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Let’s be honest. Barack Obama is the SEIU president. Without that union’s support early on, he would have faded faster than Mike Gravel in 2008. So the SEIU-backed May Day celebration — this year’s theme: ARIZONAZI — reflects on the president. Oddly enough, on May Day, President Obama lectured Americans from the bully pulpit of a commencement speech with a warning not to speak out against the government: “When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us.” As Nancy Pelosi put it last summer, it is...

About 400 people marched in downtown Houston today in support of immigrant rights, part of a nationwide Labor Day effort in advance of this month's congressional debate on immigration legislation. Marchers said they don't want top politicians to think they've forgotten the cause since the rallies last spring that drew tens of thousands of people to the streets. This time, they carried American flags and signs that said "Today we march. Tomorrow we vote." Leaders said the demonstrators advocate permanent legal residency for immigrants who cross the border illegally, as well as a higher minimum wage and bans on racial...