Financial Meltdown Coherence

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Financial Meltdown Coherence             New Orleans               Jim Lynch, my old friend and colleague from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and Ernie Dumas, former editorial page editor for the Arkansas Gazette a million years ago, were early Saturday morning correspondents as they shared a story from The Weekly Standard on moral hazard.  What struck …

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Tactical Watch: A Different Drumbeat

Labor Organizing

Tactical Watch:  A Different Drumbeat             New Orleans               The New York State Court of Appeals concluded several months that the drumming being done by SEIU 32B-J on plastic containers, pots, and cans in front of the Empire State Building was neither pre-empted by federal labor law nor seemingly part of their overall free speech rights …

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Wal-Mart Merry Christmas

Community Organizing International Labor Organizing

Wal-Mart Merry Christmas             Antigua           Scrooge seems to have decided to give little Timmy a lump of coal for Christmas this year.  After multi-year, no-holds barred resistance; Wal-Mart announced they were settling more than 60 back wage and hours cases around the country for close to $400,000,000 on the bottom and perhaps more like $700M …

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