March 31st, 2011
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Obama Threatens Veto If Congress Strips Pro-Union Election Rules in FAA Bill
As noted on Tuesday, the FAA Reauthorization and Reform Act is scheduled for a vote today. However, the White House is now stating that it is likely the President will veto the legislation if a provision that gives union bosses the ability to more easily unionize airline (and railroad) employees is not removed. [via HuffPo] [...]
Support For The Koch Brothers From An Unlikely Source: The United Steelworkers
If you’ve been following the Wisconsin fracas over these past few weeks, you’ve probably noticed that the Left’s enemy du jour has become the American businessmen Charles and David Koch of Koch Industries. As an American company, Koch Industries employs over 50,000 Americans. In total, the number of American jobs that indirectly supported Koch Industries is over [...]
Morning Briefing for March 31, 2011
RedState Morning Briefing For March 31, 2011 Go to www.RedStateMB.com to getthe Morning Briefing every morning at no charge. 1. Joanne Kloppenburg Is Bothered By Outside Money Spent in Judicial Elections, Except for the $3 Million in Outside Money Being Spent to Elect Her 2. Ten Reflections On Libya 3. According to Dick Durbin, Presidents [...]
Tech at Night: Civil Defense in the D Block, Hugo Chavez, Google, Netflix, Amazon
Hello! As is my right, I’m going to start tonight by shamelessly promoting my own piece arguing for the assignment of the D block of wireless spectrum to civil defense and public safety. I keep calling it civil defense because we learned about the need for this after 9/11, and if the actions of the [...]
President Obama secretly accepts transparency award.
No, really. President Obama met with the transparency award givers in private; the award ceremony did not appear on his schedule, and had no press presence whatsoever. There wasn’t even a staff photographer there, much to the surprise of the transparency/open government people, who are all of them kind of confused that they had to [...]
Missouri redistricting hurts Russ Carnahan.
The below is being floated as a potential redistricting map for Missouri: I’ll summarize the changes as follows: Missouri loses a district, thanks to the 2010 Census. On the Republican side, Vicki Hartzler is liking this map least: she had some R areas taken away from her and given to Emanuel Cleaver, and has been [...]
Lugar Targets Federal Sugar Racket
Promoted from the diaries by Caleb. By Tad DeHaven The federal government has been meddling with sugar production since 1934. Today’s convoluted system of supply controls, price supports, and trade restrictions benefits domestic sugar producers at the expense of consumers and utilizing industries. In other words, sugar producers “win” and the rest of the country [...]
Union Reform bills pass in Ohio, Indiana Houses.
In Ohio, the final vote on SB 5 was 53-44; it’s already passed the Ohio Senate, but changes made to the bill require another quick vote on the legislation either today or tomorrow. This particular legislation goes a bit farther than the groundbreaking Wisconsin union reform bill; it redefines collective bargaining privileges for public sector [...]
AARP Investigation Reveals Obamacare Will Enrich Non-Profit Seniors Lobby
An 18-month congressional investigation into AARP reveals that the organization stands to make more than $1 billion over the next 10 years from Obamacare, a law the seniors lobby supported despite opposition among its core constituency. AARP, which operates as a tax-exempt organization in Washington, would profit from an increase in its insurance business, specifically [...]
Boots on the Ground in Libya — The Erick Erickson Show
We’ll be talking about boots on the ground in Libya tonight. You can listen live at http://wsbradio.com and call in at 1-800-WSB-TALK. Consider this an open thread.
