Newly recently released tax documents reveal how billionaire “philanthropist” George Soros expanded his U.S.-based empire by using funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, also known as the Obama stimulus. Soros and Obama worked hand-in-glove through the stimulus, which has been called the largest single partisan wealth transfer in American history.

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Editorial board member Joe Rago on the EPA's de facto coal ban.

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In a venomous speech this weekend, notorious ex-Obama aid Van Jones went on a hate-filled rant against “cheap patriotism” and “libertarians,” calling out his free-market opponents as “anti-immigrant, bigots.”

Jones was introduced by actor and Obama activist Edward Norton, who likened the disgraced former Green Jobs Czar to the Dali Lama.

“When I was on a panel once with [Jones] and the Dali Lama it was a toss up as to who was wiser, Van or the Lama” Norton mused.

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Workforce Fairness Institute, an organization focused on employee/management relations, is releasing a series of videos chronicling left-wing intimidation, including tactic of “showing up at people’s houses to harass them and their families,” according to Erick Erickson of RedState.

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Usually when the media talks about high school kids at the Wisconsin Capitol it’s been about teachers bringing students to protest Wis. Gov. Scott Walker and his budget cuts. But we have some different news to bring you today: during a visit to the Capitol last Thursday, some Wisconsin high school students decided to fight back against the anti-Walker sentiment they were witnessing during an impromptu visit.

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During the past year, politically aggressive front groups founded by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) have been partnering with regional “Occupy” groups to pressure businesses and politicians, The Daily Caller has learned.

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• The Occupy Wall Street movement is entering the phase where it “makes trouble.”
• “We’ll see action against the banks, against the corporations.”
• Different forms of protests that will engage many people.
• Occupy was helped by “sympathetic” press coverage.

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After The Blaze reported on the poignant story of Jada Williams and her essay on “English Expressions from the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,” many of our readers expressed interest in reading her compete essay. With the author’s permission, we’ve reprinted it below.

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Mackinac Center senior investigative analyst Anne Schieber has a frightening new video about the continued fleecing of home health care workers ensnared in an ongoing forced unionization scheme.

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Breitbart.com has received exclusive tape of an Occupy Strategy Session at New York University, billed as a group talk on “The Abolition of Capitalism.” One of the headline speakers at this session was Stephen Lerner, former leader and International Board Member of the SEIU and frequent Obama White House visitor. Lerner argued in favor of people not paying their mortgages and “occupying” their homes; he spoke in favor of invading annual shareholders meetings to shut them down. But his big goal was to get workers to shut down their workplaces. That’s where the SEIU agenda and the Occupy agenda truly meet: once workers begin to occupy.

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Group and have raised about $300,000 so far to parcel out in grants to protesters, said Mr. Cohen. Their goal is to raise $1.8 million. 

A little more than two-thirds was donated by the Ben & Jerry's Foundation and members of the group's steering committee, which includes Dal Lamagna, founder of the company Tweezerman, entertainment-industry executive Richard Foos and Judy Wicks, founder of the White Dog Café in Philadelphia, along with Messrs.Cohen, Greenfield and Goldberg.

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Since Occupy Wall Street seemingly went into hibernation (we note seemingly because the movement keeps popping up despite what some national outlets are reporting), The Blaze has brought you plenty of analysis theorizing that the spring could be an even bigger time for the movement. Now, it looks like those theories have been confirmed: the unions and other leftists have announced a “99% spring.”

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Union-Bought Protesters Getting Paid $60 A Day At CPAC

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It isn't just the media we need to replace. It's the leftists running our government schools, brainwashing future generations, including those graduating in a few months from High School.

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The bill, sponsored by Republicans, will almost surely pass the state’s senate, and be enthusiastically signed into law by Governor Mitch Daniels. That means that Indiana will be the first state in a decade to adopt the “right-to-work” rule.

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Big Labor: Indiana unions, opposed to becoming the first right-to-work state in the Rust Belt, may disrupt Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis. Their unnecessary roughness will cost the Hoosiers needed jobs.

On Friday, as the Indiana Senate was scheduled to take up legislation supported by Gov. Mitch Daniels to make Indiana the 23rd right-to-work state, Indiana unions considered copying the disruptive and coercive tactics of Occupy Wall Street to disrupt arguably America's premier sporting event, the Super Bowl, to be held in Indianapolis on Feb. 5.

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The U.S. Coast Guard will escort the first ship coming to the EGT grain terminal at the Port of Longview this month, and the Occupy movement and local labor groups say they are planning to greet the vessel with a massive protest.

EGT officials say they have not scheduled a date for the ship's arrival. The freighter is expected to haul thousands of tons of grain to Asia, but opposition groups are already marshaling their forces to support the lengthy protest by union dock workers at the grain terminal.

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In a State of the City address with a heavy focus on education policy, Mayor Michael Bloomberg proposed giving a $20,000 bonus to teachers who get rated "highly effective" two years in a row, and he also proposing to pay off up to $25,000 of student loans for new teachers, according to the prepared text of his remarks.

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A Texas-based attorney says he's concerned about a push from California's largest teachers union to implement "gender liberation" in schools.

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Barack Obama: An American Disgrace and Embarrassment

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Connecticut child care providers will be unionized following a vote announced Tuesday.

The providers voted 1,603-88 to join the union, according to Matt O'Connor, a spokesman for CSEA/SEIU Local 2001. The American Arbitration Association, a neutral group, on Tuesday counted the secret ballots that had been returned through U.S. mail.

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Colt is joining all the other innovative American manufacturing companies in the great stampede to the Right to Work South.

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Before you ask: I was raised in a union household.  I know precisely what that word means, and I am using it precisely as my late father the local union president would have used it if he had lived to read this Wall Street Journal article by former SEIU boss Andy Stern.  Let me summarize said article: I, Andy Stern, am a cheap date* who can be easily persuaded to publicly abandon support for the most successful economic/fiscal system in human history in exchange to a free trip to the Great Wall of China.  But ignore for right now Stern’s unfortunate (for him) timing in writing a remarkably servile paean to the planned Chinese economy at precisely (I’m fond of that word this morning, it seems) the moment when the Chinese economy is looking alarmingly fragile to the rest of the world.  Let’s instead talk about the state of organized labor in the People’s Republic of China, shall we?

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We all pray for the safety of the brave men and women of the military. They put their lives on the line every day. But wait until you see some of the people that are building parts right here at home for their armored vehicles.

There’s a plant in Detroit called Tower Defense and Aerospace. The name itself gives you an idea what they do inside, but it’s what we caught them doing outside during their lunch break that will shock you.

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A clique of privileged U.C. Berkeley students, upset that they’re the top 1% of elite students in the state and thus disqualified from participating in the Occupy movement, could no longer contain their frustration on Wednesday and threw an Occutantrum, attempting to “occupy” a few square yards of the 1,200-acre campus.

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As I read the memorandum in front of me, I am amazed how blind Americans are, how naïve, ignorant, credulous, and unable to discern fact from fiction, reality from fantasy. How much more proof do they need before they realize our country is on the path of purposeful destruction?

Service Employees International Union (SEIU), with its 2.1 million dues paying members had announced on November 16, 2011, “with great pride and a sense of purpose,” that they were endorsing President Barack Obama for re-election.

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Robert and Patricia Haynes take care of their two children, who at the ages of 30 and 34 are more like children in adult bodies. That’s because they both have cerebral palsy, and rely on their parents to feed and change them — and likely will for the rest of their lives.

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NEW YORK – Watch out New York City. The Occupy anti-capitalist movement is preparing to serve a three-course meal of so-called direct action that apparently includes the blocking of subways and bridges as well as shutting down the stock market.

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If you're a parent who accepts Medicaid payments from the State of Michigan to help support your mentally-disabled adult children, you qualify as a state employee for the purposes of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). They can now claim and receive a portion of your Medicaid in the form of union dues.

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Apple has begun planning how to respond if its retail employees unionize, CNET has learned.

In an internal document obtained by CNET, the company posted information about a training course on the topic, which takes place tomorrow morning and is required to be taken by all new store managers.

