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Who Needs SOPA?

US Returns Jotform.com Domain There’s been a lot of interest in the story of the Secret Service completely shutting down Jotform.com through a request to GoDaddy. It appears that the suspension is now ending, though it hasn’t fully propagated. What’s amazing is that no one in the US government (or at GoDaddy) seems to be [...]

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Legacy

The continuing legacy of bush’s disasterous invasion of Iraq. How many future generations will have to continue pouring money into the sand? Military Wants $3 Billion for A War It Isn’t Fighting Thought the Iraq war was over? The Obama administration certainly wants you to think so, the better for its re-election campaign. Inconvenient fact, [...]

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Oh CAT(nada)

Caterpillar Closes Canadian Plant to Take Advantage of Cheaper Workers–in the U.S.  Caterpillar is moving to newly “Right-To-Work” Indiana, offering rock-bottom wages and searching for anti-union managers. Is the US the new source for cheap labor? Caterpillar announced Friday it would close its London, Ontario, locomotive plant after 465 workers there refused to grant concessions [...]

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Capitalism At Work

iTunes more than doubles Whitney Houston album price Apple and Sony Music are being criticized after the price of one Whitney Houston album more than doubled following the singer’s tragic death. Digital Spy first reported that the price of Houston’s 2007 Ultimate Collection skyrocketed from £3 ($4.70) to £7.99 ($12.60) within 30 minutes of her [...]

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Is it a Fifth Amendment Issue?

No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject [...]

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