NOVEMBER 26, 2011 ‘The New Tammany Hall’ The historian of the American city on what Wall Street and the ‘Occupy’ movement have in common, and how government unions came to dominate state and local politics. By MATTHEW KAMINSKI New York ‘What has the country so angry,” says Fred Siegel, “is the sense that crony capitalism […]
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NOVEMBER 25, 2011 The NLRB Putsch The labor agency tries to ram through quickie union elections. The descent of the National Labor Relations Board from independent referee to a wholly owned AFL-CIO subsidiary is speeding up. Now its two Democratic appointees are attempting to ram through a new rule requiring quickie organizing elections, with barely
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NOVEMBER 25, 2011 Stringing Up Gibson Guitar Environmentalists and trade protectionists set a trap for American businesses. By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL On a sweltering day in August, federal agents raided the Tennessee factories of the storied Gibson Guitar Corp. The suggestion was that Gibson had violated the Lacey Act—a federal law designed to protect wildlife—by
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NOVEMBER 10, 2011 Another Union Attack on Corporate Speech A new code of ‘best practices’ for companies to follow would serve labor’s agenda, not the interests of shareholders. By BRAD SMITH Since the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, holding that corporations and unions have a right to make expenditures
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NOVEMBER 9, 2011 What it means when 90% of an agency’s workers retire with disability benefits. By PHILIP K. HOWARD The indictment of seven Long Island Rail Road workers for disability fraud last week cast a spotlight on a troubled government agency. Until recently, over 90% of LIRR workers retired with a disability—even those who
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NOVEMBER 5, 2011 They’re spending $30 million to repeal the state’s collective-bargaining reforms. By FRED BARNES Ohio Gov. John Kasich likened himself last week to Bernie Kosar, the Cleveland Browns quarterback from 1985 to 1992. Mr. Kasich was campaigning across Ohio for approval of Issue 2, the troubled referendum that would sharply curtail the power
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MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER www.mrc.org OCCUPIER OUTRAGES OMITTED Study: ABC, CBS and NBC Overlook Radicalism and Criminal Behavior at Occupy Wall Street Protests; Soundbites Favorable by 19-1 By: Geoffrey Dickens | View PDF Version Monday, November 07, 2011 9:40 AM EST ABC, CBS and NBC have continued their overly positive coverage of the Occupy Wall Street
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NOVEMBER 4, 2011 Why is the president considering tanking thousands of union jobs in a 9% unemployment economy? By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL ‘Blue and green should never be seen without a color in between,” runs the old design line. An imperiled President Obama is learning the political pain of mixing colors. His greens are certainly
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