Jan 15, 2013 – the Wisconsin Court of Appeals a local teachers union is arguing that the law is unconstitutional when applied at the local level. … law in September of last year should apply to every county in the state. … Advocates of the reform, including the legal counsel retained by the state to defend the law, were also asked by the Court to address…

Jan 15, 2013 – The International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) Local 18, a Cleveland-based labor union, has purchased at least one billboard … Visible from SR 315 southbound between Ackerman Road and Lane Avenue, near the campus of The Ohio State University, the sign marks … Like the Ohio Education Association, Service Employees International Union Local 1199, and American Federation of State, County and…

Jan 14, 2013 – The Ironworkers’ union organizer who drafted the pro-union bill, Steven Sweeney, also happens to be the president of the New Jersey … (R), a study conducted during Democrat Governor John Corzine’s reign showed that the costs of union-only PLAs increase the costs on … and pull union support away from the popular governor, more so since the Laborers union endorsed him in December.…

Jan 13, 2013 – This is the first of several posts about the union agenda to end the Senate filibuster…. Ending the Senate filibuster? … to yet another state capitol–all over the issue of money going to union bosses coffers. … However, union bosses’ effort failed…due to the use of the threat of a filibuster in the Senate.…

Jan 11, 2013 – So while the goal is still the same, the scope of this program has changed significantly,” BFA explained before answering a number … Employment as an educator and a valid concealed carry permit in the applicant’s state of employment are the only prerequisites for … The National Education Association (NEA), America’s largest labor union, opposes Second Amendment rights as a matter of progressive…

Jan 28, 2013 – Such is the case when it comes to the union claim that Right-to-Work means Right-to-Work for less. … For example, Texas per-capita income was $37,098 but would have a purchasing power of $49,700 in the state of New York in 2007, according … It is shocking not surprising that union bosses would stoop to such levels in order to maintain the amount of money coming into their…

Jan 28, 2013 – most heavily Catholic state in the union. … “[a]t the outbreak of the Revolution, the total land forces of Great Britain exclusive of militia numbered on paper 48,647 men, of … Colonel Lindsay of the 46th lamented that the valor of his men was so often “rendered vain by the badness of the pebble stone.”…

Jan 24, 2013 – Ohio union bosses are desperate to keep mandatory union dues in place across the state following the December 2012 adoption of a right … Each of Ohio’s neighboring forced-unionism states had higher fatal work injury rates than the Buckeye State in 2011. … portion of the country.…

Feb 7, 2013 – percent of the federal poverty line. … Extending the unsustainable promises of Medicaid will grow the program’s costs and complexity while diminishing any future hope of … 55 miles per hour depending on the final configuration of lines and stations.…

Feb 6, 2013 – What’s worse is that the State of Michigan apparently granted his request for unemployment. … Al Sprague has served as a business agent but has also applied for and received unemployment compensation from the state of Michigan … perhaps, the State of Michigan.…

Feb 6, 2013 – the previous record of 8.2 million during the great decade of immigration from 1900-1909.  … Going back to the fall of the Soviet Union, a major immigration-inducing event, we’ve accepted roughly 616,000 new LPRs from Russia … In the earlier part of the last century, this wasn’t a major problem because there wasn’t a robust welfare state saddling our children…

Feb 5, 2013 – impede the growth of government,” wrote Philip Klein at The Examiner in DC. … “Chastened by his failed attempt at public sector union reform and Obama’s victory in the state, Kasich is up for reelection next year … Further cementing the fact that Kasich is embracing the growth of one of America’s largest entitlement programs, his budget proposes…

Feb 1, 2013 – The importance of the militia as both a bulwark against tyranny and a line of national defense was, of course, famously the backdrop … to command them at need “to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions”). … hands the rest of the war.…

Feb 19, 2013 – In his remarks in favor of the campus gun ban, Salazar noted that women on college campuses have other methods of protection against … beginning in 2003 — the same year the university agreed to allow the concealed carry of properly permitted handguns on its campuses … Over the course of his campaign in the the 2012 election cycle, Joe Salazar received funding from a diverse range of fellow Democrats…

Feb 17, 2013 – Obama is King of the Lotus Eaters. … the economic consequences of his (and their) decisions to the wind. … Such is the case with Obama’s State of the Union call to raise the minimum wage 24%–from the current $7.25 to $9.00 per hour.…

Feb 16, 2013 – McCarthy’s pursuit of Communists in the 1950s. “It was reminiscent of some bad times.” … Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, said that some of the demands Mr. Cruz made of Mr. … It’s no coincidence that while McCain was beclowning himself with Schumer during the State of the Union Address, Cruz was sitting by…

Feb 14, 2013 – Over a year later, after one of the three “recess” appointments resigned, on January 25th, the U.S. … Because Obama’s appointments have to still be resolved by the Supreme Court, his re-nomination of the same two individuals may indicate … The timing of Obama’s re-nominations–a day after his State of the Union speech–signals that he is doubling down on the union agenda…

Feb 14, 2013 – Who may or may not drink 10 liters of Coke every day, then blame the eeevil Americans for the consequences. … Major failure of the Anontards this week, as their promised blockade of the State of the Union address was about the biggest fizzle … “We will form a virtual blockade between Capitol Hill and the Internet. … There will be no State of the Union Address on the Web tonight…

Feb 13, 2013 – Victoria Brink is, and I am quoting the Hill on this one**, “a Texas State University blonde bombshell featured in a college co-ed … nice to know you were watchin SOTU(state of the union).Happy Valentines beautiful girl. ilu ‘ilu,’ as the Hill helpfully tells us … But I have this rule about being a bachelor Congressman who goes around sending probably-meant-to-be-DMs to the “the daughter of a…

Feb 13, 2013 – There will be many words from many people about much of the President’s State of the Union speech from last night.I will only focus … bills shouldn’t be based on the number of tests ordered or days spent in the hospital – they should be based on the quality of care … number of days in which a patient stays in the hospital.…

Feb 12, 2013 – The Tea Party Express has brought Sen. … Rand Paul to provide a Tea Party response to the President’s State of the Union address.…

Feb 12, 2013 – Tonight, use this thread to post your comments on the State of the Union and Marco Rubio’s response. … Bing Politics is going to present a live stream of the State of the Union address tonight and you can participate in its interactive … In the year we won our independence, Adam Smith described what creates the Wealth of Nations.…

Feb 12, 2013 – , the American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees–better known as AFSCME. … I am sick and tired of the politicians who stand with us behind closed doors, but kick us to the curb in front of the cameras. … The problem for union-bought politicians, however, is the fact that, after decades of mismanagement and lucrative government-union…

Feb 12, 2013 – They were included as guests in the First Lady’s box for the 2010 State of the Union address. … s State of the Union address in 2010. … Something to think about as you watch tonight’s State of the Union political theater with its shooting victim props.…

Feb 12, 2013 – Now, this is rich: Here’s what we know about President Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday night: It will include some news … Well, worked for him; state-party Republicans have been finding his efforts to be of great help, all across the land… (H/T: Hot Air … black people there are in the House of Representatives; but even the ones who aren’t scared of minorities are kind of missing the point…