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AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth: Big surprise. The corporate media isn't reporting the facts about the Employee Free Choice Act, which is vehemently opposed by corporate America
Top of the Ticket: Here comes card-check/EFCA: Another bipartisan bridge to nowhere
Remainders: Waxwork
Ben Smith's Blog —
Madam Tussaud's packs W's bags and welcomes a smiling wax Obama.
Rep. John Conyers calls for a congressional investigation of the Bush administration, despite Obama's stand.
Change.gov brings progressive "Ideas for Change," outside the official Obama rubric.
Ambinder excerpts Obama's support for the Employee Free Choice Act.
Obama prepares to end waterboarding and other harsh interrogation tactics.
While Geithner awaits confirmation, Stuart Levey will act as Treasury ...
Happy Hour Links
Weekly Standard Blog —
Obama may create “classified loophole” for enhanced interrogations.
Really good economic news: the Ted spread is now below 100 basis points.
Forty-four senators--25 Democrats and 19 Republicans--urge Obama to buy F-22s.
Behold the dreaded American patriarchy: the safely crash-landed U.S. Airways passengers evacuated women and children first.
61 percent of Americans oppose spending TARP funds.
Obama answers card-check question with Obamian vagueness.
Obama in a nutshell
Power Line —
... Barack Obama, in an interview with the Washington Post, had this to say about the Employee Free Choice Act, under which a union could become the bargaining representative for employees without the employees voting for this result in a secret ballot. ...
Big surprise. The corporate media isn't reporting the facts about the Employee Free Choice Act, which is vehemently opposed by corporate America
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
... The most pro-worker administration in generations is now in power. But, you wouldn't know that from the traditional media. At a meeting last month with the Washington Post editorial Board, President Obama made very supportive and welcome remarks about the Employee Free Choice Act: ...
Here comes card-check/EFCA: Another bipartisan bridge to nowhere
Top of the Ticket —
... But in the same Washington Post interview Obama also expressed willingness to talk with management about tweaks and modifications. Which, concerning ballot secrecy at least, seems to some like debating pregnancy: You are or you aren't; it is or it isn't. ...
Fox Nation Calls Al Franken "Stuart Smalley"
News Hounds —
... about being "the most effective way to reach America's affluent Republicans." And the "business-killing bill?" It's the Employee Free Choice Act, a/k/a "card check." The article says nothing about it killing business, merely that it "will make it easier for workers to unionize through open-ballot elections." In other words, Fox added the inflammatory, biased language on its own. Screen grab after the jump. ...
