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When the discussion comes up about companies who don't pay fair wages to their workers, Wal-Mart seems to be one of the top topics, along with Jennie-O and more. But what some people don't understand is there are families who look to shop for lower prices to stay within the budget. When you look at your paycheck after every payday, it is obvious that we as consumers are not faring all that well and many of us know that. Thirty-five percent of the U.S.
I am outraged at the West Central Tribune's lack of discretion in printing the picture Dec. 6 of the grieving relatives of a Palestinian suicide bomber who killed five and wounded 40 innocent Israeli civilians. The article goes on to tell how an Israeli security guard saved many lives by quickly hustling the terrorist away from the crowded shopping mall before detonating his bomb.
The effort by some cable TV hosts and ministers to force commercial establishments into wishing everyone a "Merry Christmas" might be more objectionable to the One who is the reason for the season than the "Happy Holidays" mantra required by some store managers. I have never understood why so many Christians feel the need to see and hear "Merry Christmas" proclaimed to them at stores by people who may not believe its central message.
SAN DIEGO -- The minute I saw the harrowing video of the scaffold caught up in high winds and crashing into a Denver office building 12 stories above the ground -- with two terrified window washers hanging on for dear life -- I just knew that when the time came to get the men's statements, we'd need a translator who spoke Spanish. Maybe it's because Denver is one of those U.S. cities with a substantial immigrant population, both legal and illegal.
For more than a century, many authorities have generally argued against the authenticity of the Kensington Runestone. A Swedish immigrant farmer Olof Ohman discovered the famed runestone in 1898 in a field on his farm near Kensington. The farmer claimed the stone was found as he uprooted a tree. The rock contains carved runic characters.
The people of rural Minnesota who shop at Wal-Marts puzzle me. At a bare minimum, if you like shopping at "big box" retail stores, could you at least do it at Target, which is a Minnesota-based business? Secondly, when you bypass local stores in your community which already have the same products as the Wal-Mart that's 30 miles away, you are not doing your local community any favors.
Subjecting the newly declassified White House "National Strategy for Victory in Iraq" to a cynically inspired computer search, I find that the name "Donald Rumsfeld" is missing from the document's 35 pages. A reasonable person would be confounded by this. How can we have "Victory in Iraq" if the man in command has already brought us defeat? "Defeat" may be too strong a word, but if so, that's only for the moment. If, in fact, U.S.
WASHINGTON -- In democratic countries, the true mark of a politician's triumph is not whether he transforms his own political party. It's whether he forces the opposition to renovate itself and become tweedledum to mimic his own success as tweedledee. Thus did British Prime Minister Tony Blair this week earn his place in the Politicians' Hall of Fame. In electing the flashy, moderate, bike-riding 39-year-old David Cameron as their leader, the opposition British Conservative Party decided it would draw its slogan in the next election from the venerable rock band The Who: "Meet the new boss.
A Willmar teenager and a Grove City legislator are teaming up in an effort to help fund treatment programs for methamphetamine addictions. Rep. Dean Urdahl, R-Grove City, Wednesday announced a plan to fund meth treatment through special car license plates, similar to the plates that support natural resource programs. Meth is an addictive stimulant drug that strongly activates certain systems in the brain. Meth releases high levels of the neurotransmitter dopamine, which stimulates brain cells, enhancing mood and body movement.
Once again our Legislature has forced law enforcement officials to work overtime during the holiday season in order to turn otherwise law-abiding citizens into enemies of the state. What is the crime that must be eliminated? The "crime" of choosing to drive unbuckled. A defining hallmark of freedom is the right to make personal decisions about accepting risk. Government's role in a law-and-order society is to protect person A from harming person B.