Call for energy windfall tax to tackle fuel poverty

Energy companies in the UK are pleading poverty. Their profits are being slashed, they tell us, as wholesale prices of gas and oil increase. They must, therefore, increase the price at which they are selling fuel to us. But when these corporations are still making billions...

Downside of the Boom

"Various folks continue to raise the red herring that raising minimum wages will hurt low paid workers. Somehow they will be worse off with higher wages, go figure, because small businesses will lay off workers supposedly ( despite studies showing that there is not a...

Minmum Wage Blog Debate

"Well the minimum wage debate rages in the pages of Progressive Bloggers, having said my piece here and here, I will simply add this link to the PB page where you can find the vast debate that is ongoing on thisAnd just to add another two bits into this debate I include...

Minimum Wage Redux

"Since I posted on the Minimum Wage controversy this morning some more matters have come to my attention. The usual canard that minimum wages only apply to students is far from the truth as Statistics Canada shows; JUST OVER 1.3 million full-time employees aged 16 to 64 held...

Sen. Johnson in critical, stable condition

"U.S. Democratic Sen. Tim Johnson was in critical but stable condition after undergoing brain surgery, a source said on Thursday, reminding Democrats of their precarious hold on the new Senate.""The source familiar with the situation said doctors told Johnson's family that...

Bottom Feeders

"It looks like Iceland and the small handful of bottom feeding nations that use dragger and bottom trawlers won a victory at the UN this week. However I am pleased to say it was without the help of Canada."

South Park Takes on Canada

" Blame Canada Greenpeace enlists South Park boys to roast Canucks for opposing fishing ban."

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Hastert Fires Himself

"Those in glass houses.....Hastert Vows to Fire Anyone Who Hid Page Info"

Foley=October Surpise

" There are a variety of right whingnutbar blogs and MSM commentators that are pulling off a Clinton over the Foley Follies. They are crying conspiracy. The Democrats did it. The tinfoil hats should be issued immediately to these rightwhingnutbar commentators."