I know you don't have to look too hard on the web to find some wingnut who sees the world as though he'd just had his cranium dented by a 2,000 pound ball of propaganda.  But how's this for a reason to oppose NSA's warrantless surveillance:  

A  summary of the French labor laws is available online.  I believe this is a site run by the French government, but I'm not positive.

I quickly read over the description of the law on terminating employees and I've got to tell you, it doesn't sound that "rigid," "strict," or "stultifying"--all adjectives that I've seen used repeatedly in American press stories about the French protests of the proposed new law for young workers.  Read the summary below and ask yourself, whether this is obstructionist or a reasonable way to balance the interests of the employer and employees.

When does a proposal to make you safer have serious potential to make you less safe?  When it's a plan offered by a Republican official and geared as much to protecting the industry from regulatory burdens as much as it is to protecting the public from the dangers of terrorism.

The lunacy of the leading religious right demagogues is almost beyond belief.  Take the latest from Frothing Pat Robertson and Foaming Jerry Falwell...

Finally, a conservative who can see what's right in front of him.  Way back in 1969, Kevin Phillips was helping the Republicans strategize how to use the changing demographics of America to perform a political takeover.  Today, according to a NY Times review of his latest book, Phillips:

No longer does he see Republican government as a source of stability and order. Instead, he presents a nightmarish vision of ideological extremism, catastrophic fiscal irresponsibility, rampant greed and dangerous shortsightedness.

BLS's report on Feb, 2006 mass layoffs just came out.

You have got to see this...

Unlike here, the French folk aren't taking kindly to fascism....

Well, at least, that's what one researcher says! Dr. Jack Block studied a few kids as they grew up....

Larry Kudlow, CNBC's chief economic prognosticator and cheerleader for all things anti-regulatory, has this to say in his recent piece for National Review Online:

If the polls are telling us things are so bad, why is the stock market telling us things are so good?

Well, Larry, probably because the stock market is so bad at predicting long term prosperity.  Which I'd think you would know, since it seems like one of the few clear lessons from the debacle of the 1929 stock market crash.

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