So I learned about a Supreme Court case today that I've never heard of before: Muller v. Oregon.
This case is Muller v. Oregon, decided in about the '20s or '30s (?), and its outcome was that Oregon was allowed to have a law limiting the hours that women could work.
Seems harmless? Read More »
So I was downtown today looking at the headlines running across one of the local TV channel buildings, and the following headline caught my eye (words not exact)
"Prince Harry to Serve In Iraq as a Commander"
The Western world is screwed. Read More »
I saw a post on this topic, and it made me want to write my own post on illegal immigration.
The problem with illegal immigration (Mexican or otherwise), they don't get taxed, thus they aren't really "paying for living in the U.S.", so to speak. Mexicans are the predominant group, but there are illegal immigrants of lots of other nations. Read More »
In the past 5 years or so, many states have passed indoor clean air acts, which prohibit people from smoking indoors in public places. I was wondering whether people thought these laws can be put in place or not. Read More »
So by now if you haven't visualized throwing a brick at my head, you probably will soon. Read More »
The title of this blog, if no one has noticed yet, is a pun. I will deal here with a proposal of a new equal rights amendment, which would, if anyone up there ever listened to me, bring a new era of equality.
Here is the text of the equal rights amendment proposed in the '70s: Read More »
I was reading up on TANF (the "new" name for welfare) and I saw that the only restriction is a 5-year lifetime limit...Which means that if a person wants to, he or she can get welfare for 5 years straight. Isn't that rediculous when there are many jobs to be filled. Yes, they may be jobs of restauruant waiters, child caregivers (I know the daycare I worked in this summer kept nee Read More »
I know a lot of people have posred blogs on gay rights, so here's one more for everyone to either agree or disagree on.
The fourteenth amendment of the U.S. constitution says: Read More »
