Year: 2011

House Votes To Kill Funding To UN IPCC

Posted on by William Teach

They really were busy little beavers over the past 24+ hours. They voted to defund Planned Parenthood, Net Neutrality, the Obama Czars, and blocked the EPA from regulating greenhouse gases. And, this Just before 2 a.m. on February 19, the war on climate science showed its grip on the U.S. House of Representatives as it […]

 

GOP Led House Trims Budget By $61 Billion

Posted on by William Teach

Well, it’s not even close to the hundreds of billions we need to cut from the bloated federal budget, but, it’s a start, and the hardest part of the journey is the first step In a rare early morning weekend vote, the House approved an aggressive plan Saturday to eliminate dozens of federal programs and […]

 

Thoughts about the Wisconsin teachers’ union

Posted on by Bookworm

[Updated to correct information about Wisconsin teacher salaries.] As I understand it, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, faced with a $3.6 billion biennial budget deficit (for the years 2011-2013), had the choice of raising taxes in his financially beleaguered state or firing up to 6,000 state employees. He chose a third route, proposing that Wisconsin’s public […]

 

Great: One of the Most Violent Union Thugs Now Appearing With Thug Teachers in Wisconsin

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka has decided to flock to the side of thug Wisconsin teachers on Friday. This should not be much of a surprise. Trumka understands that this battle could serve to galvanize anti-union sympathies all across the country, and rightfully so. With the hate and “violent rhetoric” being employed by these thug teachers […]

 

Dueling Interviews With Texas Senate Candidates Cruz and Williams

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

At CPAC this year, I interviewed two of the candidates for Kay Bailey Hutchison’s soon to be vacated Senate seat in the great state of Texas. And with two such fine candidates as these you really do have to call it the great state of Texas! First up is former Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz. […]

 

Obama’s Organizing for America Behind Wisconsin Chaos

Posted on by Dave Blount

You would never guess who is behind the communist-style shenanigans in Wisconsin: The Democratic National Committee’s Organizing for America arm — the remnant of the 2008 Obama campaign— is playing an active role in organizing protests against Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s attempt to strip most public employees of collective bargaining rights. OfA, as the campaign […]

 

Sheila Jackson-Lee Explains Why ObamaCare Penalty Is Not a Penalty

Posted on by Dave Blount

Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX) may have the IQ of a heifer, but when she opens her mouth, she sounds more like a duck. The other day she explained to the House Judiciary Committee why the penalty imposed under ObamaCare on those who don’t buy health insurance is not a penalty. The law itself states: “If […]

 

Canadian Death Panel Decides Baby Should Die, Canadian Court Agrees

Posted on by Duane Lester

How many liberals have clamored for the humanity of the Canadian Health Care system? I think it’s safe to say that at one time, a majority of the have advocated for a single payer system. One of the problems with single payer is the government can decide to stop paying because some “death panel” declared […]

 

Oh, Noes! Evil Girl Scout Cookies Killing Orangutans, Cause Climate Change

Posted on by William Teach

Those evil Girl Scouts are facing dissension in the ranks over the long term plans of Big Girl Scouts to kill all the orangutans and bury the world in globull warming created snow! Are Girl Scout cookies killing orangutans? It’s Girl Scout cookie season, but Michigan scouts Rhiannon Tomtishen and Madison Vorva are finding other […]

 

Hooray! Harry Reid Saves/Creates 280,000 Jobs He Previously Killed

Posted on by William Teach

Even The Politico is having a tough time cheerleading for the bat guano super-weasel Harry Reid is pushing The Senate passed an aviation reauthorization bill Thursday night, ending three weeks of work on a relatively standard piece of legislation that Democrats are calling a “downpayment” on their broader jobs agenda. “Today, the Senate passed a […]

 

You Don’t Win By Losing In Politics; You Win By Winning

Posted on by John Hawkins

There’s a weird strain of thinking on the Right that goes, “The best thing that could ever happen to us would be to lose the next election. It would get people all fired up and then we could REALLY get something done!” Noemie Emery’s latest column is a great example of this type of thinking: […]

 

Call The Civility Police: Liberal Threats And Violence Surge

Posted on by John Hawkins

Wasn’t it just last month that we had hypersensitive liberals going on and on about civility after Gabrielle Giffords was shot? Well today, the same people who were hyperventilating over phrases like “job killing” are apparently peachy keen with actual threats and intimidation. Why? Because most liberals are actually fine with political violence and threats […]

 

