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Per the Associated Press, France's plan for pay equity is still a work in progress.

Clearly, the government knows better, how you should be running your business. Not only do they already know, the gap exists, they also know it must be eliminated — as well as exactly how to do it.

If only the cantankerous electorate stopped fighting the inevitable and simply allowed the government to run everything... Poverty, hunger, hate, and racism would've all disappeared, Global Warming stopped, and sex improved.

One thing Mao still gets credit for is wiping out the heroin and opium trade, in record time. The Red Army backed Communist Party took heroin users and their families and executed them publicly in the streets. Using was made a capital offense in all cases, no ifs ands or buts. I wouldn't trade democracy and social nuance for the efficacy of totalitarianism, but if China isn't democratizing anytime soon then to hell with the ivory buyers, post haste. Extinction is forever, and our generation will probably be remembered for hundreds of years for that one thing if we don't get a handle on it. http://www.revcom.us/a/china/o...

There are no left parties in the US.

You are one of the ignorant majority I see.

There seem to be one or more gaps between what you believe and what actually is. Unpopularity and non-existence are not the same.

"Left" parties do in fact exist in the US, more than one in fact. Here are a couple:

Communist Party USA
Revolutionary Communist Party, USA

And they work hard to move their agendas forward.

Communist Party USA: 'Working with the Democratic Party' is key

Thankfully there are few Americans that are given to this ideology which has proven so murderous over the last century.

The Black Book of Communism

What do you think, "a well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State" means?

To me it means, people should be armed so they can be ready to defend their free country.

In reading any document you have to look at the intent behind the wording, and their intent is pretty clear as the documents show.

Yeah, if we applied your principle to the First Amendment, the only "free speech" rights you'd have, would be to petition the government. And only for redress of grievances. (As well as only after registering, passing background checks, and only using means available in the 18th century — such as print or personal speech — but certainly not online or TV.)

no one really argues against the entire constitution

I certainly wish so, but that's just not true:

• Georgetown professor of Constitutional Law argues for abolishing the document
• And, of course, the Communists agree.

The primary argument — cited by all such "critics" — is that some of the founding fathers owned slaves. Presumably, they'd reject the Pythagorean theorem too, because the ancient mathematician was a slave-owner. And, for one more example, the Aristotle's Logic — on the same grounds...

Such is their hatred of the 2nd Amendment and limits on the government's power (when it is in Democratic control, of course), they don't realize, the 1st will be thrown out together with the 2nd.

But, perhaps more worryingly than these fringe loudmouths, is the calm dismissal of even the 1st Amendment by the boring bureaucrats of today: “This isn’t really the ’60s anymore [...] people can’t really protest like that anymore".

I can only recall the NYPD incident being publicized (in relation to male rapey behavior)

http://www.revcom.us/a/v19/920...

Read between the lines. Liberal is a polite word. What else would you call an organization that openly supports far-left causes not only on the editorial page but the news pages?

Far left? Such as, say, the Revolutionary Communist Party?

As distinguished from the New York Times, which supports nothing that any person who's actually aware of reality would call "far-left".

Surely it has that low circulation because it's about Boston? (I've not heard of it before -- I've just looked at the website: http://www.bostonglobe.com/ -- and almost all of it's about Boston or Massachusetts). 1.5M out of 6.6M (Massachusetts) isn't so bad.

An example of a newspaper with an "extreme left" viewpoint is The News Line (wiki link so you can see the scanned front page, the website probably isn't very interesting if you're not British). I picked up a copy on a train a while back, and was surprised to read about "Leningrad" in one of the main articles. If supporting immigration as a source of cheap labour (as the Boston Globe seems to) is "extreme left", what do you call a newspaper that calls St Petersburg "Leningrad"?

It focuses on the view of a small portion of inner city liberals and ignores the rest of the nation

Then maybe it's liberal, which is not the same as "extreme left".

Here's an extreme left American newspaper: http://www.revcom.us/revolution/current-en.html

It would be useful if the cheerleaders of 21st-Century Socialism made note of those differences.

...and more to... you know... facts.
Like that thing about North Korea not being a socialist country.

North Korea is for all intents and purposes a dictatorship ruled by Nazis.

Did you serve in Vietnam before you became a Nerd ? Because this solution sounds a lot like destroying a village to save it from commies
Radioactive materials totally mess with electronics of all kinds. Your CPU's will malfunction, your hard-disks will pick up random errors and possibly the only thing that will continue to work is your FiberChannel connections

Don't count on the ammo box too, guns are useless against an army with tanks, snipers and airplanes.

Tell that to the Chinese. At the Tiananmen Square protests the 38th Army, responsible for security in Beijing, and other local units refused to fire on demonstrators. So the People's Army had to send in the 27th Army, based outside of Beijing. Chinese officials were afraid the army would split into warring factions because of this. It would be even worse in the US military. I don't know about you but I served in the US Army and just as happened in Viet Nam when soldiers fragged officers and others when they gave bad orders, plenty of people in the US military would do the same if they were ordered to fire on people in the US.

Falcon

I would love to believe that you are correct, but "tell that to" the Germans when they allowed, no voted in, Hitler (and I am of German decent), or "tell that to" the Ohio National Guardsmen who fired on unarmed protesting students (you are old enough to remember that if you were in Veitnam). I am becoming more and more concerned for the future of our once great country. Our Congress, Presidents and bleeding-heart liberals can't give our rights and money and soldiers' lives away fast enough. I am often reminded of the old saying "Charity begins at home". If we aren't strong at home, how can we help others? If we don't wake up very, very soon, we will have tipped over the point of no return. Oh, and BTW, I know a Chinese, now American citizen, and she has warned me not to ever trust the Chinese government - "They hate America". Your thoughts?

Don't count on the ammo box too, guns are useless against an army with tanks, snipers and airplanes.

Tell that to the Chinese. At the Tiananmen Square protests the 38th Army, responsible for security in Beijing, and other local units refused to fire on demonstrators. So the People's Army had to send in the 27th Army, based outside of Beijing. Chinese officials were afraid the army would split into warring factions because of this. It would be even worse in the US military. I don't know about you but I served in the US Army and just as happened in Viet Nam when soldiers fragged officers and others when they gave bad orders, plenty of people in the US military would do the same if they were ordered to fire on people in the US.

Falcon

If a future apocalyptic showdown in America was pretty much between the Armed Forces and a wide-ranging collective of gun clubs and "citizen militia" groups, my suspicion is that it would not go very well for the latter.

Having served in the US Army I think you're wrong here as some of those in the army would join citizens to defend liberty. Recall the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989? Do you know how the Chinese government did it? China is made up many different ethnic groups who generally live within certain areas of China. When the government first ordered troops to Tiananmen Square the local military unit, the 38th Army of Beijing refused to fire because they were from the same ethnic groups. Because of this the government had to order the 27th Army, who was made up of different ethnic groups, from Mongolia to pull the trigger. Unlike Chinese units which are pretty much homogeneous US military units have people from different groups and who came from different parts of the US. Simply getting the US Army to fire on US citizens would be much harder.

...except when Enron controls your 401K...

It's a pity the other responders didn't get the allusion. History surely does repeat itself.