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The views expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of SHRM. It has been well-documented that manufacturing has lost hundreds of thousands of jobs in recent years. But what is the biggest misconception about the industry right now? The biggest misconception is that the United States no longer makes anything. But the fact is that the United States remains the largest manufacturing economy in the world by a healthy margin. As recently as 2008, the U.S. accounted for more than a fifth (21%) of worldwide manufacturing output, far ahead of the next two leading...

And where there is an utterly depraved nincompoop, there is the President of Mexico: President Felipe Calderon blasted U.S. immigration policies on Sunday and promised to fight harder to protect the rights of Mexicans in the U.S., saying “Mexico does not end at its borders.”

Other raids meet similar resistance A federal lawsuit filed against the Maury County Sheriff’s Department has been amended to add defendants and include allegations authorities conspired to conduct a series of raids on Hispanic individuals. The lawsuit was originally filed by attorney Elliott Ozment July 5. Changes Friday included the addition of three plaintiffs, bringing the total number to 14, and new allegations that the sheriff’s department engaged in a “conspiracy” that “trampled on the constitutional rights of the plaintiffs, all of Hispanic decent, who were unfortunate enough to get in the way.” The “conspiracy” refers to a series of...

U.S. Supreme Court rewrites Constitution and 3,000 years of history WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court today rewrote the U.S. Constitution and 3,000 years of legal history by striking down the Texas sodomy law in a 6-3 decision. The court overrode the Constitution, the history of American law, and its own precedent by declaring in Lawrence v. Texas that there is a right to privacy to protect private, adult consensual sexual activity. Justice Kennedy wrote for the majority, and only Justices Scalia and Thomas and Chief Justice Rhenquist dissented. The majority reasoned, unbelievably, that because of the trend in state...

SCOTUS sided with the perverts.