10-15-13 Excellent Guests for Your Show

1. Dave Bego: Big Labor Feels the Pressure

2. Joe Messina: Mr. President, Enough with the Lies, the Fear and the Spin

3. Joseph Klein: Negotiating with the Treacherous Iranian Regime

4. John LeBoutillier: The Political Effects of the Shutdown and Debt Ceiling Fight

Big Labor Feels the Pressure

By Dave Bego

Now that two cases concerning forced unionism have made it to the U.S. Supreme Court's docket, it appears big labor is becoming even more desperate in their attempts to avoid extinction. Events transpiring in the past several weeks make it apparent that Big Labor is doing everything it can to rapidly add membership in anticipation of the Supreme Court finding the use of the coercive practice of "corporate campaigns" to violate the National Labor Relations Act. These "campaigns" consist of the use of intimidating methods designed to coerce employers into signing a neutrality agreement, by which they agree to accept "card check," or the use of signed cards as evidence of their employees' desire for union representation in lieu of secret ballot elections. [more...]

Mr. President, Enough with the Lies, the Fear and the Spin

By Joe Messina

This is not a Democrat vs. Republican piece. This is an "administration gone stupid" piece. These budget games have been played for years. These fights over who knows best have been played for years. But Mafia-style thuggery like this should be left in the big cities. I presume they are used to it and know how to deal with it. The government shutdown caused by the failure of the Senate to pass a budget in the last five years should have no effect on our war memorials. If we can keep the president's golf courses open and Mrs. Obama's 16 assistants funded, and if we can continue to enter into contracts and pay for guards to protect illegal aliens marching at the National Mall, then we can allow our veterans to visit their war memorial. [more...]

Reporting from the UN: Negotiating with the Treacherous Iranian Regime

By Joseph Klein

While President Obama refuses to negotiate with congressional Republicans over the terms for opening the government and passing an increase in the debt ceiling, he is perfectly happy to negotiate for the umpteenth time with the treacherous Iranian regime. A few encouraging words from the duplicitous new Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and his sidekick Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif during their visit to the United Nations last month, as well as a hastily arranged phone call between Obama and Rouhani, was all that Obama needed to fall for Iran's latest delaying tactics. [more...]

The Political Effects of the Shutdown and Debt Ceiling Fight

By John LeBoutillier

On this week's POLITICAL INSIDERS, we looked at the big picture for American electoral politics given the ongoing mess in D.C. What effect - if any - will the current breakdown in D.C. have on 2014 and 2016? Is a third option now more likely? Is the new American political revolution now here?" To see the shows, go to Monday, Sunday, Pt. I, Sunday, Pt. 2.