"I am here to say that in a great cause these labor organizations, despised and weak and outlawed as they generally are, have stood for the poor, they have stood for the weak, they have stood for every human law that was ever placed upon the statute books. They stood for human life, they stood for the father who was bound down by his task, they stood for the wife, threatened to be taken from the home to work by his side, and they have stood for the little child who was also taken to work in their places--that the rich could grow richer still, and they have fought for the right of the little one, to give him a little of life, a little comfort while he is young." 

--Clarence Darrow, at the trial of
William "Big Bill" Heywood, 1907 

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 Mike's Picks

I've been reading, "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man," by John Perkins.  --  Rifen

I just finished Jeff Faux's The Global Class War.  If you want to know what's going on with globalization and how working people are  getting a raw deal, it's a must-read book.  While it's not an easy read, it is full of useful information that one will not find on the network news.  --  Rifen

Also recently read and recommended is
Steven E. Landsburg's More Sex Is Safer Sex - The Unconventional
Wisdom of Economics.  This is an excellent book, for everyone one who has the mistaken belief that economics is about money.  --  Rifen

I just started Stephen Colbert's I Am American and So Can You.  It's a scream, so far.  --  Rifen