Results for state of the union

  1. The "Evolving" Energy Policies of President Bystander https://redstate.com/vladimir/2013/06/29/the-evolving-energy-policies-of-president-bystander-n46326
    deploy more of the technology required for the even cleaner energy economy of the future. … And because billions of your tax dollars continue to still subsidize some of the most profitable corporations in the history of the … Here’s an excerpt from my review of Obama’s 2010 State of the Union address: Natural gas is the 800-pound gorilla that the President…
  2. Cultural Decline And The United States Supreme Court https://redstate.com/repair_man_jack/2013/06/27/cultural-decline-and-the-united-states-supreme-court-n46314
    The State AG of California refuses to enforce the law. … “We have never before upheld the standing of a private party to defend the constitutionality of a state statute when state officials … They are being compelled to perform by the iron-fisted majesty of the state against their personal conviction.…
  3. Did the Supreme Court's Gay Marriage Ruling Just Destroy Colorado's TABOR Law? https://redstate.com/smdavis/2013/06/26/did-the-supreme-cour…gay-marriage-ruling-just-destroy-colorados-tabor-law-n48299
    Although the case initially appeared to be confined to gay marriage laws in the state of California, namely the “Proposition 8” ballot … initiative which amended the state constitution to define marriage as a union between one man and one woman, the court’s decision … laws, citizens of that state cannot appeal the state court’s ruling in federal court.…
  4. SCOTUS DOMA Ruling A Loss For Big Government, Democrats https://redstate.com/dloesch/2013/06/26/scotus-doma-ruling-a-loss-for-big-government-democrats-n48133
    years lamenting the size of government could then argue for its increase by inviting it into the discussion of marriage. … In suing over “marriage” itself one is demanding that God change His definition of the union between a man and a woman. … The government has, for now, refrained from issuing a blanket statement against the institution of marriage, reverting instead to state…
  5. ObamaCare suckers needed, inquire within https://redstate.com/jhayward13/2013/06/20/obamacare-suckers-needed-inquire-within-n46272
    In the course of explaining why the White House is still spending huge amounts of time and money to convince Americans that ObamaCare … Kathleen Sebelius, stress-testing ethics laws by squeezing money out of the industries she regulates, while the sort of liberal groups … The embarrassing degeneration of ObamaCare into a wealth transfer program that feeds off healthy people is a perfect inversion of the…
  6. Oh Deer! Banished Teamster Boss Pleads Guilty to...Poaching? https://redstate.com/laborunionreport/2013/06/20/oh-deer-banished-teamster-boss-pleads-guilty-to-poaching-n46261
    In the often-sordid world of today’s union bosses, there are those that are bad, then there are those who are just downright abominably … In April, a Hoffa-appointed panel recommended that the Slawsons should be bannded from the union for life and repay the union tens … The state Department of Natural Resources announced Thursday that 42-year-old Bradley Slawson, Jr., of Ham Lake, Minn., pleaded guilty…
  7. Very special interests https://redstate.com/jhayward13/2013/07/09/very-special-interests-n46377
    This kind of practice takes place only in the government – in the private sector, union work and staff are paid for by union rules. … Not so with the public employee union.  They are appendages of the government that employs them.   … of union rules.  …
  8. California conservatives promise bloody primary for Leftist Republican https://redstate.com/jasonpye/2013/07/09/california-conservatives-promise-bloody-primary-for-leftist-republican-n48062
    Ami Bera (D-CA), who is considered to be one of the most vulnerable Democrats in the House. … Ose, who lost a congressional primary bid in 2008, is telling the media that he isn’t happy with the state of affairs in Washington … The organization opposed Ose’s candidacy, calling him “one of the most liberal Republicans in the House” because of his anti-taxpayer…
  9. What Three Dissents Signal for Marriage’s Future https://redstate.com/ryantanderson/2013/07/02/what-three-dissents-signal-for-marriages-future-n48332
    They still have the freedom to define marriage in civil law as the union of one man and one woman. … The second thing to do is to insist that the government respect those who continue to stand for marriage as the union of a man and … Mike Pence has called on his state to pass a constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman.…
  10. Obama's Biased NLRB: New NLRB Progressive Propaganda Chief Comes Straight From AFSCME HQ https://redstate.com/laborunionreport/2013/07/01/obamas-bias…essive-propaganda-chief-comes-straight-from-afscme-hq-n46331
    King joined the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) as Director of the Office of Public Affairs. … Most recently, he served as Assistant Director of Communications for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees … Since the NLRB was taken over by union attorneys in 2009, the neutrality and legitimacy of the labor board has been successfully challenged…
  11. Unions Lie. (Shocking, isn't it?) https://redstate.com/laborunionreport/2013/09/30/unions-lie-shocking-isnt-it-n46950
    The charges state that VW workers were told by UAW union organizers that a signature on the card was to call for a secret ballot unionization … The act of unions deceiving workers into signing their rights over to a a union during organizing campaigns is very commonplace. … However, one area that may be more deserving of the NLRB’s attention is the public threat that was issued by a German union official…
  12. Saving California: Interview with Greg Raths (R-CAND CA-45) https://redstate.com/breeanneh/2013/10/16/saving-california-interview-with-greg-raths-r-cand-ca-45-n47061
    His job is not just to be leader of the Democrats, he’s supposed to be the leader of the whole country.  … you have to live in the state.  … When I joined the military in 1972, the approval rating of the military was about 10% because of the Vietnam War. …
  13. VW's German Union May Be Violating U.S. Labor Laws. Will Obama's NLRB Do Anything About It? https://redstate.com/laborunionreport/2013/10/09/vws-german…u-s-labor-laws-will-obamas-nlrb-do-anything-about-it-n47011
