Year: 2010

Pensions Troubles Getting Some Attention

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Michael Corkery of the Wall Street Journal reports that congressional Republicans are finally paying a bit of attention to the coming pension bomb that is about to explode in nearly every state in the union, causing further damage to our economy and our state budgets. House Republicans are making moves to prevent bailouts of state […]

 

Hey, Good News, States See Some Revenue Growth. Bad News: Everything Else

Posted on by William Teach

I due truly love the spin from the LA Times: States’ budget picture is brightening – But many continue to face deficits. Tax revenues are rising but demand for social services remains high, and there won’t be a batch of federal stimulus money this year. Interesting. They destroy their own headline with the sub. Then […]

 

Could “Developing” Countries Be Paid To Not Cut Their Trees Down?

Posted on by William Teach

Remember when developing countries were referred to as third world rat holes, er, countries? And how they have been “developing” for going on 20-30 years? Countries where many of the peasants need to cut down trees in order to survive? And the countries use the trees to continue “developing”? Well, now For years, policymakers and […]

 

The Daily Kos Reaction To Obama Cutting A Deal On Taxes

Posted on by John Hawkins

This may shock some of you, but liberals are….unhappy. I know, I know. It’s stunning. How can it be that such cheerful, contented people have been so sour for…what is it now, like 600-700 straight days? Of course, in all fairness, they do have a reason to be upset: Barack Obama has lied to them […]

 

The School Lunch Program Probably Does More Harm Than Good

Posted on by John Hawkins

Predictably, the folks over at Crooks and Liars have a case of the vapors because Kate O’Beirne harshly criticized the school lunch program I’m speechless. This little rant by Kate O’Beirne at a Republican strategy session is so evil, so incredibly cold-hearted, and so predictably right-wing that it makes me want to shove a big […]

 

Wed in the Senate: Reid to Try and Force Cloture Votes on DREAM Act and Forced Unionization Act

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

-By Warner Todd Huston Call Your Senator Tell Them to Vote NO on DREAM Act and Forced Nationalized Unionization of Police/Firemen From contacts in the Senate we’ve learned that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D, Nev.) will likely on Wednesday (Dec. 8) try and bring a cloture vote on The DREAM Act and the Public […]

 

San Fransisco Fed. Says Stimulus Was A Huge Waste

Posted on by Jeff Dunetz

According to recovery.gov, the President’s website designed to track the stimulus plan, the $800 Billion plus porkulous bill passed in February 2009 is responsible for 3,348,813 jobs.:  According to a new analysis conducted by the San Fransisco office of the Federal Reserve, the president’s projection is off by only 3,348,813 jobs.:  That’s correct The American […]

 

The 10 Biggest Conservative Stand-Outs of 2010

Posted on by John Hawkins

There are a lot of great conservative Americans and almost everyone reading this column could quickly and easily run off many of their names. People like Rush Limbaugh, Thomas Sowell, David Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Mike Pence, Joe Arpaio, Walter Williams, Michelle Malkin, and Ann Coulter have done more good for people than they’ll ever know. […]

 

Ecokooks: Plants Should Be Able to Sue

Posted on by Dave Blount

The concept of “civil rights” is twisted into an ever more grotesque mockery as liberal groups exploit it to advance their pernicious agendas: What if a trimmed tree could sue as an amputee or a shucked clam could claim wrongful eviction? In an effort to ban everything from drilling oil to incinerating garbage, about a […]

 

Government Wastes Fortune Printing Defective Money

Posted on by Dave Blount

Big Government may have settled on printing money as a solution to all problems because that’s one thing that falls within its tiny realm of competence — or does it? Because of a problem with the presses, the federal government has shut down production of its flashy new $100 bills, and has quarantined more than […]

 

Helen Thomas ‘Spirit of Diversity’ Award Canceled After Latest Anti-Semitic Comments

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A few days ago the miserable Helen Thomas, famed long-time Washington correspondent, let her hatred for Jews get the best of her once again. At a workshop held in Dearborn, Michigan dedicated to fighting anti-Arab bias in the United States, Thomas came out forcefully against the “Zionists” in Israel and the United States and refused […]

