Obama Turns Blind Eye to Union-Backed Card Check

Despite Widespread Opposition From Business and Congress Obama Turns Blind Eye to Union-Backed Card Check If there’s one thing we’ve learned about President Obama it is once he proposes an idea, no matter how unpopular it is, he is unwilling to listen to the people. The Cap and Tax bill, even though it doesn’t have the votes in the Senate and is derided by members of both parties, is still on the active list. Now we learn the Card Check... Read More

What Took So Long to Help Small Business?

If this nation is looking for an issue that will get bipartisan support, that issue is being debated right now: it’s the Small Business Bill. For two years, President Obama has virtually ignored small business – the source of 70 percent of new jobs — but suddenly he’s paying some attention. The result is that it’s a rare time in Congress that both parties actually support a bill. Can you imagine how the toxic environment in Congress... Read More

What are Trade Unions Smoking?

Trade unions are in such deep decline that only seven percent of all U.S. private sector workers are now union members. That leaves ninety three percent of our workforce who are not eligible, interested or have rejected union membership. So unions are desperate to get more workers on the union rolls. How desperate? Word comes from The Wall Street Journal that the Teamsters Union is trying to organize the forty employees of one of California’s... Read More

Living the LBJ Legacy

Several weeks ago I had suggested  President Obama thought that he was patterning himself after Lincoln.  But after doing some more thinking, I realized that the President’s channeling of former presidents does not stop with Lincoln. Now he thinks he’s LBJ. Not since LBJ in 1965 has any president attempted to pass so much of its agenda in one Congress.  LBJ called his plan The Great Society, during which major spending programs addressed education,... Read More

Hoover Institution’s Terry Moe: Teacher Unions More Interested in Jobs than Accountability

Hoover Institution’s Terry Moe Contends that Teacher Unions More Interested in Jobs that Accountability. Joining “Neal Asbury’s Truth for America” was Terry M. Moe, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, a member of the Institution’s Koret Task Force on K–12 education, and the William Bennett Munro Professor of political science at Stanford University. He is an expert on educational policy, U.S. political institutions, and organization... Read More

Institute for Liberty’s Andrew Langer: Only Innovation Can Re-energize Space Program.

Institute for Liberty’s Andrew Langer Predicts that Only Innovation from Private Sector Can Re-energize America’s Space Program. Neal Asbury opened the show by proposing that the Obama administration is willing to promote an agenda that is unpopular with the American public and most legislators, including members of his own party. A case in point is the Card Check bill, which gives labor unions the power to create a union through a simple majority... Read More

Terry Moe-Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution

Terry M. Moe is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, a member of the Institution’s Koret Task Force on K–12 education, and the William Bennett Munro Professor of political science at Stanford University. He is an expert on educational policy, U.S. political institutions, and organization theory. His current research projects are concerned with school choice, public bureaucracy, and the presidency. Moe has written extensively on educational... Read More

Neal Asbury to be Keynote Speaker at the South Florida Manufacturers Association 50th Anniversary Meeting

Neal Asbury will be the dinner keynote speaker at the South Florida Manufacturers Association 50th Anniversary Meeting on September 27th, 2010. This year’s meeting is entitled “Made in the USA and Here to Stay” and it is sponsored by Florida Power and Light. The meeting will focus on preparing for the expansion of “Top Line” that follows several years of cost cutting. It will provide manufacturers with the building blocks to weather the... Read More

Chicago Insider/Radio Host Jim Laski Predicts that Illinois Elections will be a Barometer of Obama’s Power.

Commenting on the announcement this week that Chicago Mayor Richard M Daley won’t seek reelection Laski said it was “wide open field” and that this is the first time since 1947 that an incumbent Chicago Mayor is not seeking re-election. He also noted that while Rahm Emanuel is considering running for the vacant Mayoral spot, he is not a “shoo in and has lots of competition.” He doesn’t think that Emanuel has a political base in Chicago... Read More

Heartland Institute’s Jim Lakely Urges Americans to Seek out Truth about Global Warming.

Neal Asbury opened the show by questioning whether the speech made by President Obama this week in Cleveland was actually made by the President or was it a clone that had been replaced by aliens that abducted the real President Obama? With tongue firmly in cheek, Asbury suggested that his suspicions were aroused when he heard the cloned look-alike announce that small businesses needed tax relief since the private sector creates most of the jobs.... Read More