Stories from All Spin Zone

  1. Arizona and the Alien-Nation of America

    All Spin Zone &bull May 10, 2010

    Everyone under SB1070, signed into law by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, April 22, can be stopped and searched by any officer for any reason, and required to produce documentation that they are in the United States legally. A hastily-added amendment a week later modified the original law to require that police have to have a reason to stop persons. The reason could be as simple as the officer claiming the suspect was loitering, jaywalking, or playing a car radio too loud. The law also allows any citizen to file suit against any law enforcement agency if the citizen believes the… Full Story »

  2. Hammering Out a Contract: Exploiting Low-Paid Workers at a Vo-Tech School

    All Spin Zone &bull Apr 28, 2010

    Union membership throughout the country has declined from a high of 35.5 percent of all workers in 1940 to 12.3 percent in 2009. Part of that decline is that as the nation moved from an agrarian economy into the Industrial Age, and now into an Information Age, more workers consider themselves to be professionals and not in need of a union. Art Welch, the in-school suspension supervisor at the Columbia-Montour Area Vocational Technical School (Vo-Tech) in Bloomsburg, Pa., earns $8 an hour, only 75 cents above minimum wage. In the six years he has been at Vo-Tech, he has never… Full Story »

  3. FOUND: U.S. Constitution

    All Spin Zone &bull Feb 15, 2010

    by Walter Brasch Sarah Palin stood before an audience of 600 at the first Tea Party convention and in her twinkly home-spun rhetoric, declared we don't need a professor of law but a commander-in-chief. As expected, she received roaring applause.… Full Story »

  4. Stories We Prefer Not to Write-But Will

    All Spin Zone &bull Jan 12, 2010

    SUMMARY: The hope we and this nation had for change we could believe in, and which we still hope will not die, has been diminished by the reality of petty politics, with the "Party of No" and its raucous Teabagger… Full Story »

  5. A Veterans Day Embarrassment to Veterans

    All Spin Zone &bull Nov 11, 2009

    A marine reservist attacks a Greek Orthodox priest in a parking deck with a tire iron, evidently thinking the priest was a terrorist. Now he's put forth numerous whiney excuses, including that he was attacked first by the sex-crazed priest.… Full Story »

  6. Why are Young Conservatives Embarrassed by the GOP?

    All Spin Zone &bull Nov 10, 2009

    I suppose sane Republicans can be embarrassed by the right wing extremists who seem to have control over the Republican Party, whether young or old. It isn't just the racism, alarmist lies and sexism, but also the behaviors of members… Full Story »

  7. Bachmann / Teabagger Rally Compares Health Care Reform to Holocaust

    All Spin Zone &bull Nov 6, 2009

    I don't often ask my friends to make calls. I am today. Read on... Full Story »

  8. Steel Cage Match: Clinton v. Dubya

    All Spin Zone &bull Nov 4, 2009

    What would you pay to see Bill Clinton debate George W. Bush? I won't pay a dime, but I'm betting this is a sellout, the political sideshow of the century. I'm betting the vote is rigged. They'll probably hire Glenn… Full Story »

  9. The Failure of the Republican Extremists on the Right

    All Spin Zone &bull Nov 4, 2009

    The result in the NY 23rd, where the candidate of the right wing crazies lost a seat that was reliably Republican for generations, just might signal that the GOP has much bigger troubles than it ever thought. This just might… Full Story »

  10. The Right Wing Case Against Adoption

    All Spin Zone &bull Nov 2, 2009

    Glenn Stanton of Focus on the Family writes in the Philadelphia Inquirer that adoptive families are less than other families, and as such allowing gay marriage, and thus gay adoption, should be opposed. In doing so he harms adoptive families… Full Story »

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