A California appeals court ruling clamping down on homeschooling by parents sent shock waves across the state this week, leaving an estimated 166,000 children as possible truants and their parents at risk of prosecution, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
$200 million dollars. That is the latest amount pledged, out of general treasury funds, by AFL-CIO bosses to spend on the 2008 presidential and congressional elections. The focus of much of their ire will be Sen. John McCain. Political director…
Fred Barnes, in The Weekly Standard, has an insightful take on the comparative economies of Right to Work state Alabama and forced-unionism state Ohio. . . . When the U.S. Air Force awarded a $40 billion contract for 179 new…
The National Education Association (NEA) is joining the chorus of Big Labor unions promising to spend millions of dollars in workers’ dues money this election cycle. “We plan to be very aggressive,” the teacher union boss told The Hill.
Missouri State Rep. Steve Hunter (R-Joplin), a champion of workers’ rights, has introduced House Bill 1811, a bill that would allow Missouri to enjoy the benefits of a Right to Work law. And it appears his efforts are paying dividends.
Sen. Barack Obama was critical of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) when they were working for Sen. John Edwards. But now that they are working and spending on his behalf, we have yet to hear a word. Before the…
The Wall Street Journal takes an insightful look into the economies of Texas and Ohio. There’s no doubt times are tough in Ohio. The state has lost 200,000 manufacturing jobs since 2000, home foreclosures are soaring, and real family income…
In exchange for Sen. Barack Obama’s lurch leftward on labor issues, Big Labor is returning the favor by spending millions in forced-labor dues to see him beat Hillary Clinton in Ohio and Texas, key Democrat primary states. SEIU has already…
Despite a lead against Hillary Clinton, Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign for the presidency has taken a sharp turn to the left as he seeks to conclusively grab the Democratic Party nomination. The Investor’s Business Daily adroitly notes that: Barack Obama…