Feb
27
Crossposted at Howling Wolf:
Public sector unions are a cancer in America. They are causing a massive economic crisis and, in terms of education, are the single most significant impediment to educational reform. All of this presents an opportunity for the right to address this issue and to build new alliances that could work a sea-change [...]
Feb
26
Detroit mayor on unions: “Either they can’t read, they can’t add or they can’t comprehend”
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Crossposted at Marathon Pundit:
If you want to investigage what could be coming in regards to political trends, I suggest you take a look at Detroit. I’m not kidding. Mayor Dave Bing, the former Pistons great, has some sound ideas in regards to turning around his troubled city. He’s the first Detroit mayor to concede that [...]
Feb
26
Crain’s Chicago Business: “Illinois is headed toward a governmental collapse” — but I rate Hopeychangeyland’s finances ‘a good, solid B+’
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Crossposted at Doug Ross Journals:
Crain’s Chicago Business describes the scene in the state that brought us hope and change.
…Despite a budget shortfall estimated to be as high as $5.7 billion, state officials haven’t shown the political will to either raise taxes or cut spending sufficiently to close the gap.
As a result, fiscal paralysis is spreading [...]
Feb
25
Fun with the White House Flickr Feed
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9:03AM WATCHING THE NEWS
10:44AM MEETING WITH ECONOMIC ADVISERS
11:34AM REFLECTION BEFORE LUNCH
2:12PM AFTER LUNCH BREAK
5:43PM HEADING BACK HOME
Feb
24
By Ghost of John Brown
The other day, I stumbled upon a webcast of one of the Committee hearings in Washington, DC. It got me thinking, “I wonder what my Congressman’s thoughts are on certain issues?” I wondered if I could see him in the middle of a back and forth discussion with panel members. [...]
Feb
23
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 — The office of Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., issued the following news release:
Communications experts say that fear is the best way to get attention when you’re trying to win an argument. Groups who oppose nuclear power have certainly mastered that technique by playing to economic, environmental, and safety fears.
So I’d like to [...]
Feb
23
by Tom Roeser:
Not long ago, The New York Times’ editorial page columnist Gail Collins surveyed corruption in all 50 states and finds, unsurprisingly, that Illinois now holds the lead. And to confirm her estimate that nothing daunts the comatose Illinois pro-Dem, pro-Squid voter, a recent poll shows Illinoisans prefer Pat Quinn to Bill Brady 42 to [...]
Feb
23
by Brian Costin
Many elected officials in Illinois have embraced red light cameras, purportedly as a safety tool. They claim the cameras will make intersections safer by reducing accidents, and that any money made from the cameras is merely incidental to the primary focus of making intersections safer.
Sounds innocent enough, but what if cameras did the [...]
Feb
23
Top 100 School Administrators Salaries and Pensions - Illinois 2007
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Prepared by Bill Zettler
Feb
22
Union Sock Puppets Well Laundered
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Fox News has a story this morning about the elaborate web of funding behindTheTeaPartyIsOver.org, which includes most major American labor unions. In the 2008 election cycle, NEA dropped $260,000 on one of the many front groups operated by Craig Varoga and George Rakis, two men Fox News identifies as “Democratic Party strategists.”
Readers of this blog will not [...]
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