Union Evils

File under too ironic to shcch, Washington Post:

The Service Employees International Union, considered the most influential union in the nation, has notified the union that represents about 220 of its national field staff and organizers that 75 of

Old question, new President, David Freddoso, National Review:

Sen. Chris Dodd (D, Conn.), who until today has been blamed as the author of the statutory protection for bonuses, is in turn blaming the Obama administration for insisting on the

President Obama is mulling declaring war on wounded veterans, David Goldstein, McClatchy Newspapers:

WASHINGTON-The Obama administration is considering making veterans use private insurance to pay for treatment of combat and service-related injuries. The plan would be an about-face on

Mrs. Pelosi, a/k/a Speaker Table Cloth, evidently thinks it is acceptable to pander to illegals, and their supporters, by insulting our Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents, from Real Clear Politics:

Appearing in front of a group of legal and

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• Memo to Chuckles the Clown Schumer:
  

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Barack Obama even needs a teleprompter to get mad.

Maureen Dowd, New York Times.   Tis a shame, I could not have snarked this all Irish squabble on Saint Patty’s Day.  Alas the luck of the Irish wasn’t with me.

By way of Bruce McQuain, who you will recall, I was a little harsh with last week on the AIG thing, comes this news:

The other shoe concerning the AIG “bonuses” and the administration’s knowledge of them is beginning

Hoplophobia:

Firearms instructor Colonel Jeff Cooper coined the word in 1962 to describe a “mental disturbance characterized by irrational aversion to weapons”.[2] Cooper employed the term as an alternative to slang terms, stating: “We read of ‘gun grabbers’ and

Two weeks ago, the President’s spokesman said that they were confident that they knew how every dime was being spent at AIG. Well clearly, they didn’t know what they were talking about. I think this is outrageous and I think

From Barack Obama’s socialist daydream, Bryan Bender, Boston Globe:

Two defense officials who were not authorized to speak publicly said Gates will announce up to a half-dozen major weapons cancellations later this month. Candidates include a new Navy destroyer,

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Happy St Patrick’s Day, which is  in

With a nod to WPGB’s Jim Quinn, I want to call to your attention, this monring to an article that appeared in National Review, yesterday, by  Hans A. von Spakovsky, called “A Leadership of Cowards?”

Here’s a bit

Michael A. Lindenberger, Time, argues:

[T]he best way out of the intractable legal wars over gay[sic] marriage is to take marriage out of the hands of the government altogether

Best for whom?   There is no need to treat same

I am neither a lawyer, play one on television, nor give press conferences pretending to me one.    In other words, I am not Barack Obama,  Helene Cooper, New York Times:

WASHINGTON – President Obama vowed to try to stop

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• The Religion Of Peace: Soeren Kern reports that guy who beheaded a fellow passenger on a Greyhound bus