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Making sausage out of ‘card check’

My curious little state of Arkansas, conservative and nominally Democratic, is something of a ground zero in the raging battle between management and labor over whether to allow unions to be formed by the filing of employee cards.

Delayed pay raises?

If you’re lucky and skilled enough to be working, if you’re lucky and skilled enough to have suffered no loss of income or benefits amid this turbulent economy, the last thing you’re going to do is demand that your employer promise future wage growth to “make up” for the lack of a raise this year.

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The new normal

The notion of the American Dream isn’t as old as you might think. David Kamp, in an excellent article in the April issue of Vanity Fair magazine, points out that the Founding Fathers never used the phrase. He traces its origins to 1931, when a book called “The Epic of America,” by James Truslow Adams, left an indelible mark on the nation’s psyche.

If we seek to limit CO2, why not water?

It qualifies as an old schoolboy joke, by now, right up there with, “Do you have Prince Albert in a can?”

Blame Canada?

Those who insist America should have a “free” health care system like Canada’s must still explain why Canadians who can afford to do so often head “south of the border” to pay cash for better and more timely treatment.

‘… and we’ll take it from there’

In Carson City, the Legislature’s Democratic leaders remain adamant that they have not yet decided whether taxes must be increased to counter cuts proposed by Republican Gov. Jim Gibbons.

Why allow the kids to speak, at all?

In the spring of 2006, officials at Foothill High School, in suburban Henderson, required valedictorian Brittany McComb to submit her graduation speech to them for advance censorship, as has become standard policy.

Book banning

If you think we have, over the years, exaggerated the threat posed to the First Amendment by “campaign reform,” consider Tuesday’s Supreme Court arguments in the case of “Hillary: The Movie.”

No laughing matter

Members of the Obama administration — and media commentators who routinely promote their policies — are literally laughing at Republican warnings that the vast deficits proposed by the current White House could lead to an eventual default on U.S. securities, an accelerated devaluation of the U.S. dollar, or both.

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