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Supporting freedom overseas, but not at home

  The president supports a liberation movement overseas, one in which local labor unions played a key roll.

 Meanwhile, labor unions are being crushed here at home and Washington politicians are largely hostile to citizens standing up for their rights.

 As Ted Rall put it: If irony were money, we’d all be rich.

 Am I talking about Egypt and Wisconsin today? I could be, but I’m not.

Instead I’m talking about events that happened two and three decades ago.