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 Share This- New Labor Leaders Take a Page From History - Forward.com
 Jun 30, 7:07pm  (1 review) liberal-politics, judaism, american-history http://forward.com/articles/105047/- Good history of American labor
"A major turning point came when the AFL-CIO, the largest federation of national unions, decided to open up the Organizing Institute, which was designed to provide college graduates a direct entry point into unions so that they would not have to first pass through the rank and file. The institute was founded in 1989 by a young Jew from Kentucky, Richard Bensinger, who had been recruited into the union movement by Richard Rothstein, a Jewish labor organizer and activist at one of the garment unions.
Bensinger, who is a labor consultant today, remembers when his team began looking over applications from college students who wanted to attend the institute.
"It used to be almost a joke. They would all say, `I'm interested because my grandmother or my grandfather was in one of the garment unions,'" Bensinger told the Forward. "It was incredible how many people who came to the institute came out of families that were involved with that union. It was application after application."
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- t r u t h o u t | Teaching Law, Testing Ideas, Obama Stood Apart
- Jun 30, 2:17am
 (3 reviews) http://www.truthout.org/article/teaching... - Another Obama is So Dreamy piece. FWIW, I've met a UChicago law grad who dropped Obama's class because he wasn't impressed with his teaching abilities.
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- More than $800,000 Contributed &In Honor of Sarah Palin& - Planned Parenthood...
 Jun 26, 6:33pm (21 reviews) http://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/a...- Are they still mad she didn't kill Trig in the womb?
Here's Planned Parenthood's foundress Margaret Sanger:
"Birth control itself, often denounced as a violation of natural law, is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or of those who will become defectives."
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- Suitcase With $134 Billion Puts Dollar on Edge: William Pesek - Bloomberg...
- Jun 20, 12:17pm (5 reviews) government http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=2...
- Followup: ft.com/cms/s/0/82091ec2-5c2f-11de-aea3-00144feabdc0.html [ft.com/cms/s/0/82091ec2-5c2f-11de-aea3-00144feabdc0.html]
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- http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/national/jacobs.pdf
- Jun 12, 6:02pm (1 review) law, politics http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pd...
- "The Secret Life of Judges" a judge considers how judges and lawyers have an unconscious bias towards remaking society in a way most congenial to themselves.
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- Catholic Citizens
- May 13, 4:47pm (1 review) catholic, politics http://catholiccitizens.org/press/pressv...
- Good examination of ND's Board of Trustees and their political connections. Via John Zmirak at InsideCatholic.com
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- Middle American News
- Apr 30, 10:46pm (1 review) politics http://www.manews.org/williamson/0209wil...
- " The ever-repeating story is that of Power taking the side of the people against the aristocracy and the social authorities, including the churches and priesthoods, with the aim of destroying these in order to establish direct and total control over the masses. Having accomplished this, Power is eventually dissolved by the cells--the new aristocracies, generally bureaucratic in nature--that undermine and bring it down in their own interests, acting in accordance with the same instinct for Power that their predecessors exhibited. The instinct for Power is never about anything other than Power. It is not about Justice, Equality, Democracy, Freedom, Prosperity, Enlightenment, Progress, or any of the grand goods or values it claims to realize, and in whose name it acts. It is about itself, and for itself, alone."
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- Letter from a Traditional Conservative | Front Porch Republic
- Apr 26, 6:47pm (1 review) conservative-politics, political-science http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/?p=265...
- From the page: " What sounds at first a bit of rational modesty (”We cant know the Good, and indeed believe there isnt one”) ends up promoting to the Highest Good something we all know from experience is not anything like the highest good in the world: the autonomy of the individual. "
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- Who Murdered Robert Wone?
- Apr 8, 10:50am (1 review) crime http://whomurderedrobertwone.com/
- via Camille Paglia
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- Scolister: How to tell if your position on something is wrong
- Apr 6, 6:23pm (15 reviews) http://www.scolister.co.cc/2008/11/how-t...
- One or two good points about ad hominems, but the rest is cliched individualism. Am I really wrong about opposing torture because it makes me queasy and a little angry at those who justify it?
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