West Virginia House of Delegates Passes Buy America Bill manufacture this ...By a vote of 82-16, the West Virginia House of Delegates passed a "Buy American" bill today that would require contractors to use American-made components for public buildings and other tax-payer funded projects...
Election hacked, drunken robot elected to school board The Register ...Security experts have warned that electronic voting systems are decades away from being secure, and to prove it a team from the University of Michigan successfully got the foul-mouthed, drunken Futurama robot Bender elected to head of a school board...
Georgia Law Would Outlaw Picketing Homes of Corporate Executives allgov.com ...Coming only days after a protest outside a major telecommunications company, Republican lawmakers in Georgia have introduced a bill that would subject non-violent demonstrators involved in a labor dispute to heavy fines and felony convictions...
NH House to vote on collective bargaining bills Associated Press ...A reincarnation of last year’s right-to-work bill is at the head of a deluge of legislation hitting the House next week to restrict public union bargaining powers...
Spain's "Debt Crisis" Was Created by the ECB CEPR ...Spain's debt crisis is almost entirely a result of the European Central Bank's policy...Spain had been running budget surpluses before the crisis and its debt to GDP ratio remains below that of the UK, the United States and many other countries that have no difficulty borrowing in financial markets...
Hurricane Katrina flood ruling upheld by federal appeals court nola.com ...The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday upheld a lower court ruling finding the Army Corps of Engineers responsible for flooding portion of the Lower 9th Ward and St. Bernard Parish during Hurricane Katrina because of its failure to maintain the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet. If upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, the ruling could eventually result in residents, businesses and local governments being reimbursed for damages of as much as $20 billion...
