As we shuffle–or maybe that’s scuffle–into the weekend, a small ray of good news: The government will grant collective bargaining rights to the nation’s 40,000 airport screeners, the head of the largest federal workers union said Friday. John Gage, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, told the Associated Press he was informed […]
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Plane Terror Proves: Republicans Fail On “National Security”, Hate The Middle Class
Posted on 05 January 2010.
The Republican world view of "national security" has been laid bare–ideology is more important than the security of the people. In my view, the fallout from the airplane terror plot makes this abundantly clear. I start from my own touchstones about the definition of "national security": it is a measure of how the people […]
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Terror, National Security and Anti-Unionism
Posted on 01 January 2010.
There was a bit of wisdom that one could gain from the airline terror plot that, in my view, says a lot about the Republican view of the world and our own definition of national security. Yesterday, to its credit, The New York Times had an editorial entitled "Senator DeMint’s Priorities," which made this […]
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