Nov 4, 2012 – of defending their state,” complains the “Swing State” blog. … political points, but by those who are feeling the inefficiencies of the offcials handling of the hurricane’s aftermath: “It’s chaos … ” for the wealthy and billing himself as the true agent of change in the election on Tuesday.…

Nov 3, 2012 – While state campaign finance reports show no expenditures to FieldWorks since the end of the 2010 election cycle, the FEC campaign … FieldWorks is registered with the secretary of state as one of the many authorized Voter Registration organizations in Colorado. … According to public records, FieldWorks came back into compliance with the secretary of state after four months of delinquency.…

Nov 2, 2012 – TTV’s state-specific e-books explain the rights and responsibilities of a citizen wishing to observe an election. … ProgressOhio predictably shares the “voter suppression” concerns of its union financiers. … At the end of August, TTV and D.C.…

Nov 2, 2012 – nuclear bomb to its target at the end of the movie “Dr. … (HT: Las Vegas Review Journal) While Barack Obama preens and acts committed to saving the victims of Sandy in the mode of a heroic … Meanwhile, our benevolent and caring state that we just can’t survive without is doing things to prolong the misery of New Jerseysites…

Nov 1, 2012 – I’m not sure exactly what good FCC monitoring could do though, except to use a crisis to expand the role of the state. … So here’s an interesting case: Will copyright be extended to the protection of region locking, in the case of the Thai textbooks? … The European Union continues to come after Google. I think the EU wants to stifle the Internet on the grounds of privacy.…

Oct 30, 2012 – With all the focus on the presidential race and some of the congressional elections, there are a number of important state ballot … Michigan Labor: Proposal 2 would enshrine collective bargaining rights for union into the state constitution. … Illegal Immigration:  LR-121 would require proof of citizenship in order for a person to receive certain services provided by the state…

Nov 13, 2012 – “When the Buckeye state faced the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression that threatened tens of thousands of education jobs …  as the union repeated memes and talking points ridiculing any opponent of big government. … The cover of the November 2012 issue of the union’s Ohio Schools magazine featured OEA campaign volunteers in matching “Educators for…

Nov 12, 2012 – However, according to multiple public and private sources, unions and union-related red tape are causing workers from out of state … of out-of-state utility workers in order for them to help in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. … The union crews, the source stated, are free to come and go as they please, yet the non-union FEMA contractors are being held back…

Nov 7, 2012 – Outside of those following union issues back then, many do not realize how the rift between the SEIU’s Andy Stern and his fellow union … The Service Employees International Union and the Brotherhood of Teamsters, citing the AFL-CIO’s penchant for political activism instead … allies’ constant campaign—union bosses had already laid the groundwork for the likelihood of a landslide.…

Nov 7, 2012 – He was the Republican, not the conservative. Even worse, look at the rest of the GOP field. … Romney, the man so weak anybody could beat him, beat the rest of the field. … The next two years will set the vision of a more populist oriented conservatism of which I am excited to play a part.…

Nov 16, 2012 – The events of this past week have Sno Balled rather quickly and Suzie Q is still in a state of shock. … Teamsters are calling the striking bakery union a bunch of Ding Dongs and Ho Ho’s. Yes, it is true. The great Twinkie is dead. … The Board of Directors authorized the wind down of Hostess Brands to preserve and maximize the value of the estate after one of the…

Dec 5, 2012 – , Michigan, and Indiana were 3 of only 5 states with wage growth below 30 percent over the course of the decade. … It had more than two times the miles of railroad track and nearly five times the number of factories,” Mayer explained. … “The real income for the average person in a RTW state was 1.6 times higher in 2008 than it was in 1977.…

Dec 4, 2012 – Of the 22 states which protected the right of employees in unionized workplaces to choose whether to pay a union boss, 17 had job growth … Had Ohio matched the rate of job creation in Alabama – the worst-performing workplace freedom state – Ohio’s economy would have added … Union bosses desperate to maintain the flow of forced dues often refer to right to work laws as “right to work for less.”…

Dec 3, 2012 – “True the Vote’s dark shadow is cast upon the state,” Mock wrote, adding that “the precedents set, and the brazen attitude of Husted … Nonetheless, Husted’s refusal to meet the exact demands of the Obama campaign resulted in an attack from ARC. … The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law is a chief partner of “Election Protection,” the coalition of labor unions and progressive…

Dec 3, 2012 – Democrats and Republicans in Washington seem unable to even approach the subject of cutting spending as a means of dealing with the … Unbeknownst at the time, Chambliss was among those unhappy with the unexpected rise of the Tea Party. … Komen, a long time financial supporter of Planned Parenthood, stood at odds with Handel when she championed the idea of the charity…

Nov 30, 2012 – “The entire state is seeing benefits from the oil and gas industry, not just the eastern part of Ohio.” … Kasich spoke as if the natural resources in citizens’ property belong to the State of Ohio.  … Wallace that “Big Oil” ships its profits out of the state, Media Trackers reported in August that Exxon and Chevron are two of the…

Nov 28, 2012 – But in the past decade, about the only thing separating the GOP from the Democrats is the rate of spending. … They believed in getting government the heck out of the way. … The party that in 1994 would abolish the Department of Education now brags in response to Clinton’s 2000 State of the Union Address…

Nov 26, 2012 – Be it resolved by the people of the State of Ohio that Article I, Section 22 of the Ohio Constitution be adopted and read as follows … (2)  “Person or employer” includes all persons and employers in the state of Ohio, whether public or private, with the exception … of the federal government of the United States and its employees…

Dec 12, 2012 – The abrupt, lame-duck passage of “freedom to work” legislation by Michigan’s Republican-controlled state legislature and Governor Rick … , but that is not slowing down conservatives and libertarians who are pushing ahead, inspired by what’s happening in the state of Michigan … more than the 62.6 percent increase for first-tier counties on the anti-business side,” Holmes wrote in the Spring 2000 issue of the…

Dec 11, 2012 – Here is footage shot from inside the tent as union protesters tore the tent down with people still inside: While 82% of Michiganders … What Right-to-Work legislation does do, however, is strip unions of the ability to have workers fired through so-called “Union (income … we should expect more of the same in the future.…

Dec 11, 2012 – At 12.6 percent, Pennsylvania had the lowest poverty rate of any of Ohio’s forced-unionism neighbors. … difference on granting workers the freedom to choose whether to pay a union boss. … We Are Ohio is lying to defend the power of union bosses, which is what We Are Ohio was created to do.…

Dec 9, 2012 – the state lawmakers’ move to give workers the right to work for unionized companies without being compelled to pay union fees or be … As the founder of today’s American labor movement said nearly a century ago: “I want to urge devotion to the fundamentals of human … liberty – the principles of voluntarism.…

Dec 7, 2012 – from day one has been to protect the interests of union bosses. … In 2011, when Wisconsin’s state legislature passed a law limiting the power of public employee unions, union demonstrators took over … Between posts comparing the passage of workplace freedom legislation to the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the union front group reiterated…

Dec 7, 2012 – Such is the case of the Machinists’ union and its “pet charity” the Guide Dogs of America. … Puget Sound is located in the state of Washington. … Of the union dues paid to the Machinists union in Puget Sound, the District Lodge sends a portion of those dues and fees to the union…

Dec 6, 2012 – Now, Michigan is but a signature away from becoming the nation’s 24th state to give workers the freedom to choose whether or not to … pay a union as a condition of employment. … Police were required to use pepper spray as union protesters tried to rush the Senate chambers.…