Wal-Mart is running ads saying people who don't want a Wal-Mart in their community that will drive out local businesses and drive down wages are Nazis. And, when called on this disgusting display, Wal-Mart lied about it.
Nicholas Kristof makes a typically ideological point by claiming that we need more nuclear power. Given the terrorist threat to nuclear power plants and the fact that we don't know what to do with the extremely dangerous nuclear waste we have now, building more nuclear power plants is courting a terorist attack against either the nuclear plant or the nuclear waste. This is more true than ever with Congressional Republicans like Rick Santorum pushing to drive nuclear wasteacross the country on major U.S. highways.
There's, finally, been good news out of Iraq. First the elections and then, after plenty of wrangling, a governmentisforming. Even better, the Iraqi police we've been training are taking responsibility for security in their country.
Antigravitaspoints to a new report showing that nuclear power plants are vulnerable to a terrorist attack using planes. The Bush response? That it's not likely that terrorists will be able to crash planes into things. Making things worse, the Republican Congress is drafting a corrupt energy bill that will use tax dollars to build more nuclear power plants.
After years without a raise, states are taking action to power the economy and make sure families that work hard and play by the rules can make ends meet by raising the minimum wage.
Families that work hard and play by the rules should be able to support themselves. Unfortunately, international companies looking to make more money by cutting costs instead of making better products all too often look to cut costs by paying their workers less. After all, the people running the Wal-Marts of the world don't see their workers or talk to them, they're not hanging out with us or our friends, and they don't know what's going on in our lives, and so it's easy for them to decide to pay themselves more and us less. So how can we come together as a community and make sure the right thing happens?
Spreading democracy has always been part of America's purpose. One of the most important ways we do that is by supporting new and emerging democracies in the rest of the world.
