The mayor of New York hits the nail on the head: Correcting this imbalance is not easy, but in a growing number of states, budget deficits are being used to justify efforts to scale back not only labor costs, but labor rights. The impulse is understandable; public sector unions all too often stand in the […]
Anyone shocked by this? Even as drug makers promise to support Washington’s health care overhaul by shaving $8 billion a year off the nation’s drug costs after the legislation takes effect, the industry has been raising its prices at the fastest rate in years. In the last year, the industry has raised the wholesale prices […]
Do you really honor them? At any point one of those 24 million could become a statistic like the 2,200 veterans who couldn’t afford insurance and died last year. How do you honor them when you won’t even support health care reform that would help end this crime against our people? [congress]W000804[/congress]
This award has to go to Erick at Red State for this tidbit : In South Carolina tonight, Democratic voters would rather vote for the rich, Southern, white man than either the black man or the female yankee. Excuse me? Obama won 55% of the vote. It sounds to me like Erick is trying to […]
This is totally disguising: A state police academy leader has disavowed the slogan of the most recent graduating class urging one another to “go out and cause” post-traumatic stress disorder. Each class at the Idaho Police Officer Standards and Training Academy is allowed to choose a slogan that is printed on its graduation programs, and […]
Every time Bush talks about our “robust and strong” economy, I just want to puke. He acts like if he says it enough then it must be true. Of course we all know Bush doesn’t read the papers to see articles like this: If you want to measure the strength of the city, you might […]