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Why is Disney bashing America?
- Commerce Department officials say more foreigners visited America this summer than ever before, so why would a domestic tourism industry group of major U.S. corporations issue erroneous releases to try to make people think the opposite?
Bruce Kesler: NEA now finds itself in the dock
- Democrats may soon find that class-action lawsuits, usually a favored method for embarrassing corporations and sharing huge settlement fees via contributions to their political campaigns, can be a knife with two sharp edges.
Bruce Kesler: Giant employers looking for a bail-out on employee benefits
- An influential group of America’s largest private employers is looking for somebody to bail them out of billions of dollars worth of employee benefit obligations the companies have accumulated.
Bruce Kesler: Should teachers sue their unions for pension mismanagement?
- It’s ironic that the teachers to whom we entrust our childrens’ education have been noticeably lax about overseeing the costs and administration of so many of their retirement plans, even as their unions profit from them.
Bruce Kesler: A new ERISA should include coverage of state and local pensions
- An obscure federal law called ERISA is causing headlines. Maryland’s “Wal-Mart tax” to impose “pay-or-play” taxes on companies that don’t offer health plans was struck down by the courts as contrary to ERISA’s prohibition on states imposing coverage requirements upon employers with multi-state health plans.
Bruce Kesler: The State Department can’t even mobilize itself for Iraq
- Amid concerns about Iraqis assembling an effective government, New Republic senior editor Lawrence Kaplan adds that the United States “government can’t even mobilize itself.”
