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Being wronged by a corporation is painful enough, but just try getting your day in court. Most Americans don't realize it, but our Seventh Amendment right to a fair jury trial against corporate wrongdoers has quietly been stripped from us. Instead, we are now shunted into a stacked-deck game called "Binding Mandatory Arbitration." Proponents of the process hail it as superior to the courts — "faster, cheaper and more efficient!"
‘Governor Supercuts' for President? by Jim Hightower on Creators
Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman joined The New York Times in 1999 as a columnist on the Op-Ed Page and continues as professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University. Mr. Krugman received his B.A. from Yale University in 1974 and his Ph.D. from MIT in 1977. He has taught at Yale, MIT and Stanford. At MIT he became the Ford International Professor of Economics.
Special Kathy Nickolaus is special in more ways then one | PolitiScoop
Madison Wisconsin - Breaking news today in the Prosser/Kloppenburg recount -- as it turns out the software that Kathy Nickolaus used the night of the election was written specifically for her. Yes, I am not kidding you. Politiscoop for the last few weeks have been pressing the GAB to explain this. The Fix is on article we published on Sunday, 10 April 2011. Since then we have been asking for answers -- we have even emailed the pdf of what we were sent and we have yet to receive an answer from the GAB.
The Right-Wing Network Behind the War on Unions
[ Click here to watch Kroll discuss the following story on MSNBC's "The Ed Show."] From New Hampshire to Alaska , Republican lawmakers are waging war on organized labor. They're pushing bills to curb, if not eliminate , collective bargaining for public workers; make it harder for unions to collect member dues; and, in some states, allow workers to opt out of joining unions entirely but still enjoy union-won benefits. All told, it's one of the largest assaults on American unions in recent history.