Archive for April, 2009

I know I studied economics way back when, no doubt in some undergraduate survey course, but the passage of time has helped me mercifully forget many of the economists and theories I studied. Until today. In my daily research rounds of reading Google Alerts, I came across a site called the Christopher Hitchens (who he?) [...]

Turns out that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) borrowed a page out of the private sector and reclassified employees as exempt when they should’ve remained non-exempt employees eligible for overtime pay–a clear violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Affected employees didn’t like being awarded comp time instead of time-and-a-half and filed a [...]

You can’t kill it, and it comes back to haunt you every time you think it’s safe to venture back into society again. It’s the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), and even though it lacks the votes to survive a Senate filibuster, it’s still stalking American businesses and filling the nation’s newsprint, airwaves and cyberspace [...]

Us taxpayers (bad Inglish intended) may get the last laugh, or as Karl Marx said, “History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce.” This time around, the Great Depression II is indeed looking a lot like farce (see D.C., Washington; bailout, Paulsen and Gaithner; Detroit, UAW and Big Three; everywhere, public employee unions). Unionized [...]

Rene Descartes is not only turning over in his grave; he’s no doubt dancing about and shouting with glee. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) have now determined that the pea-sized pineal gland located deep in the brain is indeed the “Seat of the Soul,” as the French philosopher Descartes proclaimed. Of course, Descartes also [...]

Most everyone is familiar with the saga of the workers at Republic Windows and Doors, who at holiday time in late 2008 were laid off with little notice. However, they refused to leave the premises and staged a sit-down until owner Richard Gillman, backed by a loan from Bank of America, paid them all monies [...]