Category Archives: States

Man Up

Teachers Union Goes Greek

States are broke and teachers think they want to break their unions.  Wisconsin teachers took a sick-out from school to protest. A few took an additional sick-out from civility to compare  Governor Scott Walker to Hitler.

Movin’ On Up

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The census numbers are in and the population losers tend to be high tax and regulation states while winners are the opposite.  New York and Ohio lost 2 House seats each.   Texas gained 4.  Doesn’t prove anything, but here’s what Michael Barone has to say about it.

Presidents Without Borders

100520bokloresObama pronounced us not defined by our borders and promptly joined Mexican President Felipe Calderon in trashing Arizona for its immigration law.  Senator Arlen Specter, now spurned by both democrats and republicans, doesn’t find himself bound by much of anything.  At the end of Clinton’s impeachment trial in 1999, Specter relied on Scottish Law to vote “not proved”

The New Federalism

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