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2 VIDEOS – COLLECTIVE BARGAINING 101 AND UNION 101

First view the video regarding collective bargaining. When that video is finished, you will be able to click on the video for Unions 101.

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PUBLIC BROADCASTING SHOULD GO PRIVATE

MARCH 4, 2011 If these outfits can afford to pay lavish salaries to their heads, they don’t need taxpayer help. By JIM DEMINT When presidents of government-funded broadcasting are making more than the president of the United States, it’s time to get the government out of public broadcasting. While executives at the Public Broadcasting Service

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OBAMA’S GAS PRICE MIGRAINE

MARCH 4, 2011 By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL The Obama administration has its share of headaches: a possible government shutdown, Arab unrest, the union uprising. The real migraine may be a firestorm over gasoline prices. Oil last week topped $100 a barrel, and gas has hit $4 a gallon in pockets of the country. The price

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NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY REVERSED COURSE AND NOW CONDEMNS CLASSROOM SEX SHOW

MARCH 4, 2011, 4:58 P.M. ET College Condemns Classroom Sex Show By KEVIN HELLIKER CHICAGO—Northwestern University reversed course on Thursday and condemned a live demonstration of sex in a classroom, after defending the act earlier in the week. “Many members of the Northwestern community are disturbed by what took place on our campus,” Northwestern President

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DEATH AND POLITICS – HOW THE GRIEF OVER KENNEDY’S DEATH WAS USED TO ENACT JOHNSON’S ‘GREAT SOCIETY’

Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) On the use and abuse of grief as a partisan weapon. Noemie Emery February 28, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 23 What’s in a political death? Whatever you want or need to see in it. Some deaths​—​those of Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley​—​mean what they seem to, and are

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REGULATOR IN CHIEF

Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Regulator in Chief The unchecked, unelected, unaccountable Elizabeth Warren. Fred Barnes February 28, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 23 The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is forgotten but not gone. It’s housed, quietly and temporarily, in the Treasury Department as it prepares to become an official, stand-alone federal agency on

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THE DECLINE OF U.S. NAVAL POWER

MARCH 2, 2011 The Decline of U.S. Naval Power Sixty ships were commonly underway in America’s seaward approaches in 1998, but today there are only 20. We are abdicating our role on the oceans. By MARK HELPRIN Last week, pirates attacked and executed four Americans in the Indian Ocean. We and the Europeans have endured

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UNIONS VS. THE RIGHT TO WORK

FEBRUARY 28, 2011 Collective bargaining on a broad scale is more similar to an antitrust violation than to a civil liberty. By ROBERT BARRO How ironic that Wisconsin has become ground zero for the battle between taxpayers and public- employee labor unions. Wisconsin was the first state to allow collective bargaining for government workers (in

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WISCONSIN’S NEWEST PROGRESSIVE

FEBRUARY 26, 2011 The Republican governor wants a new social contract. By JOHN FUND The state Capitol building in Madison has been occupied round-the-clock by protesters for nearly two weeks. Fourteen Democratic state senators are still on the lam, refusing to allow a vote on a budget-repair bill. And Gov. Scott Walker has been called

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