"This course is intended to provide managers with a practical understanding of how unions affect the workplace, how and why employees organize, and the legal do's and don'ts of dealing with unions," the training description reads. "This is a mandatory class for all new managers, and is required biannually for all managers."

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Labor Union Violence in America: A Brief History The Blaze In the wake of last week’s Occupy Oakland general strike, which—not insignificantly—gaine...

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In February, when the Democratic National Committee chose Charlotte, North Carolina as the host city for its September 2012 convention, it left the door wide open for the Charlotte-area’s union-free workforce to be discriminated against in favor union workers. Although Charlotte’s Democrat Mayor, Anthony Foxx  (who is facing GOP challenger Scott Stone in Tuesday’s election), has denied the allegation, it appears Foxx has been misleading Charlotte residents on both his (alleged) job creation record as well as the outsourcing of DNC convention jobs to union labor.

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To satisfy that demand, we hereby present a list of groups, organizations, individuals and entities that have expressed their support for, sponsorship of, or sympathy for the Occupy Wall Street movement.

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In fact, Obama personally helped plan one of UNO’s most confrontational actions of the eighties [in 1988]: a break-in meant to intimidate a coalition of local business and neighborhood leaders into dropping a landfill expansion deal.

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A New Jersey teacher is under investigation for anti-gay remarks she allegedly posted on her Facebook that criticize a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history month display at her school.

Viki Knox, a 49-year-old special education teacher at Union High School and adviser to the school's student prayer group, reportedly posted on Facebook that homosexuality is "a perverted spirit that has existed from the beginning of creation," and a "sin" that "breeds like cancer," the Star-Ledger reports.

 

call in support of this teacher - 908 851-6500

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Okay – stay with me on this one.
Back in February of 2008 a Civil Assistance Plan was signed between the US and Canada. http://www.northcom.mil/News/2008/021408.html It was first called up on in September of that year to expedite and coordinate Canadian military support to the Gulf Coast in response to Hurricane Gustav: http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=51008 Last week an article appeared that surmised the Canadian magazine Adbusters inspired the Occupy Wall Street protest: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/10/06/canadian-magazine-adbusters-lit-fuse-for-wall-street-protest/ (tks Michelle) Now for further background the USNORTHCOM was established October 1, 2002 as a military command tasked w/anticipating/conducting homeland defense/civil support ops where US armed forces are used in domestic emergencies.

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VANCOUVER, Canada — Protests against corporate power in the United States began in the basement of an old house in Vancouver, behind massive trees, down wooden stairs, past a box of soup cans for recycling, at the world headquarters of Adbusters magazine.

Last July the counter-culture magazine, known for campaigns like “buy nothing day,” printed a poster calling on activists to occupy Wall Street in New York on September 17.

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Most have seen the edited version of this event.  But if you watch the full version you hear the mob count down and rush the police.  They deserved everything they got.

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As the Occupy Wall Street protests surge in size and spread across the country, the Occupy Sacramento offshoot appears to be both confused, and angry when asked simple questions about their purpose.

About 300 protestors showed up in a downtown Sacramento park Thursday morning to kick off the Occupy Sacramento movement, and they did not take kindly to the the presence of a local CBS reporter. They also couldn‘t agree on why they’re there.

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Several hundred protesters gathered several blocks from the White House in Washington, D.C.'s Freedom Plaza for a rally and concert as part of the Days of Rage movement Thursday, Oct. 6, 2011. Madeleine Morgenstern/The Blaze

It was actually part of a four-day “October 2011” movement timed to commemorate the 10-year mark since U.S. actions in Afghanistan began. With the “Occupy” protests picking up steam around the country, organizers were happy to embrace that fervor, including with their “Human Needs Not Corporate Greed” mantra.

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The Boston Herald reports that the event was an act of civil disobedience that the organizers intended to send the message that the lender’s practices were unfair.

'They wanted to be arrested, and we obliged,' Boston police Commissioner Edward F. Davis told the newspaper.

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SOMETIMES, attention should be paid to the absence of news. America’s economic miseries continue, with unemployment still high and home sales stagnant or dropping. The gap between the wealthiest Americans and their fellow citizens is wider than it has been since the 1920s.

And yet, except for the demonstrations and energetic recall campaigns that roiled Wisconsin this year, unionists and other stern critics of corporate power and government cutbacks have failed to organize a serious movement against the people and policies that bungled the United States into recession.

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Public Unions: President Obama told Illinois manufacturers last year, "At a certain point, I do think you've made enough money." Somehow that hectoring never reached his 23 union-boss allies now draining Illinois' public coffers.

In a perfect piggy case of some are more equal than others, Wednesday's Chicago Tribune reported that the state's pension code enables 23 Chicago labor leaders to collect $56 million in pensions from Illinois' hard-pressed taxpayers, plenty of whom include unionized workers and other ordinary people.

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Continuing a fiat governance style that is right out of the Obama playbook, Democratic and Working Families Party Governor Dannel Malloy issued two executive orders yesterday that will force daycare providers and home healthcare workers in Connecticut to join unions.

The orders, his ninth and tenth since taking office in January, will force the state’s 4,000 daycare providers to add over $1 million in dues to union coffers, and remove the right to secret ballot election for these workers by instituting a card check process.

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A retired Chicago labor leader has secured a $158,000 public pension — roughly five times greater than what a typical retired public-service worker in the Windy City receives — after spending just one day on the city payroll, local news reports said.

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We Are Heroes, Who Need To Create A Crisis: SEIU Stephen Lerner At Progressive Summit Tells Unions, Community Organizers and Students They Need To Escalate Protests, Break Laws, Occupy Abandon Houses and Spread The Crisis All Over The Nation

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In fact, upon its passage, the News Journal reported on Joe Biden’s appearance before the Delaware teachers’ union:  Citing about $105 billion that is coming to the U.S. Department of Education from the federal stimulus package, Biden said teachers will finally have the means to improve education.

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LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) — Hundreds of Longshoremen stormed the Port of Longview early Thursday, overpowered and held security guards, damaged railroad cars, and dumped grain that is the center of a labor dispute, said Longview Police Chief Jim Duscha.

Six guards were held hostage for a couple of hours after 500 or more Longshoremen broke down gates about 4:30 a.m. and smashed windows in the guard shack, he said.

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Sarah Palin was quick to respond to the thuggary on display in Detriot when the UAW Union President, Jimmy Hoffa Jr. introduced President Obama by demonizing the Tea Party and conservatives, indicating the Union was at war with them, needed Obama to continue to enusre their jobs, and that the Union needed to "take out the sons of bitches" who were against Obama. Sarah is the first major politician to directly take Hoffa to task for his remakrs.

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The opposition is called "son of a bitches" at one Labor rally and "barbarians" at another rally. Here's an angry Joe Biden at the AFL-CIO rally in Cincinnati just a short time ago

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MADISON, Wis. (The Blaze/AP) — A stand by Wisconsin Republicans against a massive effort to oust them from power could reverberate across the country as the battle over union rights and the conservative revolution heads toward the 2012 presidential race.

Democrats succeeded in taking two Wisconsin state Senate seats away from Republican incumbents on Tuesday but fell one short of what they needed to seize majority control of the chamber.

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After tens of millions of dollars spent by outside interest groups, dozens of attack ads and exhaustive get-out-the-vote efforts, Democrats on Tuesday fell short of their goal of taking control of the state Senate and stopping the agenda of Gov. Scott Walker.

Republicans won four of six recall races, meaning the party still holds a narrow 17-16 majority in the Senate — at least until next week, when Sens. Robert Wirch, D-Pleasant Prairie, and Jim Holperin, D-Conover face their own recall elections. A third Democrat, Sen. Dave Hansen, D-Green Bay, easily survived a recall attempt last month.

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President Barack Obama's political arm at the Democratic National Committee is getting involved in the Wisconsin state Senate recall elections.

Obama's Organizing for America is pulling together volunteers in Madison this weekend to knock on doors and make phone calls in support of Democrats in eight recall elections.

