The Republican-led Ohio House voted Wednesday to severely limit the collective bargaining rights of 350,000 public workers across the state, sending a bill that’s sparked pro-labor protests for weeks back to the state Senate. The full House approved the measure on a 53-44 vote. A vote in the GOP-controlled Senate, which narrowly approved an earlier [...]
Archive for March, 2011
31 Mar
An OpEd the New York Times Wouldn’t Print
Maybe because it wasn’t penned by a union goon. In the weeks since Governor Walker introduced his reforms to balance the budget and protect middle-class taxpayers the New York Times has repeatedly used its editorial pages to opine on the reforms. All told there have been at least seven editorials, op-eds or columns in the [...]
31 Mar
The Price of Taxing The Eeeeevil Rich
The number of wealthy people to use as a sponge is shrinking. What will happen when the socialist utopia of wide-spread peasantry is finally achieved? As Brad Williams walked the halls of the California state capitol in Sacramento on a recent afternoon, he spotted a small crowd of protesters battling state spending cuts. They wore [...]
29 Mar
On the U.S. Army 5th Stryker Brigade ‘Kill Team’ (UPDATED)
Oh joy. The leftwing rag masquerading as a “rock-n-roll magazine”, squirts out another inflammatory piece on U.S. troops. Rolling Stone Magazine has published graphic images and unseen videos taken by so called ”kill teams” in Afghanistan, or what the Army describes as rouge elements of the 5th Stryker Brigade. In one previously unseen video, Soldiers are shown [...]
29 Mar
Anarchist Thugs Riot in Britain
The entitlement culture has another shit-fit. Over 200 people were arrested as extremists brought violent chaos to central London yesterday after hijacking the much-heralded trade union protest against public spending cuts. A massive clear-up operation was underway today after trouble continued to flare late into the night as hundreds of people clashed with officers in [...]