Delta Airlines and US Airways are on the "death watch" list. Bankruptcy for both appear to be just around the corner. Seems they just can't compete with their low-cost competitors, such as Southwest Airlines. Why not? One of the prime problems is "high labor expenses from union contracts."

Here's the drill. The unions go on strike demanding higher pay and juicier benefits...they get their wage and benefit demands...which in turn drives the business out of business...leaving the workers with NO job at all.

Aren't unions wonderful?

- Chuck Muth

CBS '60 Minutes' Documents on Bush May Be Forged
The typographical reasoning that they are forged is quite sound. The democrats would try to do something stupid like this. They are desparate.

Bill Clinton went in for major artery repair at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York, with doctors saying four of his heart pipelines were so gummed up with plaque he was headed for a chest-clutching exit from this world. From his hospital bed Clinton continued to counsel presidential contender John Kerry, advising him to regard his diminishing chances of victory as just one more clogged artery that can be cured with a simple needle full of adrenaline plunged directly into the coronary cavity, like that scene in "Pulp Fiction."

..On the day the Republicans arrived in New York, the Yankees lost 22-0 to the Cleveland Indians, their worst loss in history and the worst shutout loss in the major leagues since 1900. Coincidence? We think not.

..A team of Canadian and American scientists identified a Tyrannosaurus Rex turd as the largest in history. The 75-million-year-old fossilized crap was discovered in Alberta, near the town of Onefour, and it measures 64 centimeters long, 17 centimeters wide, and weighs six liters. If you want to see it, visit the Royal Tyrell Museum in Drumheller, where they really have their stuff together.

--Joe Bob Briggs Week in Review

" 'To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors,' Thomas Jefferson argued, 'is sinful and tyrannical.' This Labor Day, as the presidential campaign traditionally moves into high gear, Jefferson's words should be of special interest to the millions of union households whose members regularly vote for Republicans. While the hearts and minds of these millions are clearly with the GOP, hundreds of millions of dollars of their dues payments have been funneled from their union treasuries to support the Democratic candidates and liberal causes these Republican-voting workers oppose.

"It is a scandalous issue, but receives scant investigative coverage by America's major media. In the current electoral cycle alone, labor leaders have emptied their treasuries of tens of millions of dollars in soft money and have funneled the lucre to labor-organized 527 groups in order to finance anti-Bush political activities. . . . Democrats are the beneficiaries of well over 95 percent of union funds spent on politics."

- Washington Times editorial, 9/6/04

"I remember a couple of days after Sept. 11 writing that weepy candlelight vigils were a cop-out: the issue wasn't whether you were sad about the dead people but whether you wanted to do something about it. Three years on, the two conventions drew the same distinction. If you want passivity and wallowing in victim culture, the Dems will do. If you want to win this thing, Bush is the only guy running."

- Columnist Mark Steyn