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Going Green and Costing Consumers on Labor Day

Sep4
 

-By Andrew Langer, Originally Published in the Washington Examiner
For most Americans, Labor Day will mean a much deserved day of rest, some time with family or friends, and maybe a parade here or hot dog there. Still, there’s the ‘labor’ in Labor Day to remember.
Beware, [...]

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Violence Soaked AFL-CIO Prez Calls Palin a McCarthyite?

Sep3
 

For his Labor Day weekend trick, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka leveled the charge of McCarthyism at former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. This is a bit rich from a guy with blood on his hands — and I don’t say that figuratively, either.
At a September 2 [...]

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True Cost of the Union Label

Sep3
 

Protectionist causes could cost Americans trillions
Note: This piece originally appeared in The Washington Times.
Here’s a Labor Day factoid: The total economic loss we’d feel from labor bosses’ and environmental activists’ joint “cap-and-trade” tax scheme – $10 trillion from 2012 to 2035 – is roughly the [...]

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Members of Oregon’s State Employee Unions Get 5% Pay Raises… as Taxpayers Lose Jobs!

Sep2
 

Unbelievable. In Oregon the reg’lar folks are losing their jobs right and left. And the bad luck for those actually paying the bills, the taxpayers, gets even worse because Oregon’s politicians have made sure that the state’s public employees unions get an automatic 5% pay [...]

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Quincy, Illinois Takes $6 Million for Train Station While Schools are $6 Million Unfunded

Sep2
 

If the situation in Quincy, Illinois doesn’t scream “government stupidity,” nothing does. The city of Quincy is being offered $6 million in state funds to build a new train station that it doesn’t really need while at the same time the city’s school system is [...]

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