Email from bh: Can’t give that good of a report because I was doing a bunch of grunt work (driving people, getting food for volunteers, etc) and couldn’t hear the speakers over the opposing protesters when I was there. The opposing crowd surrounded us, kept walking through our group to disrupt the rally and/or provoke a confrontation and tried to drown out the speakers. A few people I spoke to

RCP: “The process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service,” Roosevelt wrote in 1937 to the National Federation of Federal Employees. Yes, public workers may demand fair treatment, wrote Roosevelt. But, he wrote, “I want to emphasize my conviction that militant tactics have no place” in the public sector. “A strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent on their part to

Two words: Imperial presidency. Two more words: Bring it on. (Yeah, I know. But for symmetry!) **** h/t TerryH, geoffB