Besides the granddaddy of them all- the Wisconsin Governor recall election (discussed below)- six states will be holding primaries to determine candidates for Senate and Congressional seats. The following is a listing of interesting races in these states and the stakes for November. Lets start in California. There is no doubt that whoever emerges from the very crowded GOP field for Senate, they will lose | Read More »
Excuse my ignorance, but this Occupy Wall Street phenomena is perplexing me on a certain level. Specifically, after researching how this whole thing got started and the resulting airplay on the news every day now, it would appear there is this well spring of lame Stream Media support- almost sympathy- for this movement. If this is a protest against corporate America or banks or the | Read More »
Looking back on some old articles regarding Obama and his labot agenda, or more appropriately organized labor’s agenda, it is clear that thus far the Republicans have held fairly firm against these rather radical set of proposals. Perhaps, the only two “achievements” are the Ledbetter Act and the increasing and alarming influence of the NLRB. Regarding the former, the Ledbetter Act was passed during | Read More »
Originally, I was a little hesitant about writing this piece because most of my research indicates that labor unions are, by and large, losing their political influence in the country. But, there are two ways of looking at the trend away from unionization. While it is true that union membership is declining across most sectors of the economy, their financial clout through contributions, PACs, | Read More »
One of the most bizarre campaign themes of Obama down the stretch was his complaints about outside money from mysterious places and donors influencing the outcomes of elections. Nancy Pelosi told Democratic benefactors that “everything was going great” until there was a flood of outside money pouring into races. Apparently, I missed that part of the nightly news where San Francisco was somehow magically | Read More »
I am not a particular fan of the OpenSecrets.org website, especially the parts where they editorialize about the corrupting influence of money in elections. And they are one of the biggest proponents of the DISCLOSE Act- a blatant attack on free speech and free association rights in this country. However, the information they list is a good source of seeing who is funding who | Read More »
No- this is not an entry about German history, Hitler, or Nazism. Instead, Bill Clinton’s Labor Secretary, Robert Reich, has an article circulating that was originally published in The Nation. It has showed up in other venues like Politico, Huffington Post, Realclearpolitics, and other on-line sources. The gist of his argument is that the underlying cause of the financial crisis is the inequality in | Read More »
With the recent conclusion on the 2009-2010 Supreme Court term, the analyses are coming in fast and furious. To read the mainstream media reports and opinions, Roberts and his conservative cohorts are just unfeeling meanie-heads repressing the rights of people like you and me as they callously advance their conservative agenda. One of their biggest accusations is that the Roberts Court takes the side of | Read More »
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