Frances Fox Piven: Violence Against Thee, But Not Against Me
I wrote an op-ed recently for the Washington Times that was well received. It’s about Marxist academic and activist Frances Fox Piven who has called for bloody revolution against…
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Election Day 2010 a Set Back to Card Check Legislation
On November 2nd, 2010, voters in four states – South Carolina, South Dakota, Arizona and Utah – approved initiatives protecting the secret ballot in union elections, measures which will essentially, in the…
Climate “Consensus” Crack-Up Accelerates
Climate-gate and other recent travails of the enviro movement seem to have at last prompted soul searching from at least some of the Green Left. The Daily Telegraph’s Charles Moore…
California in La La Land: Part 2
However, California, in its infinite wisdom, did adopt Proposition 25, which was orchestrated by the California Federation of Teachers and will, as Fred Siegel of City Journal describes, “allow the legislature…
California in La La Land: Part 1
Voters in California, a state with a crushing 12.5 percent unemployment rate (well above the national average), on November 2nd rejected…yes, rejected, Proposition 23, which would have relaxed the state’s job killing environmental regulations until the…
Jobs Picture Still Bleak, Despite Gains
A private sector increase of 159,000 jobs, offset slightly by a loss of 8,000 government jobs, resulted in a net gain of 151,000 jobs in October. Not bad, certainly, but not great either, considering that,…
Election Day Puts Cap on Cap and Trade Congressmen
The voters turned with a vengeance on politicians who had voted for the economically ruinous cap and trade legislation. Over two dozen legislators who supported the energy taxing scheme were ousted by…
Flight Attendants Reject Unionization
The Association of Flight Attendants suffered a setback on November 3, when attendants for Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines by a narrow majority voted against union representation. Joanne Smith, senior vice…
House Enviro Committee Unlikely To Survive Next Congress
The House Energy Independence and Global Warming Select Committee, a Nancy Pelosi-created shop dedicated to helping usher climate change legislation through Congress, may be among the first casulaties of November…
Unions and the Election: A Mixed Bag
Despite spending some $200 million in support of liberal politicians across the country, Big Labor was unable to save the House of Representatives for the Democrats, or to prevent conservatives from making…