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“To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.” – Thomas Jefferson Longtime readers of my work know that I’ve been exposing the compulsory-union dues racket since my days as a columnist at the Seattle Times. Here’s my 1999 column on how public school [...]

Only government can put down the threat

My column follows up on Monday’s blog coverage of the West Coast Port Shutdown by the Occupy Wall Street movement (the D12 primer is here if you missed it) — and exposes how the so-called Big Labor progressives and their propaganda tools are the nation’s biggest enemies of economic and technological progress. It’s no coincidence [...]

Scroll for updates…Oakland, Portland, Los Angeles mobbed, Occupiers vow to extend shutdown in response to “police brutality”…Update 10:47pm Eastern…Occupiers vow to block 3am shift in Oakland…arrests after trains blocked in Bellingham, WA… Here we go again. You remember where the “Day of Rage” 2011 festivities first broke out earlier this fall, don’t you? If you [...]

So, yeah. All that White House demagoguery about prescription drug shortages I wrote about last week was simply smoke and mirrors to cover up rotten crony deals for his Big Pharma/Big Labor friends. I shed more light below on the chumminess between former SEIU thug-in-chief Andy Stern, fat cat Dem donor Ronald Perelman, and Obama [...]

It has nothing to do with anything Gloria Allred has her hands in. It’s his continued lack of preparedness on, and familiarity with, basic domestic and foreign policy issues. Sorry, Cain fans. Tried to give him the benefit of the doubt. But like Rick Perry, Herman Cain is just not ready for prime time. The [...]

It was a split decision in Ohio last night. Voters in the Buckeye State rejected Obamacare and its individual mandate overwhelmingly — all 88 counties approved a constitutional amendment “to preserve the freedom of Ohioans to choose their health care and health care coverage.” Unfortunately, voters also said no to Issue 2 – the budget [...]

The politics of economic obstruction Occupy Oakland strike promoter Boots Riley, who penned “5 million ways to kill a CEO,” celebrates the attack on the World Trade Center My new column spotlights the Occupiers’ “general strike” action scheduled for today — and climaxing tonight in an anticipated shutdown of the Port of Oakland (Calif.). Many [...]

Yes on Issue 2 sign torn down by union-supporting thugs Sorry, readers. I’ve been out of it the last couple of days. Trying to get back in the swing of things. While the sound and fury of the GOP 2012 race drones on, it’s the state-level battles that deserve the Tea Party’s united front, attention, [...]

Ladies and gentlemen, I hope you are paying attention. Democrats in Washington are turning up the heat on the GOP as they push for quick passage of the “mini” $35 billion union jobs bailout. True to Alinsky form, Team Obama is spinning more emo-narratives centered on saving teachers from layoffs. At a Save the Teachers [...]

Photo source: Ironic Surrealism My column today tallies up some of the taxpayer costs imposed by the Kamp Alinsky Kids across the country so far. There have been other nasty consequences, too — like the cancellation of a food drive and festival in Boston due to Occupier overload. Go here to donate. Latest word from [...]

Old habits die hard. Let’s review the Left’s standard practice of renting non-English-speaking protesters to represent the “grass-roots.” In August 2009, Nancy Pelosi snuck into a Denver health care clinic, where she was greeted by 200 grass-roots protesters against socialized medicine — and a handful of Obama-bots and union members carrying identical HCAN signs. Denver [...]

Raise your hands for DIVERSITY! I’ve been tweeting up a storm about the rag-tag hordes of crude, lewd, needy, anti-greedy hipsters who have swarmed lower Manhattan in an anarchic campaign to “Occupy Wall Street.” Follow me at @michellemalkin for all the latest revelry. Since I last blogged about the endless mass sleepover that began on [...]

That’s the good news. The bad news, of course: It’ll come out of rank-and-file workers’ dues while fat cat Big Labor thugs back in Washington sit clean and pretty in their Taj Mahal headquarters. KOMO News/AP reports (h/t Steve G.): A federal judge has fined a Longshore union $250,000 for its tactics in a Longview [...]

