Feb 9, 2015 – In a speech preceding the State of the Union Address, President Obama said that preempting state laws prohibiting municipalities from … for the] investments of market players.” … would be presumptively illegal under EU law — just as it would be under many of the state laws the President wants to overrule.…

Feb 7, 2015 – But what does all of this doesn’t do is drill down into the muck at the core of this man we elected President. … said in the State of the Union address…” I elected to stop before my constant readers got I-sore. … The bragging and the utter lack of self-awareness remind me of one of my kids when they behave badly.…

Feb 7, 2015 – From his State of the Union speech: Our unemployment rate is now lower than it was before the financial crisis. … you are so hopelessly out of work that you’ve stopped looking over the past four weeks — the Department of Labor doesn’t count you … In fact, it is on par with the aftermath of the dot com bust in the late 90s.  …

Feb 18, 2015 – Now Oklahoma is considering getting state government out of the business of collecting union dues. … Tom Newell (R-Seminole) introduced legislation to get the state out of union dues collection. … The group is an affiliate of the National Education Association, meaning some of those dues collected by the state for the OEA get…

Feb 14, 2015 – “The family is threatened by growing efforts on the part of some to redefine the very institution of marriage, by relativism, by the … Children are the supreme gift of marriage and contribute greatly to the good of the parents themselves. … These are areas where the union can’t reflect the free, total, faithful, fruitful love of the Bridegroom for His Bride and therefore…

Feb 13, 2015 – It seems that there’s no provision in the state constitution for such a thing – the only state in the Union that doesn’t have that, … Will Oregon Democrats really support a recall, given that the odds of them retaining the governorship in the resulting election will … [UPDATE: He may have already resigned by the time you read this.…

Feb 13, 2015 – by the end of the year. … Fighters loyal to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria are now in complete control of the city of Derna, population of about 100,000 … , not far from the Egyptian border and just about 200 miles from the southern shores of the European Union.…

Feb 11, 2015 – As if you needed any confirmation of the character or the participants in this process, the organizers are a veritable who’s who of … The other three candidates for Secretary of State in the most recent election ran on eliminating the office altogether, whereas La … “This runs so contrary to the Wisconsin traditions of bipartisan support; it is nothing more than this governor’s out-of-state handlers…

Feb 10, 2015 – In the interim, there is the lure of a second term in the Senate or even the opportunity of an open gubernatorial race in 2018.   … Union gives him a 93 and the Club for Growth a 91.   … Rubio’s entry into the race could change the calculus, but it is most likely a testing of the waters.  …

Feb 26, 2015 – Rauner can ram any of the above through the legislature, let alone term limits – or a legislative version of his executive order ending … the involuntary collection of union fines on non-union employees. … The current state of Illinois economy is grim enough that possibly even Combine politicians in good standing can recognize that ticks…

Feb 26, 2015 – Our first order of business was reclaiming power for the people of our state. … For too long, the big government union bosses had called the shots in our state capital. … According to polling, 69 percent of Wisconsinites support the policy, and a majority of union households—51 percent—also support the…

Feb 23, 2015 – Walker with anyone to the right of a communist union organizer. … With union reform in the shape of Act 10, much of the budget crisis vanished. … the role of a parasite on the economy.…

Feb 20, 2015 – the worst abuses of union power – the power to coerce workers in certain fields into mandatory union membership. … The efforts of Scott Walker against the public sector unions and in support of growing GOP numbers in the Wisconsin legislature have … Consideration of a Right to Work bill will start in the State Senate where Majority Leader Fitzgerald is reportedly confident that…

Feb 20, 2015 – government of the Land of Lincoln. … This is money unions get from the paychecks of state employees who elect not to be in a union. … to be in a union — that is fundamentally unconstitutional and it is against the American system of freedom of choice,” Rauner told…

Mar 10, 2015 – the dignity of an institution I revere.” … Democrats, like Ted Kennedy’s notorious pandering to the Soviet Union, simply do it to fire up the anti-American faction of their base … The Obama administration has decided that Iran, on the State Department’s list of state sponsors of terror, is a strategic partner…

Mar 6, 2015 – Wisconsin becomes the 25th state in the union approve right-to-work. http://t.co/Nx3RrTvBpt — Dan Spencer (@cayankee) March 6, 2015 … Which, of course, suits everybody involved. Moving on: the right to work bill will be signed Monday. … Perhaps the Activist Left has learned a harsh, yet valuable, lesson on the merits of knowing when they’ve been whipped back to their…

Mar 4, 2015 – Across the country, state governments have righted the ship from the brink of numerous fiscal disasters by decreasing the power … “The Board’s real goal is to dramatically tilt the outcome of elections in favor of union leaders by ambushing employers and workers … The American people are on the losing end of the Board’s extreme culture of union favoritism,” he said.…

Mar 3, 2015 – He spoke of how the West has been in a state of cold war with the Islamic Republic of Iran since the 1979 Iranian Revolution: from … He calmly explained how the Shia “Islamic Republic” of Iran and the Sunni “Islamic State” of ISIS are firmly rooted, despite their … All the while, the speech had the distinct feel of a State of the Union Address — except probably less petty and more bipartisan.  …

Mar 19, 2015 – The Jerusalem Post is the bearer of glad tidings. … During Barack Obama’s recent State of the Union speech, he told America he had no more campaigns to run. … Barack Obama wanted revenge against Netanyahu so badly that he used a group funded by The US State Department to be the fulcrum of…

Mar 15, 2015 – Harry Reid (D-NV)’ chamber=’senate’ mcid=’R000146′ ], still suffering from the effects of his “exercise accident” and drunk on abortion … the removal of language that would apply the Hyde Amendment, which bars federal funding for abortion services, to the bills fee-funded … on CNN’s “State of the Union.”…

Mar 13, 2015 – All teachers do the same job. This is literally the public position of the Colorado Education Association. … Non-ironically, the union position on excellence perfectly matches that of Syndrome from The Incredibles: [youtube]https://www.youtube.com … you are, in the eyes of the union, no different or better than your colleagues who punch a clock, do the minimum, and perform their…

Mar 13, 2015 – Chris Matthews, the Walter Winchel of MSNBC, yelled at his viewers accusing the senators of violating the Logan Act. … The government is exempt from the law, obviously, and the State Department determined in 1975 that Congress, as a branch of government … The rhetoric of the left has been farcical.…

Mar 31, 2015 – Versailles Treaty, and the Soviet Union, which was trying to modernize its military in between bouts of purging anyone who could read … Negotiations and the farce of breakout The combined effect of this is to make a farce of the key point in the Iran unclear negotiations … Credit: parts of this story, the specific instances of cooperation between Iran and North Korea and Syria, are the product of Omri…

Mar 27, 2015 – the right to proclaim their sodomy as a marital union under state law. … everyone that nothing of the sort could be the logical consequence of ruling that centuries-old state sodomy laws violated [pick your …  destroy state constitutional provisions and laws in the name of their desired end.…

Mar 25, 2015 – He said the Israeli “occupation that has lasted more than 50 years” could lead to “further isolation” of the Jewish state.  … Secretary of State James A. Baker is surely one of the most reviled public figures both in Israel and among American Jews. … Bank, and he publicly supported the Palestinian “right of return,” which would effectively end the Jewish state.…