This certainly turns the tables on the notion that unions are somehow “anti-business.”
From USA Today:
STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. — The United Auto Workers union will own 55% of a restructured Chrysler LLC and its retiree health care trust will get a seat on the board if union members vote to approve contract concessions this week.
Chrysler stock [...]

A Smithfield Foods farm could be linked to the outbreak.
Grist has more…
Is Smithfield Foods, the world’s largest pork packer and hog producer, linked to the outbreak? Smithfield operates massive hog-raising operations Perote, Mexico, in the state of Vera Cruz, where the outbreak originated. The operations, grouped under a Smithfield subsidiary called Granjas Carroll, raise 950,000 [...]

And Pontiac will vanish.
The carnage continues…
DETROIT – General Motors Corp. could be majority owned by the federal government under a massive restructuring plan laid out Monday that will cut 21,000 U.S. factory jobs by next year and phase out the storied Pontiac brand.
The plan, which includes an offer to swap roughly $27 billion in bond [...]

While the world already deals with an ongoing global recession, there are concerns the worst is yet to come. The swine flu, which has killed dozens in Mexico, may become a deadly pandemic. Or maybe not:
“What makes this so difficult is we may be somewhere between an important but yet still uneventful public health occurrence [...]

The news about the flu is scary enough, but to think that the leader of the free world may have been exposed to this newly mutated virus is disturbing.
To be clear, this hasn’t been confirmed and the man in the picture isn’t the one who died, but that is the same museum Obama was [...]

In case you missed it yesterday, Jim Tedisco has conceded in NY-20.

Republican James Tedisco conceded defeat Friday in the race to fill the seat vacated by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, handing a sweet victory to Democrat Scott Murphy in the conservative Albany-area district.

Tedisco and Murphy were separated by only a handful of votes following [...]

“It is near-extinct in many ways in the Northeast, it is extinct in many ways on the West Coast, and it is endangered in the Mountain West, increasingly endangered in the Southwest… and if you look at the state of the party, it is a shrinking entity.”
- Former McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt on Repubs
This [...]

A deadline has been set and it looks like something will be passed by the middle of October.
Also, at that point, it won’t need 60 votes to pass. Just a simple majority will do.
Who here thinks that the man in the picture is the one organizing it all?
From New Republic:
The reonciliation instruction specifies a [...]

Yet another way we could save billions every year and get them back into the hands of those who need them most.
From AP:
Obama wants to end the decades-old, dual system the federal government uses to advance loans to students to pay for college. Under that system, students at some colleges borrow directly from the government, [...]

When I read the following I have to ask, “Who’s lying here?”
Because haven’t we heard from some pretty high profile folks that these techniques worked, most notably former VP Cheney?
I guess maybe Hillary was right.
First, from NY Times, what traditional interrogation tactics gave us:
Along with another F.B.I. agent, and with several C.I.A. officers present, I [...]

O.k., this story is just cool:
Earlier this month, Wilson thought of a tweet (the name for a post to the social networking site) and poof, his computer read his mind and sent the darn thing. At just 23 characters, Wilson’s message, “using EEG to send tweet,” was done with a computer setup that interprets brain [...]

On Thursday, President Obama announced support for a new bill aimed at protecting credit card holders.
As early as next week, House Democrats expect to act on a bill that would make it harder for the industry to slap new fees and rates on cardholders while also requiring clearer disclosure of the costs and risks for [...]

It’s taken 5 years to get back to this point (pdf), and it took Obama less than 6 months to do it.
The exact numbers: 48% think we’re headed the right way, while 44% think the opposite.
Also, Obama’s approval is 64%. That number jives with a recent Pew poll and Gallup’s daily tracking.
So, again, note to [...]

“I don’t consider him a particularly reliable source of information.”
- Hillary Clinton on Dick Cheney
Washington Post has more on the “Return of Hillary Clinton“
It wasn’t the most stirring defense, but a defense it was, and it served as a reminder of Clinton’s relatively low-profile in the first months of her tenure. To an extent, that [...]

(NOTE: I misread the poll results. The poll is among ALL voters. I’ll strike what isn’t relevant anymore, but most of my comments weren’t about the Republican nature of this poll anyway. Sorry for the confusion and thanks to Simon for pointing this out.)
This was a bit of a surprise, especially considering that only Republican [...]

Old enough to see an R rated movie? Then you’re now old enough to get the morning after pill over-the-counter. Today the FDA announced the Plan B contraceptive will be made available to anyone 17 or older without a prescription. This is in response to a recent federal court ruling which criticized the executive branch’s [...]

Are we really ready to do this to kids? And the important part here is that the student in question was on the honor roll and they were searching her for prescription-strength ibuprofen pills.
Yes, ibuprofen.
From Wash Post…
An important case at the Supreme Court sometimes informs as much about the justices as the issue at hand, [...]

First, let me say that I respect Sonny Bunch. A lot. I rarely agree with Sonny, but he is clearly and genuinely interested in engaging those with whom he disagrees.
That said, the posts (and subsequent responsive comment) with which E.D. and Mr. Schwenkler take issue is emblematic of something that has been [...]

Barack Obama’s handshake with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has managed to upset more than a few observers. Of course, the negative reaction from the right has been so predictable and overblown, there’s been little room for a more reasonable critique of Obama’s performance in Latin America.
Thankfully, Eugene Robinson, writing for the Washington Post has written [...]

There was some question, with Obama’s statement on the release of the OLC memos, whether he was making a blanket declaration that there would be no prosecution of former torturers or torture-enablers, or whether he was being wishy-washy.
Today he was asked again. Wishy washy it is.

I take this as, more or less, reassuring.
It [...]