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The Coming Campaign

Posted on 25 July 2017 by eehines

The Progressive-Democratic Party is rolling out a new plan of campaign for the 2018 elections. It’s a populist one, but what interests me is this. The Republicans have run, for the last several election cycles, on “take back our country.”

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D, MA), in endorsing her party’s new campaign plan, said

This is one step that Democrats are offering to take back our government[.]

What an instructive, illuminating difference.

Labor Under the Radar

Posted on 25 July 2017 by eehines

Rather, a labor reform bill making its way (too slowly, IMHO) in the House. The bill has some interesting items in it:

require unions to obtain permission from workers to spend their dues on purposes other than collective bargaining
mandate a recertification election upon the expiration of a collective-bargaining agreement if a workforce has turned over by more than 50%
take card-check off the menu of options for holding a union election
allow employees to withhold their personal contact information from unions

What’s not to like?

What’s holding up the bill?

TANSTAAFL

2 + 2 must always = 4
–Polish proverb

Be not intimidated… nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.
–John Adams

Nothing in the universe has a shorter half-life than a politician’s memory for inconvenient facts.
–Admiral Hamish Alexander, RMN

Dawn is nature’s way of telling you to go to bed.
And to just stay there until the evil yellow disk is gone again.
–Anonymous

In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state.
–Aristotle

The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.
–Chief Justice John Roberts.

A yawn is a silent scream for coffee.
–Shane Mclean

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six hours sharpening my ax.
–Abraham Lincoln

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