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...announced they wouldn't play for a Limbaugh-owned team. That's understandable, but they shouldn't forget that playing in the NFL is to be working for sport's biggest plantation. Yes, guys like McNabb are making multimillion-dollar paydays. Yet he and the rest of the players labor within the confines of a football monopoly that has never taken kindly to outside competition or an activist workforce. Consider the NFL players' strike of 1987, which the owners crushed with all the sensitivity of Kentucky coal-mine operators. In ensuing labor agreements, the owners not only imposed a salary...
...Reid's staff have been working for two weeks to match up the Finance bill with one passed earlier this summer by the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and to resolve second- and third-tier issues, such as administrative streamlining, preventive measures and reinsurance. Over the next two weeks they will finish merging the two measures and begin counting votes on some of the hundreds of amendments expected to be filed. Some losing proposals will have to be raised, debated and then defeated before winning provisions are adopted. For example, 30 members advised Reid last week that the Senate...
...Says he provides the cheapest prisoner meals in the U.S., at just 15? each. He also reduced meals in the country's prisons to two a day, to save on labor costs. Inadequate meals were one reason a federal judge ruled against Arpaio and the county in 2008, finding that they violated prisoners' constitutional rights by depriving them of appropriate health care and housing them in unsanitary conditions. The judge noted that many inmates were forced to eat moldy bread and rotten fruit...
...before European explorers made their first tentative trips across the Atlantic. And once here, Columbus wasn't exactly kind to his new neighbors. Indeed, on his very first day in the New World, Columbus took six natives as slaves. He'd go on to press thousands more into forced labor, killing dissenters. Even his own colonists didn't like him - complaints led him to be called back by his Spanish royal sponsors in 1500. (See pictures of Italians in America...
...were surprised by how much you enjoyed golf. I was. [Laughs.] I feel like golf courses are the seductive emblem of Whitopia, and I didn't think I could get the essence of the place without learning myself. What I thought was a chore turned out to be a labor of love...