Union Dues – John Malcolm

Victor Davis Hanson: The Liberal Super Nova

June 17, 2012 by John Malcolm 5 Comments

By Victor Davis Hanson | June 11, 2012 | PJ Media

Two parties, left and right, are central to good consensual government — one the perennial check on the other, both within the general boundaries of constitutional free-market capitalism.

Yet the hard-Left takeover of the Democratic Party has meant that there is no longer a credible balance in our system, as almost all the tenets of contemporary left-wing ideology are blowing up, imploding super nova style — unsustainable ideas that are contrary to human nature and demand coercion for their implementation, given that they are increasingly anti-democratic and have to be implemented from high by an elite technocracy whether in Brussels, Sacramento, or Washington.

Far too much is always seen as not enough: Greeks are angry that there was too much “austerity” and not enough of the old borrow and spend; Obama is blamed for only borrowing $5 trillion for too “little” stimulus; Democrats threaten to withhold from the community-organizer Obama because he was not hard enough on “fat cats” and the capitalist state; in California, a 10.3% income tax is too low, not too high. When the remedy is seen worse than the disease, then the patient is indeed terminal.

Let me do a brief survey of the fissuring liberal world in which we live:

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A Republican Liberation Movement [Video]

June 12, 2012 by John Malcolm 1 Comment

By Daniel Greenfield | June 10, 2012 | Sultan Knish

The real lesson of Wisconsin is that the Republican Party is at its strongest and greatest when it acts as a revolutionary liberation movement, breaking apart the power relationships of the Democratic Party that stifle people’s personal, economic and religious lives.

The Democratic Party has made it its mandate to politicize and collectivize the personal. It has done this to militarize every area of life, to transform all human activities into a battlefield and to bring every area of life under the aegis of its power relationships. These power relationships form its infrastructure, fusing together governmental and non-governmental organizations, to form the true ruling class.

These power relationships act as dams, walling up human energy into organizational structures, they create the mandates that provide power and money to the organizations, which are fed throughout the infrastructure to create a massive cage of bureaucrats, activists and think-tanks that set the agenda, which becomes law, and is then enforced by governments at every level.

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Afterburner With Bill Whittle: Hope… and Change

June 9, 2012 by John Malcolm Leave a Comment

Europe is descending into a horrible debt nightmare. Will unions throw America into a similar debt spiral, or will voters stand up to organized labor as they did in Wisconsin? Find out as Bill Whittle tells you about the dangers of socialism, and the true impact of Governor Scott Walker’s recall win in Wisconsin.

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The Bell Tolls For the Government Unions

June 9, 2012 by John Malcolm Leave a Comment

By Patrick J. Buchanan | June 8, 2012 | Human Events

In 1919, after Boston police went on strike to protest the city’s refusal to recognize their new union, Gov. Calvin Coolidge ordered the National Guard into the streets.

Sam Gompers, the legendary father of American labor, wrote the governor that the Boston police had been denied their rights.

Coolidge’s terse reply put him in our history books:

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Ed Klein on Clinton, Kenya, Wright–and Obama

June 8, 2012 by John Malcolm 3 Comments

By Joel B. Pollak | June 8, 2012 | Breitbart News

On Tuesday, against the backdrop of the Wisconsin recall election, Breitbart News interviewed Ed Klein, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House. We discussed Klein’s own politics, his methods in researching his subject, and the reasons the mainstream media failed to vet the president when it first had the opportunity during the 2008 presidential campaign.

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Glenn Beck: Do you realize how close you are to winning? [Video]

June 7, 2012 by John Malcolm 2 Comments

By Staff Report | June 7, 2012 | GlennBeck.com

All week, Glenn has been tackling the problems in America and giving viewers and listeners tangible steps they can take in order to turn things around. On radio this morning, he took a hard look at how out of control regulation has become in this country and how small government people are getting ready to turn back the tide.

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After Wisconsin Exit Polls, White House Must Wonder If All the Polling is Wrong

June 6, 2012 by John Malcolm Leave a Comment

By Rush Limbaugh | June 6, 2012 | RushLimbaugh.com

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RUSH: You know what they’re asking themselves in the White House today? They’re probably asking themselves a lot of things, and they’re probably lying to themselves about a lot of things. I think the question that they’re asking themselves today, something along the lines of, “What if all of the polling we have is wrong?”

Greetings, my friends, great to have you back. Here we are, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies. Great to be with you. Here’s the telephone number: 800-282-2882. E-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com.

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George Will Schools Krugman on Gov. Walker: $3 Billion Deficit ‘He Inherited’ Has ‘Become a Surplus’ [Video]

June 3, 2012 by John Malcolm Leave a Comment

By Noel Sheppard | June 03, 2012 | Newsbusters

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman got another much-needed education from syndicated columnist George Will on ABC’s This Week Sunday.

After Krugman impugned Gov. Scott Walker (R-Wisc.) for his so-called “fiscal irresponsibility,” Will simply and quite accurately responded, “A more than $3 billion budget that he inherited, a deficit, has now become a surplus” (video follows with transcript and commentary): [Read more…]

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Exposed: Wisconsin Democrats’ Plan to Smear Conservatives and Governor Walker [Slideshow]

June 3, 2012 by John Malcolm Leave a Comment

Exposed: Wisconsin Democrats’ Plan to Smear Conservatives and Governor Walker

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Unlike Obama, Scott Walker delivers

June 1, 2012 by John Malcolm 3 Comments

By Sen. Ron Johnson | May 31, 2012 | Politico

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is shown here. | AP Photo

Scott Walker has lived up to his campaign promises, author says. | AP Photo

Starting Wednesday, most of the folks I know in Wisconsin will be looking forward to a well-earned respite from what seems like a permanent campaign.

Instead of taking a break from politics between elections, Wisconsin has for months been dealing with fugitive legislators, ugly protests, legal challenges and a series of recall contests allegedly aimed at overturning Gov. Scott Walker’s legislative agenda. There’s virtually no possibility that his successful reforms will be overturned, so one has to wonder: What exactly is the point of Tuesday’s recall vote?

The simple facts are the governor’s reforms have worked, and Wisconsin is open for business.

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The Road to Recall: One Left-Wing Loss After Another in Wisconsin

June 1, 2012 by John Malcolm Leave a Comment

By Joel B. Pollak | June 1, 2012 | Breitbart News

Tuesday’s recall election in Wisconsin is the culmination of a long political campaign waged by the left to reverse the results of the watershed 2010 election, and to prevent reforms that might be imitated elsewhere. These included: tax cuts for job-creating businesses, spending reductions to turn deficits into surplus, and collective bargaining reforms that freed state and local governments from the onerous cost of union benefits.

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Scott Walker vs. Barack Obama

June 1, 2012 by John Malcolm 3 Comments

By Rush Limbaugh | May 31, 2012 | RushLimbaugh.com

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RUSH: Matthews, North Carolina. Hi, Neil. Great to have you with us. Hello.

CALLER: Hey, Rush, how you doing?

RUSH: Very good, sir. Thank you.

CALLER: Hey, listen, there’s an important lesson to be learned when you examine the stark contrast between Governor Scott Walker’s campaign and President Obama’s campaign.

RUSH: What would that be?

CALLER: Both men have records, but only Scott Walker is running on nothing but his record and winning big.

RUSH: And Obama can’t run on his record. Is that the lesson?