Shout First, Ask Questions Later: 2011-03-06

Gov. Walker Signs Union Reform Bill

THE GOOD NEWS IS...

Taxpayers Win in Wisconsin The monopoly power of government unions can be broken.

Yes E.D. Kain Wisconsin is the Republican Waterloo… they are playing the role of Wellington.

Iowa House passes collective bargaining bill

GENERAL BAD BEHAVIOR

Debarred short seller with checkered past lobbied Education Department on for-profit colleges

The Other Loser In Wisconsin - Law Enforcement Credibility

Protesters Dragged Screaming From Wisconsin Capitol

Call The Wahmbulance!

Going John Galt? Number of U.S. Expatriates Doubled in 2010

Why do these people, many of whom are professionals, feel no fear in expressing such death wishes in the open?

The "mob scene" at the Wisconsin Capitol morning aimed at preventing the Assembly from voting.

Google’s Tarnished Chrome The search and advertising company once seemed to do no wrong. Now members of Congress aren’t so sure.

NEA Lesson Plan: Teach Kids To A) Vote for Democrats; B) Masturbate

National Geographic Teaching Children to Hate America

Man Builds Watch Tower to Protect Self From Illegal Immigrants That he has to is what is sad.

Michael Moore’s Hunger Strike

AND THE GOOD GUYS ARE...

Meet a True Muslim Patriot

Sen. Ron Johnson denounces 'mob rule'

Wisconsin Pols Get Ready to Rumble With the passing of the budget bill in the state Senate last night, the battle lines for a year-long war in Wisconsin have just been set.

The Forgotten Story in Wisconsin

Republicans Threaten Senate Blockade if Reid Doesn't Deal With Debt, Spending

BAD POLITICIAN BAD

President Obama Job Approval

A Letter to America Americans deserve better than the European model that Barack Obama is trying to implement.

President of China? Obama's lament.

Obama silent as liberals make death threats

Obama’s Social Security Hoax The president will demagogue Social Security as his ticket to reelection.

Ready for Unionized Airport Security? As payback for union support, the Obama administration greases the wheels for the largest federal organizing effort in history

Illinois Governor Signs Amazon Internet Sales Tax Law AND Amazon Takes Action in Illinois as War on Sales Taxes Continues .

More New York Pols Accused of Corruption

Looking at the Senate spending votes

Obama To GOP: "Don't Try To Use The Budget To Promote A Political Or Ideological Agenda" Hello, pot? This is Kettle. You're black.

White House influencing net neutrality

Rep. Keith Ellison’s Bigotry The congressman told a teachable story this morning. One problem: It’s untrue.

Mexico lawmakers demand answers about guns smuggled under ATF's watch

Dems’ Dull Budget Scissors Nancy Pelosi demands more while President Obama refuses to lead.

Democrat staff engineered mob’s unlawful invasion of Wisconsin Capitol Building

Obama's New Ambassador to China: Not so "Squeaky Clean"

TSA Overstates Costs of Private Alternatives

IN ECONOMIC WOES

Americans' Concern About Economy Rises to 12-Month High

Crude Cruelty

A double standard on energy prices

The battle over Internet sales tax. States on a tight budget are looking everywhere, including Internet sales, to squeeze out some extra money

Ten Don’ts for Our Government on Gas Prices

Planet Washington

Tax Increases Will Lead to More Spending, Not Lower Deficits

Dems’ Dull Budget Scissors Nancy Pelosi demands more while President Obama refuses to lead.

Pilot Programs: A Waste of Money

More people sought unemployment aid last week. More people applied for unemployment benefits last week, rising from a 3-year low

Time for War Against Democrats' Fiscal Sabotage

5 lies the economists are feeding us Reassurances from the Fed on down about low inflation and falling unemployment are ringing hollow as stagflation looms. They aren’t fooling us, but they might be kidding themselves

Taxes are the wrong focus for economic growth

‘The Most Predictable Economic Crisis in History’

The Dow's Plunge: Should You Be Worried?

California’s Demographic Dilemma: A Class And Culture Clash

IRS Can't Find 9% of its Guns and Other Investigative Equipment

The Minimum Wage and Job Loss from 2006 through 2010

Unknown Unknowns

February budget deficit highest ever for any month

OBAMACARE

Growing number of waivers a GOP rallying cry for healthcare repeal

HA! too little too late! Obama Calls For ‘Conversation’ About Medicare/Medicaid

Axelrod: Romneycare Was A "Template" For Obamacare

Why Ration Life-Saving Drugs?

Obama plays the Medi-scare card against Republicans

Bachmann and King: Last Chance to Kill ‘Deceptive’ $105 Billion ObamaCare Funding

JUNK SCIENCE

All Aboard the Climate Gravy Train There was a time when climate scientists were not extremely well paid, but that is no longer the case.

