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This is so messed up.

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/romney-we-dont-need-more-firemen-more-policemen So the official GOP position is that we have too many cops on the beat? Too many firemen fighting wild fires from global warming recurring flooding? Too many teachers to teach our kids? Is that...

I have a question to throw to the masses for consideration. As an employee, when is the right time to rock the boat? A friend of mine is in the following scenario: They have recently started a new job, having been out of work for three years. They don't have a great employment record nor a...

I find this trend troubling - Muslim medical students boycotting lectures on evolution... because it 'clashes with the Koran I also think there are cases of Christian fundamentalists doing the same thing. The first question that comes to my mind is, why do these people even want to be doctors...

Who benefitted most from Rick Perry's "Texas Miracle?" 80% of the new jobs created in Texas since 2007 has gone to recent immigrants, both legal and illegal. http://cis.org/immigrants-filled-most-new-jobs-in-Texas I find #7 to be particularly interesting. A result of Texas’s poor...

"People will always be better off in work than on benefits" This seems to have become a mantra for the coalition politicians - but none of them ever explain why this is the case or are asked why in interviews. I find this seemingly complete acceptance that this is a fact very strange. Surely...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11704765 Yep - lets get all these hundreds of thousands of lazy good for nothing scroungers (currently JSA claimants around 1.5 million, current official job vacancies about half a million - you do the maths) into forced labour. They can do all the jobs...

I wonder how far this guy will get with his lawsuit? It looks like a legal group founded by Pat Robertson is going to take the case. Normally I'd say they... erm... don't have a prayer, but this is Texas after all.

A teacher at a private Christian school has been terminated because she *gasp* dared to have premarital sex with her soon-to-be husband and conceived a child as a result. Story According to the article, there is nothing in this woman's contract that indicates that she could be fired for such a...

From the Des Moines Register: Nurre denies being an atheist, and she denies that she advocated atheism. (There is apparently no hint that she ever advocated any doctrine offensive to the all-wise Catholic Church while actually on the job.) She also questions whether the remarks attributed to...