Denying GOP Committee A Secret Ballot Is Hypocrisy The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), commonly known as “Card Check,” is the misnamed legislation promoted by Organized Labor to stop the hemorrhaging within union ranks.  (From a high near 40 percent after World War II, union representation in the private sector has plummeted to just 7 percent today). It would make organizing a union infinitely easier by eliminating the current secret ballot vote used to determine whether employees wish to unionize. Common sense tells us that whenever a secret ballot is not employed, many people will not vote their conscience.  Instead,…

Pennsylvania and the nation have zero say ---yet again Another election year is upon us, and there’s good news and bad news.  On the upside, Americans will again peacefully choose their next leader in November, a continuing miracle which we too often take for granted.  The not-so-great part is that the 98 percent of citizens who don’t live in Iowa, New Hampshire or South Carolina will --- yet again --- have virtually no say in their Party’s nominee for President. In other words, the leader of the Free World will largely be determined by Hawkeye State hicks whose claims to…

Part Two If the Church had fought for true school choice, many schools would be thriving What does it tell you when private Notre Dame Academy in Villanova has 101 students in its freshman class --- at $20,000 per year --- and Archbishop Prendergast in Drexel Hill, an Archdiocesan high school, has…82?  Yes --- eighty two. That the economy is booming because folks can shell out 20K a pop? That the gap between rich and poor is widening, with more people in the “have” category?  Not quite. It tells us, in no uncertain terms, two things: 1) Over the last…