 

Obama’s Tax Cuts Surrender All Part Of His Plan, Or Something

Posted on by William Teach

Apparently, it has nothing to do with having no choice in breaking yet another promise to his unhinged rich people hating base: Obama’s tax cut extension part of strategy to show bipartisanship Although his liberal supporters are furious about the decision, President Obama’s willingness to extend all of the George W. Bush-era tax cuts is […]

 

Waste: Feds Gave ACORN Half a Million for ‘Fire Prevention’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Jonathan Strong of the Daily Caller has another sad tale of massive government waste involving the criminal group ACORN. Everybody knows about ACORN, the dead, but not really dead activist group charged with all sorts of improprieties and illegalities, the most significant of which is voter fraud, including registering Mickey Mouse to vote. But how […]

 

AGW Today: Marshall Islands Could Disappear Due To Sea Rise

Posted on by William Teach

Unshockingly, this breathless report comes from a reporter in…….exotic Cancun, Mexico, rather than from the Marshall Islands CANCUN, Mexico — Encroaching seas in the far Pacific are raising the salt level in the wells of the Marshall Islands. Waves threaten to cut one sliver of an island in two. “It’s getting worse,” says Kaminaga Kaminaga, […]

 

If Only Some Of You Would Die In A Terrorist Attack, It Might Help Barack Obama…

Posted on by John Hawkins

Is that headline a bit of exaggeration? Yes. Mark Halperin didn’t go quite that far, but that’s the general thrust of his argument, What Obama really needs, Halperin says, is a stroke of good luck. “Busy as he’s been, he has not yet experienced a single major moment that has benefited him politically,” Halperin writes. […]

 

FCC Commissioner Michael Copps Dreams of Inflicting “Public Value Test”

Posted on by Dave Blount

If FCC Commissioner Michael Copps had any hair, he would let it down not only for the BBC, but also for moonbat-infested Columbia University: American journalism is in “grave peril,” FCC Commissioner Michael Copps says, and to bolster “traditional media,” he said the Federal Communications Commission should conduct a “public value test” of every commercial […]

 

NY-1 UPDATE: Judge Reviewing Ballots, GOP Suspects Illegal Voting by Dems

Posted on by Robert Stacy McCain

New York’s 1st District, encompassing eastern Long Island, remains the nation’s last undecided congressional race of 2010. Supporters of Republican challenger Randy Altschuler contend that incumbent Democrat Rep. Tim Bishop was the beneficiary of illegal votes: Absentee ballot counting ground to a halt at 11 a.m. Friday in the only still-undecided congressional race in the […]

 

UN Climate Summit, Cancun, Mexico: Climate Conmen Sending You Back 100 Years

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

As most of you know last week I was down in Cancun, Mexico reporting on the U.N. Climate Change Summit (officially called COP16/CMP6). It was several days of sun, surf, and U.N. conmen. I am back in the saddle here at home but Friday I went from the warm white sands of Cancun back to […]

 

Dems Plan To Push Over 100 Bills In One Swoop

Posted on by William Teach

Simply showing that they are yet again attempting to thwart and ignore the will of the people, as they have been mostly doing since Obama took office, Dems are going to push whatever they can Democratic efforts to push through more than 100 public lands and water bills in the lame duck session are reaching […]

 

ANWR Shows You What A Bunch Of Wackadoodles Make Up Today’s Environmental Movement

Posted on by John Hawkins

You couldn’t pick a much better spot in the United States for a massive lake of oil than ANWR. You hear people talking about it being a “pristine natural wilderness,” but in fact, it’s not a vacation spot — it’s in the middle of nowhere. Moreover, drilling can be done without harming the wildlife in […]

 

The Obama Administration’s Solution To The Wikileaks Problem: Gov’t Employees Can’t Look

Posted on by John Hawkins

The only thing worse than the Wikileaks spy disaster has been the Obama administration’s flaccid response to it. Julian Assange is doing everything he can to humiliate and damage the United States. So, what is the Obama administration doing about it? Has someone walked up to Assange, stuck a pistol in his mouth, and introduced […]