Born the son of a lawyer in West Orange, New Jersey, [***] was a student leftist in the 1960s. He began college as a business major at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business but ultimately graduated in 1971 with a B.A. in education and urban planning. [***] began his career as a welfare case officer and member of the SEIU in 1973, eventually being elected president of his Pennsylvania local. In 1980, he was elected to the union’s executive board, and in 1984 the union’s then-president John Sweeney put him in charge of its organizing efforts. [***] is a backer of the Employee Free Choice Act.
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[***] is now a Senior Fellow at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute.
Wharton Biz then, Georgetown PPI now. Sounds like the bio of someone who was a Fortune 500 corporate CEO in between.
People like Stern are precisely what is wrong with organized labor today. Do you think Old Man Hoffa would have wasted as much as a millisecond on a silver spoon privileged prick like this? How much you want to bet Stern’s locker at the country club is next to some CEO he pretends to hate?
Gun dealers flooded the FBI with background check requests for prospective buyers last Friday, smashing the single-day, all-time high by 32%, according to bureau records.
Deputy Assistant FBI Director Jerry Pender said the checks, required by federal law, surged to 129,166 during the day, far surpassing the previous high of 97,848 on Black Friday of 2008.
The actual number of firearms sold last Friday is likely higher because multiple firearms can be included in a transaction by a single buyer. And the FBI does not track actual gun sales.
I would have much rather this sales record been set on Small Business Saturday than Black Friday. This probably means that almost all firearms sales on BF were at the Wal-Martinez Big Box Mart operations. Like I said a few days ago upon reading the news that WMs in D.C. Proper won’t sell guns or ammo, I wish WM would get out of the gun and ammo business, to leave the field open for small business and mom-and-pop operations.
President Obama believes that Republican leadership of the country would ruin the United States as a land of opportunity, but he’s (justifiably) confident that his daughters will have plenty of opportunities, no matter what.
“Our kids are going to be fine,” Obama told supporters at a campaign event last night. “[T]hey’re on a path that is going to be successful, even if the country as a whole is not successful. But that’s not our vision of America. I don’t want an America where my kids are living behind walls and gates, and can’t feel a part of a country that is giving everybody a shot.”
Obviously. Your daughters will have a nice successful career being their father’s daughters. See also: Chelsea Clinton.
But what’s with this business about you “don’t want an America where my kids are living behind walls and gates?” With your open borders immigration policy, and your administrative amnesty, you’re guaranteeing just that. The plutocrats and the privileged will live behind walls and gates, to keep the brown lumpenprole masses out, even though the cheap labor of those brown lumpens will be how the future plutocrats will get so rich. Actually, I should couch that sentence in the present tense. That’s the way it is in Mexico, and most of Latin America, and that’s the way it will soon be in Mexico Del Norte (formerly the United States of America).
Holder vows to renew efforts to capture fugitives who flee to Mexico from Illinois
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is vowing to redouble Justice Department efforts to bring violent border-crossing fugitives back to face justice in Illinois — especially those who fled to Mexico.
In a two-page letter received Wednesday by U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, Holder said the Mexican attorney general’s office and the U.S. State Department have pledged to assist the Justice Department as it renews efforts to apprehend the scores of violent fugitives who each year evade trial in Illinois by crossing a U.S. border.
“Like you, I am concerned about the number of fugitives who have fled justice from jurisdictions in Illinois,” Holder wrote in the letter. “I am confident that by assembling the local national and international experts in this area, we collectively can formulate a unified approach designed to bring violent fugitives back to face justice in Illinois.”
The headline reads, “Holder vows to renew efforts to capture fugitives who flee to Mexico from Illinois.” It would be more accurate and lucid if it read, “Holder vows to renew efforts to capture fugitives who flee back to Mexico from Illinois.”
Illegal immigration: Are Obama deportations truly aimed at ‘criminals’?
US says it deported a record 216,000 ‘criminal aliens’ in fiscal 2011, but immigration court statistics show a drop in criminal deportation proceedings from the Bush years. How do those square?
Remain silent, everything you can say can and will be used against you in the court of Big Sis. To an attorney, but public defenders are usually bottom barrel types, so you’re looking at 10-20 years. Otherwise, shut up and pay your taxes, honkey.
* I’ll take it. This city needed the good news, even if it’s fake news.
* We got heroin’s mugshot, but none of any of the suspects. Doesn’t matter — With nicknames like “Tez,” “Lil Don,” “Lil Red,” and “Pops,” we can fill in the blacks…er, blanks, on our own.
Problem is, Newt’s problems are also Romney’s problems.
