Think Tank Receives Death Threats Over Labor-Related FOIA Request to Universities

Apparently, the Big Labor-related death threats aren’t limited to Wisconsin.  Or to lawmakers.
This following email is just in from our friends at The Mackinac Center for Public Policy:
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“The Mackinac Center for Public Policy received numerous death threats and bomb threats in the aftermath of national publicity about a Freedom of Information Act [...]

Devastating New Ad Might Be Game Changer in Wisconsin’s Crucial April 5th Election

As is the case with any important election, events are happening fast as we approach the final weekend prior to the crucial Tuesday April 5 vote that will ultimately decide the future of Wisconsin for a generation to come. In one corner, you have sitting State Supreme Court Justice David Prosser, a reliable 4-to3 tie-breaking [...]

BREAKING LAWSUIT: Atlanta Citizens Fight Back Against Forfeiture Abuse

Georgia has some of the worst civil forfeiture laws and practices in the country.  This morning, five Atlanta citizens teamed up with the Institute for Justice to change that.
Civil forfeiture threatens the property rights of all Americans.  These laws allow government officials to seize your home, car, cash or other property upon the mere suspicion [...]

Will Public Schools Co-opt Digital Education?

Our traditional school system “measures seat time and moves students along when they hit certain dates on a calendar.” In this system, “time is fixed, and the learning is variable.” By contrast, digital education allows us to “measure learning and move individual students along to new concepts as they master previous ones,” Horn says. With online education, learning becomes fixed, but the time it takes different students to achieve mastery of the content is variable.

Why are California Republicans Permitting Eminent Domain Abuse?

Partisan politics shouldn’t stand in the way of protecting private property rights.   Unfortunately in California, Republicans are siding with bureaucracy, Big Government and eminent domain abuse.

In an effort to close the state’s budget gap, Governor Brown has proposed eliminating California’s 400+ redevelopment agencies.  Redevelopment in California is a $1.7 billion, state-subsidized boondoggle.

Sadly, only one Republican [...]

Powerful Illinois Democrats, State Police Covering Up Racial Incident?

Breitbart Media has worked for days to get to the bottom of a seemingly highly-charged story allegedly involving racism from a high profile Democrat and now former law enforcement official that may reach into the upper-level of Illinois state government, including the office of Governor Pat Quinn. Based upon sources in Carlinville, Illinois, at least on the [...]

Free and Fair Elections: True The Vote Style

I am here in sunny Houston, Texas attending the opening night of the True The Vote Summit and what a time it has been. We heard some inspiring speeches for this sold out event, saw some interesting attendees, and met an awful lot of great folks.
It has been thrilling to see several hundred handpicked Tea [...]

Reason.tv: Gov. Kasich’s Ohio Budget Disaster – Can You Cut Government by Jacking Spending 11%?

It sounds like a mythic tale of heroic salvation: A former Republican congressman with a fierce reputation as a cost-cutter comes out of retirement, runs for governor of one of the largest states in the country, and is swept into office by an anti-incumbent, anti-spending wave. Frustrated voters also give the new governor’s [...]

MORE Acorn: Leftists Plot Squatting to Take Over Houses

From Reboot Congress:

MORE (Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment) and other leftists held meetings in 2010 to plan their strategy for squatting on properties in the St. Louis area. The video above introduces some of their leaders. A future video will outline MORE’s longterm strategy to acquire residential property through extralegal means like squatting.
Who or what [...]

You Wanna Know Why Detroit Is A Corpse?

Glenn Reynolds links to the following: WHO KILLED DETROIT?
Sure, a lot of the blame goes to a generation of bad management. But the main reason for Detroit’s decline is the greed of the industry’s main union, the UAW, which priced the Big Three out of the market.
If you want some insight as to why Detroit is [...]

Organized Left Plan Massive Protests for April 4th

In the wake of changes to government employee unions’ power in Wisconsin and elsewhere, The Communist Party USA is working in conjunction with national labor unions and other left wing political groups to organize protests in Madison, Wisconsin and across the nation on April 4th.

Scott Marshall, Vice Chair of The Communist Party USA said his [...]

JoAnne Kloppenburg Accepted Donation From Judge Sumi’s Husband

On April 5, Wisconsinites will go to the poll to pick a new supreme court justice. The election has gained prominence because many political analysts believe the Budget Repair Bill may one day end up before the high court. Throughout the campaign, challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg has claimed she is politically unbiased and impartial. However analysis [...]

