Unions Threaten Businesses; Lawsuit Filed Against New Wisconsin Law; Muslim Radicals are 80% of Terror Cases; Is America in Libya?; Tennessee Bans State Income and Payroll Taxes; Restraining Order on Divulging Names of Gun Owners in Illinois;TSA Cooked Their Books on Costs

How to peacefully present one's message in DC

The unions threaten to boycott companies which don't support union thuggery: by the way, I have personally witnessed a union threaten the very life of someone I know - in Detroit in the 80's.  These are not always nice guys... and they seem willing to do whatever it takes to get their way, democracy be darned.]

from www.620wtmj.com

The undersigned groups would like your company to publicly oppose Governor

Walker’s efforts to virtually eliminate collective bargaining for public employees in

Wisconsin. While we appreciate that you may need some time to consider this

request, we ask for your response by March 17. In the event that you do not

respond to this request by that date, we will assume that you stand with

Governor Walker and against the teachers, nurses, police officers, fire fighters,

and other dedicated public employees who serve our communities.

In the event that you cannot support this effort to save collective bargaining,

please be advised that the undersigned will publicly and formally boycott the

goods and services provided by your company. However, if you join us, we will

do everything in our power to publicly celebrate your partnership in the fight to

preserve the right of public employees to be heard at the bargaining table.In the event you would like to discuss this matter further, please contact the executive Director of the Wisconsin Professional Police Association, Jim Palmer, at 608.273.3840. Thank you in advance for your consideration. We look forward to hearing from you soon. James L. Palmer, Executive Director  

Thank you in advance for your consideration. We look forward to hearing from

you soon.

 

James L. Palmer, Executive Director

Wisconsin Professional Police Association

Mahlon Mitchell,President

Professional Professional Fire Fighters

Jim Conway, President

International Association of Fire Fighters Local 311

John Matthews, Execuctive Director

Madison Teachers, Inc.

Keith Patt, Executive Director

Green Bay Education Association

Bob Richardson,  President

Dane County Deputy Sheriffs Association

Dan Frei, Prersident

Madison Professional Police Officers Association

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620wtmj also writes: The lawsuit filed by Democratic Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk attempts to stop the publication [in the newspapers, on the new law] on the grounds that the bill unconstitutionally passed the state Senate on Wednesday.  A judge was considering Friday whether to block enactment of a law taking away nearly all collective bargaining rights from the vast majority of Wisconsin's public workers.http://www.620wtmj.com/news/local/117814693.html

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Powerlineblog writes: The Investigative Project of Terrorism reveals: "Though Muslims represent about 1 percent of the American population," the IPT notes, "they constitute defendants in 186 of the 228 cases DoJ lists [of terrorist activity - more than 80%]." Thirty of the terror cases listed, or about 13 percent, involve homegrown Islamist terrorists.
The DoJ compilation includes convictions into March 2010; the IPT article cites a number of prosecutions for Islamist related terrorist activity since then.  http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2011/03/028559.php
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Debka.com reveals: Hundreds of US, British and French military advisers have arrived in Cyrenaica, Libya's eastern breakaway province, debkafile's military sources report exclusively. This is the first time America and Europe have intervened militarily in any of the popular upheavals rolling through the Middle East since Tunisia's Jasmine Revolution in early January.  The advisers, including intelligence officers, were dropped from warships and missile boats at the coastal towns of Benghazi and Tobruk Thursday Feb. 24, for a threefold mission:
1. To help the revolutionary committees controlling eastern Libyan establish government frameworks for supplying two million inhabitants with basic services and commodities;
2. To organize them into paramilitary units, teach them how to use the weapons they captured from Libyan army facilities, help them restore law and order on the streets and train them to fight Muammar Qaddafi's combat units coming to retake Cyrenaica.
3. To prepare infrastructure for the intake of additional foreign troops. Egyptian units are among those under consideration.  http://debka.com/article/20708/
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The New American writes: Oliver Wendell Holmes once said, “Taxation is the price we pay for civilization.” What would the good jurist think of Tennessee, then?

On Wednesday, Holmes would probably say that the Tennessee state Senate behaved in a most “uncivilized” manner by passing 28-5 a bill that would amend the Tennessee Constitution to forever prohibit the state legislature or municipalities incorporated in the Volunteer State from instituting an income tax or a payroll tax. http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/politics/6649-tennessee-state-senate-passes-no-income-tax-bill

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Ammoland.com writes: The ISRA is pleased to announce that it has secured a temporary restraining order against the release of personal information belonging to persons holding Illinois Firearm Owner Identification cards (FOID).
The ISRA and four additional plaintiffs filed for the temporary restraining order after Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced that her office believes that release of FOID information to the public is proper under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act.
The ISRA is very concerned that public release of personal information from the FOID database will jeopardize the safety of law-abiding firearm owners. http://www.ammoland.com/2011/03/11/rifle-association-secures-restraining-order-against-release-of-firearm-owners-personal-information/
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The Washington Times writes: The Transportation Security Administration “cooked the books” to understate the costs of using federal workers rather than private contractors to screen airport passengers, a key TSA critic in Congress charged Wednesday.
Federal auditors found the agency erred in its cost comparisons, and a skeptical lawmaker said TSA did so to stop the use of private contractors to do screening — an option Congress wrote into the 2001 law that created the agency.  http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/mar/9/tsa-cooked-data-on-airport-security-watchdog-repor/