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Under AB 889, household “employers” (aka “parents”) who hire a babysitter on a Friday night will be legally obligated to pay at least minimum wage to any sitter over the age of 18 (unless it is a family member), provide a substitute caregiver every two hours to cover rest and meal breaks, in addition to [...]

Federal agents swooped in on Gibson Guitar Wednesday, raiding factories and offices in Memphis and Nashville, seizing several pallets of wood, electronic files and guitars. The Feds are keeping mum, but in a statement yesterday Gibson’s chairman and CEO, Henry Juszkiewicz, defended his company’s manufacturing policies, accusing the Justice Department of bullying the company. “The [...]

Boots on the Ground. Boots on the Ground Posted by Laurence Vance on August 23, 2011 07:05 AM I keep hearing about no “boots on the ground” in Libya, as if anything the military does is okay as long as there are no “boots on the ground.” But no, it is not okay. The U.S. [...]

Standard & Poor’s President Ousted?. S&P’s President, Deven Sharma, is stepping down. It is written that “Mr. Sharma was leaving the firm to pursue other opportunities, the person familiar with the matter said, without elaborating.” So the Indian who brought the U.S. to its knees is paying the price. That happened quicker than expected.

‘The Anarchists Are Coming! The Anarchists Are Coming!’. According to a report in The Weekly Guardian, the City of Westminster (England) published a warning to the general public, urging them to report persons with anarchist views. “Anarchism is a political philosophy which considers the state undesirable, unnecessary and harmful, and instead promotes a stateless society, [...]

Prosecutors have filed a motion to dismiss charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who was believed to be a top French presidential contender until he was accused of sexually assaulting a Manhattan hotel maid. The development comes more than three months after the former head of the International Monetary Fund was arrested, and more than seven weeks [...]

“Let me say this as plainly as I can. If you buy a car from Chrysler or General Motors, you will be able to get your car serviced and repaired just like always,” Obama said in a speech. “Your warranty will be safe. In fact, it will be safer than it has ever been. Because [...]

I thought it would be interesting to show you the list of sites that are now being blocked from being shown in Ukraine. What started out as just a blockage on Windows to Russia has now grown and encompassed at least two servers. 180.92.169.153 and 180.92.169.158тАж My host is not sure what is happening and [...]

Thousands of unemployed waited overnight, camping out in their business suits and office heels and braving the tormenting heat in Atlanta to stand in line for a job fair Thursday. Authorities treated 20 people for heat exhaustion as they struggled to keep the line moving and get people moved inside. The incredible turnout at the [...]

The Federal Reserve uncovered eye-popping new details about how the U.S. provided a whopping $16 trillion in secret loans to bail out American and foreign banks and businesses Among the investigation’s key findings is that the Fed unilaterally provided trillions of dollars in financial assistance to foreign banks and corporations from South Korea to Scotland, [...]

It looks like the American Government is living paycheck to paycheck. It won’t take much and we all will be living on the streets… In fact technically the American government has been living on a credit card and when you are at that stage you have paychecks that are already gone to pay bills and [...]

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Air Force said Wednesday it is discharging a hero of the so-called birther movement who refused to report to duty in Germany for a few days earlier this month because he doubts President Barack Obama’s citizenship. Staff Sgt. Daryn Moran expects to be discharged within the next week. Although the [...]

Busted. That’s what we in the news media are in the matter of the presidential campaign of Rep. Ron Paul of Texas. Famous and not so famous critics have pointed out in the past day that journalists for the most part have ignored Paul even when he succeeds at a level other Republican presidential candidates [...]

Gunmen wearing military uniforms pulled seven people from a Sunni mosque south of Baghdad and then shot and killed them, execution-style. The killings happened late yesterday on a day that saw a wave of violence sweep across Iraq, from the northern city of Mosul to the Shiite heartland. They raised the day’s death toll to [...]