Michael Brown and Race Hoaxes
Mona Charen, National Review
Back in August, when news first broke of a shooting in Ferguson, Mo., the media world, perpetually tingling with eagerness for white-on-black violence stories, plunged into delirium. An unarmed, black 18-year-old “gentle giant” had been shot in the back while running away from a white police officer! He was just preparing to enter college in the fall. He had been assassinated while holding his hands in the air in a gesture of helplessness.”Hands up; don’t shoot,” chanted protesters. The “hands up” gesture immediately achieved iconic status among demonstrators from Boston to New York to San…
Sen. Coburn’s “Wastebook” Has No Likes
John Kass, Chicago Tribune
The Seeds of a New Labor Movement
Harold Meyerson, American Prospect
If anyone has the right to be upbeat about the prospects of the American labor movement, it should be David Rolf, the president of a Seattle-based long-term care local of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). Between 1995 and 1999, while still in his 20s, Rolf directed a campaign that unionized 74,000 home care workers in Los Angeles. It was the largest single unionization since the United Auto Workers organized Ford in 1941. SEIU then sent him to Seattle, where he has nearly quadrupled SEIU’s Washington state membership. Last year, he led the initiative campaign that…