Polling Conservative Bloggers On The GOP’s 2012 Presidential Field

Posted on by John Hawkins

Right Wing News polled more than 250 right-of-center bloggers on which candidate they’d support if the 2012 Republican primaries were today. The following 63 bloggers responded: 101 Dead Armadillos, Alexa Shrugged, All American Blogger, All That Is Necessary, Argghhhh!, Bad Example, Betsy’s Page, Blackfive, Bookworm Room, Cara Ellison, Cassy Fiano, Conservative Compendium, Considerettes, Danny Carlton, […]

 

This Week In Quotes: Feb 4 – Feb 17 (Special Double Edition)

Posted on by John Hawkins

Clown Nose On, Clown Nose Off: That’s how Treacher described Jon Stewart’s very selective stance as to whether he was “just a comedian” and it therefore didn’t matter if he was saying nonsense or whether he was a sage outsider commentator on political affairs. The global warmistas have a similar tactic. When asked to explain […]

 

FCC’s Michael Copps Demands His Critics Be Silenced

Posted on by Dave Blount

Most of the insidious bureauweenies eating away America from within remain as faceless as they are unaccountable. But a few distinguish themselves for their open belligerence toward our fundamental liberties: Federal Communications Commissioner Michael Copps made a case for a government hand in media policy in a speech to the FCBA [Federal Communications Bar Association] […]

 

Priorities: Cuts for VOA, but More Cash for NPR

Posted on by Dave Blount

Even as American influence declines due to our awful leadership, and that of communist China and radical Islam rises, Comrade Obama is moving to reduce our benevolent impact still further by pulling the rug out from under Voice of America: The Obama administration will cancel shortwave radio broadcasts by Voice of America into China this […]

 

Ron Paul Is A Vicious Anti-Semite and Anti-American and Conservatives Need To Wash Their Hands of Him

Posted on by David Horowitz

Long ago Bill Buckley drummed the anti-Semites out of the conservative movement, and the movement thrived as a result. But the Jew-haters have returned. For years the Texas crackpot, Ron Paul, has been attacking America and Israel as imperialist powers – the Great Satan and the Little Satan, and calling for America’s retreat from the […]

 

Barack Obama On His Budgetary Apocalypse: “We’re Not Going To Spend Any More Money Than We’re Taking In”

Posted on by John Hawkins

Barack Obama habitually lies so much about what he’s doing that I’m surprised he doesn’t introduce himself as Rumplestilskin just to keep in practice. Well, Jake Tapper is calling Obama out on a particularly egregious lie about deficit spending, In an interview with ABC News’ Cincinnati affiliate WCPO-TV Wednesday. In an , President Obama said […]

 

New ACU Chief Al Cardenas Puts Ron Paul on Notice

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The American Conservative Union (ACU) is the entity that runs the biggest annual conservative event, the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Next year CPAC will be headed by a new face, Al Cardenas. Now former Chairman David Keene turns over the reigns to Cardenas after the 2011 CPAC event. Cardenas has a compelling story, indeed. […]

 

Union Thug Whines That People Are Mistreating Union Thugs

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

This one is hilarious. Union chief James P. Hoffa of the Teamsters has an op ed in the Detroit News where he’s crying that everyone is turning against unions these days. Yes, ole Jimmy is yelling, “leave unions alone!” Hoffa’s headline whines out, “American ills not caused by unions.” We call that a straw man […]

 

How Obama’s Big Labor Pals Warp the System

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Last September the Senate refused to reverse a rules change made out of pocket by Obama’s National Mediation Board. The rule change reversed a 75-year-old practice and made it possible to unionize a company even if less than half of its employees wanted to be unionized. Previous to the rules change, any company in the […]

 

Baghdad Wants A Billion Dollars For Damage To The City And We Should Pay Them…

Posted on by John Hawkins

Iraq’s capital wants the United States to apologize and pay $1 billion for the damage done to the city not by bombs but by blast walls and Humvees since the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein. — Reuters Many of you are probably choking on this very reasonable demand from the politicians in Baghdad. But, […]

 

Wisconsin: More Evidence Government Employees Shouldn’t Be Allowed To Unionize

Posted on by John Hawkins

It has never made sense for government employees to be allowed to unionize. Government jobs AREN’T SUPPOSED TO BE cushy. Government workers shouldn’t make more than people in the private sector who are paying their salaries. Moreover, if you look at the budget problems state and local governments are having, you’ll find union benefits and […]

 

Jimmy Carter Proves That The Muslim Brotherhood Is Far More Lethal Than We Realized

Posted on by John Hawkins

Although the Muslim Brotherhood isn’t a terrorist group like Al-Qaeda per se, it is an anti-Semitic, anti-American, terrorist-supporting radical Islamist organization. There’s nothing good to be said about the radicals in the Muslim Brotherhood — and the fact that they’re undoubtedly going to end up playing some role in Egypt’s government should be a cause […]