Right to Work Added to State GOP Platform

After many failed attempts over the years, the West Virginia Republican Party chose to add a Right to Work plank to its platform during last weekend's convention.

It did not pass without debate and it certainly will not have universal support from Republican candidates this fall. Political realities dictate that candidates in certain districts cannot support it without figuratively slitting their throat. Unions still hold tremendous influence in some areas. This usually hurts, but sometimes helps Republicans. How many union voters will support a pro-Kyoto candidate in this state?

Unions in the past provided a vital role when the decks of government and business were stacked against workers. We have come a long way from those bad old days. Government regulations provide many of the protections unions once demanded. Also the new highly skilled workers in many cases have skills that companies need.

Right to work will help union members because it creates competition. Right now workers can be coerced into joining the organization and paying dues. Under such a system, what incentive does a union have to respond effectively to its members? Right to work ensures that union members get the full benefit of membership because each worker can simply walk away or not join in the first place.

States that embraced right to work tend to have economies that have exploded past West Virginia in the past few decades. It is time that our state joined the ranks of the prosperous.

Hillary Clinton Supporters Call Fox News Fair and Balanced, Indirectly

Democrats, especially those of the pantsuit persuasion, have many times over the years chided Fox News as being a bastion of conservative bias. They love bashing the network's "Fair and Balanced" slogan.

Certainly over the years Fox News has gotten its shots in at both Clintons while other networks cast a glow upon them. This primary season saw the Clinton backlash candidate within Democratic circles result in the nomination of not a formidable Clinton Part II, but of Jimmy Carter and George McGovern rolled into one vague and incomprehensible package.

Hillary Clinton thought she had this one in the bag. Based upon the media love affair with her over the years, why should she have felt any differently. Negative media coverage, not just in stories, but also photo selection, point of view, even jokes, assailed her as it normally does the GOP nominee. She found out suddenly what it was like to be a Republican.

Last week her supporters called out MSNBC and CNN for their presumed bias against her nomination. Of course they hauled out the sexist card against those two organizations. Interestingly by default she acknowledges Fox's claim of fair and balanced coverage. Stories also surfaced last week describing the possibility of retribution against those who turned on the Clintons. In our state, Governor Manchin only announced his support of Obama after receiving the blessing of the Clintons. Not that it matters since Joe Manchin would rather be seen with Mao Tse Dong at this point than Barrack Hussein Obama (of course there's not much difference between those two.)

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Speaking of disciples of Mao Tse Dong, Delegate Carrie Webster (D-Kanawha) spent over $73,000 in the primary! The party of the common man has 80% of the $1.28 million that all legislative candidates have at this point, according to Lincoln Walks at Midnight.

Voters must look past the flash and dash that the Democrats can afford and pay attention to their pro-abortion platform that also endorses the Kyoto Protocol. The Kyoto Protocol was voted down by the US Senate in 2000 99-0. It would have been 100-0, but Strom Thurmond was too ill to vote. It would effectively destroy much of the coal market. Additionally it would place restrictions on the US economy that competing third world nations would not be burdened with. Senators Byrd and Rockefeller as well as all our representatives voted against it.