Feb 21, 2014 – Not only is health insurance now available to everyone (though not everyone wants to pay for it), but unions can't bargain for the … Unions now devote as much if not more time and money to electing Democrats than they do to organizing new members. … Yet 40 percent of union households voted Republican in the last presidential election, despite unions' unprecedented efforts to turn…

Feb 21, 2014 – According to recent polling, a majority of people who voted for Barack Obama in 2012 regret voting for him. … The Democrats are largely resigned to having no chance to take the House of Representatives. … to increase the national debt.…

Feb 21, 2014 – He knows how to make the case for conservative ideas, pointing, for example, to the contrasting fates of Detroit and Houston to illustrate … Cruz attempted to ride to the Democrats' rescue by threatening to filibuster any gun control measure. … too, voted to fund the government.…

Feb 21, 2014 – The appeal of the UAW to autoworkers in the 1930s is not hard to understand. … But Chattanooga's VW workers don't seem to think they need the union to cooperate with the company. … And that few Americans want to head on the road to Detroit.…

Feb 21, 2014 – writ large by Democrats keen to portray the movement as unhinged. … A movement conservative with a spine to go toe-to-toe with the White House and Senate Democrats, Mathis can win this seat. … It shows he's signed the back of a paycheck, not merely voted as a lawmaker to take greater portions of those belonging to taxpayers…

Feb 20, 2014 – “Only half are registered to vote and only half of those voted in the last election.” … Pastor Phillips also urged his fellow pastors to step up to the plate. “My calling is to keep leading the charge,” he said. … “As a local pastor, my goal is to keep encouraging my church to seek to raise the bar and not lower it when it comes to confronting…

Feb 20, 2014 – He was scheduled to be indicted at the hearing, but the court decided to delay that process until Friday because his attorneys challenged … The three-judge special court is scheduled to issue its ruling at a hearing on Friday, according to Musharraf's attorneys. … Thus, they seek to nullify the election that brought Yanukovych to power and which international observers declared to be free and…

Feb 20, 2014 – Last week, Volkswagen employees at a plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee voted 712 to 626 to reject membership to the United Auto Workers … have to go to an election.” … to reject union representation.…

Feb 20, 2014 – Obamacare is a disaster, but it was designed to be. No one who voted for it saw it as the finish line. … want to be. … Pro-liberty politicians are too interested in preaching to the choir to bother refuting progressives. Sen.…

Mar 11, 2014 – The UAW has asked the National Labor Relations Board to reconsider their failed attempt to unionize Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga … Um… What about the “federally protected right” to free speech? … Or does that pesky First Amendment not really apply to Republicans?…

Mar 11, 2014 – It applies to North and South Korea as well as to the Allies. … Ukraine, similar to Crimea. … We are mobilizing; we are preparing to react to foreign aggression."…

Mar 11, 2014 – First, it is absurd to suggest Putin felt free to restore Crimea to Russia because of Obama's inaction in Benghazi. … It was Congress that failed to give Obama the authorization to go to war. … It was a Bush-led Republican Party that voted to throw open America's markets to China.…

Mar 11, 2014 – Our separation of powers was designed to serve as the primary protection of individual rights because it is supposed to prevent the … Our Constitution gives the power to declare war exclusively to Congress, but Obama thinks he can make a "unilateral commitment of our … country to war."…

Mar 9, 2014 – He is far from the first to say so. … The only way to get anything done is to shove laws and regulations down a lot of unwilling throats." … Last September, in California's rural north, Siskiyou County and Modoc County voted to pursue secession from California and support…

Mar 8, 2014 – person -- to the special court in which he requests and argues for permission to travel abroad for his own treatment as well as to … Crimea's lawmakers on Thursday unanimously voted to ask to be a part of Russia and set 16 March as the date for a popular referendum … The city council of Sevastopol also voted in an emergency session to join Russia as a subject of the Russian Federation.…

Mar 7, 2014 – him to victory. … Indeed, the Arizona Republican Party actually voted to censure him just two months ago: Delivering a strong rebuke … to U.S.…

Mar 7, 2014 – In addition, the White House last month allowed medium-sized employers an extra year to comply with the Obamacare mandate to offer … insurance to all full-time workers and reduced the percentage of workers that large companies are required to cover. … Last March, with the support of several key Democrats, the Senate voted to repeal the Obamacare medical device tax.…

Mar 7, 2014 – When seven Democratic senators voted with all of the Republicans to reject Debo Adegbile's nomination to serve as head of the Justice … Republicans have grown so accustomed to it that they tend to shrug it off. … When autoworkers at a Tennessee Volkswagen plant voted against joining the United Auto Workers, an analyst on MSNBC explained to viewers…

Mar 6, 2014 – According to Robert's Rules of Order "the motion to reconsider may be made only by a member who voted on the prevailing side in the … So, Reid had to change his vote to be on the prevailing ("Nay") side. The issue with Mr. … On the Secret Decoder Ring page today: Links to the Politico piece and to the Wikipedia page on the Abu-Jamal case, as well as to Gerry…

Mar 6, 2014 – The law brought the top marginal income-tax rate down to 70% from 91% and the bottom marginal rate down to 14% from 20%. … Barry Goldwater, voted against. … He also understood that devaluing tax preferences, as tax cuts do, frees up capital to move to its most naturally productive purpose…

Mar 6, 2014 – , new taxes to boost economy, tame debt”. … Click here to listen to Ransom Notes Radio live or for archives of previous shows. … in 2014 to 3.3 percent in 2024, mostly because of the return of interest rates to more typical levels,” as we see…

Mar 5, 2014 – to head the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice. … From the White House: The Senate’s failure to confirm Debo Adegbile to lead the Civil Rights Division at the Department of … Adegbile’s personal story – rising from adversity to become someone who President Bush’s Solicitor General referred to as one of the…

Mar 5, 2014 – The Senate has voted 52 to 47 to block the confirmation of Debo Adegbile, President Obama's nominee to head the Civil … Daniel Faulkner's widow, Maureen Faulkner, repeatedly begged Senators to block Adegbile's confirmation. … to find someone else to fill the open position at DOJ.…

Mar 5, 2014 – The D.C. council voted yesterday to partially decriminalize marijuana. … From the Washington Post: ...the penalty for possession of up to an ounce would drop to a fine of $25 — smaller than … While technically Congress could intervene to block its passage, this is considered to be unlikely.…

Mar 5, 2014 – Texas Democrats may have voted Wendy Davis as their nominee for governor in Tuesday's primary, but it wasn’t pretty … — Aaron Peña (@AaronPena) March 5, 2014 To the east of Hidalgo County, Wendy … Davis also lost Willacy County 61% to 39%.…