They’re not even hiding it anymore. Fox News knows that it is losing its grip on the country. Democrats have woken the fuck up and are realizing that hey, maybe handing over the elections to the Republicans wasn’t the best fucking idea they’ve ever had, and are starting to take THEIR country back, bitches. So …
Fuck The Middle-Class
Sometimes We Call Them Kickbacks, Other Times We Call It the Invisible Hand
At Reason, Jacob Sullum explains the story of the corrupt Judge in PA who received payments for in turn sending business to corrections facilities: Mark Ciavarella, the corrupt Pennsylvania judge who is the subject of my column today, prided himself on taking a tough, no-nonsense approach to juvenile offenders, refusing to accept excuses or consider …
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The fog of class war
A couple very smart comments on the melee in Madison. Aiuriade: Am I the only person who thinks that even if there isn’t a larger more sympathetic feeling towards unions in the country as a result of the current actions of various GOP governors that just the loss of votes from union households might be …
Hurt his eyes open
Mitch Daniels says it’s all over now for the anti-labor bill in Indiana: Gov. Mitch Daniels signaled this afternoon that Republicans should drop the right-to-work bill that has brought the Indiana House to a standstill for two days and imperiled other measures. If the Village says we’re losing, then we’re winning. Update. Florida: another one …
It’s a death trap
I think the Wisconsin labor situation will end up helping Democrats, and, as with many important issues, this isn’t easily measured by public opinion polls. In most opinion polls, for example, Americans favor reproductive rights, but the majority of people who make their vote solely on the basis of reproductive rights are opponents of reproductive …
The fight spreads
It’s not just Wisconsin: Wisconsin remains the main battleground for the broader assault on worker’s rights. But elsewhere in the Big Ten states and across the country, these battles have moved forward. In Ohio, Gov. John Kasich is pushing pretty much the exact same bill as Scott Walker in Wisconsin. Known as SB 5, the …
American beauty
Some plain talk from the executive director of the National Nurses Association, RoseAnn DeMoro, on the notion that the DNC is closely involved with the protests in Madison: This is such a DC insider insipid analysis. Of course the DNC didn’t lead this, it was a protest. This DC insider perspective is not the shared …