By Dennis McCafferty on 2010-08-30 A much higher percentage of women than men feel that women don’t get equal pay for doing the exact same job – a finding that is echoed by similar sentiments over promotions, flex-time benefits and even loans, according to a recent poll from Harris Interactive. There is also a notable difference [...]
Archive For August, 2010
Border Sweeps in North Reach Miles Into U.S.
Todd Heisler/The New York Times Border Patrol agents in the north routinely board Greyhound buses and Amtrak trains to check the immigration status of riders. By NINA BERNSTEIN New York Times ROCHESTER — The Lake Shore Limited runs between Chicago and New York City without crossing the Canadian border. But when it stops at Amtrak stations in [...]
On Locational Privacy, and How to Avoid Losing it Forever
[From: the Electronic Frontier Foundation] By Andrew J. Blumberg and Peter Eckersley (Also available as a PDF in English and Bulgarian.) Over the next decade, systems which create and store digital records of people’s movements through public space will be woven inextricably into the fabric of everyday life. We are already starting to see such systems now, and [...]
Gay marriage and the benefits of (un)democracy
[From: Disloyal Opposition] I’m sure it comes as no surprise to anybody that I was pleased by Judge Vaughn Walker’s decision last week striking down California’s Proposition 8 and clearing the way for gay couples to enjoy the questionable benefits of marriage to the same extent as straight couples. As I’ve written in the past, [...]
Voggle Wireless
Can you hear us now? In 2006 Google produced the following public service announcement to help sway legislative opinion leading up to the vote on the Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2007 (S.215). Senator Barack Obama was a cosponsor of this bill. The PSA aired in key districts for approximately one month leading up to the [...]
Islamophobia is an opposite of Libertarian
Posted in Stand Up For Liberty by R Lee Wrights on August 11th, 2010 by George Phillies Our National (LP) Party Platforms over the years have been quite clear on this matter. The 2010 Platform includes “We condemn bigotry as irrational and repugnant… We favor the freedom to engage in or abstain from any religious [...]
‘Ground Zero mosque’? The reality is less provocative
[From: The Guardian] Millions of Americans are furious about the ‘Ground Zero mosque’. But it doesn’t exist. ‘Ground Zero mosque’ protesters under the media spotlight. Photograph: Michael Nagle/Getty Images Things seem awfully heated in America right now; so heated you could probably toast a marshmallow by jabbing it on a stick and [...]