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More Legal Shenanigans from the Biden Administration’s Department of Education

Among the foremost threats to individual freedom in America is the abusive and oftentimes lawless behavior of federal administrative agencies, whose vast armies of overpaid bureaucrats remain unaccountable for their excesses.

Among the most familiar examples of that bureaucratic abuse is the Department of Education (DOE).  Recall, for instance, the United States Supreme Court’s humiliating rebuke last year of the Biden DOE’s effort to shift hundreds of billions of dollars of student debt from the people who actually owed them onto the backs of American taxpayers.

Even now, despite that rebuke, the Biden DOE launched an alternative scheme last month in an end-around effort to achieve that same result.

Well, the Biden DOE is now attempting to shift tens of millions of dollars of…[more]

March 19, 2024 • 08:35 AM

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31 Verizon and Wisconsin: Big Losses for Big Labor, Victories for Everyone Else

Big Labor warned us it would roar into 2012, an awakening colossus punishing everyone who stood in the path of its political agenda.  Today, union leaders are instead whimpering following two symbolic and high-profile losses against Verizon and in Wisconsin.  Those setbacks for Big Labor translate to victories for everyone else, but more…

32 Obama Administration Undermines Federalism to Prop Up Faltering Unions

Back in the halcyon days of the American labor movement, the protection of a union job brought with it a responsibility to one’s employers and the consumers they served. In fact, the operating mantra of the labor shop was “better products at lower prices.” Regardless of how true that promise ever was, at least it represented a recognition…

33 Liberals, Big Labor Bring Athens to America

Less than one year ago, riots in Athens provided a distant, amusing spectacle for Americans an ocean away.  The Greek government, suffering a predictable debt crisis caused by years of budgetary recklessness and entitlement spending, requested a bailout from the European Union and International Monetary Fund, which conditioned relief on public…

34 Gaddafi, Wisconsin Unions Suffering from Martyr Complex

Some people have a death wish.  Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi is pledging to “die a martyr” defending his autocratic, blood-soaked rule.  The pro-union protestors in Wisconsin would rather risk layoffs than weaken their grip on the state’s fisc.  In very short order, both might realize the consequences of their convictions…

35 Big Labor, Obama Administration Shift Strategies to Impose Their Agenda

Big Labor’s expansionist agenda has failed miserably in Congress and the court of public opinion.  So now, along with “Net Neutrality” Internet regulation and global warming mandates, the Obama Administration seeks to dictate through unelected administrative agencies the labor wish list it couldn’t achieve through the…

36 While Members Suffer, Unions Waste Millions on Political Campaigns

Today’s labor movement claims to hold its individual members’ welfare paramount.  So what message do its leaders send when they opt to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on political campaigns while members continue to suffer very difficult economic times?  This week alone, media reported a coordinated campaign between the…

37 Why We’re Boiling Over: Federal Salaries Now Twice That of Private Sector

Former Reagan Administration speechwriter and current Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan authored a widely-acclaimed commentary last week entitled “America Is at Risk of Boiling Over.”  Noonan mourned the increasingly hostile state of our union, that “fraying of the bonds that keep us together.”  She also…

38 New Obama Administration Rule Greases Union Wheels, But Runs Over Taxpayers

Barack Obama promised to bring an end to old-style crony politics during his “post-partisan” 2008 presidential campaign.  This week, he again betrayed the fatuousness of his self-professed political raison d'etre by issuing a rule transparently rewarding his Big Labor campaign benefactors.  But don’t worry, America. …

39 Working for The Man: Federal Employment Spike Exacerbates Dependency on the State

If you’re an experienced worker looking for employment during the recession and in need of some schadenfreude, feast your eyes on this recent headline: "Job market worsens for recent college graduates."  The L.A. Times article profiles a recent UCLA graduate’s failure to land a job after nearly a year of applying to 600 positions…