I think Ron Paul has a special axe to grind against Gingrich, because Gingrich is taking credit for Ron Paul’s ideas, ideas Gingrich called “nutty” as late as a baker’s dozen years ago. And, as it turns out, Newt tried to block Ron Paul’s re-entry to Congress in 1996.
I’m mostly with Rand, but again, as usual, it will be up to be to point out the white elephant in the room — Race. The reason why the Yankee government wants to power to round up “citizens” for “terrorism” is because the Yankee government gives citizenship to anything on two legs, as long as it dutifully hates America and is not white.
* Sure, Rickroller. We believe you. That’s because we know how to read fine print. We know that “deport” in governmentese means begin the bureaucratic paperwork process for a deportation. That rarely ends up with an actual physical deportation.
* “Everybody makes a mistake.” I agree, Sheriff. But some Rickrollers keep on making those mistakes, to the point where you wonder when and where gullibility ends and complicity begins. Well, you might wonder, but I already have my mind made up.
* Sure, Megan. I can really see the Democrats denying Maxine Waters here.
I was being sarcastic, ICYMI.
* Strangely, I agree with Barney Frank on this point. After all, these mortgages only happened because no down payment mortgages were the sine qua non of the subprime mortgage tragedy and eventually the financial crisis, and those only happened because of President Bush’s demand for NDP mortgages for down payments being “soft bigotry” blah blah.
* You’ll have to listen to the audio to find out his “solution,” but that’s why you turn to me. His solution is really nothing more than public officials getting on their hands and knees and begging habitual violent thugs to behave pretty please with a cherry on top.
* Why? In a lot of Europe, horse meat is passed off as inexpensive steaks. At the rate we’re going, we better acquire a taste for horse.
* Were you expecting some calendars in the mail? You won’t be getting them. A San Jose man’s unusual exercise routine combined with our collective paranoia about things that blow up and go boom means they’re in calendar heaven.
Whites are fleeing out more and more outer suburbs and younger whites favor certain parts of central cities (until they have kids, anyway), and blacks are slowly being encouraged to favor older inner suburbs.
Funny how that works. We “freed” Iraq, and non-Muslims, including Christians, are almost extinct there. That “evil” Saddam Hussein seemed to have a lot of religious tolerance. I hear a lot of people riding their hobby horses about “zog” and “the Jews made us go into Iraq.” If they did, they must be the dumbest “Jews” on the face of the Earth.
* They might have a bit of a point. I’m sure they dread when Israelis marry American Jews and bring them back to Israel, then their new found partners start screaming the same “our diversity is our strength” canard they did back in The States. Really helpful when there’s a hateful brown lumpenproletariat on the other side of that wall gnawing on your ass.
BTW, if you have not yet done so, and you have a bit of extra time, download “The Ashkenazi Revolution” from Jew Among You’s blog. If you thought you knew it all about Jewish and Israeli culture, society and politics, that book will quickly cure you of that notion. If you were, like me, someone who thought he knew a little bit but was willing to concede that there’s a lot about which you were and probably always will be befuddled and lost, then you’ll be a total know-nothing by Chapter Seven. What you will figure out is that gentile politics regarding Jews and Israel are totally banal at best and condescending at worst.
* Twelve days. Wow. Methinks Morgan has Kris Humphries on speed dial.
* They showed you pictures. But here, you didn’t need them. I didn’t even need to know that this happened in “Brixton” or “South London,” code words for black ghetto. What other kind of people would get into fatal fights over line-jumping at McDonalds?
HISTORY
* Behind the curve. It is well established that FDR knew. The “Day of Infamy” speech was prepared before the actual attack at Pearl. It is now so conceded by professional historians that FDR knew and furthermore that FDR wanted to provoke the Japanese to attack some American interest, (because Hitler wouldn’t, and the Germans weren’t falling for a Lusitania trick twice), that they no longer bother trying to dismiss the allegations and now try to excuse or justify FDR’s conduct — “Somebody needed to do something to get us into this war.”
* Depressing. Why? Watch Apollo 13. Most of the math was done on paper and pencil, and with slide rules. Yet we can’t go back to the moon with everyone running around these days with more computing power in their pocket than was available in a whole Apollo mission room in the late 1960s and early 1970s?
* Worried? Not I. One word: CyanogenMod. UPDATE: Use this to find out whether your Android phone has this particular infection.
* This didn’t come in time to help the ungulates that stampede all over the big boxers on Black Friday. But, as Cubs fans say every year, there’s always next year.
* I didn’t need this news to figure intuitively that any “grassroots” efforts in support of the Censor-The-Internet bill was really astroturf. After all, what grassroots person would support such a thing?
* Nice hobby he’s got, (not kidding), but maybe he should have waited until the thumb healed. After all, our opposable thumbs are that crucial to our being functional. They’re his career.
