AUGUST 31, 2011 By MELANIE TROTTMAN The National Labor Relations Board sided with unions in several cases involving rules for organizing and representing workers, further riling business groups as the board continues to push through decisions by year’s end. The board’s three Democrats outvoted the group’s sole Republican member in all three of the cases. […]
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Morning Jay: The Store Is Closed Jay Cost August 24, 2011 6:00 AM In a recent interview with CBS, President Obama said: I’m the President of the United States and when people aren’t happy with what’s happening in Washington…I’m gonna be impacted just like Congress is. And you know
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AUGUST 26, 2011 Unions weren’t so uniformly behind tax increases when most of their members worked for companies in the private economy. By STEVEN MALANGA Although the field of Republican presidential contenders is still in flux, the National Education Association (NEA) decided in early July to endorse President Obama’s 2012 re-election bid. The move by
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HOOVER INSTITUTE UNCOMMON KNOWLEDGE INTERVIEW BY PETER ROBINSON OF CHARLES MOORE, LONG-TIME BRITISH JOURNALIST This week’s video features Charles Moore, former editor of the UK Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph newspapers and of the Spectator magazine. He is also the authorized biographer of the Right Honorable Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven, better known as Margaret Thatcher.
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AUGUST 16, 2011 In 1970, the future seemed to belong to Michigan’s example of big companies and big unions. Not anymore. By MICHAEL BARONE President Obama has kicked off a three-day bus tour of Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois, where the corn is high and at least some factories are spewing smoke. He’s holding town-hall meetings
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AUGUST 9, 2011 A union election is a decisive event in an employee’s life, and new rules limit the information employees get before voting. By EUGENE SCALIA Government encroachments typically come as a wolf in sheep’s clothing, Justice Antonin Scalia once observed, but occasionally they are brazen—then, the “wolf comes as a wolf.” The Obama
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August 6, 2011 Where Have All the Liberals Gone? By John C. Goodman 8/6/2011 What happens when people who completely dominate the conversation have nothing to say? What happens when the people who talk the most and are listened to the most about our nation’s most serious problems do not have a plausible solution to
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THE WASHINGTON TIMES NATIONAL WEEKLY EDITION July 4, 2011 LETTER TO THE EDITOR by Marvin L. Hoovis, Centerville, Massachusetts THEY’VE COMPLETELY CHANGED THE COUNTRY IN THE PAST 40 YEARS The far-left liberal progressives must be awed and encouraged by their success in achieving many of their desired agenda changes over recent decades. They have support
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July 12, 2011 By Byron York 7/12/2011 “This is a disaster,” Mark Miller, the Wisconsin Senate Democratic leader, said in February after Republican Gov. Scott Walker proposed a budget bill that would curtail the collective-bargaining powers of some public employees. Miller predicted catastrophe if the bill were to become law — a charge repeated thousands
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JULY 9, 2011 Maine’s governor picks the wrong fight with unions. By ALLYSIA FINLEY The controversy in Augusta began with an anonymous letter faxed to the office of Maine’s Republican Gov. Paul LePage. The 7-by-36 mural in the lobby of the Department of Labor “is nothing but propaganda to further the agenda of the Union
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