5-31-13 EAGNews.org Updates

By Kyle Olson

Unions encouraged chaos in an effort to preserve their power in Wisconsin

It wasn’t difficult to understand that the “school” fights in Wisconsin in early 2011 had nothing to do with children or the type of education they receive. They had everything to do with the power that labor unions have traditionally wielded over the public education system. When Gov. Scott Walker proposed his budget repair bill in 2011, curtailing collective bargaining privileges for government employees (including teachers), unions and their radical left allies saw it as an opportunity to make an example out of the governor and cement their power. [more...]

IRS lesson plans attempt to justify embattled agency’s existence to schoolchildren

Did your child learn about how important and critical the IRS is in school today? In light of the reports that the agency was targeting conservative groups for “additional review,” the IRS could use all the public relations help it can get. Enter government schools. The IRS provides a series of lesson plans for students on its website, detailing taxes, the history of taxes, how to account and calculate your taxes, student’s roles as taxpayers, and even tax heroes of yesteryear. One of the lesson plans includes an "info sheet" on how to lobby politicians - presumably to raise taxes for one’s pet project. It’s simply an effort to drum up more business, we suppose. [more...]

DOJ attorney said Big Labor was ‘completely dominated’ by organized crime

There has always been the accusation - and the assumption - that many labor unions have strong ties to organized crime. That was certainly true as early as Al Capone’s era in the 1920s. But a 1978 report prepared for the (Jimmy Carter) White House by Peter F. Vaira went into great detail making the links between unions and gangsters. [more...]

The IRS Scandal is Much Worse Than Anyone Realizes

By Wayne Allyn Root

I lived through a nightmare but am here to talk about it. I was one of those victims of the IRS scandal. As an outspoken critic of President Obama and his socialist anti-business agenda, the IRS targeted me for intimidation and persecution - not once, but twice. The first IRS attack started in January of 2011. After I won a victory in tax court in the summer of 2012, I was audited again 5 days later. FIVE DAYS. Tax experts have never heard of this happening- EVER.

But my nightmare is over. Just yesterday, I won again. My tax attorney just received official notice that my second audit is closed and I owe nothing... nada... zero. Again.

That might make me the cleanest taxpayer in America. I’ve now survived four years of IRS attacks under Obama and come out with a perfect record. After four years of IRS agents looking at every line of my returns... scouring my life to try to find something, anything...  the IRS agrees that I don't owe one cent. [more...]

5-29-13 Great Guests for Your Show

1. Carl Schramm: Barack Obama's Scandals Confirm That He's Not a CEO

2. Wayne Allyn Root: President Obama - The CEO Who Knows Nothing

3. Anne Speckhard, Ph.D.: Remembering Civilian Sacrifices made in Behalf of our Country

4. Dave Bego: Right-to-Work Legislation

5. Rabbi D.B. Ganz: A Response to Chinese Computer Hacking

Barack Obama's Scandals Confirm That He's Not a CEO

By Carl Schramm

Every CEO is a politician. Not every politician is a CEO. The current set of messes that President Obama faces makes the point. They are as much management failures as they are political/legal nightmares. There is a price for having no market-facing executive experience. Indeed, Mr. Obama’s first cabinet had almost no private sector management experience. Most of our better presidents have had business or military leadership experience. This is of tremendous value when running the world’s largest organization. Those who haven’t, like Bill Clinton himself, tested by failure as a politician and familiar with the executive role governors play, knew that private sector executives have a different view of what successful management is and kept a few close at hand. [more...]

President Obama - The CEO Who Knows Nothing

By Wayne Allyn Root

Let's assume for a moment that Obama really knew nothing about the IRS scandal. That would make him the most incompetent and clueless CEO in history. The first time the president of the United States allegedly found out about the IRS scandal was on a Friday, less than two weeks ago, just like the rest of us. We are led to believe he was watching CNN and they mentioned the IRS scandal. And I guess we’re to believe that Obama turned to his Chief of Staff and said, “Wow, those IRS dudes really went rogue!” [more...]

Remembering Civilian Sacrifices made in Behalf of our Country

By Anne Speckhard, Ph.D.

