Quitting your job is fine. Just get out of freedom’s way when you do. Every time this former labor union lawyer and son/grandson of former Brotherhood of Railway (Southern/Norfolk Southern) Carmen union members expresses any negative opinion of the union movement or even any particular union local, I endure the wrath of pro-union Democrats, family and friends. That wrath usually takes one of two broad | Read More »
The creation of non-union Boeing jobs in South Carolina as the firing on Fort Sumter When Citadel cadets invited a War of Northern Aggression led by Abner Doubleday 150 years ago last April, they knew that the firing of canon balls at federal troops on a federal fort in Charleston Harbor was illegal in Lincoln’s eyes, if not their nascent Confederate nation’s. The First and | Read More »
Who knew that the mandatory deduction of union dues from government employee paychecks equals the front of the bus? Legislators don’t wear robes, nor are their symbols blindfolded. Americans indulge partisan politics in lieu of anarchy, tyranny and/or continual armed combat. In 1776, we chose self-government over the arbitrary rule of a king, which arbitrariness is no less so when exercised by judicial oligarchs. In | Read More »
This former South Carolina Democratic Party activist and official moved to Atlanta in 2001and was finally driven to the GOP by angry poverty pimps, race-baiters and union-shills like Cynthia McKinney, Joseph Lowry and Max Cleland. My conservative epiphany launched DeVine Law Gamecock’s second career as a conservative voice columnist at The Minority Report and The Charlotte Observer. Objective evidence over my then 18 years of adult political, | Read More »
[Originally published Labor Day, 2006 and I haven't changed my mind...] As the proud son of a former Southern Railway Carmen’s union member and as a lawyer for represented that labor union that was very beneficial to the railroad employees, I submit a strong argument can be made that Labor Day is the least supportable federal holiday and should be abolished. The origins of Labor Day date back to the | Read More »
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