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...Retail Sales: The most significant barometer of economic health came out today in the Census Bureau's retail sales report. As expected, the numbers weren't pretty. Retail sales in September dropped to $375.5 billion, a 1.2% decrease from August. With access to credit severely restricted by the banking crisis, this third consecutive month of shrinking sales is significant because it happened during the back-to-school shopping period, usually retailers' biggest month outside the December holiday season. And a three-month decline in sales like this - September's drop was the worst - hasn't occurred since...
...notion of “choice” come into play, a notion inextricably tied to existing power structures which FFL itself admits have institutionalized prejudice against motherhood. Although FFL recognizes the prevalence of pregnancy discrimination, its Web site contains no information on campaigns to promote access to child care or extended maternity leaves; rather, it highlights features that celebrate motherhood and advocate coupon-cutting. As indicated by the group’s former slogan, “refuse to choose,” FFL paradoxically attempts to persuade women that “choice” means relinquishing their...
...look increasingly as though internet addiction is, for the most part, not a mental disorder but a generational issue. Professor Orzack herself was born in 1924. As experts tend to agree, the internet is not a substance so much as it is a medium—although it offers access to a world of harmful behaviors, the same could be said of the state of New Jersey. The internet is not the culprit—it’s simply the conduit. And those terrified by visions of an entire generation hunched over glowing screens into the wee hours...
...also specifically stated that the legislation should not be construed to "affect existing federal or state law regarding abortion" or "alter generally accepted medical standards," effectively eliminating the concerns of Obama and other abortion supporters like Sutherland that the law could be used a way to limit access to abortion...
...without dispute that Obama is pro-choice; he has a long record of opposing efforts that might limit legal access to abortion. To suggest, however, that Obama supported the death of children born alive after abortions is misleading. State law in Illinois, which Obama supported, has always protected the life of a child born alive after abortions, if doctors believed the child had a reasonable chance of survival...