By Bill Wilson It is no mystery that the U.S. is a consumer-based economy. Approximately 71 percent of the $16 trillion Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is personal consumption. So, when consumption expenditures decline — as they did in April — by $20.5 billion, or 0.2 percent as […]

By Willie Deutsch In August of 2009 the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agreed to a labor contract with the National Treasury Employees Union .  But Article 4 “Protections Against Prohibited Personnel Practices” contains sections that seem to indicate that in targeting organizations applying for tax-exempt status, IRS agents were required to break the terms of […]

Bill Wilson will be on with Mitch Henck WIBA , Madison, WI, discussing Big Labor’s Michigan Labor trouble @ 10:00 AM EDT.  Click here to listen live. Nathan Mehrens will be on with Jim Bohannon (national syndicated 300 markets) at 10:00 pm EDT discussing the IRS scandals .  Click here to find a local station.

By Robert Romano On May 18, activist Mark Passio and his wife, Barb Marinelli, were arrested and handcuffed for distributing “End the Fed” literature near Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Penn. by federal park rangers. The shocking incident was caught on video . According to Passio’s description of events, “I was walking with my wife Barb in Philadelphia from Market Street […]

New boss, same as the old ‘Boss’ By Marta H. Mossburg For those looking for insight on the scandals engulfing the Obama administration, read “Boss,” Mike Royko’s classic 1971 biography of former Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley. The IRS targeting of conservative groups and the […]

By Robert Romano On May 16, the Arizona Senate — supposedly controlled by Republicans — passed legislation that would expand Medicaid under the new health care law. The bill would cost taxpayers across the country $2.1 billion through 2019 and add more than 100,000 to government health care rolls in Arizona. Although she never campaigned on the idea when […]

By David Bozeman To Republicans seeking to seize control of the Senate in 2014, take heart — North Carolina is ripe for the picking.  First-termer Kay Hagan faces re-election, and it is not so much that she’s a flaming liberal.  Simply, she does not understand the […]

By Bill Wilson U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio came out swinging recently against the nomination of Thomas Perez for Secretary of Labor — and rightly so. “After carefully reviewing Thomas Perez’s, record, views and conduct during his confirmation process, it is clear to me he should not be […]

By Nathan Mehrens A recent federal court decision has got big labor running scared. And it should be. The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a Michigan law that bars public schools from collecting union dues , overturning a district court injunction against implementation of the law. The circuit court also ordered the lowered court to uphold the law. The law in question […]

By Marta H. Mossburg If the Tribune Company were Biblical Egypt, the Koch brothers buying its papers would be the 11th plague. They are probably behind billions of red, bulgy-eyed cicadas poised to swarm the East Coast this year, too. Or so think many liberals. […]