    On Monday, another high-ranking official of the German union made the same type of coercive statement: Bernd Osterloh, head of VW … Because of this unique power afforded to the German union, when union officials state (in the press) that the expansion of the Tennessee … the votes or union activities of employees.…
  14. Election Outcomes & How New Jersey Voters Decided That Jobs Are No Longer Important https://redstate.com/laborunionreport/2013/11/06/election-ou…rsey-voters-decided-that-jobs-are-no-longer-important-n47204
    None of the above outcomes are really surprising. … What is somewhat surprising, however, is the overabundance of economic stupidity ambivalence residing in the Land of the Sopranos. … convinced the voters of New Jersey to increase the minimum wage to $8.25 per hour.…
  15. The illusion of choice https://redstate.com/jhayward13/2013/11/05/the-illusion-of-choice-n47198
    He wanted them to think it was a form of State-managed capitalism, a deathless idea that haunts the minds of intellectuals despite … A lot of the junk packed into ObamaCare’s thousands of pages serves little purpose beyond maintaining the illusion of choice.   … that the words he said dozens of times on camera, over the span of years, didn’t really mean anything.  …
  16. Virginia, Vote TODAY for Cuccinelli, Jackson, and Obenshain. It's important. https://redstate.com/neil_stevens/2013/11/05/virginia-vote-t…ay-for-cuccinelli-jackson-and-obenshain-its-important-n47193
    The Governor depressed us, the Lieutenant Governor depressed us, the transportation deal depressed us, and of course DC establishment … That reason is that Virginia is a Right to Work state, and the unions would dearly love to get a state back to make up for their losses … But what McAuliffe and the Democrats want to do is send Virginia down the path of Detroit, Robocop-style.…
  17. Why Unions Are Pouring Money Into Virginia & Why You Should Care https://redstate.com/laborunionreport/2013/10/31/why-unions-are-pouring-money-into-virginia-why-you-should-care-n47157
    Union bosses and other out-of-state liberals–from Hollywood to New York–are pouring millions into the Virginia governor’s race. … Given the amount of big out-of-state money and extraordinary efforts union bosses and their liberal cohorts are putting into the race … In addition to the potential risk to Right-to-Work, as a recipient of big union money, as governor, McAuliffe would have the ability…
  18. Arrests, Citations Lurk at Union Group Approved by Obama Admin to Promote ObamaCare in Wisconsin https://redstate.com/briansikma/2013/10/31/arrests-citations…oved-by-obama-admin-to-promote-obamacare-in-wisconsin-n48228
    In 2011 during the union and Democrat-led effort to recall Republican state senators from office, prosecutors investigated Wisconsin … Stoner was investigated for using a hotel address and out-of-state ID to vote in a Wisconsin election, the group hired him help manage … The result was 19 people arrested for disturbing the peace at the office of Senator Ron Johnson, and three people arrested during the…
  19. 'Free as the Wind': The True Cost of Wind Energy [Updated] https://redstate.com/vladimir/2013/11/16/free-as-the-wind-the-true-cost-of-wind-energy-n47295
    In a new report, the Daily Mail (UK) takes a close look at the state of environmental stewardship in the People’s Republic’s rare earth … The legacy of the Soviet Union and of the People’s Republic of China is of devastation of the landscape on a scale that it can be observed … The wise move is to consider all of the costs and all of the benefits of all of our options.…
  20. The Duplicity of Lindsey Graham https://redstate.com/streiff/2013/11/12/the-duplicity-of-lindsy-graham-n47252
    He has followed the age old playbook of establishment Republicans – talk conservative at home but play footsie with the Democrats in … administration makes survivors of the Sept. 2012 attack on the U.S. … “My request has been going on for a year, to talk to the five survivors,” Graham said on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday.…
  21. The New York Times Equates Opposing Obamacare With Slavery https://redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2013/11/22/the-new-york-times-equates-opposing-obamacare-with-slavery-n47350
    Elsewhere, the expansion of Medicaid, the health care program for the poor, has been one of the few success stories of Obamacare. … In Washington, the state predicts 10,000 new jobs and savings of $300 million in the first 18 months of expansion. … In the first place, are not state taxpayers a subset of federal taxpayers?…
  22. Senator Mike Lee Critiques the War on Poverty https://redstate.com/streiff/2013/11/19/senator-mike-lee-critiques-the-war-on-poverty-n47312
    When President Lyndon Johnson declared an “unconditional war on poverty” in his 1964 State of the Union address it represented, arguably … The essence of the speech was a singleminded devotion to the “the perfectability of man”: the notion that perfection can be achieved … We should not be afraid to address the shortcomings of the welfare state but we must acknowledge that those caught in this system aren…
  23. Lindsay Graham: House Benghazi report is "crap" https://redstate.com/streiff/2014/11/24/lindsay-graham-house-benghazi-report-crap-n51216
    Much of the left is crowing about a report issued by the House Select Intelligence Committee under Congressman [mc_name name='[ … Some of the early intelligence after the attacks was inaccurate. … “I think the report is full of crap,” Graham said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”…
  24. Obama's Justice Department declares war on school choice https://redstate.com/streiff/2014/11/21/obamas-justice-department-declares-war-school-choice-n51202
    Follow the money. If you kill school choice you increase the power of the teacher’s union, something they desperately need. … Closing the voucher program is the obvious objective of the teachers unions and hence of the Obama administration. … This, however, is the least of the Justice Department’s departures from the rule of law.…
  25. President Lincoln's 1863 Thanksgiving Proclamation https://redstate.com/conservativewanderer/2014/11/27/president-lincolns-1863-thanksgiving-proclamation-n51259
    advancing armies and navies of the Union. … , the shuttle or the ship; the axe has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious … of the Independence of the Unites States the Eighty-eighth.…