NYU GRADUATE ASSISTANTS to join auto workers union. If Matt Canfield, a fifth-year doctoral student who's been working on unionization for 8 years, is representative of the group, perhaps they should consider graduating and moving on to real jobs.

MOUNT SOLEDAD CROSS will be purged from Veterans Memorial. Unless the Supreme Court intervenes.

REGIONALISM: the better to control you with.

WANT TO END PARTISAN POLITICS? Here’s what won’t work — and what will. I can agree with much of Mann's prescription, but given the ignorance of the average American voter ("Which do you prefer -- ObamaCare or the Affordable Care Act?), I'm not I'm sure I want everyone to vote.

PAYCHECK? WHAT PAYCHECK? What Will Your Paycheck be in 2014?

GLOBAL WARMING UPDATE: second icebreaker may get stuck in Antartica's summer ice.

AN ARGUMENT against increasing the minimum wage.

THEY'LL BLOW IT: Critical vote looms for Boeing Machinists. But it'll be great for (I'm guessing) South Carolina.

MOCK THEM: Missouri Bar Responds To Cease And Desist From Starbucks With Epic Letter And $6 Check.

That must have hurt....

MY NEXT SHOTGUN may be a Mossberg.