Despite the gloomy economic news, the Left has been very confident about Obama’s reelection chances. To many on the outer edges of the blog and twitter-spheres, the campaign was merely a formality. Obama, they argued, had a “blue wall” of
MILWAUKEE – Last week EAGnews published a video featuring Milwaukee teachers union president Bob Peterson tut-tutting about putting union political flyers in the backpacks of students and bussing parents and students to vote in the Wisconsin recall election. Of course that strategy didn’t work.
Refusing to risk even a couple of bad news cycles (which he ended up having anyway for other reasons), President Obama refused to enter the fray in Wisconsin and personally rally on behalf of the public sector unions who staked
Big Labor took a roundhouse to the chin despite the millions of dollars in member dues spent in an attempt to recall Wisconsin Governor Walker. Conservatives and practical-minded Americans, however, cannot become complacent with this victory. Big Labor showed how
Nothing screams relevance in today’s economic and political climate like a teacher’s union threatening a strike if their members aren’t given a 24 percent pay raise, and yet that is exactly what is happening in Chicago, the nation’s third largest
Yesterday Dylan Ratigan announced he was leaving MSNBC after three years at the network. The news comes as Ratigan’s $1 million a yearcontract was set to expire this month anyway. Ratigan told the NY Timesthat he made the decision himself
Well, we finally know why President Obama didn’t bother to go to Wisconsin to support Democrat Tom Barrett in the late recall effort so heavily supported by his biggest constituents, the unions. He was just too darn busy. When asked
Look no farther than California for an American version of Greece. The state is so poor that the Los Angeles Unified School District and the teachers’ union have tentatively agreed to give teachers 10 furlough days next year, which would drop the
Rep. Shelley Berkley’s support in Nevada in her race with incumbent Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV) is unstable. It’s unstable mainly because it’s largely public sector union-based, and with the rise in discontent about public sector unions around the country –
Stanley Kurtz has helpfully revealed that Barack Obama was once a member of the New Party, a Social Democratic third party. And while many on the right continue to insist that this election ought to focus exclusively on the economy
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The public school establishment has tried a lot of dirty tricks over the years to stop the spread of charter schools. Charter schools attract many of their students, and siphon away some of the state money attached
Think ACORN is defunct and no longer able to exert its corrupt influence in the 2012 presidential election campaign? Think again. Splintered across the country into dozens of difficult-to-track state organizations, the ACORN network is now working hand-in-hand with the
Journalists are crying foul at a new Obama policy that will deny them the right to use their own computers to write stories from economic data issued inside the halls of the Department of Labor. Instead, the DoL says, journalists
WASHINGTON, June 9 (UPI) —Polls show a tight U.S. presidential race with the two candidates running neck-and-neck 150 days before the November election. The Hill said Saturday that most polls gave President Barack Obama a slight edge over Republican challenger
(AP) Guest lineups for the Sunday news showsWASHINGTONGuest lineups for the Sunday TV news shows: ABC’s “This Week” _David Axelrod, adviser to President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign; former Govs. Ed Rendell, D-Pa., and Mike Huckabee, R-Ark. ___ NBC’s “Meet the
There are many in the pundit-sphere who are dissecting Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s recall victory and declaring that Mr. Walker’s retention means one thing or another. Truth be told, many of their declarations hold merit as far as political science
On the heels of the conservative movement’s enormous victory in Wisconsin, all eyes will now be focused on the special election in Arizona’s 8th Congressional District this Tuesday. This represents another opportunity to elect a principled conservative. Jesse Kelly is a
What a great week this has been for U.S. taxpayers. As my hero Ronald Reagan would say, “It’s morning in America again.” The dominance of public employee unions was broken in a big way for the first time in history. Not
Michael Moore, the chubby angelic figure with the gentle demeanor and pacific attitude toward others, had an inspiring and idyllic response to Scott Walker’s triumph in the recall effort in Wisconsin. He tweeted: “Lose a battle here & there, but trust
Ed Schultz told his audience that unions in Wisconsin needed to figure out “what happened” when they lost the Scott Walker recall election. Schultz then paused and said, “What a minute” and referenced the President’s infamous “clinging to their guns
It’s no secret that plenty of political figures use a book as a way to introduce themselves to voters before a campaign. However, I think we’d be hard pressed to find a politician selling a book that describes how one
The fight to recall Governor Scott Walker in Wisconsin started over a showdown with public sector unions. While the recall election gotmost of the attention yesterday, other votes took placearound the country in which citizens had a chance to weigh
The spin from the left on the morning after their disastrous Wisconsin recall election failure is that Governor Scott Walker (R-WI), who walked away with the election, did so because he spent oodles of money. Politico‘s takeaway: “Money shouts.” “Walker
Racine, WI–The results are in for the big show that was the attempted recall of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, and they are proving that the left’s effort was an epic and embarrassing failure. But the State Senate recall election of
Last night, while Scott Walker was expanding his 2010 margin of victory, voters in California signaled what may be the death knell for public sector unions and their platinum benefits packages. Voters in San Diego and San Jose overwhelmingly approved
