First came the disgrace of supposedly intelligent teachers in Wisconsin sporting hundreds of signs calling Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker “Hitler” and now comes the entire liberal blogosphere and it’s echo chamber in the left-media establishment claiming that Gov. Walker has
What is occurring in Madison, Wisconsin has become a microcosm of what is happening across America: conservative care givers are being blocked by progressive liberal statists. In Wisconsin, the elected Governor and conservative legislature are trying to institute rational, humane
Not quite a year ago Crooks and Liars blogger Karoli found herself retracting a story she pushed involving a man named Scott Baker and some billboards in Buffalo – all because Karoli didn’t double-check to ensure she wasn’t indicting an
As you all know, I am a producer of feature films, well mostly TV movies. Thus far, most of my films have shot overseas in order to keep costs down. A number of them could have and would have been
Governor Scott Walker is making the tough choices needed to avoid financial ruin in Wisconsin. Like most states, Wisconsin is facing a budget deficit caused in part by excessive pay and benefits for public employees. Governor Walker is tackling this
Mathematics is a bitch ain’t it? Despite what a contract may say, -3 + 2 = -1 … inconvenient as that may be to the champions of the entitlement culture now on display in the statehouse of Madison, WI. Wisconsin’s
From Joe Klein in Time: Revolutions everywhere–in the middle east, in the middle west. But there is a difference: in the middle east, the protesters are marching for democracy; in the middle west, they’re protesting against it. I mean, Isn’t
From John Fund in the Wall Street Journal: Labor historian Fred Siegel offers further reasons why unions are manning the barricades. Mr. Walker would require that public-employee unions be recertified annually by a majority vote of all their members, not
At least two Democrat organizations are using the union-backed protest in Wisconsin to raise campaign cash. The Madison-based State Senate Democratic Committee and the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee of Washington, D.C., both made fundraising appeals Friday. The fundraising efforts came
From The Washington Times: The big issue in Wisconsin today is whether or not public sector workers should have collective bargaining rights. In an Aug. 16, 1937 letter to Luther Steward, the president of the National Federation of Public Employees,
So we’ve seen a lot of protests lately. Some are monumental. Others are sillier than geese. In America though, something odd is taking place – chucklefaces with signs are actually delivering their outrage right to their adversary’s homes. Recently, protesters
As school teachers and other publically employed members of unions in Wisconsin continue their march on that state’s capital, protesters frequently compare Republican Governor Scott Walker to Hitler or some other megalomaniac bent on destroying the hopes and dreams of
[audio: http://newledger.com/podcasts/CoffeeandMarkets021811.mp3] Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Francis Cianfrocca to discuss the labor protests in Wisconsin, unemployment and the Anna Nicole Smith opera in London. We’re brought to
Now the battle has been joined. It has long been understood that the 2010 elections were just the beginning of the struggle to reverse America’s current decline. It will take at least two or three election cycles to correct decades
From the Associated Press: Wisconsin was the first battleground. But it is unlikely to be the last. A similar proposal to strip public employees of collective bargaining rights drew throngs of protesters Thursday at the Ohio Capitol. Hundreds more have
Abdicating their legislative responsibilities, Wisconsin Senate Democrats are huddling at the Clocktower Resort in Rockford, Illinois. Democrats were poised to lose the vote on an important bill to fix Wisconsin’s fiscal crisis, so they picked up their legislative ball and
At this very moment, the battle for America’s future is happening in states all around the country as newly-elected governors try to wrest control from tax-eating unions. Today’s battle is just the beginning of what America will be facing through
Irrefutable and adorable don’t often go hand in hand. Nor do we think of David and Goliath as embodied by the same man. Chris Christie’s most recent and, as far as I know, most publicized appearance, the brief but telling
Now that Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is on the road to recovery, labor unions and others on the American left have pulled out all the stops in blocking spending cuts in D.C. and across the country. Since the left has no
Shortly after the state of Arizona began cracking down on illegal immigration, President Obama and company went on the offensive against the state. Now, with the Gov. Scott Walker taking on unions in Wisconsin, it was only a matter of
As the union-controlled National Labor Relations Board continues its job-killing push to unionize America’s workplace–including deciding whether to break-up and unionize company employees by classification–Republican Congressman Tom Price (GA) has introduced an amendment to completely defund the NLRB through the
After years of obstructing efforts to reform public education, the nation’s teacher unions are using this week’s national education conference in Denver to push for a spirit of “collaboration” among education reformers and teacher unions. It’s too bad that the
As the nation’s debt reaches 102% of the GDP and the President pushes a $3.73 trillion budget with more government spending than America can afford, there are innumerable ways in which the politicians should be slashing spending, but aren’t. One
How far will unions go to enusre that citizens of California never enter a Wal-Mart? Citizens there are about to find out. When unions in San Diego failed to convince the San Diego City Council and San Diego residents that
Think Progress, a project of John Podesta’s Center for American Progress Action Fund, has been fiercely pushing a story about leaked emails that suggest the U.S. Chamber of Commerce was aware of espionage work being performed against American citizens by
