10, 2010, column in The New York Times, Thomas Geoghegan, a lawyer and author, quoted Alexander Hamilton, writing in Federalist 75 about the evils of supermajority rule: The history of every political establishment in which this principle has prevailed is a history of impotence, perplexity and dis
Date: Dec 09, 2011
Category: U.S.
Source: Google
Wonkbook: Is Obama secretly the greatest Republican ever?
We should raise, not cut, Social Security, writes Thomas Geoghegan: "AS a labor lawyer I cringe when Democrats talk of saving Social Security. We should not save it but raise it. Right now Social Security pays out 39 percent of the average workers preretirement earnings. While jaws may drop ins
Date: Jun 20, 2011
Category: Health
Source: Google
Putting Wisconsin's Union Battle In Historical Context
The right to property, to own and conduct a competitive business these were concepts held sacred while the notion of an independent group of workers leveraging power, impacting economic and social policy, was not. "A union movement in America will always be a scandal," labor lawyer Thomas Geoghegan has said, for "the subversive thing about labor is not the strike, but the idea of solidarity."