Labor unions and leftist activists are expected to once again descend upon the Captiol in Madison, WI on Tuesday. They plan to protest Governor Scott Walker’s first 2-year budget proposal, which seeks to cap entitlement programs and make cuts in education while expanding school voucher programs, in an attempt to close a $3 [...]
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Latest Protests Bring an ‘Epic’ Wisconsin Donor Back Into the Spotlight
Posted: June 17, 2011 in 2012 Budget, Big Labor, Health Care, Healthcare, News, Politics, State Politics, Tea Party, TechnologyTags: AFL-CIO, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, electronic health records, electronic medical records, epic systems, Fidel Castro, governor, Greater Wisconsin Committee, Greater Wisconsin Political Fund, health care reform, health information technology, judith faulkner, Kaiser Permanente, Kloppenburg, Madison, Obama, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, paul soglin, Prosser, protest, scott walker, tammy baldwin, Wisconsin
Tolerant Left Wishes Death on Governor Scott Walker
Posted: February 20, 2011 in Free Speech, Labor Unions, Legal, News, Protest, State Politics, Tea PartyTags: budget, civil discourse, death threats, Free Speech, governor, hate speech, inflamed rhetoric, labor union, new tone, protest, public employees, scott walker, teachers, Tweets, twitter, vitriol, Wisconsin
You may remember President Obama’s recent call for civil discourse this past January. Well, it appears that the Left is still very much struggling with the #newtone online. Unless, of course, you consider a persistent stream of steady death threats against Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker a display of etiquette straight from the Emily Post Etipedia [...]
YouTube Asked to Remove Video of Left’s Threats Against Palin
Posted: January 17, 2011 in Media, Media Bias, Media Criticism, News, People, Politics, Sarah Palin, TerrorismTags: Arizona, dangerous or illegal act, death threat, Free Speech, giffords, Glenn Beck, governor, hate speech, inflamed rhetoric, Jared Lee Loughner, left wing, liberal hypocrisy, liberals, Palin, privacy, progressives, right-wing media, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, sheriff clarence dupnik, shooting, Tweet, twitter, violent, vitriol, You Tube, YouTube
Posted at BigJournalism 1/12/2011 Ever since Saturday’s terrible tragedy in Tucson, Arizona, conservatives have endured, to use my colleague Dana Loesch’s words, a massive orchestration of defamation against them. And of all the vitriol that has been hurled around the internet, no other target has sustained more of it than Sarah Palin. Within minutes of [...]
Hijacking the Private Sector, the SEIU and Blago Way
Posted: December 21, 2010 in ACORN, Andy Stern, Anna Burger, Labor Unions, People, Politics, SEIUTags: ACORN, AFSCME, Andy Stern, Anna Burger, Blagojevich, California, Change to Win, Child Care, employment, executive order, governor, home care, jobs, loar, Mackinac Center for Public Policy, Maryland, Michigan, private sector, public, quid pro quo, SEIU, TSA, UAW, Washington
[original post 1/2/2010] The current state of the economy has placed a large burden on private business, especially on small businesses and the self-employed. Subscribing to a Keynesian tenet of financing debt and increasing government spending to boost output, lawmakers are repeatedly giving themselves cover for splurging. After the first bailouts came the massive $787 [...]
