Jan 29, 2015 – And we will help put power back in the hands of the taxpayers by taking on the big government union bosses through collective bargaining … members of the Wisconsin State Senate left the state to avoid having to vote on the bill by preventing a quorum. … The City of Madison shut their school system down in acquiescence to protest activities undertaken by the teachers’ union.…

Jan 28, 2015 – Rauner is one of the many Republican success stories of the 2014 election, and it looks like he isn’t going to be one to waste his … I think it’s the number one conflict of interest in our state today.” … The major goal of his Decatur speech was to push one of his major policy goals: the establishment of “right to work zones” in the state…

Jan 28, 2015 – The success of Greece’s Coalition of the Radical Left, also known as Syriza, in the country’s parliamentary elections this past weekend … on a range of food products from the European Union, according to Syriza officials. … As Obama begins the last two years of his Presidency, Russia is going to be one of the major issues he will have to deal with.…

Jan 28, 2015 – When Joni Ernst gave the official Republican response to the State of the Union address, she included a homely detail from her childhood … Response on the left to Ernst and the bread bags was snobbish, superior and dumb to the point of embarrassing. … that had all the whiff of the upper class speaking of the quaint ways of the help.…

Jan 28, 2015 – negotiations and require the administration to officially inform the Congress of the progress in those negotiations. … In his State of the Union speech Obama threatened a veto of the Kirk-Menendez bill. … Americans see the development of Iranian nuclear weapons as one of the leading dangers facing the United States Unfortunately, that…

Jan 27, 2015 – state Capitol building in Madison and left the state deeply polarized around his leadership…. … Here is the basic reality of the Wisconsin public union fight: from beginning to ignominious end Democratic and progressive activists … But it’s only January of 2015. Let’s see how he does in the primary scrum first.…

Jan 27, 2015 – Across the country, unions are reeling. Union membership is at historic lows. … The action is organized by leaders of the National Union of Healthcare Workers, which has been battling Kaiser in contract negotiations … Bear in mind that California is hardly the only state where a lot of health care workers, including in the mental health care field…

Jan 26, 2015 – From his “State of the Union” speech: Since 2010, America has put more people back to work than Europe, Japan, and all advanced economies … the start of the Great Recession in December 2007 and December 2014. … The other 49 states and the District of Columbia together employ about 275,000 fewer Americans than at the start of the recession seven…

Jan 25, 2015 – One of the big falsehoods President Obama told during his State of the Union concerned Iran’s nuclear program. … As the article notes, the White House itself has said the likelhood of success is “at best 50/50.” … The deputy head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Lt.…

Jan 25, 2015 – During his State of the Union speech on last Tuesday, one of the few proposals he made that I could approve of was his push for an … “The idea that we’re going to get people to fight [the Islamic State] only, given the fact that most of them want to rid the country … He also doubts the number of recruits for the train-and-equip program will be enough to counter Islamic State fighters and Assad’s…

Jan 24, 2015 – As all of you hopefully know, President Obama gave his 2015 State of the Union address on Tuesday of this week. … I was going through the published imagess of the State of the Union earlier this week and stumbled upon a rather curious choice for … It looks like he’s enjoying the applause.…

Jan 23, 2015 – Left office with a surplus of almost $1 billion—a state record—setting the stage for further tax reductions. … He also consolidated dozens of school districts across the state to streamline administrative expenses and improve economies of scale … Huckabee’s leadership, our state employees and state legislators, including the governor, consistently ranked as some of the lowest…

Jan 22, 2015 – The echoes of the “State of the Union” speech had hardly died in the Capitol when House Speaker [mc_name name=’Rep. … I think it is farfetched to think that a head of state could arrange travel to the United States without the State Department knowing … , and there are members of Congress saying that State was aware of the trip.…

Jan 22, 2015 – of the nation support the bill? … report the incident to police — and said that the bill will do nothing to increase the rate of reporting. … The statute of limitations on rape and incest, in every state in the Union, extends well beyond 20 weeks.…

Jan 22, 2015 – With a Republican majority, the support of the majority of Americans and a bill that has already passed the House once before, today … ’s vote should have been the easiest one of all the issues the Republicans have said they will tackle. … Senator Joni Ernst even affirmed the importance of the pro-life issue in her response to the State of the Union saying, “We’ll defend…

Jan 22, 2015 – and Markets, Brad Jackson is joined by Robert Tracinski to discuss the State of the Union, peak leftism and what America may look like … Related Links: Obama’s State of the Union Delusion: Everything Is Awesome! Have We Already Reached Peak Leftism? … Transom The hosts and guests of Coffee and Markets speak only for ourselves, not any clients or employers.…

Jan 22, 2015 – Take Tuesday’s State of the Union address, for example. … It also should be noted that the 11pm hour was dominated by a live edition of Fox News’ “The Kelly File”. … Second, it should not surprise anyone that more people who tune in to CNN would be interested in the State of the Union than those…

Jan 21, 2015 – In last night’s State of The Union Show he offered us the following “fact.” … Like Ruth Bader Ginsburg at last night’s Snooze of The Union Speech, America should and probably will tune this crop of unrestricted … live the lifecycle of the intestinal parasite on our republic.…

Jan 21, 2015 – In the aftermath of the various terror attacks in Paris, someone remarked that it would be interesting to sit in on the writers … In last night’s “State of the Union” speech, Obama had this to say: So the question for those of us here tonight is how we, all of … There are a lot of good people here, on both sides of the aisle.…

Jan 21, 2015 – He who can’t help but toot his own horn (tooting his horn was his only moment of clarity in the whole State of the Union Speech), said … of the Union address, President Obama will propose a series of tax increases on the American people. … Talk about broken promises; this one is literally stripping the bark off the tree of life. …

Jan 21, 2015 – Last night’s alleged State of the Union address, however, may signify a change: we may now be able to pick a superlative blunder. … in describing the status of the negotiations. … On the day before talks resumed between Secretary of State [mc_name name=’Sen.…

Jan 21, 2015 – and why the State of the Union speech has become obnoxious and nearly irrelevant. … Related Links: Obama’s State of the Union Delusion: Everything Is Awesome! … At the State of the Union, a President Outgunned in Congress Is Still Combative Obama’s Defiant Speech State Of The Union Primer: What…

Jan 21, 2015 – Promoted from the diaries President Obama ended the State of the Union address in a new way. … the United States of America. 2013: “Thank you. … And God bless the United States of America.” What happened to “God bless the United States of America”?…

Jan 21, 2015 – This is what Obama proposed for the nation last night in his so-called State of the Union Address. … , lowering the taxes of working families and putting thousands of dollars back into their pockets each year. … Send me a bill that gives every worker in America the opportunity to earn seven days of paid sick leave.…

Feb 9, 2015 – the name of Christ.” … Earlier this year, NBC’s foreign affairs correspondent said that the president’s foreign policy claims in his State of the Union, “ … The truth is President Obama’s priorities seem out of touch with those of the American people.…