I don’t hear any Democrats complaining. Must be this is their MO. ========= Economist Diana Furchtgott-Roth writing for RealClearMarkets.com, Dec. 23: On Friday, just before the holidays, NLRB General Counsel Richard Griffin announced that he had issued complaints against McDonald’s MCD +1.01% franchised restaurants and McDonald’s USA, the parent corporation, as joint employers. Workers complained that they were unfairly disciplined in retaliation for... Read more
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Diane Furchtgott-Roth on the National Labor Relations Board
December 27 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, US ConstitutionSenate Democrats and 9/11 Amnesia
December 11 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Radical Islam, TerrorismPerhaps some “balance” would be helpful to the Democratic Report… Here again, it would be welcome to hear some more ‘objective’ discussion about the matter. ============== By Louis J. Freeh Dec. 10, 2014 8:00 p.m. Seventy-three years ago this week, on a peaceful, sunny morning in Hawaii, a Japanese armada carried out a spectacular attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor,... Read more
The Ebola Democrats
October 9 | Posted by mrossol | Big Govt, Democrat Party, Party PoliticsWho needs facts or all the numbers? =============== Frantic to hold the Senate, Democrats are now claiming Republicans are pro-Ebola—really. Anything is better than having to defend White House competence or even the adequacy of the public-health response, though this election debate would benefit from a fact or two. Here’s a heavy-rotation TV spot from Arkansas incumbent Mark Pryor against his GOP opponent:... Read more
Student Loans Worse Than Expected
September 23 | Posted by mrossol | Big Govt, Democrat Party, ObamaA sop to the voters… ==== Sept. 19, 2014 6:24 p.m. ET Recently we told you about a study from the New America Foundation showing how changes to the federal student-loan program will wreak fiscal havoc in the future. A new government report shows that Uncle Sam’s swelling loan portfolio is already threatening taxpayers. The Congressional Budget Office has released its monthly budget review,... Read more
How Wisconsin Prosecutors Became Campaign Partisans
September 23 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Party Politics, The Left, US ConstitutionImagine, if you can, that the subject was “left leaning”? ======== By Richard M. Esenberg Sept. 19, 2014 6:53 p.m. ET Last year Wisconsin prosecutors—at the behest of Milwaukee’s Democratic District Attorney John Chisholm —launched a secret criminal investigation involving almost every conservative advocacy group in the state. Armed law-enforcement personnel executed pre-dawn searches of the homes of consultants for the Wisconsin Club for... Read more
Al Gore v. Al Jazeera v. the Truth
August 24 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat PartyOf course, The Left will not attach one of their own. ========== As with the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, let’s hope both sides lose. Al Gore sued Al Jazeera, saying it still owes him $65 million from the sale two years ago of Mr. Gore’s unwatched liberal cable channel for $500 million. Al Jazeera says it’s rightfully holding back monies left in... Read more
