The sponsors of South Dakota's latest "No Wedding Cakes for Gays!" will tell you they are trying to defend religion from... well, you know, gay people. Unfortunately, these legislators don't realize the damage the language of their own bill does…
Posts tagged as “corporation”
Funny the ideas that pop up when one blogs and teachers. In our blog discussion Tuesday of House Bill 1089, the proposed ban on female genital mutilation, I mentioned my college-days battle against multiculturalism. I walked into class today and…
Last month, Minneapolis-based Medtronic acquired a big Irish corporation so it could create a new headquarters on paper in Dublin and pay Ireland's lower corporate tax rate. The financerazzi call the Medtronic move inversion. Democratic candidate for Senate Rick Weiland…
The Supreme Court ruled this morning that corporations can believe in God. I'm looking for the Scripture that says, "Blessed are the corporations...." The Supreme Court thus ruled that Hobby Lobby and other pious corporations don't have to follow the…
I've been thinking about a pitch I'd love to hear from any candidate for Governor of South Dakota: I propose that the great state of South Dakota treat teachers the same way we treat corporations. Teachers and corporations are both…
You know who's driving up farm land prices? Corporations and foreign investors: In November 2012, UBS AgriVest, a unit of the Swiss banking giant UBS, paid $67.5 million, or nearly $7,000 per acre, for about 9,800 acres in southwest Wisconsin.…