Monthly Archives: March 2014

NRLB Decision = Broken System

BY JOHN FEEHERY
Reprinted from TheFeeheryTheory.com

ESPN reports: “In a potentially game-changing moment for college athletics, the Chicago district of the National Labor Relations Board ruled on Wednesday that Northwestern football players qualify as employees of the university and can unionize. NLRB regional director Peter Sung Ohr cited the players’ time commitment to their sport and the fact that their scholarships were tied directly to their performance on the field as reasons for granting them union rights.” Continue reading

Hand Me That Poll

BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com

President Barack Obama is now officially a boat anchor hanging around the necks of Democrats running for public office from east to west; from north to south and, if there is another dimension – like The Cloud – he’s a hindrance there, too.

A bunch of polls have been released this week, all of which show that, as of now, a basic distrust of the President’s abilities are baked into the American consciousness. Continue reading

Upsides to Passing Immigration Reform

BY JOHN FEEHERY
Reprinted from TheFeeheryTheory.com

So, you want all of the illegal aliens to leave your local school? Then you should support common sense immigration reform.

Stanford historian Ana Raquel Minian completed an exhaustive study, consistent with other research, which found that the more the border was militarized, the more immigrants who arrived here without documentation decided to stay in America. Continue reading

No Easy Answers

BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com

While waiting for some actual news about that missing airliner, my attention moved back to Ukraine generally, and to the whole sanction thing in particular.

In the modern era when one country – say the United States – decides to use sanctions to bring to bear a change in behavior of another country – say Iran – the sanctions often include freezing any accounts with any connection to the sanctioned nation. Continue reading

Rating the Airliner Story

BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com

A minor food fight has broken out among news anchors over the amount of attention the missing Malaysian airliner is getting on the Cable news programs.

There is no question that CNN has glommed onto this story and is not letting go. The other cable nets are often leading with the latest theory, conjecture, or unsourced leak, but then go onto other things like the Russian annexation of Crimea. Continue reading

Jolly Good Victory in Florida

BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com

When I first came to Our Nation’s Capital in 1977, Democrats held a 292-143 edge in the U.S. House – an astonishing 149 seat majority.

Over the next nearly four decades I have had to do what the poor writers at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) had to do Tuesday night after the results of the special election in Florida came in. Continue reading

Special Election Victory a B.F.D.

BY JOHN FEEHERY
Reprinted from TheFeeheryTheory.com

So the lobbyist beat the Obamacare supporter in the special election in Florida?

And the race wasn’t even that close.

David Jolly, a former lobbyist and former Staff Member to Congressman Bill Young, beat Alex Sink, a pretty well-known and well-funded Democrat who seemingly and improbably embraced Obamacare during the Continue reading

Poverty, Society, & Politics in America, Part I

BY MICHAEL S. JOHNSON

“Unfortunately, many Americans live on the outskirts of hope…. Our task is to help replace their despair with opportunity. This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America.”

President Lyndon Johnson, State of the Union, January, 1964

“Today, the poverty rate is stuck at 15 percent—the highest in a generation. And the trends are not encouraging. Federal programs are not only failing to address the Continue reading

Feynman, Sagan & Tyson

BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com

Can we take a day off from Ukraine and CPAC and missing airliners to celebrate something very special? It’s the need for most of us to want to learn new things; and for being blessed by having a few people who know about those things and, more important, know how to explain them to the rest of us.

A re-booted version of the fabulously successful 80s program about space, “Cosmos; A Personal Journey,” which was hosted by the late Dr. Carl Sagan (pronounced SAY-gun) premiered jointly last night on all 10 20th Century Fox networks including the National Geographic Channel, FX, and Fox (the one that features the NFL). Continue reading

CPAC at 40

BY JOHN FEEHERY
Reprinted from TheFeeheryTheory.com

CPAC started small, with a few Young Americans for Freedom (better known as Yaffers) and some folks from the American Conservative Union coming together to plot the future of a movement.

Richard Nixon was President, America was in the throes of social and cultural revolution, memories of Barry Goldwater’s epic failure in 1964 was still relatively fresh in the minds of activists, and Ronald Reagan was the hero they all hoped would save them. Continue reading

Tough Week for the White House

BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com

In addition to Vladimir Putin’s strutting and fretting his hour upon the world stage, the big news out of the U.S. Senate yesterday was that seven Democrats voted with all 44 Republicans on a test vote on the confirmation of a guy named Debo Adegbile to be the head of the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice.

It was a nomination put forward with some vigor by President Barack Obama. Continue reading

They Could Bring Back the Tanks

BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com

In the late 1980s, there were teams of Americans – Republicans and Democrats – who were deployed to nations that had been members of the Warsaw Pact but were now free of the Soviet yoke.

We worked with local groups to help them jump start political organizations. Center Right parties were guided by teams sent by the International Republican Institute (IRI); Center Left parties were aided by teams sent by Continue reading