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Pastor Himes and his wife Sandra witnessed the local SEIU thugs attack Kenneth Gladney outside a Russ Carnahan town hall event in 2009. They were there when the SEIU beat an innocent black man. Harris was obviously upset with the verdict yesterday.

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While you're reading this -- and I hope you are -- keep in mind that Obama's EPA is killing the coal industry, the oil industry, and, yes, even traditional car companies (right now it's under the radar, but the EPA will require engines to meet a standard of 56 mpg by 2020).  Now that incandescent light bulbs are on the chopping block (100 watts will be banned by the end of this year), I believe it's up to 7 plants which manufacture these bulbs which have closed; truckers are being killed by regulations.

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Holding a “boot to the throat” of business has been exactly what this administration has done. Now Barack Obama transitions from President to dictator.

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CHICAGO (AP) -- The nation's largest education union has endorsed President Barack Obama's 2012 re-election campaign.

Members of the National Education Association voted to support Obama on Monday at their annual convention in Chicago.

 

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The United Food & Commercial Workers, following years of failed efforts at unionized mega-retailer Wal-Mart, grocer Whole Foods and seeing some of its unionized employers like A&P file for bankruptcy, had set its sights on a new target: Target.

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Big Labor GOPers supporting Obama's administrative power grabs, crony capitalism, wage controls, and fleecing of taxpayer.

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During incipient communist regimes, the general population foolishly supported the wave of change that promised to fundamentally alter the balance of power and bring wealth and prosperity to the masses by expropriating and stealing from the “undeserving rich.”

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Usually, when an organization wants to release news without really making it news, it will do so on Friday evening. So maybe it’s not surprising that it wasn’t until late Friday that a branch of the AFL-CIO confirmed that the Office of Management and Budget — the White House office in charge of number-crunching — could soon unionize.

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A May Day rally in Los Angeles, co-sponsored by the SEIU and various communist groups, as well as other unions, reflected yet another step in the normalization of self-identified communist and socialist ideologies in the Obama era. Not only did the SEIU help to organize the rally in conjunction with communists, they marched side-by-side with communists, while union members carried communist flags, communists carried union signs, and altogether there was no real way to tell the two apart.

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Spoken like a true Communist. The union members are being used horribly by the union leadership for political and monetary gain.

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(CNSNews.com) – The National Labor Relations Board is seeking an unprecedented expansion of powers in a lawsuit to overturn voter-approved constitutional amendments in at least two states guaranteeing the secret ballot for union elections, South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley said.

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The nation’s largest firefighters union has decided to bail on federal candidates this election cycle, dealing President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats a major blow in their efforts to hold the White House and Senate.

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This post tells the story of a case on which I worked.  It’s a true story.

Picture this: It’s 2001.  You live in California and you own a small business that consists of you and maybe three to five at-will employees.  Your profits are decent.

One morning, Jane, one of your employees, announces that she’s quitting, effective immediately, and stalks out.  You know — or think you know — your California law, which requires that, when an employee quits, you have her payment ready within three days of her departure.  (That would be Calif. Lab. Code § 202.) You therefore immediately prepare Jane’s final paycheck, covering the two hours she worked before she quit.

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On Wednesday, when President Obama’s union-controlled National Labor Relations Board issued a complaint against the Boeing Company for making a sound business decision to “dual source” its 787 production, it was another blatant example of a government agency run amok. However, while most of the nuts and bolts behind the dispute were detailed here, there are several other, more intricate details behind the NLRB’s legally tenuous prosecution of Boeing that are deserving of closer examination—most notably, the union’s own culpability behind the decision.

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National Labor Relations Board says Boeing can’t build plant in South Carolina
NetRightDaily.com:

By Rick Manning – In a stunning move well beyond the scope of their legal mandate, the Obama Administration appointee controlled National Labor Relations Board is suing Boeing Corporation for, get this, building a second production line for their new Dreamliner passenger plane in South Carolina rather than in Washington state.

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It wasn’t long ago that Indiana Democrats fled the Hoosier state so that they could avoid doing their job in the state legislature. These Democrats self-righteously claimed that they were doing this “for the people” and insisted that they should be considered as heroes. One Indiana Democrat even claimed that his running off to Illinois to luxuriate in a resort hotel was somehow just like being a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan.

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This is what thuggery looks like.
They don’t want to hear your side. They don’t want to discuss your views. They want you to shut up and be silent.

This is today’s TrumkaObama American left. They must be soooo proud.

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RWB News: The day the government passed the Stopgap bill to avert a government shutdown, we learned the U.S was giving $20 million to Pakistan to help them start Sesame Street.  Now, since we have all this extra money, team Obama has decided to pay $1,600 per truck to replace the old mufflers with new catalytic converters, reducing harmful diesel emissions by up to 30%…. “Free trade” isn’t so “free” after all.

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 Dark Rhetoric: Non Violence Is Not Always The Answer; American Socialist Leader Calling For Revolution Says 'We Are Not Pacifists, Violence Sometimes is Necessary'

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Two mainstream news organizations are receiving hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars from Obamacare’s Early Retiree Reinsurance Program (ERRP) — a $5 billion grant program that’s doling out cash to companies, states and labor unions in what the Obama administration considers an effort to pay for health insurance for early retirees.

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Monday in Boston, on the steps of the GOP headquarters, the folks from ‘We Are One’ held a little rally promoting their agenda. (Did you forget that April 4th was the kick off of the We Are One ‘Solidarity Days of Action?’)

So what was it all about?

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In the wake of changes to government employee unions’ power in Wisconsin and elsewhere, The Communist Party USA is working in conjunction with national labor unions and other left wing political groups to organize protests in Madison, Wisconsin and across the nation on April 4th.

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The fate of the grass-roots push to limit government growth in America hinges on who wins several pitched battles that continue to escalate in Wisconsin, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and other leading conservatives are warning.

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The structural problem is that government has too many mouths to feed. It’s possible to quantify that problem. The result is a metric that I call the Deadweight Ratio. It tells you how many beneficiaries of government spending there are for every private sector job.

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Authorities say 26-year-old Katherine Windels sent disturbing emails to 16 Republican senators, repeatedly threatening to kill them.

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My 401K is down 40%, my employer just cut the match; and it looks like I may have work until I’m 70 years old. I also pay for pensions to public employees who retired in their 50s.

I don’t have enough money to go on vacation this year, but I paid my share of the federal government’s $2.6 million grant to teach Chinese prostitutes to drink responsibly. I pay for bridges to nowhere.

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I want to know how crashing your own piggy bank is worthwhile?

Seriously.

Let me ask you this:

Who owns a large portion of the money in banks?

Who owns a large portion of the dollars in Wall Street?

You do – you evil, fat cat, greedy, corporate shill – you bastard. You are the ones grinding your boot heel down on the throat of the poor hapless middle class………

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In the letter, Chaffetz references video, posted yesterday on this site, showing a one-time SEIU official, Stephen Lerner, outlining a plan to collapse the American economy — including crashing the stock market — so that unions can become more powerful. The sinister plan is set to take place in May and includes mass homeowner mortgage strikes.

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Let’s start at the beginning: Who is Steve Lerner?

Steve Lerner is a union organizer best known as the architect of the remarkable Justice for Janitors campaign. He’s considered one of the smartest organizers, if not the smartest organizer, working in the labor movement right now. A month or two ago, when I began asking around for forward-looking labor thinkers who could give me some ideas for where labor should go after Wisconsin, his was the first name I was given — even though he’s no longer actually employed by his union. There was a good reason for that. At a time when a lot of people in labor have become, if not resigned to their fate as a marginal force in American life, increasingly confused as to how to reverse it, Lerner has a lot of fight left in him.

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My post concerning Stephen Lerner yesterday has generated a ton of hits. For awhile if you searched for Stephen Lerner on Yahoo my blog post was #3 on the list. As of the time this post is entered it was still in the top 10. I didn’t do anything to put the post in the top 10, I have no idea how to even do such things. It begs the question how little old Steven Birn, a lawyer from Michigan, could generate an entry that hits the top 10 on a major news story.

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A former official of one of the country's most-powerful unions, SEIU, is detailing a secret plan to "destabilize" the country.

