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Rachel Maddow transcript:
The new rules for Wall Street and the banks will also create a consumer financial protection agency. So in the same way that regulation keeps off the market things that, when used as directed, have a good chance of killing you, things like long darts, or cars with the fuel tank right next to the bumper.
A consumer financial protection agency would keep off the markets, say, really bad mortgages that, when used as directed, are likely to blow up in your face as well.
Pa. labor officials probing 'Jon & Kate' complaint
WERNERSVILLE, Pa. – In a cold dose of reality for reality TV, Pennsylvania's Labor Department has opened an investigation into whether the hit show "Jon & Kate Plus 8" is complying with state child labor laws. The TLC series about two parents raising 8-year-old twins and 5-year-old sextuplets drew nearly 10 million viewers for its fifth-season premiere Monday — more than double the audience for its fourth-season finale several weeks ago — following media reports that the parents, Jon and Kate Gosselin, had cheated on each other.Calif.: Site broke labor law by taping octuplets
Calif.: Site broke labor law by taping octuplets By MICHAEL R. BLOOD, Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES – California authorities slapped an online site Tuesday with four child-labor law violations for videotaping two of Nadya Suleman's octuplets without safeguards to protect their health and welfare. State Labor Commissioner Angela Bradstreet said RadarOnline endangered the newborns, Noah and Isaiah Suleman, by failing to get required state permits, videotaping the infants at hours and for periods of time banned by regulations, and for failing to provide a monitor to watch over them during taping sessions.Pro and Con of Ten Commandments posted in schools
PRO 1
Our government was based on religious principles from the very beginning. The 10 Commandments are the foundation of our moral government.
CON 1.1
Having religious principles does not mean that they wanted to use the government to force religion on the country.
Sex during pregnancy - What U R too embarrassed to ask
Everything you needed to know about sex during pregnancy, but were too embarrassed to ask…
Naturally sex is going to be different now you’re expecting. Should I be doing it at all? Will it hurt?
Christina Aguilera talks about giving birth
"I didn't want any surprises," she says matter-of-factly of her decision to deliver via scheduled C-section at week 37 of her pregnancy. "Honestly, I didn't want any [vaginal] tearing. I had heard horror stories of women going in and having to have an emergency C-section [anyway].
A challenge to an article defending Acorn in the L.A. Times
My Letter to the Editorial Page Editor of the L.A. Times Regarding That Fact-Challenged Pro-ACORN Op-Ed Written by the ACORN Consultant A recent op-ed in your paper defending ACORN makes at least two factual misstatements: 1) that ACORN staff offered to help shield an underage prostitution ring at only two offices, and 2) that no voter fraudulently registered to vote by ACORN had ever actually cast a ballot. Furthermore, your paper failed to disclose that the author of the op-ed, Peter Dreier, has been a (presumably paid) consultant for ACORN in the past .Who Killed California?
by Troy Senik http://nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/who-killed-california My apologies for having nothing originally in this post. The text was here but didn't show up. Apparently this article is too long to be printed here, at about 11 pages. It is nevertheless worth reading, unless, as someone has already done, you have made your mind up what to believe before reading.The New Liberalism and the end of American ascendancy.
Decline Is a Choice The New Liberalism and the end of American ascendancy. by Charles Krauthammer The weathervanes of conventional wisdom are registering another round of angst about America in decline. New theories, old slogans: Imperial overstretch.12-year-old’s death giving birth spotlights dangers of child marriage
UNICEF : 12-year-old’s death giving birth spotlights dangers of child marriage
(CNN) — The recent death of a 12-year-old Yemeni girl during childbirth spotlights the widespread problem of child marriage in Yemen, a representative of the United Nations Children’s Fund told CNN Monday.
“When they’re pushed into marriage, they are pushed into early pregnancy,” UNICEF spokesman Nassem ur-Rehman said by phone from Yemen. “And then, in a system and environment where the health facilities (are) so poor … this is a recipe for disaster.
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