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I am just now resuming blogging, but this blog is no longer active. I have migrated all posts to my new blog, Cold Water Flat, at WordPress.Please c'mon over to my new blog for a visit and, if you'd like, please remember to add my new URL to your bookmarks.Peace.http://skiscoldwaterflat.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/full

Although I haven't written very much lately about Farmers Branch, Texas and its nativist elements and anti-immigrant actions, I have regularly kept up with that nasty situation. But the good news about that mess is that yesterday United States District Judge Sam A. Lindsay has found that Farmers Branch Ordinance 2903 is preempted by the Supremacy Clause and issued a temporary restraining order (available here as a pdf file) that restrains and prohibits the City of Farmers ...

I've learned that, for me, posting regularly on a blog takes a lot of dedication, discipline, and talent. I'm not one of those folks who can sit down at a keyboard and just type away with their thoughts flowing coherently, with only minor editing needed for publishing. That's not a new revelation to me; in my earlier life as a labor union rep I always struggled writing arbitration post-hearing briefs by their due date. I've always done much better with oral argument than w...

In the war of my youth, World War II, I volunteered for military service at the age of 19 and flew 35 combat missions, winning the Distinguished Flying Cross as the pilot of a B-24 bomber. By contrast, in the war of his youth, the Vietnam War, Cheney got five deferments and has never seen a day of combat — a record matched by President Bush.That's a part of what George McGovern had to say today in response to V.P. Dick(head) Cheney's wild-assed allegation that the McGovern...

"Why did we lower flags to half-mast for students and faculty killed in the Virginia Tech shootings but do not do the same for our fallen soldiers in the Middle East?" That's the question recently posed by Sgt. Jim Wilt from his Army outpost near Kabul, Afghanistan. I noticed the blurb of this story over at Truthdig.com this morning, which also provided the link to Associated Press writer Alisa Tang's full story at Yahoo News: KABUL, Afghanistan - An Army sergeant complain...

How come our country's flag hasn't been flown at half-staff on each and every day an American soldier has lost his or her life in Iraq? According to Section 3(m) of the Federal Flag Code (Public Law 94-344): By order of the President, the flag shall be flown at half-staff upon the death of principal figures of the United States Government and the Governor of a State, territory, or possession, as a mark of respect to their memory. In the event of the death of other official...

One of the issues that has received scant attention in the news reporting of the firings of eight U.S. attorneys is any mention of the employment at-will doctrine--a doctrine that union-represented employees, including these union-represented attorneys, in this country aren't at all worried about.Under the legal doctrine of employment at-will, which the ACLU rightfully labels "a relic of 19th-century antilabor laws," unless there is some sort of a contract between you and ...

Just a quick note to let you know that I haven't dropped off the face of the earth--permanently anyway; just a short and unplanned break in blogging.I plan to continue with this blog and will start back posting very soon.Peace!http://skiscoldwaterflat.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/full

On March 1 of this year Congress passed the much needed labor law reform bill known as the Employee Free Choice Act of 2007 (EFCA), and a vote on the senate version of the bill is expected soon.As currently written, EFCA would modify the National Labor relations Act (NLRA) in three important ways. First, it would require stronger penalties for violation of workers rights to organize. Second, it would provide for mandatory mediation and arbitration for first-contract disput...

"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest." --Elie Wiesel That's the signature line my better-half Annie uses on her personal email account. Too bad the young Brandeis student who did the radio essay (on PRI?) last week about the sparse involvement in the Iraq war protests by students in this country is not familiar with that quote. I haven't been able to locate that essay online, but as I remembe...