Specifically, the plan seeks to destroy JP Morgan, nuke the stock market, and weaken Wall Street's grip on power, thus creating the conditions necessary for a redistribution of wealth and a change in government.

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Revealed The Left’s Economic Terrorism Playbook: The Chase Campaign for a Coalition of Unions, Community Groups, Lawmakers and Students to Take Down...

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No wonder they hate Governor Scott Walker.
Oshkosh teachers were getting 90 sick days a year… They only worked 180 days a year.

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March 19th, 2011, Portland Oregon: Calls for “militant direct action” are heard from the speakers at a Portland “Peace Protest.” Unions are well represented. “Astroturfing” is clearly shown. The “9/11 Truthers” are present. Anti-Israel signs abound and support for Palestine including a bloody fist through a flag are shown. Numerous Socialists and Communists are present with their literature and interviewed. A Supreme Court mockery is incomplete, because their “black guy had to drop out.” Calls for the single payer system are heard. Calls for having the Multnomah County not work together with ICE are heard. Calls for Obama to legalize illegal immigrants are heard. A sign identifies Sarah Palin as a “whore.”

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Sunday’s breaking business story is the announcement that unionized AT&T will be buying union-free T-Mobile for $39 billion. With 42,000 mostly union-free employees, German-owned T-Mobile has long been a target of the red-shirted Communications Workers of America. Now, as the mostly unionized AT&T Mobility has agreed to allow the CWA to unionize its employees without secret-ballot elections (via neutrality and card-check), the red-shirted union bosses are seeing the green that will likely come from T-Mobile’s employees.

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A middle-aged teacher with a history of depression committed suicide earlier this month, and the Wisconsin unionistas are blaming their boogeyman governor, Scott Walker, for her death:

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Striking Pocono Medical Center workers and SEIU members fill the lobby of ESSA Bank and Trust headquarters on Wednesday, March 16, 2011. The union wanted to meet with CEO Gary Olson, who is chairman of the board of directors of the medical center.

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The rally’s goal is worrisome considering a startling report from CNS News regarding border security. The news outlet says, “663 individuals arrested along the southwest border in 2010 were from countries designated as ‘special interest’ or from countries known to have  ties with terrorism.”

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Madison -- Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi issued a temporary restraining order Friday, barring the publication of a controversial new law that would sharply curtail collective bargaining for public employees.

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Just in case anyone wonders why Obama and his cronies are so hot to support labor unions particularly government employee unions check out the contributions..

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AFSCME Council 48 Executive Director Rich Abelson (left) said there's no talk of a general strike by public employees to protest the changes to collective bargaining Gov. Scott Walker has signed into law.

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Wisconsin unions rush to get deals in place

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) – School boards and local governments across Wisconsin are rushing to reach agreements with unions before a new law takes effect that will remove their ability to collectively bargain over nearly all issues other than minimal salary increases.

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The law has driven states to focus on student achievement, and the Obama administration says it has done an excellent job of training a spotlight on racial and other achievement gaps. But many criticize the program for lacking flexibility and for labeling too many schools as failures.

 

Help me here!  80% of our schools are failing?  With all the money we give them and the unions.  Approximately $14,000.00 per child????  I homeschooled my children on $500.00 per child and they went on with honors and received scholarships.  This is a disgrace!  The feds should be out of the education business.  ~ C4F

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March 11, 2010, Pioneer Courthouse Square, Portland Oregon. Socialists gather unlawfully. Security is shouted down, and a union member steps in to interfere with officers. Mob rule prevails.

 

Ugly, Ugly Socialists!  ~ C4F

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The state capitol of Wisconsin had taken on an eerie quiet on Friday. Gone were the throngs of protesters who occupied its marble floors like a campground in summer. The midnight honking of cars circling the white building had ceased. The chalk "dead man" outlines etched with Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's name on the sidewalks remained in dismembered parts, incompletely washed away by clean-up hoses.

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Time and time again, the collectivist left in America chooses hyperbole when championing their economy-killing objectives. Most recently, as in the case of the socialist union (yes, they were created by socialists and Marxists)  protests in Wisconsin, you see many signs being wielded by the neo-Marxist rubes stating, “Hitler banned unions”. The purpose of this urban legend-styled disinformation, of course, is a weak attempt to paint Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker as a Nazi, even though the Nazi’s were national socialists who subscribed to most of the tenets of modern American leftists.

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A Wisconsin Republican was told not to participate in this year’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Fond du Lac after receiving death threats this week. Police told the senator to sit this one out.

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Monroe - The Town Board of Monroe approved a resolution this week supporting the rights of organized labor and the right to collective bargaining.

 

Something I learned about my little town this weekend.  Not to good news here.  While I've been trying to help Governor Walker look what happened right under my nose.  ~ C4F

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Wisconsin Republicans are accusing President Obama's political advisers of backing efforts to recall eight GOP senators for their role in trying to curb union rights and benefits.

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Death Threats Have Come To: Sen.Kapanke; Sen.Darling; Sen.Cowles; Sen.Ellis; Sen.Fitzgerald; Sen.Galloway; Sen.Grothman; Sen.Harsdorf; Sen.Hopper; Sen.Kedzie; Sen.Lasee; Sen.Lazich; Sen.Leibham; Sen.Moulton; Sen.Olsen Subject: Atten: Death threat!!!! Bomb!!!!

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Below is a video of Meghan Kelly today, interviewing Jesse Jackson… a man who hates being left out of the limelight. Highlights? All of a sudden, all those protestor are unemployed teachers, with homes in foreclosure. OMG… the sob story, the BS, the extent to which Jackson will go, no matter how embarrassingly false.

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MADISON - The State Department of Justice confirms that it is investigating several death threats against a number of lawmakers in response to the legislature's move to strip employees of many collective bargaining rights.

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In what Reuters is calling “a confrontation with unions that could be the biggest since then President Ronald Reagan fired striking air traffic controllers nearly 30 years ago,” the Wisconsin Senate approved a scaled-down version of Governor Scott Walker’s (R) budget-repair bill last night that would rein in government union collective bargaining powers. After securing approval from three widely respected nonpartisan agencies—the Legislative Fiscal Bureau, the Legislative Council, and the Legislative Reference Bureau—Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald removed the appropriations measures from Walker’s budget, thus eliminating the need for any of the 14 truant Democratic Senators to be present for the vote. The State Assembly will take up the new version of the bill at 11 a.m. today, and if it passes, Walker will have achieved a significant victory for taxpayers everywhere.

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Wis. GOP bypasses Dems, cuts collective bargaining       AP Republicans in the Wisconsin Senate voted Wednesday night to...

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In an interview following the Wisconsin Senate‘s vote to strip away state workers’ collective bargaining privileges, Republican state Sen. Glenn Grothman told Fox News’ Greta VanSusteren Wednesday evening that Republican lawmakers had been instructed to leave the state capital because “it was not safe.”

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The Wisconsin Senate succeeded in voting Wednesday to strip nearly all collective bargaining rights from public workers, after Republicans outmaneuvered the chamber's missing Democrats and approved an explosive proposal that has rocked the state and unions nationwide.

 

Alright!  ~ C4F

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A pro-business group on Wednesday seized on AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka's boast that he meets at the White House several times a week and talks with someone from the White House "every day."

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The Koch Tea Party's Wisconsin Governor Walker has been seeking compromise with Wisconsin state senators that were forced to leave the state to prevent the Walker budget bill from being passed. Walker has been in communication via e-mail with Democrat State Senators Jauch and Cullon. Walker is offering a few concessions but not enough to entice the state senators to return.

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Although House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Rep. Fred Upton, Michigan Republican, is about to launch a congressional investigation into Obamacare waiver selection, the administration continues to approve waivers from health-care law for labor unions and others. In fact, since Upton first requested documentation from Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in late January, the administration has issued 307 more Obamacare waivers, 47 of which for labor unions. That brings the total number of waivers to 1,040. Labor unions received 269 of those.

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How's this for states' rights?

