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No Comment Republicans for a Four-Day Workweek “Keeping us up here eats away at families. Marriages suffer. The Democrats could care less about families,” Representative Jack Kingston,...
...Low-Priced Nazi Gear Wal-Mart removed a skull and crossbones T-shirt from its stores after a blogger pointed out the design was identical to a Nazi SS logo, reports AP...
...Good Fences Made by Good Neighbors The company that was contracted to build part of the wall between the United States and Mexico agreed to pay $5 million in fines for hiring illegal workers, reports NPR...
...We are going to level that country,” said O’Reilly, because people “need gasoline to live...
...Inconvenient Corruption The National Science Teachers Association refused to accept 50,000 free DVDs of An Inconvenient Truth because it would place “unnecessary risk upon the [NSTA] capital campaign, especially certain targeted supporters...
...A government commission found that AWB deceived the Australian government and the United Nations and recommended that former executives face charges, but the Australian Tax Office ruled the kickbacks did not constitute a bribe as defined in the criminal or tax codes...
...Eco-Friendly Fire From Sierra magazine: “Weapons will still kill and maim, but at least they won’t pollute, thanks to a new green-guns initiative from BAE Systems, one of the world’s biggest arms manufacturers...
...Taxing Loopholes Wheat exporter AWB can claim $290 million in kickbacks to Saddam Hussein’s regime as a tax reduction, reports the Australian Broadcasting Corporation...
...Readers are invited to submit No Comment items...
...Concerned that the poisons in its bullets ‘can harm the environment and pose a risk to people,’ the company has invested in lead-free bullets, hybrid tanks, quieter bombs, and low-volatile organic-compound explosives, and is even composting explosive material...
...War Profiteers The Los Angeles Times reports that conservative Christian groups cashed in on their “War on Christmas” cause, with the American Family Association making more than $500,000 in sales of buttons and magnets that state “Merry Christmas: It’s Worth Saying...
...We would never have placed this T-shirt on our shelves had we known the origin and significance of this emblem,” said Wal-Mart spokesman David Tovar...
...Submissions cannot be acknowledged or returned...
...The government says it must include the word “pork” in the name...
...O’Reilly argued that Iran wants to take over Iraq and Saudi Arabia, and control all of the oil...
...Faith-Based Geology From the Chicago Sun-Times: “Grand Canyon National Park employees charged that the Bush Administration has pressured them to keep from stating the canyon’s geological age, while a book saying the Grand Canyon was created 4,450 years ago by Noah’s flood remains on sale at the park’s bookstore...
...Laurie David, a producer of the movie, noted in a piece in The Washington Post that one of NSTA’s supporters is ExxonMobil...
...The Great Leveler On his syndicated radio show, Bill O’Reilly said the United States may have to “level cities like Tehran, kill hundreds of thousands of people...
...Please send original clippings or photocopies and give name and date of publication...
...The Democrats could care less about families,” Representative Jack Kingston, Republican of Georgia, said about Congress’s new five-day workweek...
...Slaying a Dragon The British government told a company that sells “Welsh Dragon Sausages” it must change the product’s name or face legal action for making shoppers think it uses meat from real dragons, reports the Daily Mail...
...Attorney Carol Lam says as many as a third of the Golden Gate Fence Company’s workforce may have been in the country without proper documentation...
Vol. 71 • February 2007 • No. 2
