Group Politics and the Mommy Wars

By Audrey Pietrucha

Group-identity politics have provided an excuse for yet another round in the mommy cat-fights. When Republican front-runner Mitt Romney said he relies on his wife for insight into women’s issues the claws came out, with Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen’s comment that stay-at-home-mom (SAHM) Ann Romney had “never worked a day in her life” leaving the deepest scratches Continue reading

“Crony Capitalists” Challenged at Shareholder Meeting

Exelon Asked to Return $200 Million Grant from Obama Administration to Taxpayers; Declines. Corporate Chairman “Doesn’t See Any Link” Between $200 Million Obama Administration Grant and “Our Own Public Policy Positions” — Which Happened to Support Obama’s

Tom Borelli

Tom Borelli

Deneen Borelli

Deneen Borelli

Chicago, IL/Washington, DC – Shareholder activists with the National Center for Public Policy Research challenged corporate executives with the energy giant Exelon about their firm’s participation in so-called “crony capitalism” at Exelon’s shareholder meeting this week in Chicago.

Incoming Exelon Chairman Mayo A. Shattuck Continue reading

President Obama Scolded for Remarks on Healthcare Bill to Supreme Court

Barack ObamaWashington, DC – President Obama was publicly scolded this week for warning the Supreme Court against overturning Obamacare.  The President said that it would be “unprecedented” and “extraordinary” for the Supreme Court to rule that a law was unconstitutional.

This statement called into question the President’s Continue reading

Black Conservatives Suggest Color of Change Activists Continue Campaign Against Coca-Cola’s Corporate Giving

If Pressure Group Truly Means What It Says, It Will Push Coke to Drop Ties to Radical Environmental Group

Washington, D.C. – If the activists at the group Color of Change are serious about wanting to keep the Coca-Cola Company from hurting the black community, members of the Project 21 black leadership network suggest that the group demand the soft drink manufacturer also sever its ties to the World Wildlife Fund for its support of overburdening regulation.

Horace Cooper

Horace Cooper

“The sagging economy over the last three years has devastated black Americans. Unemployment, declining home values and high fuel prices have hit black households particularly hard. Coca Cola’s support for the radical environmental agenda only exacerbates these maladies for black families,” said Project 21 spokesman Horace Cooper.

Color of Change, a group co-founded by former Obama Continue reading

Indiana Workers Seek to File Amicus Brief Defending Right to Work Law

Union lawyers seek to shut workers out of the proceedings

Hammond, IN – A group of Indiana workers from across the state filed a motion this week for leave to file an amicusbrief in federal court in support of their newly-enacted Right to Work freedoms Continue reading

Employees Fired for Being “Too Religious” Receive Settlement Payment

Dixon artwork

Dixon artwork. Photo: Liberty Counsel

Atlanta, GA – Hallmark Management Company has settled with Daniel and Sharon Dixon, after firing and evicting them from a property management position for having a piece of artwork hanging in their office that contained a Scripture reference. Liberty Counsel successfully represented the Dixons in the case of Dixon v. Hallmark Companies and will be awarded $76,250.

Hallmark Management Company has no relation to the greeting card company.

Daniel and Sharon Dixon were the employees and tenants of a government-subsidized facility, Continue reading