This morning, Wisconsin Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said in a radio interview that President Obama's political team is directly involved in burgeoning efforts to recall Republican elected officials (emphasis on the word "elected," as in chosen by the people of Wisconsin in a democratic vote four months ago):

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On Wednesday, March 2, 2011, Eau Claire Police arrested Patrick James Knauf, on suspicion of threatening a bomb scare. Knauf is alleged to have called Heartland Aviation, a private business on the grounds of the Chippewa Valley Regional Airport, and told the receptionist that he was "going to bomb that place tonight."

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DOA shall take such steps as are necessary to conduct a security check of the State Capitol building and grounds.”

The draft order says that, if unauthorized people don’t leave, police can fine, remove or arrest people.

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Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is so determined to shut down debate on his proposal to strip collective bargaining rights from state, county and municipal employees and teachers that he has effectively locked down the state Capitol. 

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The most egregious example of organized labor’s special privileges and immunities is the 1973 United States v. Enmons decision. In it, the United States Supreme Court held that union violence is exempted from the Hobbs Act, which makes it a federal crime to obstruct interstate commerce by robbery or extortion.

 

Oh now I see why they can be violent.  ~ C4F

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Wisconsin State Senator Glenn Grothman is chased and trapped by hecklers outside of the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison, Wis. on Mar. 1, 2011. Thousands of protestors had gathered as Gov. Scott Walker delivered his budget address to the state legislature, capping off two weeks of continuous protests and demonstrations against provisions which would strip public employees of their collective bargaining rights.

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Fox Nation has learned exclusively from a highly placed source within Wisconsin state politics that the fourteen AWOL Democrats are experiencing “dissension in the ranks.” State Sen. Julie Lassa (D) is pregnant and “extremely unhappy” about being on the run. State Sen. Jon Erpenbach (D) has been hit particularly hard by his paycheck being withheld. Wisconsin State Senate leadership is currently negotiating with eight of the fourteen to come home. Gov. Scott Walker (R) has declared today the deadline for action on his budget repair bill and plans to give a budget address at 5 p.m. ET. A deal may be announced around that time. Developing…

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Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan predicted on Sunday that America faces imminent uprisings that mirror those in the Middle East.

 

This man is a hate monger.  ~ C4F

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Pay attention union workers and pro-union supporters unless you really hate this country(Watch) REDWHITEANDBLUENEWS Why would good American Unio...

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On, Wisconsin! On, Wisconsin!
Plunge right through that line!
Run the bill clear through that crowd,
Get out of debt this time! (U rah rah!)

On, Wisconsin! On, Wisconsin!
Or it’s Cloward-Piven time.
Fight! Fellows! – fight, fight, fight!
Or it‘ll be our behinds!

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Sacramento’s ABC News 10 reported on the union rally and Tea Party counter rally in Sacramento today.  ABC’s online report makes cursory mention of an incident of union violence directed at Tea Party activist Rodney Stanhope: “Police cited one man for battery after he allegedly shoved a tea party supporter.”

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With labor unions seeing a decline in membership, their agenda is becoming ever more desperate.  Public-employee unions, with their lavish taxpayer-funded pensions, are driving governments to insolvency.  No wonder approval ratings for unions are at an all-time low.  Here are the Top 10 Labor Union Outrages.

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Before I start, understand I was a union member for a little over the first 10 years of my working life. I firmly believe that unions are only as good as the INTEGRITY of the members and their leadership. They have to know their limits, this allows co-existence. One of my first jobs after high school (1963) was with the Kroger Co. as a cashier/stock boy. I belonged to the retail clerks union Local 590 (for about 3 years) and at that time the retail grocery business was one of the better paying jobs (well over minimum wage–3.20/hr, while minimum wage was 1.00/hr). 

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Its clear that what is happening in Wisconsin today represents a watershed in the political direction of the United States. In simple terms, it boils down to one fierce battle. The hard left, communists, socialists, whatever you choose to call them, that have been working for decades to destroy the US capitalist system see one of their major funding planks under threat and are going to fight tooth and nail to retain the status quo.

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The grim facts behind the massive protests to come.

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What's the best way to get Americans back to work?

Raise taxes, according to AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka.  Specifically, he wants to raise the federal gas tax as a means to fund infrastructure spending.  "We need a dedicated source of revenue to create infrastructure in this country," he tells Aaron Task in the accompanying clip.  

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But he did find time to be interviewed by a Wisconsin television station and weigh in on the dispute between Republican Gov. Scott Walker and the state's public employee unions. Walker was staging "an assault on unions," he said, and added that "public employee unions make enormous contributions to our states and our citizens."

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For over a week now, the nation has watched tens of thousands march in protest to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s budget plan. Democrat lawmakers (aka Fleebaggers) have fled the state in order to avoid doing their duty, while Obama’s OFA has bussed in the astroturf from out of state. While the union meme has been that Walker’s plan is “union-busting,” perhaps a more apt description would be “trust-busting.

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But this weekend we’ve joined with allies across the country to organize solidarity rallies in major cities – including every state capital – this Saturday at noon.
We’ll speak out to demand an end to the attacks on workers’ rights and public services across the country. We’ll demand investment to create decent jobs. And we’ll demand that the rich and powerful pay their fair share.

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Wisconsin Republicans in the state Assembly charged toward a vote on their controversial budget bill Thursday after compelling Democrats to limit debate, though the Senate remained stuck on account of 14 boycotting lawmakers.

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Thanks Mickie for heads up on this!

Calling all Patriots - PLEASE PUT BOOTS ON THE GROUND TO COUNTER THESE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA HATERS! Invite your neighbors and families to go with you.

Twana

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The unrest in Wisconsin has inspired Van Jones.

In fact, he‘s so touched by the outpouring of support for the unions he’s calling on people across the country to protest even more. And everywhere. This week, Jones announced a plan to “rally on the steps of every statehouse in the union,“ calling it the ”positive” Tea Party moment. Not surprisingly, the plan is being sponsored by a who’s who of progressive organizations.

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Union Thuggery Descends On FreedomWorks Posted by Tabitha Hale (Profile) Wednesday, February 23rd at 11:00PM EST Red State Today, union thugs de...

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From Lisa Douglas Hudson Valley Patriots - Thank you Lisa. I totally agree with this call to action.  All of you who read this post need to mobi...

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There are not many American rock and roll bands that stand in solidarity with the union movement as much as the Dropkick Murphys.

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As a large and furious demonstration was under way outside and inside the Capitol in Madison last week, Barack Obama invited in a TV camera crew from Milwaukee and proceeded to fan the flames.

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The Washington Post reports today that “the daunting tower of national, state and local debt in the United States will reach a level this year unmatched just after World War II and already exceeds the size of the entire economy, according to government estimates.” But there are a number of big differences between our national debt now and the debt in 1946. The Post reports: “State and municipal governments from Sacramento to Madison to Harrisburg have racked up about $2.4 trillion in debt, or more than 15 percent of GDP.”

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During an interview Tuesday, Fox News’ Megyn Kelly repeatedly tried to nail down an answer on whether Milwaukee Teachers Union president Mike Langyel condoned teachers using fake medical excuses to get out of work to attend protests in Madison.

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To end a high-stakes stalemate over union rights that has captured the nation’s attention, a handful of Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin might have to stand up to their new governor.

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Two-thirds of the eighth graders in Wisconsin public schools cannot read proficiently according to the U.S. Department of Education, despite the fact that Wisconsin spends more per pupil in its public schools than any other state in the Midwest.

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House Democrats are leaving the state rather than vote on anti-union legislation, The Indianapolis Star has learned.

A source said Democrats are headed to Illinois, though it was possible some also might go to Kentucky. They need to go to a state with a Democratic governor to avoid being taken into police custody and returned to Indiana.

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There are many lessons to be learned from the protests and outright abdication of duty by public labor unions and Democrats (but I repeat myself) in Wisconsin. One of them is that there can no longer be any doubts that President Obama has radical ideas about the proper balance and relationship between the federal and state governments.

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Morning Bell: Gov. Scott Walker Sits Down With Heritage and Answers the Tough Questions The Heritage Foundation   MADISON, Wis. — Teac...

