May 30, 2011 – Despite the fact that EFCA was designed to defeat the right forever, in 2007, the hallucinogenically-named Employee Free Choice Act … (aka Card Check) passed the U.S. … Now, though, the political climate has changed dramatically and, apparently, so has Thaddeus McCotter’s view on EFCA. U.S.…

May 27, 2011 – Tonight on the Erick Erickson Show — the autopen and the absent President. … It is a fitting metaphor for the President of the United States who seems to view himself as an extraordinary man in charge of an ordinary … The phone number is 1-800-WSB-TALK and you can listen live at http://wsbradio.com.Consider this an open thread.…

May 26, 2011 – The list, known as an Excelsior List , is provided to the NLRB, which then provides a copy to the union. … “We have to have an opportunity to express what the union’s view is,” he continued. “The excelsior list is the standard way.” … The question that remains is, will the union-controlled NLRB side with the union?…

May 23, 2011 – Let’s go back to 1964, which was arguably the first year of the modern campaign era. … Of the candidates listed, I think the candidate who can tap into the spirit of one year I didn’t mention is the guy who will be the … Conversely, those too tied to the “establishment”, whatever one might view it to be, will be hurt.…

Mar 31, 2011 – I keep calling it civil defense because we learned about the need for this after 9/11, and if the actions of the first responders after … But I’m of the view that there are legitimate government roles in society, and that not all things must be (or even should be) sold … Google settled with the FTC over the Buzz privacy holes.…

Mar 30, 2011 – An 18-month congressional investigation into AARP reveals that the organization stands to make more than $1 billion over the next … The stakes today are much higher. With more than 40 million members, AARP has the market corned on seniors. … According to the Kaiser Health Tracking Poll this month, a majority of seniors have an unfavorable view of the law.…

Mar 30, 2011 – During the 18th and early part of the 19th century infantry and cavalry regiments were identified by the colors of the cuffs. lapels … Smith didn’t know the uniforms in the advertisement were wrong. … wears the opposite colors of the army.…

Mar 29, 2011 – budget bidding for the Senate Democrats, who are facing off against the House Republicans over how spending for the rest of the fiscal … Schumer told them to portray John Boehner of Ohio, the Speaker of the House, as painted into a box by the Tea Party, and to decry the … Anybody who observed the dichotomy between the peaceful tea parties and the violent union rallies can easily determine who is in the…

Mar 28, 2011 – Please click here for the rest of the post. 3. … Please click here for the rest of the post. 4. … liberals it is their view on the rule of law.…

Mar 27, 2011 – If there is a key difference between conservatives and liberals it is their view on the rule of law. … So not a peep is heard about the clown car that is the Ninth Circus but the left goes crazy about the benign appearances of Justices … Hence the frothing over the Koch family.…

Mar 26, 2011 – Along the way, the Politico tells us this: The group, launched as a more traditional media critic, has all but abandoned its monitoring … as political organizations and the “nerve center” of the conservative movement. … News and you have the makings of a “we need money” PR blitz with the help of Media Matters friends in the press.…

Mar 26, 2011 – view of unilateral action than does the (theoretically) better-educated and (theoretically) more experienced President Obama.  … by the Democratic party. … The guy who did the waterboarding memos.…

Mar 24, 2011 – I grew up during the bleak days of segregation in America. … I can recall vividly the separate entrances, seating and water fountains. … Check out the video of my story:…

Mar 23, 2011 – Well… at least those elements of the aforementioned right-wing media that don’t read the papers, because, again the entire exercise … points of view than the liberal ones; sure, they try to explain it away by saying that “it’s more fun to be the bad guy” – but they … It’s fun to play the bad guy when the bad guy is over-the-top – but if conservatives were as over-the-top as progressives think that…

Mar 23, 2011 – Such is the case with President Obama and the actions in Libya. … Sometimes, frankly, war is the only answer given the options that may exist.   … Our Commander-In-Chief held a different view not too long ago when the political winds blew in the direction of anti-war.…

Mar 23, 2011 – The only way to achieve their goals, therefore–the redistribution of wealth and the return of “$17 trillion” stolen from the middle … banks to the edge of insolvency and forcing them to renegotiate the terms of the loans. … It would be dishonest to view the current American political process through any other less-jaundiced prism.…

Apr 10, 2011 – If you missed GOPTrust’s last hard-hitting ad, you can view it here. This, however, is their latest and it’s good. … v=Db45LkSGrxQ&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] If you’d like to see the ad hit the airwaves, you can help GOPTrust make it happen…

Apr 10, 2011 – Any honest reckoning of the budget deal the House GOP appears to have reached must view it as a result of negotiations in which one … side — the Democrats — believed they had the upper hand, and the other — the GOP — agreed. … From the start, the brain trust that nominally holds the majority in the House made clear that they would brutally knife their own…

Apr 9, 2011 – In the mid to late-1960s, before the advent of the internet and blogging (before the founders of Google, Facebook and Twitter were … knowing that WWII had ended 20+ years earlier, ran around the island capturing the castaways of the SS Minnow. … So much for “solidarity” in the age of the internet.…

Apr 7, 2011 – Kasich is, of course, one of the freshmen Republican governors that took over large swathes of the Midwest last election cycle. … v=V4egIA-UH2I[/youtube] The Midwest is probably the most interesting region of the country right now, from a political science point … of view: there are a lot of things being tried out in the social laboratories which are the individual states.…

Apr 6, 2011 – As per usual, the liberals are bending history and culture to their own view. … How else does one explain the America-loathing of the left? Power, itself, is the problem. … Ergo, men who have the power, are the problem. No, they’re not.…

Apr 6, 2011 – Ryan’s Budget: A Conservative View- The Excellent, the Good, and the Need for Improvement   6. … Ryan’s Budget: A Conservative View- The Excellent, the Good, and the Need for Improvement The moment we have been anticipating has … Here is a cursory breakdown of some of the major provisions of the Ryan plan, categorized by the excellent, the good, and the need…

Apr 5, 2011 – The moment we have been anticipating has finally arrived.  House Budget Committee Chairman has released his budget for FY 2012, along with his blueprint for tax and entitlement reform over the next decade.  This budget proposal, which would cut $5.8 trillion from the CBO baseline over the next decade, is a mature and...

Apr 5, 2011 – The answer invariably depends on the quality and size of other houses in the surrounding area. … the way down the income ladder. … The remaining inequality in society is heavily influenced by the lack of work at the bottom.…

Apr 4, 2011 – Likewise, the First Vatican Council proclaimed the books of the Bible were sacred “because, having been written by inspiration of the … believe the Bible to be the accurate word of God and evangelical or “born again” Christians are twice as likely to view the Bible … says, “the Koran, if you are a believer, if you`re a Muslim, the Koran is directly the word of God, not written by man.…