Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I am crazy abut this politician: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ksLlAi3iIc[/youtube] We have some spectacular young guns in the conservative party. The problem is timing. I don’t know if any will be ready by 2012, and it may be too late by 2016.
Continue readingThere are some things that seem immutable, right until a collapse that, in 20/20 hindsight, seemed inevitable. Just think of the Iranian Revolution, the Fall of the Berlin wall and . . . the SEIU? For some time, the Service Employees International Union has appeared to be a permanent fixture
Continue readingHere’s a beautiful matched set: The first part of the set is Daniel Henninger’s truly brilliant article about the way in which President Kennedy’s 1962 executive order allowing federal workers to unionize “transformed the Democratic Party into a public-sector dependency.” Henninger thinks this dependency broke down yesterday in Massachusetts. The
Continue readingThis is a portmanteau post, filled with interesting things I read today, some of which come in neatly matched sets. Opening today’s San Francisco Moronicle, the first thing I saw was that an illegal teen’s arrest is causing a stir in San Francisco’s halls of power. You see, San Francisco
Continue readingOne of my main bases for hostility to teacher’s unions is that increasingly have nothing to do with their original goal, which was ensuring a living wage and decent working conditions for teachers. (Not that they were always that effective at serving their original union mandate. My father was a
Continue readingI frequently read that the White House is dancing the to the various unions’ tunes because, as the saying goes, you “dance with them what brung you.” In other words, it was union money that helped (in a large way) to pay for Obama’s victory, and now the White House
Continue readingUnlike many people, I was not shocked to learn that the LA Unified School District is paying teachers not to teach, although the $10 million price tag strikes me as just a tad unreasonable. In the early 1970s, one of my teachers was a scary guy (not to mention a
Continue readingThis morning Mr. Bookworm offered me something: “Hey! You want to blog about something Obama’s doing that I don’t like?” I was curious. “What?” “This Employee Free Choice Act. What’s up with that?” “That’s been around for a while,” I said. “It’s one of the platforms on which Obama ran.”
Continue readingI’m ambivalent about unions. When they first arose as a real market force at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, I believe they were a necessary counterbalance to industries that (a) had unlimited power in the employment market place and (b) that abused that power
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