ACORN’s back: Front-group games Thursday, May 19, 2011 Voters beware: Under new names’ guise, the extreme-left Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now is gearing up to help re-elect President Barack Obama in 2012. Congress defunded national ACORN last year over its solicitous attitude toward purported prostitution operations, forcing it and state- and local-level affiliates
MAY 13, 2011 Between 2000 and 2008, 4.8 million Americans moved from forced union states to right-to-work states—that’s one person every minute of every day. By ARTHUR B. LAFFER AND STEPHEN MOORE The Obama administration’s National Labor Relations Board filed a complaint last month against Boeing to block production of the company’s 787 Dreamliner at
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Why Don’t We Hear About Soros’ Ties to Over 30 Major News Organizations? By Dan Gainor Published May 11, 2011 | FoxNews.com AP Editor’s note: This is the first of a two part series on George Soros and the media. When liberal investor George Soros gave $1.8 million to National Public Radio , it became
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Unionsdämmerung Despite having its best friend forever in the White House, the American labor movement is in mortal crisis Mark Hemingway April 25 – May 2, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 31 One of the most widely circulated photographs during the Wisconsin union battle was of a protester in Madison
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New labor plan: Nationwide protests By: Ben Smith April 21, 2011 02:31 PM EDT In a major strategic shift, the Service Employees International Union plans to use its giant political operation to try to build a grass-roots movement of public protest and organization similar to the massive show of pro-labor support that overran Madison, Wis.
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APRIL 25, 2011 Want a federal contract? Show politicians the money. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:And what do you know? The draft order doesn’t cover federal employee labor unions, the Democratic allies whose free speech rights were recognized alongside corporations in Citizens United. Nor do the disclosure requirements extend to recipients of federal grants, which often
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Obama administration to make government contracts political. Jeffrey H. Anderson April 21, 2011 2:46 PM Under a headline reading, “White House may add politics to contract bids,” Washington Technology Daily reports, “The Obama administration is determining how to require companies competing for government contracts to list their political contributions
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APRIL 11, 2011 As a candidate, I learned how much potential campaign contributors fear incumbent retribution. By JAMES L. HUFFMAN In the debates about campaign-finance regulation and the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision of last year, there seems to be widespread agreement on one thing: Public disclosure of political contributions is a good thing. That
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