Please stop and read this post at Hot Air right now. Go on. I’ll wait for you to come back. It is required reading this morning. Go on . . . . . Welcome back. As you can see, it is a flat out lie that the left was outspent 7 to 1 in Wisconsin. In fact, considering the money unions spent on things like | Read More »
Unlike Wisconsin, Tennessee dealt decisively with union protestors who tried to disrupt a committee meeting for, of all things, not taking up legislation. The legislation was pro-union and did not come up in committee. Consequently, several under-employed twenty-something paid activists began a protest. They got hauled off to jail. Ron Ramsay, the Tennessee Lt. Governor, God bless him, said, “The right of all citizens to | Read More »
UPDATE: Sargent just took to Twitter and called my quoting him directly “comical lies.” That seems to be a rather damning indictment of Greg Sargent about his own writing. ——————— Greg Sargent is whining at the Washington Post, not that I pointed out his calls for union violence in Wisconsin, but that at the very end, after all was said and done, I besmirched his | Read More »
The Washington Post’s leftwing mouthpiece, Greg Sargent, who they ostensibly pay to be an objective reporter is on twitter demanding that unions in Wisconsin get violent to get their way. In what we can presume is unrelated to Greg Sargent’s call, a Fox News reporter was attacked by union thugs in Wisconsin. Once I pointed out on Twitter that Sargent was calling for unions to | Read More »
We see now the striking difference between unions and tea party activists in Wisconsin. During the Obamacare fight, tea party activists did not storm the United States Capitol in an effort to shut it down. In Wisconsin, union activists have. During the bank reform fight, union activists showed up on the door step of banking executives. In Wisconsin, despite unions publishing the home addresses of | Read More »
Supporting public sector unions in Wisconsin must be hurting Barack Obama. We know because he is using the New York Times to back away from his earlier statements and the tactics of his own Organizing for America. In fact, the White House says the involvement of the DNC and OFA “were overblown from the start”, but even the Times can’t help but note Before Mr. | Read More »
It is snowing in Boston today. The Massachusetts Teachers Association is, notwithstanding the snow and holiday, doing what it can to get Martha Coakley elected. They are running phone banks today to help out. There’s just one problem. The phones are there and ready to go, but no one showed up to make calls. Would you want to get out in the snow to make | Read More »
If you will recall, I wrote a column last week entitled “Union Thuggery” about a union move to unionize the local police force in my community. Well, I’m here live at City Council tonight and the union members have showed up complete with protest signs saying they are not thugs. I think the local paper will be excited to know so many read the paper. | Read More »
The lefties are rather mad at me this morning. The other day some of the police officers here in Macon, GA where I’m on city council suggested they were going to form a union. I, in turn, suggested I was going to push to shut down the police department and contract with our local sheriff for police protection. Makes sense to me. A public sector | Read More »
We should pay attention to this story, though it is flying under the radar. It seems the feds are investigating whether a union boss who is also a government employee campaigned for Barack Obama while on the clock at a government facility. The U.S. Office of Special Counsel is probing whether Ronald Demicheli improperly taped a video criticizing 2008 Republican presidential nominee John McCain in | Read More »
There has not been a lot of coverage of this. It happened back in July and is only now winding its way through the federal system. Barack Obama and his administration are about to significantly drive up the costs of federal building construction. This is an astonishing reach. The Office of Management and Budget has directed that any federal construction over $25 million benefit unions. | Read More »
A friend sends along the suggestion that we all remember the lyrics to “Look for the Union Label”. Look for the union label when you are buying that coat, dress or blouse. Remember somewhere our union’s sewing, our wages going to feed the kids, and run the house. We work hard, but who’s complaining? Thanks to the I.L.G. we’re paying our way! So always look | Read More »
In Pennsylvania, the unions are rallying to support card check, or what they like to refer to as the “Employee Free Choice Act.” Some local business leaders are going to be rallying with them. The news media there notes Business leaders will gather in Hanover Township, Lehigh County, this afternoon in support of the Employee Free Choice Act. The roundtable will be held at 5 | Read More »
With the left taking over, there are a lot of bills that will be introduced, and unfortunately passed, that threaten our way of life. However, perhaps the most damming is the Orwellian named Employee Free Choice Act (known as Card Check). This bill will take away numerous rights and protections currently afforded to workers employed at companies where unions are actively seeking to organize. | Read More »
Mark Impomeni has a great piece over at AOL about Obama and the Democrats wanting to pay back union support by getting card check passed. “Card Check”, typically referred to by Democrats in Orwellian fashion as the “Employee Free Choice Act,” would require that employees vote for or against unionizing while standing in front of union thugs without a secret ballot. Tonight, during the 2nd | Read More »
You’ll have to forgive me. For the life of me I can’t get excited about writing this week. There is too much to do. My office is a wreck, having moved from one room of the house to another — my office to become the nursery for the new baby, the master bedroom is now the guest bedroom and my office, the living room is | Read More »
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