Why Are Things As They Are?

eWe Say Fight Back! Yossarian: If he raises the number of missions again, I swear to God, I’ll help you kill him. Dobbs: Really? Yossarian: I swear. Dobbs: Well, that’s very reasonable of you. (Joseph Heller, Catch 22) Congratulations on the Pubication of Resisting Pearson and the Taylorites The idea that a handful of college [...]

We Say Fight Back! Why Does “Right To Work” not mean “Everyone Gets a Job?” Will Michigan end the Labor Peace for Dues Check Off to Enrich Labor Bosses Racket? the Republican-dominated Michigan Legislature on Tuesday approved sweeping, statewide changes to the way unions will be financed, substantially reducing their power in a state that [...]

We Say Fight Back! Thousands March vs Nazis in Hungary Thousands attended an anti-Nazi rally Sunday in Hungary organized by Jewish and civic groups to protest a far-right lawmaker’s call to screen Jews for national security risks.  http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/thousands-attend-anti-nazi-rally-in-hungary-to-protest-lawmakers-call-for-screening-of-jews/2012/12/02/3a8a350a-3c9f-11e2-8a5c-473797be602c_story.html?hpid=z4 Soak the Rich! The “tax rates on the richest Americans fell from 91 percent in the 1950s [...]

We Say Fight Back! Congratulations on the Publication of Rougers Join Coalition to Fight Obama’s Funding of Michigan EA A large coalition of Michigan parents, PTA leaders, K-12 teachers, professors and others — including the superintendent of Detroit Public Schools — sent a letter (see text below) to President Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan [...]