If you saw the front page of the latest edition of QUAD CITIES LABOR NEWS, you probably noticed an article under the headline, WHAT’S WITH ALL THE BILLBOARDS? Unfortunately, the article beneath the headline fails to offer a truthful answer
I’ve always liked getting to the heart of the matter—something the activist old media has no interest in doing during this election cycle. November 2 is a mandate on whether America will remain a country based on the Constitutional values
Naturally the Old Media is doing its level best to pump up the “One Nation” rally, which gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall in Washington D.C. yesterday. But despite the glowing reports by the media
Wow! Go Marxists Go! They don’t even try to hide it anymore. Socialists marched into the left-wing’s One Nation” rally today chanting: “Obama aint no socialist! We are! We are!” Hat Tip Tammy Bruce on Twitter Of course, they weren’t
The “One Nation” rally was billed as non-partisan and unifying. Unlike the “Restoring Honor” rally in August, this type of hate and divisiveness was the standard fare at the rally sponsored by the NAACP and several labor unions.
The Live Stream has ended, but feel free to continue to leave your comments on this event. A coalition of labor unions, civil rights and progressive groups is banding together for a rally in Washington, D.C. this weekend. Watch the
Now that the final bell has rung on NBC’s week-long Education Nation conference, we can ask the extra credit question: When did school choice go mainstream? The “summit,” held at NBC’s New York studios at Rockefeller Center, almost felt like
It hasn’t been a good week for American Federation of Teachers’ president Randi Weingarten. After being on defense the entire time during NBC’s “Education Nation” multi-day event, she was put on a list of “Most Hated People in America,” alongside
As of right now with 31 reviews posted, “Waiting for Superman” sits at a healthy and much-deserved 94% fresh on the Rotten Tomatoes’ scale with the only negative reviews coming from, not so surprisingly, the Village Voice and Salon.com, two
The internet is abuzz with praise for the new documentary that points out the many faults of public education, Waiting for Superman. With positive reviews from both the Huffington Post on the Left as well as the New York Post
One might think it would be big news that a Chief Steward for a local chapter of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is being investigated by the FBI for possible connection to overseas terror networks. Apparently, though, several Chicago
John Nolte, Big Hollywood: “Waiting for ‘Superman’” is not only the most important documentary made in many a year but it might also help to restore a little of your faith in humanity, and I’m not even talking about the
From the Associated Press: The FBI and the U.S. Labor Department are investigating prominent labor leader Andy Stern in their probe of corruption at the Service Employees International Union, according to two people who have been interviewed by federal agents.
The Republican Pledge to America released last nearly perfectly addresses the problems being created by the current leadership of our federal government. Its first sentence, making the point that Nobel Laureate economist Friedrich Hayek made fifty years ago in his
“I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.” Thomas Jefferson As you probably know, a budget crisis has stymied California legislators
In response to the success of the Tea Party rallies in April 2009, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) accused the nascent movement of being “astroturf”–a political term of art for a faux movement funded by traditional powers to give a
There is common agreement between education reformers and the status quo protectors that the most important element to a good education is a good teacher. Teachers unions suggest that the way to retain “good” teachers is to pay them all
Media reports have been decrying the corporate influence in the 2010 election cycle. If you were to read the Washington Post, New York Times, or most online media sources you would think Citizens United v. FEC is the biggest problem
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid scheduled a second vote on the DISCLOSE Act for Thursday. Rather than address the 14.4 percent unemployment in his home state of Nevada, he wants to regulate political speech through hastily cobbled together campaign finance
As if the $10 billion “public education bailout” wasn’t enough to stomach, U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) has introduced a bill, titled Education for All Act of 2010, which would spend American tax dollars on education systems around the globe.
When Nancy Reagan launched her “Just Say No to Drugs” campaign in the early 1980s, Bill Clinton may (or may not) have still been inhaling, while Barack Obama almost certainly was. Nevertheless, politicians in the 1980s might not have known
The exercise of free speech is acceptable to the left when they agree with what you are saying. But when the left and media types find the views disagreeable or inconvenient and painfully true, the exercise of free speech becomes
Correction Below The NAACP-led ‘One Nation Working Together’ rally coming up in Washington, D.C. on October 2nd to counter the Tea Party movement’s success is being sponsored by pro-terrorist and communist groups. Many of their logos are proudly and prominently
The NAACP-led ‘One Nation Working Together’ rally coming up in Washington, D.C. on October 2nd to counter the Tea Party movement’s success is being sponsored by pro-terrorist and communist groups. Many of their logos are proudly and prominently displayed on
Progressives – and socialists – will do anything to discredit the Tea Party movement. Just ask Frances Fox Piven, who, along with her husband Richard Cloward, designed the theory of “collapsing the system” to force socialist principles – primarily redistribution
