In his now-infamous apology speech in Cairo on June 4th, 2009, the President said the following as part of his prepared remarks to the Muslim world. I have come here to seek a new beginning between the United States and
The U.S. formally transferred control of its largest prison to the Afghans in a ceremony Monday at Bagram airbase north of Kabul. The Obama Administration agreed in March to cede control of Bagram, also known as the Parwan Detention Facility,
Thomas Jefferson said, ” I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.” SEIU President Mary Kay Henry clearly believes that luck only comes through union membership, and she has
In another one of his “Groundhog Day” speeches earlier this week in the East Room, President Obama excoriated the Romney-Ryan budget plan, along with the Republican-led Congress, demanding extending the Bush tax cuts only for those making under $250,000. Behind
In a stunning example of truth stranger than fiction, Democrats in the California Assembly killed a bill that would have made it easier to fire teachers accused of serious sexual offenses against children. The bill SB 1530, had bipartisan support
From San Diego to Miami, Houston and now San Francisco, the SEIU’s “Janitors for Justice” are once again taking to the streets.Thousands of union janitors snaked their way through downtown San Francisco in a noisy protest Wednesday afternoon, snarling Financial
In another impressive display of federal oversight, New York’s top banking regulator threatened to strip U.K. bank Standard Chartered PLC of its license to do business in the state, alleging that the bank illegally handled at least $250 billion in
In another impressive display of federal oversight, New York’s top banking regulator threatened to strip U.K. bank Standard Chartered PLC of its license to do business in the state, alleging that the bank illegally handled at least $250 billion in
In a sweeping indictment handed down on Tuesday, federal prosecutors charged the former president of the Service Employees International Union’s largest California local with multiple counts of mail fraud, embezzlement, and other crimes in a broad scheme to enrich himself
In a recent USA Today article written by Lee Saunders, president of AFSCME, he addresses the financial woes facing a handful of municipalities. Well, he sort of addresses it, in a fashion similar to the “occupiers” addressing Wall Street bankers as
It’s hunting season, and the mainstream media is firing at big conservative donors. The Koch Brothers are a common target, with Chris Matthews not so much playing “Hardball” as bean ball, devoting a segment called “Dirty, Angry Money,” where he
