TaxPayersFor CommonSense: "State by State Breakdown of Earmarks"
taxpayer.net 3/20/2009 — March 13, 2009 Update: Version 5 is now available. (Download it here) This version includes member state and party, and also allows for a partisan tabulation of who got how many earmarks. We did not try to parse an earmark among parties; we only ...

Just 9% of Non-Union Workers Want to Join Union
rasmussenreports.com 3/16/2009 — Union members tend to believe that most workers want to join a labor union. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 47% of union members hold that view while only 18% disagree. But those who don’t belong to a union hold a ...

Union employees go on strike … against the union
hotair.com 3/19/2009 — In the Someone Left The Irony On Department, the SEIU has a new problem besides Democratic defectors on Card Check. A planned layoff has a union local filing a complaint with the NRLB over unfair labor practices and accuses the employer of bypassing ...

UAW Union Bosses Abusing Positions for Pay
stoptheaclu.com 1/5/2009 — - By Warner Todd Huston TV News 4 in Detroit did an excellent expose on a few union bosses that routinely rip off the unions and the auto makers they work for with fake time cards and paid for but unworked overtime pay. One of the bosses, Ron ...

Business groups dare Obama to limit pay for union bosses
washingtontimes.com 6/11/2009 — Business groups are daring President Barack Obama to impose pay caps on labor union bosses in light of indications that the White House may limit how much corporate executives can be paid.

Police Union Wants Anti-Union Reporters Fired from Paper
stoptheaclu.com 5/29/2009 — -By Warner Todd Huston Not long ago the San Diego Union-Tribune got bought up by a private Beverly Hills firm named Platinum Equity. Platinum was heavily invested in by the Los Angeles police pension fund. And so, because the police are large stake owners of the news paper, the police union has ...

OBAMA'S NOT-STATE OF THE UNION.
prospect.org 2/25/2009 — Jon Stewart had a line about President Bush. He used to say it whenever people implied the former president was a dunce. "I don't think he's stupid," Stewart would reply. "I think we're stupid, because if we weren't, he wouldn't talk to us this way." ...

State of the Union
swampland.blogs.time.com 2/24/2009 — As he heads into his big budget speech tonight--the rookie equivalent of a State of the Union Address--Barack Obama gets high marks from the public in both the New York Times and the Washington Post polls. The Republican attempt to play politics as ...

Citi Hosts Anti-Union Conference Call
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 3/12/2009 — Sam Stein reports that Citigroup, which only still exists as a firm thanks to taxpayer largess, was hosting a conference call to help mobilize opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act. This, it seems, is capitalism. First you manage your ...

Obama Signals Backing for Union Law
online.wsj.com 3/4/2009 — Obama told AFL-CIO union leaders that the controversial Employee Free Choice Act will pass, signaling his support for legislation that eases union organizing.

When a 'State of the Union' speech isn't — CNN.com - Politics 2/24/2009

CNN Radio Political Notebook: Breaking down the president's big night — CNN Political Ticker 2/25/2009
It wasn’t an official State of the Union speech, but President Obama’s debut address to a joint meeting of Congress, and viewers across the country, drew the same kind of spotlight — and scrutiny — that generally accompanies that annual event. CNN ...

King: Green jobs grow slowly in Philadelphia — CNN Political Ticker 3/1/2009
Gamesa, a Spanish company that builds turbines for windmills, has set up shop in the former US Steel plant. PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (CNN) – At the Bright Hope Baptist Church, dinner is served on tables with neat, white tablecloths. A vase ...

Commentary: Introducing staff to the real Boulder — CNN.com - Politics 3/3/2009
One week after watching President Obama sign the stimulus bill in Denver, I was watching him give his first State of the Union address. (OK, so technically it was his "first address to a joint session of Congress.")