New Orleans Not surprisingly the NFL players and owners marched into the abyss yesterday in another high-profile fight over the value of collective bargaining, though in this case in order to hold on to what they have meant tactically decertifying the union and filing an anti-trust injunction against the owners. In Wisconsin even giving financial …
Month: March 2011
Republicans Overreach in Wisconsin to Their Peril
Washington The buzz in DC for a change was not about DC, but about Wisconsin. And, if not Wisconsin, then it was the 45,000 person crowd yesterday in Indiana that got some tongues wagging, and if not Wisconsin or Indiana, then Ohio for sure. The great Midwestern flyover zone was front and center in every …
You’ve Got to Be Kidding: Now O’Keefe Stings NPR
Washington This is starting to get embarrassing. There has to be universal consensus that James O’Keefe the sneak videographer is a total punk, but somehow we keep falling for this stuff. Look at the record: He and his accomplice sting ACORN in the fall of 2009 as part of an orchestrated right-wing attack and do so with …