40 Waxmanism, the New McCarthyism

Since over-the-top name calling is the new sine qua non (see Boethius) of public policy debate, from the President on down to the congressional backbench second through ninth circles of hell (see Dante), let’s just get real deep in the big muddy with the rest of them. That civil discourse stuff, which we once supported, is for varsity…

41 Big Labor Resorts to “Land Shark” Impression on Card-Check Legislation

Purported EFCA “Compromise” Retains Job-Killing Mandatory Arbitration and Snap Election Provisions News out of Washington, D.C. this summer hasn’t been wholly bad. In recent weeks, Democrat Senators effectively killed union card-check legislation because its provisions eliminating secret ballot voting during union elections proved…

42 Big Labor and Government Motors

Less than a month after Vice President Joe Biden told labor union leaders that he believed that the best way to build the middle class is to help their unions grow, General Motors filed for bankruptcy protection and few in the auto industry seem willing to discuss the role that unions played in its demise. With the United Auto Workers’ benefit…

43 A Tale of Two Arbitrations: Big Labor Commences One Ambush While Trial Lawyers Prepare Another

Arbitration is ordinarily a very good thing.  But it can sometimes be a very bad thing.  Distinguishing the two will become very critical, very soon.  Why?  Because Big Labor and trial lawyers are preparing a two-pronged arbitration assault before Barack Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi exhaust what remains of their political…

44 Card Check: Is Now Really the Time to Jeopardize Even More Jobs?

This week, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Barack Obama thrust their cynical “Never Waste a Good Crisis” agenda into full speed. After already capitalizing on the economic downturn as an excuse to propose everything from socialized medicine to contraception subsidies to global warming taxes, they finally introduced their hyper-partisan crown…

45 Keeping an Eye on "Card Check" Legislation

“It is still on the stove but I would characterize it as being on the back-burner. The last thing our country needs is legislation that would further hurt the economy. Perhaps that explains why Congress has not moved forward as quickly as it did last year with the controversial Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), commonly referred to as &ldquo…

46 Got Money To Burn Right Now? Big Labor Apparently Does

During this difficult economic period, is pouring tens of millions into political lobbying the best way for union leaders to be spending members’ hard-earned dues?  Across the country and entire world, businesses and workers alike are struggling.  Indeed, among those hit hardest are middle- and lower-income workers, the very people…

47 Shocking News – Big Labor Implicated In Blagojevich Arrest

“Charlotte Cronin, Executive Director of Family Support Network of Illinois, a Peoria-based advocacy group for the developmentally disabled, confirmed that union organizers knocked on doors this past summer, and that some relatives of the disabled found them ‘overly persistent.’  She said the union, which she believed to be the…

48 Big Labor’s Assault on the Secret Ballot

With Barack Obama preparing to assume the Oval Office and with Democrat gains in the House and Senate, big labor unions are busily putting together a laundry list of ambitious legislative items they would like to see enacted early next year.  On the top of their list is the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), commonly referred to as card-check legislation…

49 When Big Labor Wins, American Workers and Students Lose

Why is it that overly-unionized state economies like Michigan's stagger, whereas states like Florida that are freer from Big Labor's stifling hand flourish?  Why do heavily-unionized companies like the Big Three automakers decay, while less-stifled companies prosper?  Similarly, why do students who are free to leave failing schools succeed…

50 Congress Becomes Big Labor's Obedient Subsidiary

Why Not Unionize the Military While We're at It? A funny thing happened on the road to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's utopian end to the "culture of corruption."  Namely, the 110th Congress quickly became a mere appendage of Big Labor, Inc.  After acquiring majority status by portraying themselves as centrists untainted by…

51 Big Labor's Latest Target: The Secret Ballot

With Democrats assuming control of Congress this week, Big Labor is targeting one of America's most basic institutions – the secret ballot.  Union-proposed "card-check" legislation would eliminate secret balloting during representation elections, and thereby eradicate workers' fundamental right to vote without fear of intimidation…

 
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