Category: Politics
Stickin’ (It) to the Union
by WS Editors | Mar 15, 2008 | Legal Affairs, PoliticsThe usually invisible Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS) reached a milestone in late February: Indictment No. 5,000, announced in a monthly police blotter that listed seven labor officials sentenced, five entering guilty pleas, and seven others indicted. At the OLMS, statistics matter. Last month at the American Conservative Union’s political convention in Washington, D.C., Labor […]
Selling a Military Budget That Will “Make the Rubble Bounce”
by WS Editors | Mar 1, 2008 | Foreign Policy“A billion here and a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money.” —attributed to Everett M. Dirksen, Republican who represented Illinois in the U.S. Senate from 1950 to 1969 A WEEK BEFORE HE SLIPPED ON ICE and broke his arm and a month before the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War, Defense Secretary […]
Hillary, the Movie | Gingrich Foresees and Electoral Catastrophe for GOP
by WS Editors | Mar 1, 2008 | Media, PoliticsComing Attractions?—The only thing standing between David Bossie’s film Hillary, the Movie and box-office success is the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law, which prohibits him from advertising it. “I can advertise if I don’t use Hillary’s name [or image],” Bossie told an audience of fifty at a free screening at the American Conservative Union’s CPAC convention in Washington, […]
Will the Other Mayor of New York Run?
by Ronald B. Rapoport, Walter J. Stone | Feb 15, 2008 | PoliticsEditor’s note: As the most compressed, earliest, and most costly primary cycle in the history of the nation’s presidential elections narrows the field to two Democrats and one or two Republicans, with the Rev. Mike Huckabee competing for the vice presidency, one potential independent candidate waits in the wings. He is the current mayor of […]
The Conservative Crackup | Kucinich’s Seat in Trouble | Bush’s Doublespeak on Earmarks
by WS Editors | Feb 15, 2008 | PoliticsBig Tent, Big Fight—Conservatives are struggling to come to terms with a presidential candidate who doesn’t share the nativism of Tom Tancredo, voted against tax cuts, sponsored campaign-finance reform law, and once demonstrated an indifference to abortion and an animus to the leaders of the Christian right. The attacks on John McCain began before he […]
Bad Faith Documentary
Bad Faith
“A great and powerful and timely film” – Ken Burns
Critics are raving about BAD FAITH, the sensational expose of Christian Nationalism from directors Stephen Ujlaki and Chris Jones
“One of the Ten Best Films of 2024” – Variety