by Henry Oliner | Oct 31, 2010 | Politics
Peggy Noonan claimed, correctly in my opinion, that the Tea Party saved the Republican party (Why It’s Time for the Tea Party -The populist movement is more a critique of the GOP than a wing of it, Wall Street Journal / Opinion Journal, September 17, 2010). A...
by Henry Oliner | Oct 29, 2010 | Politics
I do not pretend to speak for the other voters. I was fortunate to be traveling during much of October so I missed most of the trash and noise masquerading as campaign information. I truly do not care about college pranks, high school indiscretions, or even...
by Henry Oliner | Oct 29, 2010 | Politics
From the Wall Street Journal Opinion Journal, OCTOBER 28, 2010 There They Went Again The 111th Congress fits a familiar Democratic pattern. In the midst of the final moments of another contentious election The Wall Street Journal points out a pattern that it seems no...
by Henry Oliner | Oct 26, 2010 | Politics
In the October 2010 Commentary Magazine Jeff Jacoby writes What Public Sector Unions have wrought (subscription required for full access). An excerpt: Organized labor in the United States achieved a milestone in 2009 that once would have been unthinkable: for the...
by Henry Oliner | Oct 26, 2010 | Politics
from the Wall Street Journal online Notable & Quotable Former George W. Bush adviser Mark McKinnon on union funding for political campaigns. Former George W. Bush campaign adviser Mark McKinnon, writing at The Daily Beast, Oct. 24: A record $87.5 million has been...