Day: July 16, 2010

Job-killer

In hard times, union hardball has no traction:

With one of its two elementary schools crippled by a stalled construction project, the school board of River Forest Elementary School District 90 voted this morning to cancel a union contract and bring in a non-union company to finish the job.

Look. The working man is not just the union member, who in this case is killing jobs for himself and his brothers and sisters. When will they ever learn?

Thing is, this school board depends not a whit on labor money.

Somehow beating RC bishops to the punch

From CNS News about rattling the U. of Illinois cage:

The Alliance Defense Fund, a Christian legal group, has given the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign until the end of Friday to re-instate a professor who was relieved of his teaching duties following complaints he engaged in hate speech by teaching students about Catholic teaching on homosexuality in a course about Catholicism.

If he’s not reinstated, they will seriously . . . consider a lawsuit, fund lawyer Jordan Lawrence told U. of I, calling the student’s complaint about Dr. Kenneth Howell, the (adjunct) professor in question, a hecklers veto unworthy of the university’s response, which he called heavy handed [and] authoritarian not the way classrooms should function at universities in the United States.

The fund’s blue-ribbon board of directors includes executives of Crusade for Christ International, Focus on the Family, and Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Not an RC bishop among them. What do you know about that?