Today is Labor Day and you may have seen the American Flag on Google , or read about the Have2P app that is perfect for parade routes, and those that love getting a good deal on apps may want to take a look at the deals on during today’s celebrations. Earlier today we looked at Best Buy’s not so good Labor Day Sale , although the site did work, which is less than we can say about Costco at ..read more
Labor Day is the perfect day to explain to kids complaining about going back to school just how much worse things could be for them. In fact, they once were: Kids were forced into back-breaking jobs day and night in mines, textiles, glass factories, canneries and other places where children don’t belong. Labor activists eventually ended child labor — and won better working conditions for adult workers, including the eight-hour work day. Today, though, few schools teach in depth ..read more
Editor’s note: This is the last in a series of profiles of three finalists for appointment to the Colorado Supreme Court. Colleagues and lawyers consider Judge Robert M. Russel one of the best judicial writers in Colorado. But the Colorado Court of Appeals judge agonizes over perfecting his prose and interpreting the law. “His opinions are very well-written and very thoughtful, and I know how much he struggles to get the right answer within the law,” said his friend ..read more
It’s been more than a century since President Grover Cleveland signed the law that made the first Monday in September a federal holiday for working stiffs, but this Labor Day finds Americans in an economic squeeze that leaves little to celebrate. About 15 million Americans are out of work. Jobs are so scarce that 42 percent of the unemployed have been jobless for more than six months. Even the fortunate 90 percent of Americans who still head to the ..read more
Kurt Nimmo Prison Planet.com Saturday, September 4, 2010 Comment from Alex Jones: Robert Rodriguez is a liar – when a script for Machete was leaked back in May , I pointed out that the film contained numerous elements that were highly offensive and could easily kick-start a race war. Rodriguez claimed that these scenes had been edited or removed for the final version. They were not – every part of the original script remains in the film almost word ..read more
Frank Polich/Getty Images Dear Mr. Kelly, First and foremost thank you. Thank you for agreeing to come to South Bend, In., and coach a once proud football program. The weather here isn’t that great as the seasons approach winter, though I will promise you that at 3:30 tomorrow you will walk into Notre Dame stadium, see Touchdown Jesus and think you must have died and gone to heaven. Thank you for infusing hope into a program with your vision ..read more
Sept. 3, 2010 | (0) Comments KISS and Lady Gaga may have drawn bigger crowds Thursday night, but they didn’t quite corner the local market on campy excess. The surf was up at Off the Wall Theatre, where playwright Charles Busch’s “Psycho Beach Party” has crashed ashore for a 10-day run under Jeremy Welter’s direction. Busch, who has treated the world to “Vampire Lesbians of Sodom” and “Die! Mommy! Die!,” has never met a Hollywood artifact he couldn’t blow ..read more
SAN FRANCISCO, Sep 03, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Wells Fargo & Company /quotes/comstock/13*!wfc /quotes/nls/wfc ( WFC 25.65 , +0.55 , +2.19% ) announced today that Tim Sloan has been named the company’s chief administrative officer, a new position that reports directly to Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer John G. Stumpf. Effective immediately, the functions of Corporate Communications, Corporate Social Responsibility, Enterprise Marketing, Government Relations and Human Resources will report to Sloan as he assumes leadership of the company’s ..read more
Washington, D.C. – The egg recall left officials at Costco Wholesale Corp. scratching their heads. How had inspectors for Costco, who looked over the northeast Iowa farm where the chain bought eggs, not noticed the rodent holes in the henhouses? Rodent holes are a sign that mice could be entering the buildings and infecting the hens with salmonella. Federal investigators who are trying to pinpoint the source of a national salmonella outbreak reported this week finding numerous such holes ..read more
Many observers reacted with cynicism to Thursday’s explosion on an offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, a painful reminder of the months-long crisis that saw hundreds of millions of gallons of oil spill from the Deepwater Horizon drill rig. However, some reporters see the possibility that this latest explosion could already be having a political affect. As the Obama administration battles to maintain its offshore drilling moratorium–a small victory for environmentalists after cap-and-trade and energy reform both ..read more
A oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico Thursday morning forced all 13 crew members to evacuate into the water. Skip to next paragraph Company officials said in a statement Thursday morning that the incident does not appear to have resulted in an oil leak. The Associated Press, however, has reported that the Coast Guard says there is a mile long, 100 foot-wide oil sheen near the platform. The fire occurred on a platform about 100 miles south ..read more
