Sunday links.

John Dillon’s Pension Vocabulary for August 4th is A.L.E.C./ Rep. Patti Bellock. Illinois holds the distinction of having the ALEC State Representative of the year: Representative Patricia “Patti” Bellock of the 47th district (Westmont Office). A recent letter of congratulations from Republican House Leader Tom Cross – also a member of ALEC - glowed with the kind of Orwellian political doublespeak that sanitizes the actual undercutting of the medically needy or marginalized with positive parsing.
Wal-Mart is saluting teachers? Nah. It’s just propaganda for one of the latest anti-union