Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 85. Sunrise is 5:20 AM and sunset 8:37 PM for 15h 16m 18s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 4.9% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Independence holiday events begin at the Cravath Lakefront at noon. On this day in…
Unions
Libertarians, Liberty, Unions
A Libertarian Case for Organized Labor…
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
…from Herbert Spencer. As a balance of power: “Everywhere aggression begets resistance and counter-aggression; and in our present transitional state, semi-militant and semi-industrial, trespasses have to be kept in check by the fear of retaliatory trespasses.” Via Reason (originally appearing in The Freeman). Generations later, we’re still in that transitional state. There are other justifications,…
Elections, Recall, Unions
The Wisconsin Unions’ Doomed Primary Pick
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Kathleen Falk, the choice of every Big Labor board in Wisconsin, received fewer than half the votes in a Democrats’ straw poll in her home base of Dane County. It’s hard to overestimate how telling this is: union leaders are sure she’s the best candidate to take on Walker, but even Democrats she knows aren’t…