By Paul Driessen — Policy integrity. Ethical culture. Environmental protection. Environmental defense. Friends of earth. Defenders of wildlife. Ethical investing. Not just their names, but their charter, culture and policies – their very being – represent a commitment to these profound values. Or so we […]

By Adam Bitely — Republicans in Congress have a real chance to show that they are serious about cutting spending with the upcoming sequestration cuts. If they hold firm on this, this will be the first example that they are willing to actually make cuts […]

By Rick Manning — One staff person at Current TV expressed disdain for former Vice President Al Gore, Jr.’s decision to sell the television property to Al Jazeera saying, “Al was always lecturing us about green. He kept his word about green all right — as in cold, hard cash!” Another Current staffer is reported to have remarked, “He [Al Gore, Jr.] has no credibility.  He’s supposed to […]

NRD Editor’s Note: This column was first published at Investors.com . By Bill Wilson — For much of its 236-year history, the federal government has accumulated new power by whittling away at the essential protections afforded to American citizens under the U.S. Constitution. In recent years this wholesale […]

NRD Editor’s Note: This column first appeared at TheHill.com . By Rick Manning — President Obama announced that he is appointing current Chief of Staff and former OMB Director Jack Lew to be the nation’s next secretary of the Treasury. Lew, whose signature featuring a bunch of loops […]

Barack Obama has just announced that Hilda Solis is resigning from her post as the Secretary of the Department of (Big) Labor. According to a Politico breaking news alert: Labor Secretary Hilda Solis is resigning from the Obama administration. “Over her long career in public service […]

By David Bozeman — We could make this a regular feature.  Just recently we profiled Papa John’s Pizza, whose founder and CEO remarked that Obamacare might force franchises to cut employee hours.  They, of course, have been enduring threats of boycotts and verbal spitballs from […]

Lachlan Markay has the story : A recent lawsuit filed in a federal court in California alleges that National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) member Richard Griffin was complicit in a scheme to cover up embezzlement at a major labor union by terminating employees who attempted to expose the effort. The allegations […]

UPDATE 2: It appears that Cyndy Chase is a BIG fan of Saul Alinskey and calls herself a big fan of Howard Zinn . H/T to Granite Grok . UPDATE: In the event that the questionable post is ever removed from BlueHampshire.com, we have the cached version of her post so that her words will forever be documented on the world wide web. Here is, word for word, exactly what Cynthia Chase wrote: Free Staters Unwelcome Here In the opinion […]

By Rick Manning — The percentage of the American workforce that is represented by labor unions has been falling precipitously over the past thirty years.  In 1983, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reports that union membership was 20.1 percent of the workforce and there were 17.7 million union workers nationwide. In 2011, only […]