Wal-Mart is trying to sock Amazon with a tax increase instead of competing with them fairly.
Wal-Mart is secretly backing a group that is lobbying to try to get states from California to Illinois to collect sales tax from Amazon on its affiliate sales.
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Full-body scanner at Chicago O’Hare Airport
The degradations of passing through full-body scanners that provide naked pictures of you to Transportation Security Administration agents may not mean that the terrorists have won — but they do mark victories for a few politically connected high-tech companies and their revolving-door lobbyists.
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In the coming year’s military spending bill, members of a House panel continue to steer lucrative defense contracts to companies represented by their former staffers, who in turn steer generous campaign donations to those lawmakers, a new analysis has found.
Peta, the animal rights group for which celebrities like Christy Turlington and Cindy Crawford have stripped off, is under fire for putting down animals at its US headquarters.
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