Former SEIU Attorney Kent D. Wong, the Director of UCLA’s Center for Labor Research and Education, announced this past week that UCLA has joined forces with the National Labor College, the academic arm of organized labor, to create a new
I have repeatedly attempted to expose the fact that Big Labor’s Gasping Dinosaurs are desperate and are utilizing much more than political donations to assure election of politicians who will assist in saving them from extinction. I have shown this
Are you interested in learning how Ohio tumbled near the bottom of the economic heap under largely Republican leadership over the past two decades, or looking for the inside line on Romney’s chances in the vital state? Matt Mayer offers
Richard Trumka, the frightening union leader who is the head of the 12-million-member AFL-CIO, the largest labor federation, and is one of the men responsible for coordinating Obama’s use of unions to head toward socialism, is coming forward to make
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
Comedian Will Ferrell channels his inner John Edwards in the new political comedy “The Campaign.” The hair is … perfect, and while the film also includes a Tea Party-type candidate the “Saturday Night Live” will tell any press member who
The Washington Post reports the U.S. Postal Service will lose $14.1 billion this year and will default for the first time on Wednesday. The Postal Service will not be able to make a $5.5 billion payment to the U.S. Treasury
“A radical is one who advocates sweeping changes in the existing laws and methods of government.” – Hillary Rodham (Clinton) in her 1969 thesis “There Is Only The Fight : An Analysis of the Alinsky Model” As voters stagger through
One of the more absurd aspects of the New York school system is that the teachers union is given the right to investigate itself when teachers are accused of sexual misconduct. In too many cases the union sides with the
The Obama Administration and its allies have been whining about bullies for some time now — but of course, they don’t mind if they are the ones doing the bullying. One of their agendas is bullying those who champion Judeo-Christian
Virginia may be the most important swing state in 2012. According to The Richmond Times-Dispatch, Virginians complained to their State Board of Elections about a group called the Voter Participation Center. The group sent voter registration mailers to felons, animals,
(AP) Obama, Romney neck-and-neck in vice-is-nice NevadaBy DAVID CRARYAP National WriterLAS VEGASThey’re called “the cooler crowd,” and Las Vegas is greeting them with ambivalence: A stream of post-recession tourists ready for fun but watching their wallets. They gamble less extravagantly
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
In a sign that the Senate race between Republican Scott Brown and Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren has become the most important non-Presidential contest in the country, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg joined the fray yesterday by endorsing Scott Brown over
(AP) Pa.’s tough, new voter ID law lands in courtBy MARC LEVYAssociated PressHARRISBURG, Pa.The first legal test for Pennsylvania’s tough new voter identification law started Wednesday, with state lawyers calling the measure a completely rational step while opponents attacked it
There can be no more epic a FAIL than that which has occurred in Wisconsin. Despite spending millions of dollars (and losing a chunk of members), unions were not only unable to flip Scott Walker and Rebecca Kleefisch out of
Recall the gi-normous Leftist kerfuffle kicked up around Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s utterly uncontroversial utterance: “I like being able to fire people who provide services to me.” Which is a perfectly reasonable perspective. So of course the Left went
The Chicago School system is rapidly collapsing. Its graduation rate is a horrid 56 percent, its finances are in tatters, and even though the Chicago Teachers Union was offered a 10 to 15 percent raise, CTU officials still want to
In their new book, Fool Me Twice: Obama’s Shocking Plans for the Next Four Years Exposed, Aaron Klein and Brenda J. Elliot delineate exactly how Barack Obama will implement radical plans to expedite the transformation of the United States into
This week Aaron Sorkin fired the entire writing staff from Season 1 of “The Newsroom,” save his ex-girlfriend Corinne Kinsbury. The execrable writing for this show is nowhere near Sorkin’s well deserved reputation for brilliant dialogue and has been wasting
Union workers at Connecticut nursing homes represented by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) are alleged to have vandalized and sabotaged assisted living facilities in Connecticut — including those that care for Alzheimer’s patients — during a mass walkout earlier
With the Summer Olympic Games set to open in London next week, several unions have announced plans to strike or engage in “industrial actions.” The Daily Mail is reporting that a union representing London area train drivers announced its members are
It was a brouhaha that left many students and parents in Florida’s capital city without a beloved principal. But for folks well beyond Tallahassee (and even Florida) it ought to serve as a wake-up call for dramatically re-thinking our society’s
You may have heard of another signature gathering campaign going on in Ohio called “Voters First”. On their website, they claim to be “led by a coalition of nonpartisan groups and people from across Ohio.” Voters First is also known
After James O’Keefe and the late Andrew Breitbart’s exposés effectively put the liberal community organizing group ACORN out of business, various former ACORN chapters have undergone extreme makeovers, branding themselves with different names and different mission statements. But underneath all
