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A detailed Washington Examiner analysis of the top 110 plaintiffs' firms in America shows that their employees and partners gave about $7.3 million to political campaigns during the last cycle, with almost every penny -- 97 percent -- going to Democrats. (Thinkstock Image)

Trial lawyers find that generosity to Democrats pays big dividends

David Freddoso · January 26, 2011 5:00 am

Meet government worker unions’ 10 best friends in Congress

Washington Examiner · January 26, 2011 5:00 am

Be glad you don't work or own a business in Illinois. The state just decided to close its deficit by raising taxes. (Thinkstock Image)

Government employee unions have become political bosses

James Sherk · January 26, 2011 5:00 am

Big Labor spent a record-breaking billion dollars during the 2008 election cycle and then spent hundreds of millions more in 2010, nearly all of which went to elect and protect Democratic politicians. But what does Big Labor get in return? (Thinkstock Image)

Big Labor is the Democratic Party’s ATM

Mark Mix · January 26, 2011 5:00 am

Employees and political action committees of organizations that make up the big four special interests that own the Democratic Party contributed hundreds of millions of dollars in campaign contributions to the party's federal candidates in 2010. (Thinkstock Image)

Where the cash goes, the Democratic policy flows

Mark Tapscott · January 26, 2011 5:00 am

Markos Moulitsas, founder of the highly influential Daily Kos blog. (AP Photo/J. Kamp)

Markos Moulitsas, Democratic power broker

Conn Carroll · January 25, 2011 5:00 am

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka says the goal is to spur House Republicans to support legislation that would provide a path to citizenship for those in the country illegally. (AP File)

Fifteen special interest heavy hitters Democrats cannot ignore

Ron Arnold · January 25, 2011 5:00 am

In 2008, then-AFL-CIO president John Sweeney admitted of Card Check, "It is the most important issue that we have." (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Special interests propel harmful legislation and block needed reforms

Matt Patterson · January 25, 2011 5:00 am

In 1924, Republican Calvin Coolidge romped to a victory of Democrat James M. Cox in the presidential election. (AP Photo)

Haven’t the Democrats been here before?

Mark Tapscott · January 25, 2011 5:00 am

Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union, wanted to merge many small, weak unions into a few mighty mega-unions like Europe. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

A spotter’s guide to the Left’s side of the political universe

Ron Arnold · January 25, 2011 5:00 am

During the early years of the Clinton administration, Cathy Zoi, right, was chief of staff in the White House Office on Environmental Policy in 1994 and 1995, then went over to EPA in 1995 where she pioneered the government's Energy Star program. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

How the revolving doors swing between special interests and government

Ron Arnold · January 24, 2011 5:00 am

Seventy-six percent of the $102,839,147 donated by lawyers in the 2010 election cycle went to Democrats, while the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees union spent $87.5 million alone on independent expenditures, more than any other special interest, including the widely derided expenditures of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. (Thinkstock Image)

Democrats must break free from their special interest stranglehold

Doug Schoen · January 24, 2011 5:00 am