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Rudy Ruettiger Hearts Collective Bargaining

Collective Bargaining for Rudy

Collective Bargaining: It’s why Rudy got to play.

Continental Congress = Colonial Labor Union

Continental Congress = Colonial Labor Union

The Colonists, government employees of the British Crown, were unhappy with the money increasingly being deducted from their pay. Additionally, they felt it was unfair they were not given a voice in the governance of the Colonies. They had no seat at the table and their boss was reducing how much their hard work and toil would let them bring home to their families at the end of the day.

Additionally, the Colonial management was mistreating the Colonists, forcing… Read More

WDBO 580 AM: News Station My Ass

It’s no secret local WDBO, that purports itself to be a news station (and it used to be), is about as unbiased as a Teabagger at a clan Glenn Beck rally. But a recent piece they did about welfare recipients withdrawing cash from casinos, painting it like it’s a multi-million dollar problem and casting the poor of our society as engaging in a widespread culture of fraud, didn’t pass the elementary school math test.
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Brevard County Legislators Want to “Go Arizona”

Illustration by S. Kelly

Hometown News, the local paper I receive in North Brevard County reported recently that “Brevard County state legislators strongly favor creating a law in Florida similar to the Arizona law that would authorize police to verify the status of anyone who might be in the country illegally.” The following is my Letter the the Editor I submitted in response:

In regards to Brevard County… Read More

Rick Scott is a Train Wreck Waiting to Happen

I like to be an informed member of the voting public. I like to read up on what candidates are proposing. I just read Rick Scott’s proposals and had some horrific vision of a statewide collapse. Just to recap what Rick Scott is proposing to do as Governor of Florida:
Rick Scott
- Reduce government spending, as if we could cut anything more. We are… Read More