We need to begin to honor the oft forgotten civilians who also serve in war and high threat security environments alongside the military, supporting their efforts and working in concert with them - especially all those civilians who served in the two recent U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan - as many civilian workers have also lost their lives while serving our country. While we don’t often remember the sacrifices of civilian workers in conflict zones, or have a holiday to commemorate their service, we do need to honor that they too serve their country. [more...]

Right-to-Work Legislation

By Dave Bego

Having been involved in the passage of Right-To-Work legislation in Indiana and Michigan, I can attest to the tireless efforts of these grassroots movements - by local businesses in Indiana and concerned United Auto Worker employees in Michigan - to achieve the goal of protecting worker freedoms. Statistical data shows that the implementation of a Right-to-Work law is positive as such states see statistical growth in both population and jobs. Some have suggested that a Right-to-Work law’s importance is in the guarantee of the freedom of choice and the assurance of a lack of intimidation in the organizing process, but it appears this may not be accurate. [more...]

A Response to Chinese Computer Hacking

By Rabbi D.B. Ganz

In the spring of 2010, Google, unlike other computer search engine companies, admirably placed principle ahead of profit and closed its operations in China. The reason openly given by Google was that private Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists were being systematically hacked. In truth, it is well known that the Chinese government has been behind major cyber-attacks on targets everywhere. A cursory Internet query on the subject of Chinese computer hacking will generate numerous articles from different parts of the world all making the same point. The Chinese government is apparently attempting to pirate all of the world’s secrets filed on computers worth stealing. [more...]

Kanye West Hypocrisy

By James Hirsen

In advance of the June 18 release of his latest album, "Yeezus," Kanye West is engaged in an unusual form of performance art public relations. One of the singles from the rapper’s upcoming album is entitled "New Slaves," and the piece is being debuted in various locations around the globe via video projections on the exterior of buildings.

According to the Houston Chronicle, the police intervened and prevented a projection of West’s video that was slated to take place at Houston’s Rothko Chapel. Authorities were likely concerned about the possible negative fallout from the racially charged lyrics, which are an explicit part of West’s rap song: "I know that we the new slaves, I see the blood on the leaves, They throwing hate at me, Want me to stay at ease, F*** you and your corporation," West conveys through the song’s lyrics.

West, incidentally, through the promotion and distribution of his music and through business projects beyond, is fully immersed in the corporate culture. Additionally, he is romantically linked with Kim Kardashian, an individual of extensive celebrity who is pregnant with his child. Individually, and now together, the two have taken sales, marketing, and personal consumption of corporate products to staggering new levels. [more...]

Woolwich Murder of a British Soldier

The Militant Jihadi Ideology as a Short-Term Psychological Fix—Examining the Woolwich Murder of a British Soldier

By Anne Speckhard, Ph.D.

When I conducted interviews with extremists and their supporters four and five years ago—in London, Birmingham and Leeds—I found many young immigrant descent Muslims expressed similar concerns to the recent murderer of British soldier, Michael Abedolajo. Many told me that they had distant relatives in Pakistan and Afghanistan and were deeply disturbed about them potentially being harmed by the British military. While most did not endorse attacking their own country nor resorting to terrorist "solutions" on UK soil, many said they would feel compelled to aid Muslims under attack in Iraq or Afghanistan—even if it meant working against their own military. And some told me that if push came to shove, they might even aid in an Afghani or Iraqi attack on British soldiers or a military installation inside the UK. It seems the nightmare they foretold has now occurred only days ago. The plot, however, is not completely new. [more...]

5-23-13 Excellent Guests for Your Show

1. Wayne Allyn Root: President Obama - The CEO Who Knows Nothing

2. Anne Speckhard, Ph.D.: Benghazi and the Resilience of Civilians Deployed in Conflict Zones

3. Christina Tobin: What Unites Us

4. Kyle Olson: Federal Prosecutors Stay Busy Busting Corrupt Union Brass

5. Joseph Klein: Palestinians at U.N. Warn of 'Consequences' for 'Apartheid' Israel

6. Joel Gilbert - Anti-Obama Filmmaker Charges Harassment by IRS

President Obama - The CEO Who Knows Nothing

By Wayne Allyn Root

Let's assume for a moment that Obama really knew nothing about the IRS scandal. That would make him the most incompetent and clueless CEO in history. The first time the president of the United States allegedly found out about the IRS scandal was on a Friday, less than two weeks ago, just like the rest of us. We are led to believe he was watching CNN and they mentioned the IRS scandal. And I guess we’re to believe that Obama turned to his Chief of Staff and said, “Wow, those IRS dudes really went rogue!” [more...]