Do drivers with "green cars" put on more miles?

Bill to stop EPA on climate passes House panel

We Need Less Talk and More Action on Gulf Coast Drilling

My Visit to An American Rare Earth Metals Mine The electronic future is buried under the ground in Missouri

Obama Defends Energy Policy: 'Politicians Pull Out the Same Old Political Playbook'

Your genes, your rights – FDA’s Jeffrey Shuren misleading testimony under oath

Obama's Green-Jobs Fantasy Don't buy the president's environmental snake oil

MEDIA BIAS

HUGE NPR News Round-Up here

For a Second Time, NPR Claims to Have ‘Rejected’ Phony Donation; Emails Appear to Say Otherwise

National Geographic Teaching Children to Hate America

What If Tea Partier Had Said It: Wis. GOP Given Detailed Death Threat for Union Vote

Good Christian Women Should Boo

Project Veritas: NPR Planned to Accept Donation from Muslim Brotherhood Front Group and Hide Origins From Government

GOP focuses on NPR's subsidies, not its politics

BIG UNION/LEFTIE GROUPS

The left claims that the guilty party in a conflict is not the one who covets another’s goods but the one who defends his own.

Teacher tenure is poisonous: Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, says it's time to put performance first

Big Labor’s Next Onslaught: Abolish ‘Right to Work’ Laws Through the United Nations They can try but Americans really dislike other country's laws usurping our own.

VIDEO: Democrat staff engineered mob’s unlawful invasion of Wisconsin Capitol Building

Hitler and the Unions

Andrew Klavan: Behold! Your Public Sector Unions at Work.
NEA Lesson Plan: Teach Kids To A) Vote for Democrats; B) Masturbate

Dance of the Tenured Lemons

Union Protests in Indiana

A Double Shock to Liberal Professors

Liberals Love Violence. But Why?

Michael Moore’s Hunger Strike

PLANNED PARENTHOOD/ABORTION SCANDAL

FIGHTING CORRUPTION/TEA PARTY NEWS

What If Tea Partier Had Said It: Wis. GOP Given Detailed Death Threat for Union Vote

NPR Is Collateral Damage in Battle to Brand Tea Party

Via Instapundit

This is the story in the paper - GOP delegates to governor: Veto guest-worker bill

This is the behind-the-scenes story as posted on Instapundit:

DAVID KIRKHAM SENDS A REPORT FROM UTAH:

Oh the power of an Army of Davids with access to the internet! The Utah Legislature tried to sneak through an amnesty bill in the dark of night over the weekend. The bill, HB116, passed the house and the senate on Friday and was sent to the Governor’s desk yesterday. Today the Utah Tea Party arranged a meeting with Governor Herbert at 12:30 pm. We met with Governor Herbert and Lt. Governor Bell to urge Herbert to veto the bill. We brought up our strenuous objections to the bill as it is unconstitutional on its face. The bill grants amnesty and work permits to anyone illegally in the state before May 2011. Immigration is a federal issue and a state can’t grant amnesty or issue work visas. This would, of course, cause havoc with employers who had to face ICE. The most unbelievable line spoken in the meeting came from Lt. Governor Bell, (an attorney), when we raised the bill’s unconstitutional provisions, “Everyone concedes it [HB116] isn’t legal as it is.” You could have heard a pin drop…we were dumbfounded. Why on earth are our representatives even considering a bill that in their own words “isn’t legal?”

We continued flanking maneuvers even as we were in the first meeting. We sent a call out on Facebook and emails for any Republican state delegate to immediately come to the capitol to meet with the Governor at 4:00 pm. This was headed up by Brandon Beckham (who did a fantastic job). The media was called. Within 5 hours we had 100 Republican state delegates show up at the Capitol! A representative told me he had never seen 100 state delegates in one place at one time for any reason (besides committee meetings or convention). State delegates are extremely powerful in Utah. They each represent (very roughly) 500 people in their neighborhood. (We organized the state delegates last year to defeat Senator Bennett in convention.)

In the attached photo we asked everyone who is a state delegate to raise their hand before we went into the meeting (delegates were still arriving when we took this photo). We wanted the media to know we are all state delegates. The meeting with the Governor was standing room only. Unfortunately, the Governor’s staff asked the media to leave (why do they always want to conduct business in the shadows?) We apologized to the media and told them we weren’t the ones asking them to leave. One camera man replied, “We know. We KNOW who asked us to leave.” The meeting was tense and emotional, but polite. If Governor Herbert signs the bill, he will pay a heavy price at convention. We told him, “The moment the ink dries, the 2012 elections are on.”

The photo in the Salt Lake Tribune was taken as everyone was arriving, right before they asked the media to leave.