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Who wants to recall a billion-saver?
Lifeline, please. That will be the real question for Wisconsin voters in June, when recall elections take place. The state has balanced its books under Scott Walker and a Republican-led state...
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Team Obama to unions: Bail out our convention, will ya?
And here’s some cash to get it done. The ongoing scandal in the North Carolina Democratic Party isn’t the only dark cloud on the horizon for the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte this year....
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Video: Dark Knight says Occupiers are jokers, too
Occupy some research. I asked the question yesterday as to whether the Occupy movement has become a joke. Today, the Dark Knight answers — and provides a little research, too. Not surprisingly,...
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Surprise: Unions set to rally behind Obama this fall
Once bitten, never shy. He enjoyed a a filibuster-proof majority in Congress in 2009 and yet failed to enact the unions’ top legislative priority in the Employee Free Choice Act (card check). He would...
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Politico: Dems soliciting ads from lobbyists for its “official” convention...
Desperate for cash? Barack Obama insists that corporations and lobbyists will have nothing to do with funding the Democratic National Convention, a requirement that has put convention organizers into...
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Romney campaign eyeing Wisconsin if recall flops
We could use some Badgers. If Wisconsin turns into the Left’s Waterloo two weeks from today, Mitt Romney’s campaign may take a fresh look at making it Barack Obama’s as well. The Wall Street Journal...
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Unions not happy with Democrats over lack of support in Wisconsin
Don’t stand so close to me. How can you tell that Republicans have the edge in the recall election in Wisconsin, with just ten days to go? Democrats and unions are already trying to lay blame for a...
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MJS: Progressive mailer backfiring in recall effort
“Whether my neighbor voted or not is none of my business.” Late last week, the progressive group Greater Wisconsin Political Fund sent mailers to registered voters in the state demanding that people...
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Obama campaigns for Barrett … sort of
Plus, would Barrett cut benefits more than Walker? Well, on one hand, it’s more robust than last night’s single Tweet. On the other hand, an Election Day e-mail blast isn’t exactly wrapping your...
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Quotes of the day; Update: Walker victory speech added
Forward. The year-long saga of the Wisconsin recall is, at long last, over, and Scott Walker is still standing. The low-key Republican governor has withstood a sustained (and expensive) onslaught from...
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Walker: If you make the tough choices, voters will stick with you
Lessons learned. Last night, Barack Obama asserted that Democrats and unions had sent “a strong message to Scott Walker,” but this morning the victorious Governor of Wisconsin sent a message right...
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Two California cities vote overwhelmingly for public-pension reform
Not just Wisconsin. Voters in Wisconsin’s recall election decisively retained the governor that delivered on his promises for public-sector reform, but they weren’t alone. Two California cities voted...
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Quotes of the day
Lessons. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) slammed unions and liberal activists for pushing to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R). “I think the people on the Democratic side made a big mistake and the...
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The other union story from Tuesday
Fair value for a taxpayer dollar In the midst of the various celebrations taking place following Scott Walker’s victory in Tuesday’s recall election, it’s understandable if most of us missed another...
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Maddow: Democrats can’t win without the unions
The watershed moment. Actually, I don’t disagree with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on this point, but I do disagree with her on what it means. Maddow argues that efforts to roll back collective bargaining...
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Do public sector unions serve a purpose?
Fundamental problem Governor Mitch Daniels went out on the Sunday talk show circuit and floated an idea which, predictably, has some of the usual suspects up in arms. He posed the question of whether...
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Pro-Obama groups launch $4 million ad campaign targeting Latinos
Jajajajaja The SEIU (one of the country’s largest unions) and Priorities USA (the super PAC run by ex-White House official Bill Burton) have teamed up to the tune of $4 million, putting together an ad...
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Sen. Graham: NLRB is “becoming the Grim Reaper of job creation”
“Businesspeople from over the country have indicated to me that this ruling is basically creating chaos in the private sector.” The National Labor Relations Board is one of those dubious government...
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Myths of presidential campaign moneyball
The pits. The HuffPo’s Sam Stein solicits political advice from Bill James, the “Godfather of Moneyball”: He hasn’t dabbled much in politics before. But in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Citizens...
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Video: Dems, unions to divorce?
Going where the votes are. Color me skeptical on this argument — to a point. Former Democratic gubernatorial candidate Al Checchi tells Fox News today that we can expect to see the Democratic Party...
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WSJ: Unions contribute four times what FEC disclosures show
Special interest for big government. Lost in all the screeching over the Citizens United ruling two years ago was the fact that unions have largely been exempt from campaign-finance restrictions on...
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How much are unions really spending on politics?
Numbers. Don’t get me wrong: The Wall Street Journal’s Tom McGinty and Brody Mullins performed a valuable public service in compiling the Department of Labor data showing that Big Labor spent $3.3...
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Why Obama’s calls for more public-sector spending are not a good idea
A little less demagoguery, a little more critical thinking, if you please. As part of his recent push to energize the economy and create jobs, President Obama (like any good Keynesian) thinks it’s a...
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SEIU protests Romney and Dunkin’ Donuts for… some reason
Down With… um.. .Something! Ah, Democracy! Freedom of speech! Americans coming together to have their voices heard! You can just smell it in the air some days, can’t you? Or is that the smell of...
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Wisconsin Democrat defects, leaving state senate control in doubt
Schadenfreudefest continues. After the Democratic Party’s failure to recall Wisconsin’s Gov. Scott Walker, their consolation prize was control of the state senate, by one vote. Senate control would...
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When should we have a gun-control debate?
We’ve already had it. After incidents like the massacre in Aurora, gun-control advocates adamantly demand a debate on new restrictions to prevent the use of firearms in mass murders, and accuse their...
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Biden: Romney doesn’t “think public education is worth the investment”
Pander-monium. Is it just me, or do certain Democrats seem to have difficulty distinguishing the difference between “education” and “teachers’ unions”? Anyone? Speaking to the nation’s second-largest...
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Did Obama admin officials lie to Congress about Delphi pension termination?
Patterns. I don’t know about you, but I’m beginning to detect a pattern from the Obama administration. When called to testify before Congress, executive branch officials say, “No, no, no” … but their...
View ArticleForeclosure Settlement Fails To Force Mortgage Companies To Improve
“We’re not seeing any changes in servicer behavior. We’re still seeing huge delays, improper denials of modification, very few principal reductions. None of their practices are really changing.” ~...
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