"My colleagues and I did a study about 10 years ago looking at the two different parties in the United States"not in terms of ideology or policies but purely in terms of violent death rates"and, astonishingly, we found that over a 110-year period, almost without exception, whenever there was a Republican president who was elected, the murder and suicide rates would double, and whenever there was a Democratic president elected, the murder and suicide rates would halve."
Research by Forbes magazine found there were 15 billionaires aged 30 or under but that none had created their own wealth, instead benefitting from huge inheritances. read more
Project 2025's 180-Day Playbook is a remarkably detailed guide to turning the United States into a fascist's paradise. read more
Israel's far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, announced the seizure of 10 square kilometers (3.8 square miles) of Palestinian territory in the West Bank on Friday. read more
Israeli media reported in January that Israel had destroyed 1,100 of the 2,800 buildings in the border areas. In that same month, 21 Israeli soldiers were killed while working to demolish a building after a Hamas rocket detonated explosives IDF soldiers had planted. ... The Israeli military insists it needs to create the buffer zone to prevent future October 7-style attacks. But the plan also advances Israel's seizure of Gaza's territory, and many ministers in the Israeli government favor re-establishing Jewish settlements in the Strip.
"Turns out, wage theft is illegal."
If someone steals money from their employer, they could be guilty of a serious crime. But what if an employer takes money from their employee's paychecks?
There's a good chance they'll get away with it, a CBS News investigation found.
www.cbsnews.com
It's easier for the company to steal from the workers than vice versa.
Privilege explains that.
In 2012, there were 292,074 robberies of all kinds, including bank robberies, residential robberies, convenience store and gas station robberies, and street robberies. The total value of the property taken in those crimes was $340,850,358. By contrast, the total amount recovered for the victims of wage theft who retained private lawyers or complained to federal or state agencies was at least $933 million in 2012. This is almost three times greater than all the money stolen in robberies that year. Further, the nearly $1 billion successfully reclaimed by workers is only the tip of the wage-theft iceberg, since most victims never sue and never complain to the government.
https://www.epi.org/publication/wage-theft-bigger-problem-forms-theft-workers/
The next time Eberly puts forth an argument based on something other than Clarence Thomas's black skin, will be the first.