SCOTUS Strikes Down Forced Union Payments

In a 5-4 split,  the US Supreme Court reversed a decades old decision that allowed public sector unions to force employees to contribute union dues.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that government workers can’t be forced to contribute to labor unions that represent them in collective bargaining, dealing a serious financial blow to organized labor. 

The court’s conservative majority scrapped a 41-year-old decision that had allowed states to require that public employees pay some fees to unions that represent them, even if the workers choose not to join. 

The 5-4 decision fulfills a longtime wish of conservatives to get rid of the so-called fair share fees that non-members pay to unions in roughly two dozen states. Organized labor is a key Democratic constituency.

The potential ramifications for this decision are tremendous. Union dues are a stable, reliable source of income for many liberal institutions. Filling this gap will take a concerted, coordinated effort to find ways to rip $$$ from the paychecks of millions of Americans.

•  The DNC will be forced to seek other ways by which they can force unwilling victims to contribute to their political coffers. A possible strategy includes the unionization of the dead. This is consistent with other DNC efforts as the dead are most likely to vote Democratic.

• The Teachers Unions may have to actually start considering ways to educate their students rather than fighting merit pay initiatives and attempts to limit tenure for incompetent educators. 

• Service Employees International Union (SEIU) thugs will be forced to curb beatings as a way of controlling union voting and other forms of union discourse. Lawyers' fees may be limited to only employee rape, embezzlement, theft and fraud arrests. Legal representation for simple and aggravated assault charges may be financially out of bounds for the foreseeable future.

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Right Jabs: It’s A Tax Edition

Politics is not a playground, it’s a battlefield.  Here’s the news you can use from conservative bloggers, not the corporate-controlled stenographers from Central Planning.

Silver lining?  I don’t think so.

Get the pool, boy!

But are the people classified as being poor really poor?

I would hardly call any bill which threatens to set up a score or more of new federal bureaucracies, granted ever-more intrusive powers that will slowly seep into every nook-and-cranny of American Life, which was passed only because the then-democrat-controlled House of Representatives manipulated Congressional rules until they got the vote they wanted, and then passed the resulting pile of stinking dogcrap onto an openly-bribed Democrat-controlled Senate, to be constitutional.

Which color pill do I take in order to forget about all this? Can I still get the pill through my preferred insurance provider?

“I got nothin’. You?” [Note to the men folks—you may cringe]

What’s next? Holler at them, “Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elder berries”?

The great unwashed…

Apparently Congress can do anything it wants to you as long as it's "characterized as a tax."

Ground control to Starship Silver Lining, there’s something wrong.  Can you hear me?

You just said so. You are an intellectual coward.

Chances are this pervert, who has ruined the lives of so many young men, will be treated to more than serenading.

…an alternate way of dealing with illegal immigration, one which we used to employ here in the US.

A political wave is coming.

Who said it?

For this confusion, we should thank the perennially incompetent hacks at the Board of Elections.

Hope you like broccoli.

Who finds this just a tad bit ridiculous that Hassan is barred from court because his beard is against Army regulations, yet being a radical Muslim was OK to remain in the Army?

The end of liberty was at hand.

This is not a nation where people are left alone anymore. This is a nation where they are hounded from the moment they are born until the moment they die by the arms of a regulatory state run by men and women weaned on Cleaver, Alinsky, Fourier, Marx, Wells and countless others. This is a nation, where accordingly, being left alone is the greatest of luxuries.

I wouldn’t stick that there if I were you.

President Obama is choosing not to enforce immigration laws in Arizona, so it’s only fitting that Republican governors refuse to implement any aspects of Obamacare in their states. 

Will Obamacare pay to get us to the hospital when gas is ten bucks a gallon? No? Maybe we better elect Romney then.

President Obama is right. We can’t go back to the failed policies of the past. Progressive tax and borrow and spend does not work. 

What was extraordinary was the sight of a president, standing in the Rose Garden, leaning on the Supreme Court.

I guess the people should always get what they want.  Even if they want Barabbas.

A Dumb Bunny Know Nothing

There’s an old adage asserting that even a blind pig can find a truffle once in a while—the point being that every so often someone says something absolutely spot on.

Writer, actor, economist and lawyer Ben Stein got it right in his documentary Expelled:  No Intelligence Allowed and he gets it right again in his American Spectator piece, A Know Nothing.

What else besides the Constitution does Mr. Obama not know?

Here, in outline form, is why the pronouncements from President Barack Obama, warning the Supreme Court to not overturn Obamacare are so chilling:

1. The President supposedly went to Harvard Law School, graduated from same, was Law Review President of the Harvard Law Review at Harvard Law School. Then he supposedly taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago. Those are powerful law schools. Yet he obviously knows little of how the Constitution works if he thinks it would be rare or startling for the Supreme Court to overrule a law passed by Congress.

2. If he does not know how the government works under the Constitution, he should not be President.

3. If he does not know how the Constitution works even in its broadest strokes, what else does he not know?

4. Is he really so arrogant that he thinks he can lecture and threaten the Court? This is his second attempt to bully and demean the Court. Is this from arrogance or from foolishness and arrogance? In either case, it is not good.

Stein opines that he, Obama, apparently thinks that it's his job to leave Western Europeans and Americans stripped of missile defense. He apparently thinks it's his job to unilaterally disarm America. That shows a yawning chasm in what he knows and what he does not know.

Another subject Mr. Obama thinks he knows about and doesn't is the oil companies. He hates them. Why does Mr. Obama hate them? Because of a juvenile, City College of New York circa 1937 leftist view of the whole world. Sad. Disturbing. That is a highly anti-American worldview.