Judge Sumi’s Husband Donated to Three of Badger 14

There was already cause for Judge Maryann Sumi to have recused herself in the collective bargaining lawsuit since her son, Jake Sinderbrand is a former employee of the AFL-CIO and SEIU, now more conflict of interests have been discovered.

Judge Sumi’s husband, Carl Sinderbrand donated to the campaigns of three of the “Badger 14″:  Dave Hansen, [...]

Candidate Demands ‘Freedom to Have Barbecues’

Republican Cynthia Davis is demanding freedom to have barbecues after someone tried to have a health inspector shut down her invitation-only cookout Saturday.

Board of Aldermen Candidate Alleges Wrongdoing, Calls for Investigation of Missouri State Trooper (Part 2)

Dolores Sherman, 85, posted a video advocating her first-time candidacy for public office and calling for an investigation of a state trooper’s visit to her home.

Board of Aldermen Candidate Alleges Wrongdoing, Calls for Investigation of Missouri State Trooper (Part 1)

Dolores Sherman, 85, posted a video advocating her first-time candidacy for public office and calling for an investigation of a state trooper’s visit to her home.

Police Union President Compares Gov. Christie to Hitler

From The Courier Post:

John Willliamson, president of the union representing Camden’s police officers, said he and his members would be at the meeting whether they were invited or not.
“We will be there,” he said. “Camden City needs Camden police officers. As far as firefighters, same thing.
“We know the city, we know the people and we [...]

BIG NEWS: Federal Court Halts Shocking Property Rights Abuse

You really have to see this one to believe it:

The video above was just released by the Institute for Justice. It begins with an elderly woman lamenting:
When my son came back from Kuwait he couldn’t believe it.  He said, “Mom, what’s going on?” And I said, well they want to get rid of us and [...]

Subsidized Energy-Saving Programs Pay Off Big for Nonprofit Provider

Funding from federal stimulus to Exxon leads to banner income in 2009 despite recession

The Minneapolis-based nonprofit Center for Energy and Environment (CEE) has marketed residential energy conservation programs under the slogan, “Save Energy, Save Money!” However, according to tax records on file with the Minnesota Attorney General, helping utility customers save energy and money on [...]

Village Manager Earns More than All 50 Governors

Click here for the updated Palatine Village Manager Compensation Analysis.

As additional Freedom of Information Requests (FOIA) are fulfilled, here is the updated analysis of the Palatine Village Manager Compensation as compiled by a local Palatine resident. The estimated total annual compensation has increased to $355,514 (see link above).
The Palatine village manager out-earns every Governor from [...]

What Budget Crisis? City Council Votes Itself Pay Raise

From The Denver Post:

After spirited debate Monday, Denver’s City Council voted 10-3 to tentatively approve a 6.6 percent raise for the next sitting council and every other elected official — an increase to be delayed for half of their four-year terms.
The city is facing a $100 million budget shortfall for the 2012 budget and has [...]

Activists in 23 States Coming Together in Texas to ‘True The Vote’

Patriots and activists from 23 states are about to gather together on March 25 and 26 in Houston, Texas to attend the True The Vote Summit, an effort to make “true” the electoral system in every polling place in the country, to stop voter fraud, and to quash the intimidation of voters. Organizers hope to [...]

Big Labor’s Next Onslaught: Abolish ‘Right to Work’ Laws Through the United Nations

In North Carolina, collective bargaining in the public sector has been banned by the state for over 50 years.  A statute implemented in 1959 declared collective bargaining by state and local government employees “to be against the public policy of the State, illegal, unlawful, void and of no effect.”
To unionists, it seemed like a drastic [...]

Loud Mouthed, Violent Teachers Shut Down Townhall Meeting

Is this the distempered, hatemongering that our “teachers” are teaching our children?
The video below is the last seven minutes of a townhall meeting that was held on March 7 in Wisconsin. It was hosted by Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner (R, WI) and State Senator Leah Vukmir (R-Wauwatosa). The video shows that the pols quietly listened to [...]

Are We Broke Yet?: Michael Moore, Rachel Maddow, NYT Say No. Reality Begs to Differ.

“The nation is not broke, my friends,” opines guerilla filmmaker and amateur accountant Michael Moore. “Wisconsin is not broke. Saying that the country is broke is repeating a Big Lie.”
Relax, America, it turns out that all that talk about local, state, and federal government being broke is just total B.S. or, as The New York Times puts [...]

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