SEIU Fixing the Vote in Fresno, Too
-By Warner Todd Huston A few weeks ago we reported on how the Services Employees International Union was attempting to fix the vote in Sonoma County, California so that Sonoma’s in-home healthcare workers would end up with SEIU representation instead of NUHW representation. Well, Sonoma wasn’t an isolated case. The SEIU used the same vote fixing tactics in Fresno County. Andy Stern’s SEIU is playing hardball, using techniques that harken back to the mob-infested old days in order to wi

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On Friday, Secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner blamed the Bush Administration for the country’s woes…. again. Oh, you can’t blame Tim “I Don’t Pay taxes” Geithner for this reflexive fall-back position of blaming all his failures on Bush. After all, this narrative comes from the top. It’s an Obama mainstay, of course. But contrary to those who say Obama is ignorant of history, I’d say he has learned from history’s blamers and obfuscators…

Ill. GOP Ciairman: Coulson Thing a ‘Screw Up’
-By Warner Todd Huston Jeff Berkowitz cornered Illinois GOP Chair Pat Brady and asked him if the invite to Beth Coulson to the state-wide meeting with national party Chairman Michael Steele was a defacto endorsement of Coulson’s 10th District candidacy? Brady says no, there was no endorsement. At issue was a press release by Beth Coulson, candidate for the 10th Congressional District, that could easily be read as an announcement of support from the national party because Coulson was invite

Oak Park’s New Logo, the Long and Short of it
-By Warner Todd Huston Oak Park, Illinois has created a new logo to help sell the city for tourism. The new logo is coupled with a new slogan: “Oak Park: Step Out of Line.” The town is very excited about its new logo. It has stiffened the citizen’s resolve to sell their town as a tourist spot…. OK, enough with the build up. The logo has spawned some, shall we say, controversy? The only way to start the conversation off right is to see it first. So, here we go… Yeah. Now you DO know what that looks like, right?

This Chick Does Flicks: 2012
-By Ann “Babe” Huggett I’m not given to laughing at inappropriate moments in movies, especially when it’s literally the end of the world, but no one warned me that within the current disaster mega hit 2012 there lurks such utter and impossible physical lunacy that all you can do is laugh. When 2012’s sneak peek trailer was released earlier this year, it went viral on the web precisely because the trailer defied belief what with it’s violent upheaval special effects, star