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The Mackinac Center for Public Policy discovers that the Michigan Regional Council of Carpenters uses non-union labor to protest a Grand Rapids area...

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MADISON, Wis. – Wisconsin Republicans on Sunday upped the pressure on Democrats who fled to Illinois to return home and vote on an anti-union bill, with the governor calling them obstructionists and a GOP lawmaker threatening to convene without them.

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MADISON, Wisconsin (Reuters) - The issues were serious but the mood was cheery on Sunday among demonstrators in Wisconsin protesting an effort by the Republican governor to reduce the bargaining power of public employee unions.

 

Hey not that I need free pizza but I've gone to many rally protests and I don't remember anyone sending in free pizza do you?  ~ C4F

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Fake Doctors’ Notes Being Handed Out at Wisconsin Gov. Union Rally Link   [Madison, WI] As tens of thousands of public employees skipp...

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While part of the current unrest in Wisconsin is driven by local issues, new information has been uncovered indicating an orchestrated attempt to stir up 'worker protests' not only in Wisconsin but in at least a dozen states.

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Union members took their anger over Gov. Scott Walker's union overhaul to the streets Monday, including the one on which state Sen. Van Wanggaard, R-Racine, lives.

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Herman Cain Rocks Madison and Follow the Money  Link and just in case you wondered about Mr. Cain's reference to Madison being 'ground ze...

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The union-led school closures and demonstrations in Madison have left most ordinary Americans shaking their heads in disbelief. Months ago, I penned a message to my fellow union brothers and sisters when I found myself on the receiving end of union boss Richard Trumka’s wrath.

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Tea Party leaders are organizing a counter-rally in Madison, Wisc. to support newly elected Republican Gov. Scott Walker against the labor unions that have been protesting his proposed budget cuts all week. Conservative media guru Andrew Breitbart, possible 2012 presidential candidate Herman Cain and other notables are en route to Madison for the counter-rally, scheduled to begin at noon central time on Saturday.

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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi came out strongly in support of Wisconsin teachers and students who are protesting Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to public employees of collective bargaining rights.

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8/6/2010     The Milwaukee Teachers' Education Association has filed a civil suit claiming that MPS' exclusion of Viagra and other drugs that treat erectile dysfunction from its health insurance plans constitutes sexual discrimination against male employees.

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Welcome to the reckoning. We have met the fiscal apocalypse, and it is smack dab in the middle of the heartland. As Wisconsin goes, so goes the nation. Let us pray it does not go the way of the decrepit welfare states of the European Union.

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The Rev. Jesse Jackson has urged thousands of protesters in the Wisconsin Capitol to continue their stand against a sweeping anti-union bill that state Republicans are pushing.

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Democrats may soon be loading up those buses in Madison and heading their mobs toward Nashville. The Tennessee state senate Education Committee voted Wednesday to abolish collective bargaining with teachers. Tom Humphrey of Knoxnews.com reports:

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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) says his party has been emboldened by massive protests against his controversial budget plan.

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MADISON, WIS. - President Obama thrust himself and his political operation this week into Wisconsin's broiling budget battle, mobilizing opposition Thursday to a Republican bill that would curb public-worker benefits and planning similar protests in other state capitals. 

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Police officers are looking for Democratic Wisconsin lawmakers who were ordered to attend a vote on a bill that would strip public employees of collective bargaining rights.

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State Senator Mark Miller, a member of the missing band of Wisconsin Democratic lawmakers who fled Madison Thursday to avoid a vote on a budget bill, called into CNN with the group’s list of demands for Republican Gov. Scott Walker.

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I love how these economic illiterates -- that's you liberal drones -- say that they want more of your money. They want more of your private property, which you pay for with the precious, finite hours you spend working.

 

What happened to the civility that Obama called for?  ~ C4F

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Say you generally liked Gov. Scott Walker's move to rein in government labor costs but had a few doubts on his method. The last few days should have cleared that up nicely.

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MADISON, Wis. – Protesters clogged the hallways of the Wisconsin state Capitol on Thursday as the Senate prepared to pass a momentous bill that would strip government workers, including school teachers, of nearly all collective bargaining rights.

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Crush The Communist Unions Now   Many of the hundreds of Madison East High School students didn't know why their teachers brought them to ...

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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) said Friday that he was willing to mobilize the state's National Guard force in order to address the potential repercussions of his stated proposal to eliminate collective bargaining rights for state employees.

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In an unprecedented and controversial move, the White House has launched a new program at the Department of Labor which will refer workers who have complaints about their bosses to a toll free number at the American Bar Association, where they can get a lawyer to work on their case on a contingency fee basis.

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During his State of the Union address President Obama – who has opposed charter schools and school choice programs which allow parents, students and schools to get around the death grip teachers unions have on our education system – used the Bruce Randolf school in Denver as an example of how education is improving in America:

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 28, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --The American Federation of Government Employees today praised Transportation Security Administration Administrator John Pistole for putting a stop to the privatization of this country's airport screening function, also known as the Screening Partnership Program (SPP).

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Washington (CNN) -- A program that allows airports to replace government screeners with private screeners is being brought to a standstill, just a month after the Transportation Security Administration said it was "neutral" on the program.

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Today, U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) introduced the Secret Ballot Protection Act (SBPA), legislation that will guarantee the right of every American worker to have a secret ballot election on whether to unionize. The bill would guarantee workers the opportunity to cast a secret ballot before a union can be organized.

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(CNSNews.com) – Three local chapters of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), whose political action committee spent $27 million supporting Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election, have received temporary waivers from a provision in the Obamacare law.

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If you’re a parent who is accustomed to helping your local Girl Scouts sell their cookies in front of your local grocery store, don’t be surprised if, very soon, you learn that you’re not welcome anymore. Unfortunately, the Girl Scouts, as well as other charitable organizations, may soon become the victims of a power play by the union-controlled National Labor Relations Board and union bosses who want to further muscle their way onto employers’ private property.

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Columnist James Ahearn of New Jersey's Bergen Record has a great column on, of all things, the stagehands at New York city's top performing arts venues such as Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall. These are not highly skilled or technical jobs but take a gander at how much they are paid:

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"They sent a message to the rest of the city that these particular labor issues are more important," said City Councilman Dan Halloran (R-Queens), who was visited yesterday by a group of guilt-ridden sanitation workers who confessed the shameless plot.

 

When I was in the city on Tuesday I thought this lack of cleanup was on purpose.  I was right!  Hey good instincts!  ~ C4F

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Congratulations! Thanks to you, our line of defense has held against Big Labor's first assault, but the battle will NOT be over until this Congress adjourns.

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Big Labor got some big love from President Obama and congressional Democrats yesterday after they agreed to exempt union workers from the whopping “Cadillac tax” on high-cost health-care plans until 2018.

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We’ve come to expect fireworks from NJ Gov. Chris Christie,

 

And I homeschool my children for around $500.00 each.  ~ C4F

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The Marxists haven’t given up simply because the Republicans had a good day on November 2. They met recently, and laid out their plans for us. Red State has video of a UFCW representative, Sharon Black, calling for the following:

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One of the largest union-administered health-insurance funds in New York is dropping coverage for the children of more than 30,000 low-wage home attendants, union officials said. The union blamed financial problems it said were caused by the state’s health department and new national health-insurance requirements.

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The Teamsters are ramping up their campaign aimed at taking down Toys R Us.  The union famous for its horses’ head logo and thuggish tactics is teaming up with “environmental justice organizations, consumer advocates, public health professionals, parents, children’s health activists” to use the Holiday Season to attack giant retailer Toys R Us and Babies R Us for allegedly selling toxic toys.  However, despite their shaky allegations, what may be really driving the union attack is the fact that Toys R Us is owned by private equity Kohlberg Kravis & Roberts (more commonly known as KKR).

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President Obama has engaged in numerous high crimes and misdemeanors. The Democratic majority in Congress is in peril as Americans reject his agenda. Yet more must be done: Mr. Obama should be impeached.

 

We can dream can't we???  ~ C4F

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At a private meeting on Tuesday afternoon, George Soros, a longtime supporter of progressive causes, voiced blunt criticism of the Obama administration, going so far as to suggest that Democratic donors direct their support somewhere other than the president.

