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March 26, 2009
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Health Care Reform Stays on Fast Track

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Things in the nation's capital get curiouser and curiouser everyday for those who pay attention to what's being said and done (and who aren't the ones actually doing the doings and saying the sayings and those who are supposed to report on them in the Fourth Estate). First, Senator Kent Conrad (D.-N.D.), chairman of the Budget Committee, shreds Barack Obama's budget by half (the discretionary...
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March 26, 2009
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Sacre Bleu! Managers Held Hostage in France? | WWC

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Let's hope American labor leaders don't read international news reports. Turns out that a new habit is taking hold in France in labor relations. To wit: When employees hear bad news, they hold their manager hostage until s/he changes the bad news. Police refuse to intervene for fear of violence. A manager of a French sbusidiary of 3M is, as I write, being held hostage after he announced a lay...
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March 25, 2009
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Labor Movement Worries EFCA May Fail

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Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter, who in 2007 voted to invoke cloture on the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), came out yesterday and said his vote will be "no" this time around. That leaves the Democrats--Labor's mouthpiece and sometime lackey--with 58 (59 if and when Al Franken arrives) votes to end a sure Republican filibuster. Unfortunately, 60 votes are required. There's another way to ...
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March 24, 2009
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Deja Vu All Over Again With Health Care Reform

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Two admittedly left-leaning columnists, a married couple (he a pollster, she a lawyer), have produced a comparison of polling results then and now. "Then" refers to the Hillarycare hubbub in 1993-1994, and "now" refers to the Obamacare hubbub in 2009-?. Results are a bit different than you would expect if you listen to or read what our left-leaning media have to say about health care reform. ...
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March 23, 2009
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Chinese Use Card Check to Unionize All PRC Wal-Marts

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I've written previously about the card-check union organizing provision in the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) now before Congress. It turns out that this is the same method, gathering signatures, that Chinese workers used to set up unions in every Wal-Mart branch in China. This was fairly revolutionary for the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU), which had been accustomed to being co...
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March 21, 2009
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Business Group Offers Alternative to Employee Free Choice Act

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Starbuck's, Whole Foods and Costco have floated a proposal to level the playing field, as they term it, in union organizing. The group rejects two prongs of the proposed Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA)--the card-check and binding arbitration provisions--and keeps in place the current system of secret balloting. What they do retain from the EFCA is the provision for increased penalties on emplo...
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March 20, 2009
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Top Ten States in the Foreclosure Sweepstakes

You can call this my corollary to the GovRegs blog posting on "Top 15 Companies With Cash on Hand." 'Cept this one ain't so pretty--it's a list of the top 10 states in terms of foreclosures. I'll list them in reverse order to save the winners for last. The number in parentheses represents the ratio of foreclosures per house in the state; for instance, 1-500 means one in every 500 homes is faci...
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March 20, 2009
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The 'Human Monster' Rick Berman Is At It Again

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The man whose very son called him "despicable" and a "human molestor," labor antagonist Rick Berman, is spreading the word again--the word against the EFCA, Employee Free Choice Act. At least he's come up with interesting anti-EFCA studies, though one can never know the extent of the bias (if any) built into these things. First, he cites Princeton economist David Lee, who studied the effect ...
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March 19, 2009
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Study Ranks States on the Freedom Scale

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The Mercatus Center of George Mason University has released the "first-ever" freedom rankings for all 50 states, rating each state in terms of fiscal policy, regulatory policy, economic freedom and personal freedom. We develop and justify our ratings and aggregation procedure on explicitly normative criteria, defining individual freedom as the ability to dispose of one’s own life, libe...
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March 19, 2009
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Top U.S. Companies with Most Cash on Hand in 2025

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The top one probably isn't too hard to figure out (think gas pump gouging), but here's a list of the top 15 firms in the U.S. in terms of hoarded cash: Exxon Mobil - (XOM) - Total Cash: $32.007 BillionCisco Systems - (CSCO) - Total Cash: $29.531 BillionApple - (AAPL) - Total Cash: $25.647 BillionBerkshire Hathaway - (BRK.A) - Total Cash: $25.539 BillionPfizer Inc - (PFE) - Total Cash: $23.731 ...
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