14 December 2012 The Fall of the House of Labor

The Fall of the House of Labor

Friday - December 14, 2012 at 1:03 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan In 1958, Senate Minority Leader William Knowland, his eye on the 1960 GOP nomination coveted by fellow Californian Richard Nixon, went home and declared for governor. Knowland's plan: Ride to victory on the back of Proposition 18, the initiative to make right-to-work the law in the Golden Land. Prop. 18 was rejected 2 to 1. Knowland's career was over, and the Continue reading...

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Salad Days of the Public Sector Are Over

Friday - July 13, 2012 at 12:47 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan San Bernardino, Calif., has now followed Stockton into bankruptcy. Harrisburg and Scranton, Pa., and Jefferson County, Ala., home to Birmingham, are already there to welcome them. Detroit has been taken into receivership by Michigan. A plan under discussion is to level a fourth of the city and reconvert it into the pasture and farmland it used to be a century Continue reading...

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The Bell Tolls for the Government Unions

Saturday - June 9, 2012 at 7:59 pm

By Patrick J. Buchanan In 1919, after Boston police went on strike to protest the city's refusal to recognize their new union, Gov. Calvin Coolidge ordered the National Guard into the streets. Sam Gompers, the legendary father of American labor, wrote the governor that the Boston police had been denied their rights. Coolidge's terse reply put him in our history books: "Your assertion Continue reading...

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Vulture Capitalism or Populist Demagoguery?

Tuesday - January 17, 2012 at 12:52 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan "They're vultures that are sitting out there on the tree limb, waiting for a company to get sick, and then they swoop in ... eat the carcass ... and ... leave the skeleton." So Rick Perry colorfully characterized the private equity firm Bain Capital, once run by Mitt Romney. How did Bain prosper? Says Perry: "These companies ... come in and loot the people's Continue reading...

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Why Scott Walker Must Win

Tuesday - March 1, 2011 at 1:39 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan The anti-democratic methods President Obama's union allies are using in Wisconsin testify to the crucial character of the battle being fought. Teachers have walked off in wildcat strikes, taking pupils with them. Doctors have issued lying affidavits saying the teachers were sick, a good example of ethical conduct for the school kids. Thousands of demonstrators have Continue reading...

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Barack Hussein Alinsky

Tuesday - February 22, 2011 at 12:46 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan As a large and furious demonstration was under way outside and inside the Capitol in Madison last week, Barack Obama invited in a TV camera crew from Milwaukee and proceeded to fan the flames. Dropping the mask of The Great Compromiser, Obama reverted to his role as South Chicago community organizer, charging Gov. Scott Walker and the Wisconsin legislature with an Continue reading...

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