Benghazi and the Resilience of Civilians Deployed in Conflict Zones

By Anne Speckhard, Ph.D.

Currently thousands of civilian workers – from military contractors, to civilian and foreign service workers (representing the Departments of State, Justice, Commerce, USAID, etc.), as well as reservists and former military who return to do civilian service, bravely serve our nation - deploying into conflict zones such as Iraq and Afghanistan and into high threat security posts such as Pakistan, Libya and elsewhere. Soldiers are well trained and prepared psychologically to face armed conflict. Civilian contractors, government servants and diplomats - who serve alongside and in support of our military - are not as well trained, prepared or supported pre, during and post deployment as their military counterparts. Yet in recent years we see that they are deployed by the thousands, into uncertain and anxiety-provoking environments. And these facts have serious implications for the psycho-social resilience and physical welfare of our civilian forces deployed in high threat security environments. [more...]

What Unites Us

By Christina Tobin

Americans have diverse points of view. The greatest American sport is disagreeing with each other about them! We differ on religion, politics, sports... But the Our Bill of Rights guarantees the right to maintain (and mouth off about) our opinions. Many and varied opinions are good, because through considerate discussion, we learn and often improve our knowledge, and thus, our opinions. 311,591,917 Americans disagree on lots of things. But on the trillion-dollar issues, the big stuff, we’re united. The only ones who aren’t united with us on the big issues are the politicians who claim to represent us... and keep spending and spending. How long can we keep going in this direction without massive inflation and unemployment? Now that’s the true trillion dollar question. [more...]

Federal Prosecutors Stay Busy Busting Corrupt Union Brass

By Kyle Olson

From 2000 to 2010, government prosecutors stayed busy busting union brass involved in embezzlements and corruption. According to a U.S. Department of Labor press release, over the span of seven years, prosecutors obtained 800 convictions and secured over 850 indictments for union employees and leaders, ranging from “embezzlement from labor organizations, extortionate picketing, deprivation of union members’ rights by force or violence, and fraud in union officer elections.” [more...]

Palestinians at U.N. Warn of 'Consequences' for 'Apartheid' Israel

By Joseph Klein

Saeb Erakat, Member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization and Chief Palestinian Negotiator, addressed the 352nd meeting of the United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People at UN headquarters in New York on May 20th. His message was wrapped in the standard Palestinian victimhood narrative. It contained superficially nice sounding words about the Palestinians' interest in peace but only on their terms. [more...]

Anti-Obama Filmmaker Charges Harassment by IRS

Amid disclosures of IRS harassment of conservatives, the maker of the controversial film “Dreams from My Real Father" - Joel Gilbert - now suspects he was the victim of tag-team harassment by the IRS and a leftist journalist apparently working in concert to intimidate him and his investors. WND previously reported director Joel Gilbert was concerned a journalist investigating his documentary used information that could only have been obtained by hacking into his company’s bank account. [more...]

Will American Idol Go Through to the Next Round?

By James Hirsen

The once dominant television phenomenon "American Idol" has tried almost everything this season. But unfortunately, even an episode that featured trendy dance moves by Psy, soulful renderings by Aretha Franklin, nostalgic falsetto singing by Frankie Valli, and a provocative performance by former judge Jennifer Lopez couldn’t stop the show’s ratings erosion.

Ending a season of dismal numbers, the final installment of Season 12 drew the smallest "Idol" finale audience in the show's history. Back in 2006, when the music industry marvel was quickly conquering the small screen, the finale attracted 36 million viewers. Subsequent “Idol” finales would typically tally over 30 million. No such boasts can be made anymore. According to Nielsen, the show’s numbers were down 33 percent from last year’s finale, as it shed 7.2 million of its viewers and landed with a total viewer count thud of 14.3 million. [more...]