Some believe the long-anticipated Chicago teachers strike, which began this morning, represents an inevitable showdown in the spiraling war between the education reform movement and the nation’s teachers unions.We think it’s more specific than that. We believe it’s more of
The Chicago Tribune reported on Monday that the Chicago Teachers Union has gone on strike. The move will leave 400,000 students with nowhere to go and nothing to do. Meanwhile, the 50,000 students who attend the city’s charter schools will
President Barack Obama’s home town is in chaos as the Chicago Teachers Union has declared a strike starting Monday for the first time in 25 years, defying former Obama chief of staff, now Chicago mayor, Rahm Emanuel. Parents are outraged
LANSING, Mich. – The Michigan Supreme Court this week approved Big Labor’s “Protect Our Jobs” ballot initiative that would enshrine collective bargaining in the state’s constitution – a power grab to elevate labor agreements above state and local laws. F.
Emerson wrote, “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.” I’m not sure even he would defend the level of inconsistency demonstrated in this clip by Reason TV: In case you
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Protest actions continued throughout the day on Wednesday in Charlotte during the Democratic National Convention and will most likely continue throughout the night once again. Protesters marched from the occupy camp at Marshall Park near the convention, along with Code
The day after the nation’s debt surpassed $16 trillion, Wisconsin officials announced their state took in more tax revenue than expected — without raising taxes. According to the Wisconsin Department of Revenue, tax collections increased 4.7 percent in fiscal year
Politics aren’t just for those 24-hour news outlets and social media this fall. Hollywood is gearing up for a politically charged Fall film lineup, movies ranging from the unabashedly patriotic (“Red Dawn”) to, by all accounts, the downright insulting (“Butter”).
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
The upcoming film “Won’t Back Down” isn’t “Waiting for ‘Superman,’” but their similarities could help the former break out as a potent pro-school choice weapon in time for Election Day. It’s no wonder Democrats and teachers union sympathizers are eager
This afternoon at the Democratic National Convention, AFL-CIO head Richard Trumka made a tour of the premises. Trumka has said repeatedly during this election cycle that union support of the Obama campaign would be low-key, and it certainly looks that
The Hill is reporting that the North Carolina AFL-CIO has a “Hug a Union Thug” booth at Monday’s Carolina Fest celebration, one of the final “pre-convention” events at the DNC. In Charlotte, people will be asked to “hug a union thug”
In honor of the Labor Day holiday, Gallup is out with its regular survey assessing the public’s attitude about labor unions. Gallup’s headline is that approval of labor unions is steady at 52%. This is true, if by steady you
Chick-fil-A chief executive Dan Cathy set off an uproar when he voiced his opinion in support of traditional marriage. Calls for boycotts of his business went out across the country, people and businesses were threatened and intimidated in any number
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com FOX NEWS: A document the National Education Association filed with the U.S. Department of Labor in 2011 indicates that the teachers union donated $100,000 to Media Matters For America nearly two years ago, describing
Standard & Poor’s downgraded Illinois’ credit rating on Wednesday, citing “weak pension funding levels and lack of action on reform measures.” S&P also gave the state a “negative outlook.” The agency lowered Illinois’ rating from A+ to A. This is
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie brought the tough love in his keynote address tonight at the RNC. The Governor fired off as only Christie can — with fiery criticism of President Obama’s failed leadership. “You see Mr. President, real leaders
Gov. Scott Walker took to the stage of the Republican National Convention tonight in Tampa to a spectacular standing ovation, the crowd applause so loud that it completely drowned him out at times. Walker, of course, is the governor who
The weather-related cancellation of the first day of the Republican National Convention didn’t just stop the GOP party faithful who came to Tampa. It also put a serious damper on the protests that were planned for the event. A protest
There was a time that Charlie Crist was considered a rising star in the Republican party. He had won the governor’s office in Florida in 2006, an otherwise lousy year for the GOP. He was fairly popular with the voters
Mallory Factor, the author of the new bestselling expose of the unions’ control over America, Shadowbosses: Government Unions Control America and Rob Taxpayers Blind, has a mesmerizing new column that explains one of the most frightening possibilities of unions’ quest
The government continues to claim the southern border is secure, yet many who live along the border regions disagree. The latest is Sheriff Larry Dever of Cochise County, AZ and he provides Mary Ramirez at The Daily Caller with some
The most terrifying aspect of the unions’ plan to take over America is this: they have a plan whereby they will be able to force huge swaths of America to be unionized. Their cunning scheme is revealed in Shadowbosses: Government
Governor Christie was interviewed by WCBS Monday about his role as keynote speaker at the GOP convention. “I’m not nervous, no. I’m excited,” he told reporter Peter Haskell. Christie says he is now on his 7th draft of the remarks
When pundits likened Barack Obama’s socialist intentions to Adolf Hitler’s, leftist critics lampooned the comparisons as partisan attacks that were hilariously extreme. But now Obama’s deathless comment “If you got a business, you didn’t build that” has opened the eyes
