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Letter About Palin Goes Viral
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:05:00 -0400
This week in Wasilla, Alaska, a woman named Anne Kilkenny sent a letter to some college friends about her former mayor, Sarah Palin. By week's end, the letter was pinging around the country and Kilkenny's phone was ringing off the hook.
Teen Sex, Sex Education And Sarah Palin
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:39:00 -0400
Gov. Sarah Palin has been a strong supporter of programs that advocate abstinence until marriage, and she also opposes explicit sex education. Alaska's law is silent on these issues, however, and it provides no specific funding for sex education in the schools.
Examining Palin's Pentecostal Background
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:14:00 -0400
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has electrified religious conservatives who see her as one of their own. The Republican vice presidential candidate brings evangelical credentials to the ticket and has a Pentecostal background.

The Talk of the Town

Dorothy Wickenden: An old-style, Los Angeles feminist on Obama.
Dorothy Wickenden Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000
Rosalind Wyman--seventy-seven years old; doughty feminist; political fund-raiser and philanthropist; hostess to J.F.K., Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton, and Hollywood types too numerous to count; youngest elected member of the Los Angeles City Council (at the age of twenty-two); first woman to run a national political . . .
Lauren Collins: The Brooklyn painter Kehinde Wiley.
Lauren Collins Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000
The painter Kehinde Wiley first travelled to Nigeria in 1997. He was trying to find his father, whom he had never met, or, more crucially for a portraitist, seen. (His mother didn’t have any photographs.) After several weeks in Lagos, he found his dad, who welcomed him. But--like any . . .
James Surowiecki: What drives market volatility?
James Surowiecki Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000
American investors are frazzled. True, oil prices have fallen from their most vertiginous highs, the dollar is a bit stronger, and the stock market has actually risen over the past month. But none of those things have happened in a smooth and steady fashion. The stock market’s “ascent,” in particular . . .

 

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American Institute for Full Employment - Works to develop the concepts needed to achieve full employment in America and to do so in a fashion that will utilize and enhance free enterprise and minimize or eliminate governmental involvement or influence.

Effects of Right to Work Laws on Employees, Unions and Businesses - Michigan Business school student's senior thesis defending Right to Work, and opposing compulsory union membership requirements.
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Employment Policies Institute - Research organization dedicated to studying entry-level employment issues.
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Employment Policy Foundation - Research and education foundation whose purpose is to provide policymakers and the public with economic analysis and commentary on U.S. employment policies affecting the competitive goals of American industry and the people it employs.
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Information for Employees Opposed to Unions - How to oppose union organizing and get rid of a labor union through decertification. Describes key labor policy issues.
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500 Labor Policy Association - Public policy association of senior human resource executives.
Meta Description: [ LPA, The HR Policy Association, is the public policy advocate for senior human resource executives of the largest companies doing business in America, covering labor relations, employment policy, health care policy, and labor policy. ]

National Institute for Labor Relations Research - Institute provides the supplementary analysis and research necessary to expose the inequities of compulsory unionism.
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National Legal and Policy Center - Center opposed to compulsory union dues, and responsible for the Organized Labor Accountability Project.

National Right to Work Committee - Argues that federal labor law should not promote coercive union power and supports the protection and enactment of additional state Right to Work laws until the federal sanction for compulsory unionism is eliminated.

National Right to Work Foundation - Argues that federal labor law should not promote coercive union power and supports the protection and enactment of additional state Right to Work laws until the federal sanction for compulsory unionism is eliminated. Current news, court rulings, and issue briefs available.

Public Service Research Foundation - Studies issues regarding the extent to which public sector unions use the special privileges and legal immunities they were granted by state law to dominate decisions about the size, cost and quality of government services.

Stop Union Political Abuse - Pro-Republican Party lobby group opposing labor union support for Democratic or progressive candidates and causes.