Six pack of Coors Light? $4.99.

Shorts made in Malaysian sweatshop from Walmart? $2.99.

Having the Supreme Court kill campaign finance reform? Priceless.

(h/t Lee S.) Don't forget we've got a State of the Union Open Thread going on here.

Open thread below...

AFL-CIO NOW Blog, (h/t Norwegianity):

Looks like literally nothing is sacred. A new report by the National Labor Committee reveals that crucifixes for sale at major religious institutions such as St. Patrick’s Cathedral and Trinity Church in New York City were made in Chinese sweatshops.

Distributed by the Association for Christian Retail, the items are not labeled “Made in China.” In fact, they sometimes seems to be labeled “Made in Italy,” according to National Labor Committee Director Charles Kernaghan. Following a National Labor Committee press conference yesterday outside St. Patrick’s announcing the report, Kernaghan said both St. Patrick’s and Trinity pulled the items from their store shelves...

The report, “Today Workers Bear the Cross: Crucifixes Made Under Horrific Sweatshop Conditions in China,” notes that the workers who make the crucifixes are paid just 26½ cents an hour, less than half China’s legal minimum wage of 55 cents, which is itself set at below subsistence levels. read more...

Mike's Blog Round Up

Newsie8200's Penndit: Media News Monday...Media getting punk'd

Attytood: New Bush leak scandal: creating a bogeyman in Iraq...Petty Larseny writes that Joe Wilson wasn't Libby's only target.

Nameless Cynic: Benzene! The Choice Of a New Generation! FDA won't release the results of their study of benzene in soft drinks. (thanx to reader TK)

Go look at DarkSyde's excellent series, Know Your Creationists

Global News Matrix: Report that Iran shot down a plane from...Iraq?

The head of Human Life International, Rev. Thomas J. Euteneuer, looks at El Salvador --a country which has criminalized abortion, which has sent providers to jail, which polices hospitals, and even investigates women's uteruses --and calls it "an inspiration." At the same time, and despite the fact that Tom DeLay --and BUSHCO--have ignored forced abortions, ugly sweatshops, and teen prostitution in Saipan at the behest of Jack Abramoff, these holy hypocrites have put up a site called Thank You Tom DeLay... it's enough to gag a maggot. (thnx to reader happy5)

ABC has put up the transcript. Some of the more interesting quotes:

via Labor Blog

This is as low as it goes, as the GOP fights to expand Labor Blog sub-minimum wage sweatshops across the country. Pennsylvania's Rick Santorum is leading the charge for a GOP bill that would ostensibly raise the minimum wage by $1.10 per hour, but in reality would cut wages for millions of American workers and expand unregulated sweatshops across the country.

As this Economic Policy Institute analysis details, the bill is a trojan horse for assaulting workers rights.read on