If you live in the Pacific Northwest, you’re familiar with the “aroma in Tacoma” — that infamous odor caused by the pulp mills and cow manure. Well, there’s a different kind of aroma overtaking the city. It’s the stench of Big Labor intransigence as the public teachers’ union defies a court order to end its [...]

Notice how eerily silent the civility police have been about the fallout from last week’s union mob violence, kidnapping, and sabotage at the port in Longview. I told you on 9/8 to “expect slaps on the wrist for the vandalism, violence, and destruction at the port” because “Washington state has a history of coddling those [...]

What better way to illustrate the contrast between Team Obama and the GOP tonight. Speaker Boehner’s sitting with real-world, private-sector job creators. Mrs. Obama’s sitting with AFL-CIO thug-in-chief and taxpayer-subsidized, coerced-dues-funded job destroyer Richard Trumka. For Mrs. Obama’s benefit, I am reprinting my history lesson about Trumka’s bloody rise to power. Fashion accessory idea for [...]

Looks like all that Labor Day incitement is paying off. In Longview, WA last night and into the morning, unionized longshoremen have stormed the port there and taken a half-dozen guards hostage. I’ll have to update my Top 10 union thug moments of the year. Via AP: Hundreds of Longshoremen stormed the Port of Longview [...]

My column today sheds light on the longstanding bromance between Barack Obama and the Teamsters. I especially want you to have all this information handy when Obama complains on Thursday about all the infrastructure that’s still not getting built despite the $230 billion in porkulus money set aside for construction projects. I’ve been reporting for [...]

So… nice weather we’re having, eh?

The White House is still refusing to comment on Jimmy Hoffa’s profane, threatening warm-up speech before President Obama’s Labor Day gig in Detroit yesterday. They’ve got each other’s back. Here’s a flashback from May 2008 that you may remember. Sen. Barack Obama won the endorsement of the Teamsters earlier this year after privately telling the [...]

Scroll for updates… As the MSM whitewashes Big Labor’s ugly threats, Tea Party smears, and history of coerced dues-subsidized racketeering this Labor Day, what better way to mark the holiday than with an illustrated list of top 10 union thug moments of the year. 10. August 16, 2011, across the Northeast. Striking Communications Workers of [...]

**Written by Doug Powers You may have read in the past few days that a Labor Day parade in Wausau, Wisconsin that is organized by unions, but also funded by the city, had planned to bar Republicans from taking part because those Republicans “have openly attacked workers rights.” Now the Mayor of Wausau says that’s [...]

“…torture them, torture them with chants and noise. Be so loud that they can’t concentrate and wish they never got out of bed.”

Tomorrow, Wisconsin voters head back to the polls for round two of the 2011 recalls. Big Labor lost big last week in its botched bid to punish Republican state senators for supporting budget reform and failed to take control of the state legislature. This time, two Democratic fleebaggers may be turned out for abandoning their [...]

Mr. Green Jobs Boondoggle Rides Again by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2011 Van Jones, President Obama’s disgraced green jobs czar, is back with a radical progressive plan to rescue America … from his old boss. The problem, posits Jones, is that his fellow community organizer in the White House hasn’t spent enough, regulated enough [...]

Scroll for election result updates below… Just a reminder: Today’s the day the big-spending public employee unions hope to oust 6 GOP Wisconsin state senators — not for any corruption, malfeasance, or criminal actions, but for making the tough decisions and supporting the fiscally responsible measures spearheaded by GOP Gov. Scott Walker. Tea Party activists [...]

Graphic via The Truth about PLAs I’ve written before about Project Labor Agreements — Big Labor’s blunt instrument used to give unions a leg up in contracting. This racket needs all the exposure it can get. As previously noted, PLAs in theory set reasonable pre-work terms and conditions — but in practice, require contractors to [...]

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