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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

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

“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

(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

WASHINGTON, July 20 (UPI) —Student loans soared beyond students’ ability to pay due to the same lax lending that brought on the subprime mortgage crisis, two U.S. agencies said Friday. Private lenders made loans from 2005 to 2007 with little

Citizen journalist reporting of ballot integrity irregularities in the Wisconsin recall election led Media Trackers to uncover information that has resulted in the investigation of SEIU senior organizer Haynes for potential vote fraud. This uncovers a pattern of behavior that

National Public Radio’s Mara Liasson, despite being one of the more fair-minded NPR reporters, failed to point out in her report today on the presidential election that the supposedly “non-partisan” economist who trashed Mitt Romney’s jobs proposal is a confirmed

Much has been written about how public sector unions, bloated pension plans, government waste, and poor fiscal planning led to California cities like Stockton, Mammoth Lakes, and San Bernardino to end up bankrupt. Many other California cities — especially in

A new Mason-Dixon poll of Florida voters found an overwhelming majority (82%) of Floridians support laws that require voters to present Photo IDs at the polls and a majority (54%), including 60% of Hispanics, favor Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s plans

Patronizing blather in the newspaper noted for reporting only the news they find fit to print is not uncommon, even when it is presented in what the authors would term a fair-minded, light-hearted fashion. These referenced authors, Eric Liu, a

After San Bernardino became the second largest U.S. city to file for bankruptcy protection this week, The Los Angeles Times, published two stories shilling for public sector unions in San Bernardino and Stockton. The Times interviewed Steve Tracy, of the

Fifteen hundred socialists recently convened in suburban Chicago at the International Socialist Organization’s annual conference. As in previous years, attendees consumed Marxist propaganda on government education, government health care and how to best end capitalism. Sessions included: “The battle for the

The corrupt media has already set presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney up for failure when it comes to his speech this morning before the NAACP. According to Obama’s Media Palace Guards, unless Romney rolls over and demands the states end

The Southern California city of San Bernardino became the third California city in less than a month to file for bankruptcy protection on Tuesday night.  The city’s interim city manager said San Bernardino is facing a budget shortfall of $45.8

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder originally said that some 600,000 Texans lacked a voter I.D. and therefore would be disenfranchised by the Texas voter I.D. law.  The Department Of Justice’s lawyers have suddenly upped that number greatly, now claiming that

After the pressure that was applied to John Roberts of the Supreme Court to vote for Obamacare, is there any doubt that any judge can be intimidated? Here’s a test case. A Scranton, Pennsylvania judge has ordered Scranton to pay

By MASHA MACPHERSONAssociated PressPARISFrance enjoyed a boost in investor confidence with a successful bond auction Monday _ but also got a warning from the president that growth so far this year is “nil” and that the country needs to rethink

Get ready, serious school board reformers. You now have a role model. Who would have thought that real school reform could start at the local level, rather than in Washington D.C.? Well, the mostly conservative Board of Education of Douglas

It has become obvious that the SEIU has a major interest in the healthcare legislation. Although the SEIU is a major player in the public union market, it is also one of the largest unions in the private sector. Furthermore, the largest