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The group could have least shown enough humor to tag the ad–’Vote Noah on 42!’

Saturday, October 14th, 2006

THINK PROGRESS has a video and story about an anti-minimum wage group which is using God and Moses to inform people not to support the proposition. 
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‘Their new ad depicts a “Moses” character speaking to the voice of God in the Rocky Mountains. “We need divine intervention,” Moses says. God responds: “We can’t let the people […]

Posted in Religion, 2006 Election, Oddity, Labor, Economics, Colorado |

Ah, yes. The “gap between rich and poor is greater than even during the Gilded Age…” But as a Chicago friend so aptly observed, some Robber Barons worried enough about their life-styles to give their wealth to massive charitable foundations rather than face Henry Clay Frick’s stark assessment oif the future.

Tuesday, August 1st, 2006

npr.org (Cover art of book)
NPR.org, July 6, 2005 · Set in America’s gilded age at the end of the 1800s, this is the tale of the friendship between Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick. The two once worked together but had a falling out. On his deathbed, Carnegie askes to speak with Frick, who […]

Posted in Congress, Society, Books, Labor, Economics, The Poor |

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