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  • Federal appeals court rules Obama recess appointments to labor board are unconstitutional

    01/25/2013 8:03:48 AM PST · by green iguana · 66 replies
    WaPo ^ | 01.25.13 | A.P.
    A federal appeals court has ruled that President Barack Obama violated the Constitution when he bypassed the Senate to fill vacancies on a labor relations panel. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit says Obama did not have the power to make recess appointments earlier this year to the National Labor Relations Board.
  • U.S. Department Of Labor Gives Aid To Laid-Off SolarWorld Workers

    05/02/2012 7:19:58 AM PDT · by green iguana · 3 replies
    Solar Industry ^ | 5-1-12 | SI staff
    The U.S. Department of Labor has determined that all manufacturing employees laid off from SolarWorld Industries America Inc. as a result of the company's shutdown of its solar module production plant in Camarillo, Calif., in September are eligible for federal trade-adjustment assistance, including grants for education to retrain them for new work.
  • Italy confiscates $6 trillion in fake US bonds

    02/17/2012 7:46:51 AM PST · by green iguana · 41 replies · 1+ views
    Authorities in Switzerland have confiscated $6 trillion in counterfeit U.S. bonds at the request of Italian prosecutors, authorities said Friday.
  • Setting Sail Into Space, Propelled by Sunshine

    11/10/2009 6:58:18 AM PST · by green iguana · 5 replies · 513+ views
    NY Times ^ | 11-9-09 | DENNIS OVERBYE
    About a year from now, if all goes well, a box about the size of a loaf of bread will pop out of a rocket some 500 miles above the Earth. There in the vacuum it will unfurl four triangular sails as shiny as moonlight and only barely more substantial. Then it will slowly rise on a sunbeam and move across the stars. ... In principle, a solar sail can do anything a regular sail can do, like tacking.
  • Cerberus Sets Its Sights on IPO for a Gun Maker

    10/20/2009 10:35:58 AM PDT · by green iguana · 15 replies · 1,529+ views
    The Wall Street Journal ^ | 10-20-09 | Peter Lattman
    After bad bets on cars and home loans, Cerberus Capital Management is turning to guns and bullets. The private-equity firm is in advanced preparations for an initial public offering of Freedom Group Inc., said people familiar with the situation, hoping to sell shares in a little-known company it has built into a dominant player in the red-hot rifle-and-ammunition business. ... The origins of Freedom Group date to April 2006, with Cerberus's acquisition of Bushmaster Firearms. A year later, it paid $118 million for Remington Arms Co., the country's largest and oldest maker of rifles. Since then, Cerberus and its affiliates...
  • Court Allows Religious Monument

    02/25/2009 7:26:37 AM PST · by green iguana · 15 replies · 841+ views
    Without dissent, the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that governments may accept permanent religious monuments in public parks without violating the Constitution. Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr., wrote for the Court in Pleasant Grove City v. Summum (07-665). Such a monument, whether government financed or privately donated, must be considered “government speech,” conveying a message that it wishes to get out about “esthetics, history, and local culture.” Four Justices filed concurring opinions, representing the views of six Justices, thus requiring their views to be taken into account in determining just when governments may put up such monuments on public property.
  • Eric Holder approved by Senate Judiciary Committee

    01/28/2009 8:22:42 AM PST · by green iguana · 73 replies · 2,731+ views
    Bloomberg
    No links to Bloomberg. Approved 17-2 with 6 of 8 Republicans going for him. It's over...
  • Tour de France Stage 20 - Cérilly Saint-Amand-Montrond ITT

    07/26/2008 5:45:12 AM PDT · by green iguana · 34 replies · 65+ views
    The final chance (most likely) for the riders to shake up the GC. A 32 mile Individual Time Trial. Nice and flat:
  • Tour de France Stage 17 - Embrun L'Alpe-d'Huez

    07/23/2008 5:38:41 AM PDT · by green iguana · 24 replies · 128+ views
    Bwaaa Haaa Haaa Haaa Haaa!!!I love this stage!At least it's not steep.
  • Tour de France - Stage 16 - Cuneo to Jausiers

    07/22/2008 5:30:31 AM PDT · by green iguana · 14 replies · 127+ views
  • 2008 Tour de France stage 7

    07/11/2008 5:34:34 AM PDT · by green iguana · 5 replies · 66+ views
    Another day in the Massif Central with a nice, fast finish.
  • TdF Stage 6

    07/10/2008 5:47:02 AM PDT · by green iguana · 26 replies · 76+ views
    Tour de France Stage 6
  • Shoot to Stun

