circuit. "There hasn't been much change," said Rep.Reality Makes Gay Marriage Debate Obsolete
By Petula Dvorak
Friday, September 4, 2009
The argument over whether same-sex couples should marry in the District is about a decade past its expiration date. The reality of people's lives long ago outstripped the usefulness of the gay marriage debate.
You can go to just about any public space in this city today and see same-sex couples: Two women picking over the tomatoes at the Anacostia farmers market; two men taking notes at a PTA meeting on Capitol Hill; two women arguing in a Georgetown restaurant over who does the dishes and who pays the bills -- the things all married couples do.
Walmart's Project Impact: A Move to Crush Competition
Walmart loves to shock and awe. City-size stores, absurdly low prices ($8 jeans!) and everything from milk to Matchbox toys on its shelves. And with the recession forcing legions of stores into bankruptcy, the world's largest retailer now apparently wants to take out the remaining survivors.McDonnell thesis dispels any illusion of moderation in Virginia candidate’s views
Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate, Robert McDonnell, referred to the American tradition of separation of church and state as folklore, that feminism was the enemy of families, and the legalization of contraception for unmarried couples as illogical in the thesis he wrote while a student at Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Regent is the former CBN University founded by Christian Broadcasting Network owner, the Rev. Pat Robertson.
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