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For years, Wal-Mart—and other large retail operators—have been piling up huge profits by controlling their labor costs through paying employees sub-poverty level wages. As a result, it has long been left to the taxpayer to provide healthcare and other subsidized benefits to the many Wal-Mart...

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The Dallas Cowboys were almost $20 million over the salary cap when the offseason began, but the restructuring of some contracts, new contracts for Tony Romo and Doug Free, as well as the release of some players has put the Cowboys roughly $9.7 million under the cap. The $9.7 million are the...

What’s happening in the Republican Party would be endlessly amusing were the consequences for the nation not so significant. The strident far right wing has taken over the GOP. Conservatives deemed not conservative enough have lost their seats in the primaries. Moderates who aren’t drummed out...

On Thursday, California officials revealed insurance companies’ opening bids for the state’s Obamacare marketplace in 2014. The numbers are great for consumers — and terrible for right-wing fear mongering over the health law. Covered California, the agency tasked with constructing and...

Serve and protect or something Cops Go Undercover at High School to Bust Special-Needs Kid for Pot: Why Are Police So Desperate to Throw Kids in Jail? The school-to-prison pipeline strikes again. May 22, 2013 | Californians Doug and Catherine Snodgrass are suing their son’s high school for...

(Vatican Radio) “Doing good” is a principle that unites all humanity, beyond the diversity of ideologies and religions, and creates the “culture of encounter” that is the foundation of peace: this is what Pope said at Mass this morning at the Domus Santae Martae, in the presence of employees of...

The owners would like you and I to spot them. In addition to us already bearing stadium costs in many of their districts...

A Texas man says he and his partner were together for 34 years but his partner’s sister has now forced them apart, taken their home, and his partner’s finances — and done it legally because they weren’t married. For the last six years his partner, Jim, who is older, suffered from Alzheimer’s...

wtf A mother forced her 14-year-old adopted daughter to inseminate herself with donor sperm to provide a baby for her after she was prevented from adopting any more children, it can be revealed. The daughter, a virgin, is believed to have miscarried at 14, but went on to have a baby at 16...

jesus tapdancing christ who cares

http://imgur.com/a/hLLu2#0 the half helmet is awful. http://i.imgur.com/ciMl1jj.jpg

According to a report from Amnesty International, a seriously ill and pregnant El Salvadorian woman may face jail time if she goes forward with a lifesaving and medically recommended abortion. Abortion is illegal under all circumstances in El Salvador. The 22-year-old mother of one, identified...

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/04/why-republicans-suddenly-became-afraid-of-their-own-budget-shadow.php Republicans spent the last four years criticizing Senate Democrats for failing to pass a budget resolution, and for operating outside of what’s known as “regular order” on Capitol...

Republicans in Congress have renewed their decades-old attack on the 40-hour workweek. Once again, they are pushing so-called “comp time” legislation that would allow employers to stop giving workers any extra pay for overtime work. Ten years ago, the Republican leadership in Congress and the...

Apparently promising a missile launch tomorrow. :(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-YCdcnf_P8

Toward the end of the 2012 season, wide receiver Dwayne Harris moved up the depth chart and was taking valuable snaps from Kevin Ogletree. When the Cowboys let Ogletree go in free agency -- he signed with Tampa Bay -- it moved Harris into the coveted role as No. 3 receiver behind Dez Bryant...

RALEIGH, N.C. — A bill filed in the state Senate Tuesday would carry a tax penalty for parents whose children register to vote at their college address. Senate Bill 667, known as "Equalize Voter Rights," would remove the tax exemption for dependents who register to vote at any address other...