    07/02/2008 7:44:56 AM PDT · by green iguana · 59 replies · 62+ views
    New York Times ^ | 07-02-08 | Paul H. Robinson
    A NARROWLY divided Supreme Court ruled last week that the Second Amendment gives Americans the right to keep a loaded gun at home for their personal use. Presumably, citizens can use these weapons to defend themselves from intruders. But given the growing effectiveness and availability of less lethal weapons, it is likely that state laws will increasingly keep people from actually using their guns for self-defense. ... Of course, anyone who uses a gun in self-defense may argue that he would have used a less lethal weapon if he had had one at hand, but there was only the firearm....
  • Conservatives' hatred of McCain makes no sense

    02/07/2008 5:49:03 AM PST · by green iguana · 274 replies · 115+ views
    CNN ^ | 2-6-08 | Roland Martin
    Listening to the irrational and hysterical response of conservatives to the presidential candidacy of Sen. John McCain would be laughable if it wasn't so serious. .... Let's be clear -- conservatives don't like McCain. But with conservatives one seat away from having a majority on the Supreme Court and the next president having the power to name up to three justices, do you actually think the folks who've fought two generations to re-take the Court actually want to see three Clinton jurists? This, folks, is bordering on the irrational.
  • Seeing Race Through a Liberal Lens

    12/08/2006 10:30:28 AM PST · by green iguana · 60 replies · 1,640+ views
    Wall St. Journal ^ | 12-8-6 | Jason Riley
    Your wife, who unlike you is white, and who is expecting your first child, has been receiving the oddest reactions to the news of her pregnancy. Upon finding out, friends can't resist informing her that "interracial children are beautiful." It's said in a tone that suggests deep gratitude and admiration, although the reasons are a little unclear. The comment may be kindly meant, as a sort of reflexive compliment, but it inevitably suggests that she is being congratulated for her willingness to place the aesthetic enhancement of the populace above the imperatives of racial purity. She's heard the remark, or...
  • Housing starts plunge to 6-year low

    11/17/2006 5:54:26 AM PST · by green iguana · 36 replies · 927+ views
    market Watch ^ | 11-17-06
    WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - Home builders retreated on a massive scale in October, dashing hopes for a quick turnaround in the housing market. Starts of new homes plunged 14.6% in October to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.486 million, the lowest level since July 2000, the Commerce Department estimated Friday. Building permits fell 6.3% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.535 million, the lowest level in nine years. It was the largest percentage decline in permits in seven years.
  • Basso feels 'reborn'

    11/09/2006 10:04:15 AM PST · by green iguana · 4 replies · 239+ views
    VeloNews ^ | 11-9-06 | staff
    Ivan Basso said he Thursday he feels "reborn" after signing a two-season contract with the Discovery Channel cycling team. A season stalled: Basso, seen here locking up the Giro in the 20th stage into Aprica, had hoped to win the Tour de France as well. The 28-year-old Giro d'Italia winner is expected to take the central spot in the team once occupied by seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong. "It's the ideal team for me," Basso told the Gazzetta dello Sport website on Thursday.
  • Doping scandal rocks Tour

    06/30/2006 6:37:36 AM PDT · by green iguana · 22 replies · 852+ views
    STRASBOURG, France (AP) -- Favorites Jan Ullrich, Ivan Basso and other cyclists were barred Friday from the Tour de France in the biggest doping scandal to hit cycling in years. The decision to prevent Ullrich, Basso and others from racing threw the sport's premier race into upheaval the day before it begins. Tour director Christian Prudhomme said the organizers' determination to fight doping was "total." "The enemy is not cycling, the enemy is doping," he said.
  • Military laser brings 'Star Wars' reality closer

    08/24/2005 11:01:14 AM PDT · by green iguana · 53 replies · 1,802+ views
    LONDON, England (Reuters) -- A U.S. Pentagon invention could make air combat resemble a battle scene from the movie 'Star Wars' with a laser so small it can fit on a fighter jet, yet powerful enough to knock down an enemy missile in flight. The High Energy Laser Area Defense System (HELLADS), being designed by the Pentagon's central research and development agency, will weigh just 750 kg (1,650 lb) and measures the size of a large fridge.
  • Tour de France Stage 10 (live)

    07/12/2005 5:26:00 AM PDT · by green iguana · 126 replies · 3,152+ views
    14:14 - Lead Drops To 8’40" The peloton is now 8’40" behind the seven escapees. The attack was instigated by Posthuma and Brochard in the first kilometer of the stage. These two riders were joined by Krivtsov at the 3km mark. A counter-attack from Sanchez, Facci, Bortolami and Isasi caught the three early escapees at the 16km mark. 14:09 - Eight Complete Teams There are only eight teams with a full contingent of nine riders still in the Tour. The complete formations are: Discovery Channel, T-Mobile, Rabobank, Cofidis, Quickstep, Bouyges Telecom, Gerolsteiner and Euskaltel. There are 173 riders still in...