Tidbits

** An NLRB complaint filed against Boeing charges that the company "made coercive statements to its employees that it would remove or had removed work from the unit because employees had struck." Boeing executives, including President, Chairman and CEO Jim McNerney, have said and written that the reason, or a reason, for moving a production line of the 787 Dreamliner from Washington to South Carolina was to avoid “strikes happening every three to four years in Puget Sound.”

In the face of such public remarks, the NLRB is forced to respond. How could it not?

Tom Wroblewski, president of Machinists Union District Lodge 751, said: "Taking work away from workers because they exercise their union rights is against the law, and it's against the law in all 50 states."

** Kristen Breitweiser, 9/11 widow:

So please, with all the hullabaloo surrounding OBL's execution and the incredible cache of intelligence material found at OBL's compound, let's not lose sight of the fact that while it is undoubtedly a SOCOM success story, it is also a stunning seven-year-fumble by U.S. intelligence and foreign policy.

** Susie Madrak at Crooks & Liars opposes the idea that the political center is full of "swing" voters who may go left or right and need to be courted. Instead, she says, "There are not voters who 'swing'; there are left voters and right voters in this middle segment who either show up and vote or do not show up and vote, and this causes this 'swing' segment to swing." Moral of the story: Deliver for your part of that swing segment.