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...nonunionized American autoworkers in Kentucky and Alabama who build cars that succeed in the marketplace made the largest concessions. They will endure a larger national debt so that billions of federal dollars can be used to prop up the UAW jobs of far less successful autoworkers in Michigan, Ohio and Ontario...
...Forty years ago, Lake Erie, one of the largest lakes in the world, was also among the most polluted. Industries in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Michigan dumped waste into the water as fast as was necessary to keep their industrial operations working. Lake Erie reached a point where it could hardly support a population of fish. The companies involved were not being malicious as much as they were being brazenly capitalistic. Some of the CEO's who were the heads of the largest polluters may have even been fishermen. They desire to make money trumped their personal feelings. (Read: "Comeback...
Murphy sets up the comedy by giving this big idea a humble setting: the down-and-out glee club of William McKinley High School in Lima, Ohio. The school's once champion show choir has fallen on hard times, overshadowed by the competitive-cheerleading squad (whose coach is played with Pattonesque swagger by Jane Lynch). Restless Spanish teacher Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison) volunteers to bring back the chorus of misfits, like Charlie Brown nursing the most pathetic Christmas tree...
...when the U.S. Army occupied large areas of Mexico that lacked a working court system. Since then they've been used to prosecute thousands in the U.S. and abroad during the Civil War, Reconstruction, the Spanish-American War and World War II. Defendants have included a former Ohio Congressman accused of sympathizing with the Confederacy during the Civil War (ordered confined for the rest of the war), eight accused conspirators in President Lincoln's assassination (four sentenced to hang, four given prison sentences), and eight Germans accused of arriving in the U.S. by submarine to carry out sabotage attacks...
...think that young people have been scared out of the stock market forever? -Brianna Morrissey, Columbus, Ohio Yeah, I think so. It became a mug's game. Unless we bring back the regulations that we had pre-Bush, unless we prosecute the bad actors, I think they should be scared. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...