January 15, 2013

America's Post-Cliff Paycheck Pain

Hooray, America pulled back from fiscal cliff! That's great news, right? It might be, if you are President Obama, but the news is certainly more mixed for the working Americans whose paychecks fund D.C.'s continued spending. We normally think of ...

June 6, 2012

Big Labor: Credit Card Profiteers

It turns out that the union card may not be the most expensive item in union members' wallets. It could be their credit card, at once both attacked and sold by Big Labor's lucre-seeking bosses.  This week, Hoover Institution fellow Peter Schweiz...

January 31, 2012

Obama's Words Again Don't Match Actions

Last week's State of the Union address by the President sounded great. If one didn't follow any other news about the economy, jobs, bailouts, regulations, etc and just happened to catch the speech, the easy takeaway would be that the President unders...

January 6, 2012

Your Right to be Owned

Last year marked many labor/business conflicts, primarily spurred by a President beholden to paying back the special interests that helped put him in office. Using Executive and Regulatory Powers, there was an unprecedented flurry of pro Big Labor ac...

October 18, 2011

Yorktown vs Occupy Wall Street

This week over 230 years ago, the mighty British surrendered to the rag tag American patriot revolutionaries at Yorktown to cap off one of the most remarkable eras in world history. From what started as grassroots protestations over an invasive gover...

August 18, 2011

Shots Fired: The Union Attack On Business

Things are going from bad to worse in the Midwest, as Big Labor's rhetoric of intimidation is giving way to violence. Now we have to not only halt the assault on business, but halt the actual physical assault of business people. Just last week I wro...

July 30, 2011

Big Labor: The Real Hostage Takers

It took an amazing amount of gall, guile, or both for a former Ted Kennedy political staffer to decry supposed Tea Party "terrorist tactics" in seeking to rein in the debt drowning our nation. "It has become commonplace to call the tea party faction...

July 8, 2011

Job Creating Time, Not Twitter Time

While watching the President's Twitter townhall this week, I was struck with the thought of if "tweeting while the jobs disappear" is the new "fiddling while Rome burns". Embracing new technology is great, but the entire event is one more item cement...

June 20, 2011

With So Much At Stake, No Allowance For Error

Many politicians learned a hard lesson during the 2010 mid term elections. The takeaway: that millions of Americans were serious about cutting waste and restoring some fiscal sanity to Washington, DC. Republicans made massive gains in the House and a...

May 20, 2011

Time to Tame Wild Feds

A common piece of knowledge on animal behavior is to exercise extreme caution when a wild animal is cornered since it becomes desperate and will lash out. One gets a similar sense of desperation recently out of Big Labor and it's Federal Government e...

March 24, 2011

Will SEIU Tape Its Next Corporate Kill?

There have been some interesting and sometimes humorous caught on tape news items lately, but the most explosive and scary one was last week. The subject at interest here is Stephen Lerner, a former official with the powerful union SEIU, and he offer...

February 16, 2011

Budget Cuts: NLRB Good Place to Start

With great fanfare, this week the President released his new budget proposal-to a resounding thud heard around the country. After talking a big game in recent weeks trying to outpace Republicans in a move to sound like a centrist, his proposed cuts ...

January 20, 2011

We Need A Real Halt To The Regulatory Assault

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