Mike's Round Up

Confined Space: The Senate confirmed Edwin G. Foulke Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational and Health. Foulke comes from a law firm well known in union-busting circles, where he has spent most of his career representing management in workplace safety and health cases.

Recovering Liberal: DPW agreed to sell their U.S. port operations to an American company and that seemed to end the port problem. But did it? Of course not! When La Cosa Nostra Bush is involved in anything, the problems are never resolved in a simple manner....The idiots have taken over

Crooked Timber: Inequality and American democracy

Attytood: From "pre-emptive war" to "pro-active arrests"...NYC's thought police

The Revealer: Harken to the whining chorus of the perpetually oppressed Religious Right.  Apparently all their tax-exempt churches and their vast private properties aren't enough to heal the hurt. Despite enormous influence in all three branches of government, and having granted themselves, and their benefactors in the GOP, exclusive dominion over patriotism and the personal imprimatur of God, it seems they are forever on the receiving end of unfairness, discrimination, and mean-spirited abuse.

Attytood: From "pre-emptive war" to "pro-active arrests"...NYC's thought police

The Revealer: Harken to the whining chorus of the perpetually oppressed Religious Right. Apparently all their tax-exempt churches and their vast private properties aren't enough to heal the hurt. Despite enormous influence in all three branches of government, and having granted themselves, and their benefactors in the GOP, exclusive dominion over patriotism and the personal imprimatur of God, it seems they are forever on the receiving end of unfairness, discrimination, and mean-spirited abuse