The Hungarian-American financier was speaking to a small side gathering of donors who had convened in Washington D.C. for the annual gathering of the Democracy Alliance -- a formal community of well-funded, progressive-minded individuals and activists.

According to multiple sources with knowledge of his remarks, Soros told those in attendance that he is "used to fighting losing battles but doesn't like to lose without fighting."

Is the lovefest over for the evil one?  ~ C4F

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When we have an administration more concerned about rewarding its union cronies than the U.S. Constitution (see ObamaCare for reference), giving union bosses access to the wallets of TSOs was only a matter of time. Now, the Transportation Security Agency’s blue shirts who are doing Janet Napolitiano’s bidding frisking, groping, molesting and seemingly sexually assaulting the American public, are about to get license for further abuse—a union card.

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scary!  ~ C4F

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[1] Have the fortunes of Big Labor deteriorated so far that has stooped to using foreign money to further its relentless attack on America democracy?  It would seem so if available information is accurate. According to an SEIU spokesman most of the money the nation’s leading union uses to prop up its political Party, does not come from its Committee on Political Education (COPE) which by law must be funded by American citizens or legal permanent residents.

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I don’t recall ever witnessing such a corrupt administration. Worse yet, these corruptocrats are getting a complete pass by the mainstream media. Obama’s FEC is ignoring their own lawyer’s advice and breaking the law so unions can force members to fund their political activities.

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Indications are that the Progressive Movement is headed for a crushing defeat two weeks from now. Political analysts Stu Rothenberg and Charlie Cook both peg the number of competitive House races at around 100. Separately, both analysts are also predicting Democrats will lose between 45 and 60 seats (39 are needed to switch control of the House). Striking back against the electorate’s small government fervor, AFL-CIO Political Director Karen Ackerman penned a strategy memo last week claiming “Union Voters are the firewall for candidates that support working families.”

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Notably, Conyers is a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

As WND was first to report the DSA has been closely linked to the Democratic Party, in particular to the party's Progressive Caucus.

Until 1999, the website of the Progressive Caucus was hosted by the DSA. Following an expose of the link between the two organizations in a WND column by Joseph Farah, the Progressive Caucus established its own website under the auspices of Congress.

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Mark Twain once joked that Richard Wagner's music was "better than it sounds." Obama administration officials say in all seriousness that the economy is better than it seems, if only people were smart enough to get it.

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The Democrat elite ramped up their distortions and lies this week in their desperate attempt to fool the voters yet again, after putting an America-hater in the White House to accomplish undefined ‘change and transparency’.

 

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Frightened of this White House and Obama-friendly search engine management, many of my regular publishers may choose not to print this column. This is following the Obama administration’s new definition of “hate speech” which is any speech in support of the good ole USA and, more importantly, at odds with the Obama administration. This is what may cause some of my regular publishers concern, that they will lose search engine support for their publication.

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The nation's biggest, richest and most powerful labor unions spent months organizing the "One Nation Working Together" rally at the Lincoln Memorial Saturday. With midterm elections approaching, they hoped to put on a show of political strength to energize struggling Democratic candidates. But even after giving it everything they had, they still weren't able to draw as many people as Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally in August. Why not?

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Naturally the Old Media is doing its level best to pump up the "One Nation" rally. The lefty protest is gathering in front of the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall in Washington D.C. today, Oct. 2. But despite the glowing reports by the media there is no denying the fact that few people have turned out for the anti-Tea Party event sponsored by some 400 of America's most extreme left-wing organizations and their associates in uniondom.

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The Communist Party USA, along with a collection of more than 400 other left wing organizations are set to converge on the nations capitol this weekend for a rally called "One Nation Working Together".

The rally is also supported by President Obama's own political group, Organizing for America, according to Jordy Yager of the Hill's Blog Briefing Room.  Organizing for America recently sent out an email calling the rally, “the biggest progressive demonstration in decades.”

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The Service Employees International Union plans to send 25,000 rank-and-file workers on 500 buses to Washington this weekend to protest the tea party movement, Republicans and Fox News. If SEIU members had any sense, they'd be demonstrating at their own bosses' D.C. headquarters. It's the Big Labor Left, not the Tea Party Right, that is flushing rank-and-file union workers' hard-earned dues down the collective toilet in these hard times.

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MRS. OBAMA: Thank you, thanks so much, Dr. Wakefield. Thank you for that introduction but more importantly thank you for your hard work in fighting for health care reform for so many years. She's truly been a wonderful advocate and a partner to this White House.

I also want to thank all the nurses who are joining me here today at the White House. And of course I want to thank all of you joining us on the call across the country today. We have a wonderful representation of the profession on this call.

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When Catherine Engelbrecht and her friends sat down and started talking politics several years ago, they soon agreed that talking wasn’t enough. They wanted to do more. So when the 2008 election came around, “about 50” of her friends volunteered to work at Houston’s polling places.

 

Thank God for these citizens!  Let's stand for freedom!  ~ C4F

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In a story on Saturday, Fox News introduced us to possible voter fraud in Harris County Texas (Houston). It all started so innocently: a group of citizens decided that they should not just talk about politics and government, but actually get involved. So they did, by volunteering at the polls. But a civic duty turned into a nightmare.

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WASHINGTON (AP) - The FBI and the U.S. Labor Department are investigating prominent labor leader Andy Stern in their probe of corruption at the Service Employees International Union, according to two people who have been interviewed by federal agents.

The two organized labor officials met with federal agents this summer to answer questions about a six-figure book contract that Stern landed in 2006 and his role in approving money to pay the salary of an SEIU leader in California who allegedly performed no work.

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The NAACP-led ‘One Nation Working Together’ rally coming up in Washington, D.C. on October 2nd to counter the Tea Party movement’s success is being sponsored by pro-terrorist and communist groups. Many of their logos are proudly and prominently displayed on the rally’s promotional website. One sponsor’s leader was fired this summer by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission for his ties to Hamas.

 

 

A bunch of radicals will be bused into DC!  ~ C4F

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Now we know - as if the Bell salary and pension scandal has not already taught us - why California is a mess. The bigger the government, the more absurd the taxing and spending becomes.

From the Los Angeles Times:

 

Scores of people convicted of crimes such as rape, elder abuse and assault with a deadly weapon are permitted to care for some of California's most vulnerable residents as part of the government's home health aide program.

 

 

Listen!  The inmates are running the asylum.  ~ C4F

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To mark Labor Day 2010, President Obama will join hands with AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka in Milwaukee and pose as champions of the working class. Bad move. Trumka's organizing record is a shameful reminder of the union movement's violent and corrupt foundations.

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A bipartisan coalition in favor of net neutrality has lost a key conservative supporter amid signs that the issue is becoming more divisive.

The Gun Owners of America (GOA) severed ties with the net-neutrality coalition Save the Internet after a conservative blog questioned the association with liberal organizations such as ACORN and the ACLU.

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents overwhelmingly say that their department's leadership has become politicized to the point of affecting the effectiveness of ICE.

ICE agents through their union claim their leaders have little regard for the safety of American people. Their union has released a letter announcing its recent unanimous “vote of no confidence” in ICE agency heads, accusing them of “misleading the American public” regarding illegal immigration in order to further a pro-amnesty agenda.

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Last week the Washington Times had a story that should enrage every true American. The Democrat Congress is allowing Big Labor’s needs to come before the needs of our troops. The supplemental budget that Congress is considering is supposed to be about funding the troops and their efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, but Democrats are more interested in how many payoffs for Big Labor they can stuff into the thing then in funding the troops.

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Oakland's police chief is making some dire claims about what his force will and will not respond to if planned layoffs happen tonight at midnight.

Chief Anthony Batts listed exactly 44 situations that his officers no longer respond to and they include grand theft, burglary, vehicle collision, identity theft and vandalism. He says if you live and Oakland and one of the above happens to you, you need to let police know on-line.

 

 

Coming to a city near you.  ~ C4F

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The House is preparing to vote on legislation responding to the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, which ruled that the First Amendment prohibits Congress from restricting corporate and union expenditures on election-related speech. 

