Author Mark Mix is President of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation and National Right to Work Committee.

Current federal labor law prohibits employees who do not wish to join in a union, but work for a unionized business, from bargaining with their employer for themselves.  Under American traditions of limited government, affiliation with private organizations is, the vast majority of the time, a purely personal decision.  But under federal labor law and the labor laws of most states, union affiliation is primarily a collective, rather than a personal, decision.

With the victory of Governor Huckabee and Senator Obama in the Iowa caucuses, “change” rapidly became the buzzword that defined the 2008 primaries.  In New Hampshire, Senator McCain rallied independents behind his record of reform in Washington and Senator Clinton scored an upset win by rapidly shifting her sales pitch from focusing on her experience to focusing on her track record of change.  Tuesday in Michigan, we saw this pattern emerge again, with a victory by Mitt Romney who emphasized economic issues to illustrate his message that "Washington is broken."

The Sunday New York Times runs a front-page story on debates within the Bush administration over whether to conduct covert operations against al-Qaeda/Taliban forces in Pakistan.

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I'm Melanie Morgan, Chairman of Move America Forward, which is the largest pro-troops organization in the country with over a million members, www.moveamericaforward.com

Missed holidays are moments of reflection for soldiers.  I well remember coming in from combat patrols on holidays such as Thanksgiving and Christmas only to be gently reminded as I decompressed that it was a special day to a lot of people back home.  During those moments, the thought that it is just another day ‘in country’ seems to grip you.