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Projection. My new syndicated column today does the reporting the Tea Party-bashing national media won’t do on the rabid outbreak of progressive incivility and violence at Big Labor protests across the country. On Saturday, the grievance convergence will descend on all 50 state capitols spearheaded by the smear merchants of MoveOn.org — who will stoke [...]

Tea Party senior citizens: Menaces to society!

Stay classy!

“Get a little bloody.”

“The Tea Party is a bunch of dick-sucking corporate butt-lickers who want to crush the working people of this country.” And he’s just getting started. This profanity-clogged union rant brought to you courtesy of the citizen watchdogs at Truth About Bills. New tone…same as the old tone. Be careful out there.

A left-wing website that specializes in pranking celebrities, pundits, and politicians — a la Howard Stern — is doing a Snoopy dance over a fake call its operatives made to GOP Gov. Scott Walker. The hoaxer pretended to be David Koch, the progs’ favorite capitalist target. I’m not going to give any direct traffic to [...]

Thuggery? What thuggery? Oh, yeah. That thuggery: A Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts is raising the stakes in the nation’s fight over the future of public employee unions, saying emails aren’t enough to show support and that it is time to “get a little bloody.” “I’m proud to be here with people who understand that it’s [...]

Attention, taxpayers and Tea Party activists. The Purple Army is coming to your town. Don’t let these Big Labor goons monopolize the protest square like they monopolize government workers. Here’s their current schedule over the next four days nationwide via the SEIU website. All hands on deck: 2/21 – Helena, MT 2/21 – Carson City, [...]

Keepin’ it classy.

It’s Battle of the Protest Bands in Madison today, with thousands of Tea Party activists standing with GOP Gov. Scott Walker on the state capitol grounds. (American Majority organized the pro-taxpayer event. AFP has a pro-Walker petition site here.) Here’s a photo overview (via news3jessica h/t JENin140): Sarah Palin sent in a note of support. [...]

Scroll down for updates… This is a critical moment in the nation’s battle to dig itself out of debt and free itself from the iron grip of public union monopolies. As you know from reading this blog, the Wisconsin showdown has been a long time coming. I remind you that there are many brave workers [...]

It’s the National Thug Convergence. AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka — refresh your memories of his violent rise to power here — announced that he’ll be storming Madison, Wisconsin tomorrow to join all the Hitler/Mubarak-sign toters and teachers ditching their jobs. The showdown is scheduled for high noon. Check out Vicki McKenna’s photo gallery for today’s [...]

Wisconsin teacher salary facts: “Teaching salaries in Wisconsin have increased since 2007. For example, the average teacher salary in Wisconsin in 2009 was $48,743, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This is a 2.91 percent increase from 2008 in which the average teacher salary in Wisconsin was $47,365. The average teacher salary in Wisconsin [...]

Scroll down for breaking updates… Public employee unions who force state workers to join and force them to fork over dues have a lot of chutzpah posing as freedom-fighters, don’t they? The letter of the day reprinted below comes from one of those dissenting state workers in Wisconsin, where the SEIU Purple Army and assorted [...]

Part One of our new Watch Wisconsin series is here. Today’s second installment brings you the lovely union thugs attacking GOP Gov. Scott Walker as the “dictator” governor, “Hosni Walker,” and “Mubarak of the Midwest” (see vid clip at 2:15): And via Brian Fraley at the The John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy: llegally [...]

As Wisconsin goes, so go the nation’s bankrupt and near-bankrupt states. The SEIU has declared full-scale war on the Badger State over attempts to rein in bloated public union pay and benefits. This was the scene last night at the Capitol Rotunda as the Purple Army and its allies stormed in for a sleepover protest: [...]

Scroll for speech updates… “Trust not their presents, nor admit the horse.” — from Virgil’s Aeneid, translated by John Dryden Today, President Obama will address the U.S. Chamber of Commerce — the very same organization he slandered as a foreign money-funneling operation before the midterm election shellacking just three short months ago. Desperate to goose [...]

My column today spotlights the left-wing/New York Times alliance against Chick-Fil-A. Anti-corporate/anti-Christian blogs + MSM advocacy journalism = job-sabotaging smear machine. Chick-Fil-A isn’t the only one in the restaurant industry targeted by the progressive mob over the past month. The SEIU has been waging open-borders attacks on restaurant chain Chipotle simply because the company complied [...]

My syndicated column today takes another thwack at Obamacare waiver-mania, with more analysis of the 182 union beneficiaries who’ve obtained safe harbor from the costly mandate pushed by their Big Labor bosses. Related: Unions make up 40 percent of employees exempted from Obamacare *** Waivers for Favors: Big Labor’s Obamacare escape hatch by Michelle Malkin [...]

The nation’s capital is freaking out over a winter snowstorm. But everyone else should be up in arms over the real snow job in Washington this week. While the Democrats continued to extol Obamacare and the president defended the behemoth law during the Date of the Union, HHS was quietly presiding over a massive Obamacare [...]

Among President Obama’s many pie-in-the-sky promises tonight, he delivered this: “Within 25 years, our goal is to give 80% of Americans access to high-speed rail, which could allow you go places in half the time it takes to travel by car. For some trips, it will be faster than flying – without the pat-down. As [...]

The Tucson massacre ghouls who are now trying to criminalize conservatism have forced our hand. They need to be reminded. You need to be reminded. Confront them. Don’t be cowed into silence. And don’t let the media whitewash the sins of the hypocritical Left in their naked attempt to suppress the law-abiding, constitutionally-protected, peaceful, vigorous [...]

On Friday, President Obama mollified Big Labor bosses at the White House. Which means you better watch your wallets. Angered at the tax deal, union leaders marched into 1600 Pennsylvania with a renewed list of grievances and demands. AFL-CIO chief thug Richard Trumka was there, along with: United Steelworkers President Leo Gerard; American Federation of [...]

I’ve been exposing the radical ethnic tribalism that infuses the illegal alien student DREAM Act movement for years (see here for my most recent refresher course). Anyone who has been to a college campus and interacted with these narcissistic multi-culti activists knows that the American flag-waving act is a cynical crock of you-know-what. Fresh from [...]

Another Big Labor/Big Gov pet project comes up for a vote in the House today. The federal child nutrition bill will get an up-or-down vote after wrangling on both sides of the aisle. It will be paid for through cuts in the food stamp program, which the White House promises Dems it will repay. Ha. [...]

The backpedaling Purple Army bosses are running scared. As you know from my column yesterday, the mammoth SEIU 1199 chapter dropped kiddie coverage and specifically blamed the Obamacare slacker mandate for raising costs. Reminder from the WSJ report on the union’s woes: More than 30,000 low-wage families will be affected, according to The Wall Street [...]

Know your enemies.

Because they haven’t poured enough of rank-and-file workers’ hard-earned money down the drain, the SEIU Purple Army is burning through another $250,000 attacking Sharron Angle as…yeah, extreme and dangerous. Via The Hill: The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) launched a new television ad Thursday blasting Nevada Republican Sharron Angle. In the ad, Angle is criticized [...]

I’ve been writing about the rank-and-file union member revolt against forced political spending and power grab schemes taking place under the radar screen across the country. More are saying enough is enough. Illinois Review interviewed a Chicago SEIU member over the weekend fed up with his labor bosses ignoring him: In Ohio, a teachers’ union [...]

**Written by Doug Powers “One Nation Working Together” would like to thank everybody who attended Saturday’s “trash-a-palooza” rally at the Lincoln Memorial. What a scene it was: That looks like a crowd similar to those who attended MLK’s “I have a dream” speech: Look at the positioning of some of the people on the near-side [...]