I’ve wanted to do a post on the slow motion car wreck that is the Toyota story, but I just haven’t had the time. This is a subject that satisfies several of my interests, from automobiles to politics to organizational dynamics, and I’ve followed it closely. So instead, here’s a collection of links…
Every now and then, something Ron Paul says appeals to me. I’ll see your Tenth Amendment argument and raise you the 17th (Tony Blankley at HuffPo divined from a speech at CPAC in 2009):
As an early 1960s vintage member of the then-new conservative movement, I remember us focusing on the 10th amendment during the 1964 Goldwater campaign. It has been a staple of conservative thought, and the continued dormancy of 10th amendment enforcement has been one of the failures of our now half-century-old movement.
Did you know Corporations are people too, and that they have a right to free speech (which of course equals money), even though they can’t speak. Why someday, Corporations may even be given the right to vote!
From a discussion draft [pdf] by the Constitutional Accountability Center (CAC), all emphasis mine:
As if you needed another reason to hate Walmart (all emphasis mine):
Around the time that the young Sam Walton opened his first stores, John Kennedy redeemed a presidential campaign promise by persuading Congress to extend the minimum wage to retail workers, who had until then not been covered by the law. Congress granted an exclusion, however, to small businesses with annual sales beneath $1 million — a figure that in 1965 it lowered to $250,000.
All excerpts are quoted from the respective link(s).
This has been a bad week for the birthers.
Their weak arguments are debunked and discredited. Congress birthers flee from video. Even all the birthers in the House had to vote on a resolution to recognize Hawaii as the birthplace of the President.
By the way, this is no fringe movement, as BlueTexan at FDL points out:
[They include] at least 17 elected Republicans in Congress, numerous Republican state legislators, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Lou Dobbs, Liz Cheney, Michael Savage, Alan Keyes, G. Gordon Liddy, Fox News, World Net Daily, Newsmax and Free Republic.
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Daily Links for January 15th through February 3rd
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