 

Democrats, who admit the legislation is intended to affect the fall elections, say it’s a necessary response to the greater role that the decision allows outside groups. 

 

In truth, the bill has been crafted to stifle only corporate speech, while simultaneously enabling unions — and Democratic incumbents — to benefit from the enhanced First Amendment freedoms recognized by the court.

 

This is criminal...do they care?  NO!  Shumer must go!  ~ C4F

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Ooh-rah! Mass. Governor Signs Bill, Saves Marine's Job FoxNews.com The Massachusetts governor signed a bill on Wednesday afternoon that saves the ...

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Following a rebellion by two important factions of rank-and-file House Democrats, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has pulled a campaign-finance bill opposed by a broad coalition of special interest groups, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

 

Pelosi and other Democratic leaders had scheduled a Friday vote on the DISCLOSE Act, a bill requiring special-interest groups to disclose their top donors if they choose to run TV ads or send out mass mailings in the final months of an election. The legislation is designed to roll back the controversial Supreme Court decision in the Citizens United case, which overturned restrictions on corporate campaign activities.

Nancy is a sneak we better watch what she will do next.  She is not to be trusted!  ~ C4F

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The U.S. Government has apparently reconsidered a Dutch offer to supply 4 oil skimmers. These are large arms that are attached to oil tankers that pump oil and water from the surface of the ocean into the tanker. Water pumped into the tanker will settle to the bottom of the tanker and is then pumped back into the ocean to make room for more oil. Each system will collect 5,000 tons of oil each day.

 

The Dutch offer help...thank you.  But the Obama administration declined only to protect the unions.  We can look forward to a lot of this happening in the future.  ~ C4F

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In his nationwide address last night on the Gulf crisis, President Obama declared: "We will fight this spill with everything we've got for as long it takes." But at least one congressman isn't convinced, complaining that Mr. Obama won't pursue promising solutions if it means bucking his union allies.

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Cuomo in Rift With Working Families Party The New York Times Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo is pressuring the embattled Working Families Party t...

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Marine: Union bullying me to pay $500 Boston Herald.com A retired U.S. Marine who runs a high school ROTC program in Worcester says he faces the bo...

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SEIU Targets the Red Cross New Patriot Journal   Reprinted from Investors.com Demanding higher wages and better bene...

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IRS asked to monitor unions' election giving WashingtonTimes.com Watchdog wary of 'unprecedented political activity' A conservative public-interes...

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N.J. Gov. Chris Christie dumps funding compromise with teachers union NJ Real Time News Trenton - The fragile peace between Gov. Chris Christie and...

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President Obama has deep ties to an anti-American extremist nexus that has been instrumental not only in building his political career but in crafting current White House policy, charges a new book.

"The Manchurian President: Barack Obama's Ties to Communists, Socialists and Other Anti-American Extremists" is set officially to be released Monday.

The book exposes an extremist coalition of communists, socialists and other radicals working both inside and outside the administration to draft and advance current White House policy goals.

 

 

We could sense this from the beginning.  Now this book exposes the truth.  ~ C4F

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What's really behind SEIU's Bank of America protests? CNN Money By Nina EastonMay 19, 2010: 6:15 AM ET   (FORTUNE) -- Every journa...

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Is this why the government says the Union is underfunded and there is a bill on the floor now for 100 billion dolllars George Miller ( D California )want's the tax payer to pay this to and for the pensions of the Union members.Yes us tax payers and another 165 billion dollars coming up Robert Casey to as will tranfer the underfunded that the Union say they need ..but get this.. The tax payyers you and I are being orced to pay for the union Penison ? for thie retirerment? hello..how much is that really going to the democrats campaign adds and more.And they say they are underfunded. ??????????How much of this so called underfunded that Congress senator want's the no Union American people to pay for the money they will have to pay as well from useing this so called underfunded money for their campaign use and we pay us tax payers are paying for it ..if it passes... FISHY HUH ?

 

And we will pay the bailout for these union thugs to continue to back corrupt Democrats.  It's an outrage!  ~ C4F

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This Stuff Is Not Supposed to Happen in America Red State I would like to be gloating this morning that Charles Djou is the newest congressman from...

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The family of Greg Baer, Bank of America executive, is located in a jurisdiction protected by the Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD), which responded promptly to a disturbance call from his neighborhood last weekend.

According to Corporal Dan Friz, an MCPD spokesperson in Rockville, Maryland, the department received a disturbance call from one of Baer’s neighbors at 4:10 pm last Sunday. Four MCPD units arrived at Baer’s Greenville Rd. address at 4:15 pm.  At least two Metropolitan Police Department units from the nearby District of Columbia were already at the scene when they arrived.

 

Why are SEIU Union members protesting the Bank of America executive?  This is an outrage!  ~ C4F

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As former commissioners on the Federal Election Commission with almost 75 years of combined experience, we believe that the bill proposed on April 30 by Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Chris Van Hollen to "blunt" the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United v. FEC is unnecessary, partially duplicative of existing law, and severely burdensome to the right to engage in political speech and advocacy.

Moreover, the Democracy Is Strengthened by Casting Light On Spending in Elections Act, or Disclose Act, abandons the longstanding policy of treating unions and businesses equally, suggesting partisan motives that undermine respect for campaign finance laws.

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ALBANY -- Some 20,000 bureaucrats, nurses, engineers and other white-collar state workers could be in line for staggering pay hikes as high as 7 percent if unions win their wage war with Gov. Paterson, The Post has learned.

The $82 million windfall for certain members of the Public Employee Federation was among the perks delayed last month by Paterson's unprecedented decision to freeze the salaries of more than 120,000 unionized state workers.

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President Barack Obama — who came to power with the help of government employee unions across the nation and has lavished on them hundreds of billions in stimulus funds to keep them on federal, state and local payrolls with no strings attached — is moving to cut spending on salaries for military personnel.

This weekend The Washington Post headlined story, "Pentagon Asking Congress to Hold Back on Generous Increases in Troop Pay,” disclosed that the Obama administration is “pleading” with Congress to give military personnel a much smaller increase in pay than lawmakers have proposed.

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Stern's Possible SEIU Successor Could Make Union Peace Elusive FoxNews At a time when the nation's fastest-growing union is starting to fall victi...

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1,000 Tea Party Protest: 0 Arrested… 1 Leftist SEIU Protest: 25 Arrested GatewayBundit Yesterday, tens of thousands of Tea Party Protesters held...

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Union Memo Hints At Gov.'s Death NewYork Local News Teachers Union's Memo The Latest Salvo In War Of Words With Gov. Christie New Jersey Gov. Chri...

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Albany Dems offer labor seats at table - for 50G! By FREDRIC U. DICKER State Editor Last Updated: 4:31 AM, March 24, 2010 Posted: 2:59 AM, March 24...

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ObamaCare's New Public Health Workforce Corps American Thinker Michael Geer Lurking within the recently-released Reconciliation bill is a brand n...

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Protesters Plan 'Arrest' of Health Insurance Execs MedPageToday WASHINGTON -- Washington might be ground zero for the nation's political protests,...

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White House to push ACORN pet project WMD The White House is considering a new policy that would give an advantage in bids for billions in governm...

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Obama names labor leader to fiscal commission The Hill President Obama announced today his appointees to a recently created bipartisan fiscal commis...

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Obama's Union Thugs "Want To Fight" Sweetness & Light "I’m tired of rallies. I want to fight!" by: Bruce Bostick February 22 2010 COL...

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A Squalid Payoff The NY Post Two years ago, then-Gov. Eliot Spitzer sent an early signal that, far from changing Albany for the better, he was goin...

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Forced Unionization on Day-Care Business Fox Business Michelle Berry runs a day-care business out of her home in Flint, MI. She thought that s...

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Anti-Tea Party Web Site Part of Scheme to Funnel Funds Foxnews.com A new Web site targeting the tea parties is a part of a complex network of money ...

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SEIU fatcats behind First Lady’s anti-obesity campaign LInk   My column looks beyond the obsequious and superficial headlines about First Lady...

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