Year: 2011

Couple Fined for Discussing Bible in Their California Home

Posted on by Dave Blount

Here’s what happens in an atheistic soft tyranny when people invite friends to their homes to discuss the Bible: Homeowners Chuck and Stephanie Fromm, of San Juan Capistrano [which was founded by a priest as a Christian mission], were fined $300 earlier this month for holding what city officials called “a regular gathering of more […]

 

A Lurid Look Behind the Scenes of Jesse Jackson’s Grievance Empire

Posted on by Dave Blount

The grievance business has been good to Jesse Jackson, allowing the cheap thug to live the life of a degenerate zillionaire. But what goes around comes around. The same identity politics victimhood that put him on his throne has now saddled him with a lawsuit: A former employee of the Rainbow Push Coalition, who is […]

 

Calif., Illinois, New York at Bottom of Favorable Business Climate List

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Thanks to Illinois Democrats and Governor Pat Quinn, Illinois now sits among the worst states in the country for jobs and business. Texas and North and South Carolina rank as the best. Illinois is the state with the third worst business climates in the country. Only New York and last rated California are worse in […]

 

Obama’s Mounting Scandals

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Heritage Foundation has a post giving a run down of some of the scandals mounting in the Obama administration… you know, the most ethical administration ever? Yeah. That one. Most of them have to do with Obama’s penchant for crony capitalism. Like the good socialist he is, Obama wants to pick the winners and […]

 

Obama Pulls Campaign Stunt At Bridge That Doesn’t Qualify

Posted on by William Teach

See, if a Republican had been involved in this gaffe, the MSM would be tearing them apart. Since it’s Obama? Not so much. Andrew Malcolm provides the 411 You know all those rusting bridges that President Obama wants to spend billions more dollars repairing to allegedly stimulate the economy? He’s headed out to one today […]

 

Perry Doubles Down On Support For Illegal Alien Kids

Posted on by William Teach

Unless something big happens, I do believe the GOP will start looking more towards Mitt Romney over Rick Perry, especially when we get things like this Rick Perry went out on a limb Thursday by refusing to back off his support as Texas governor for granting in-state tuition to some of the children of illegal […]

 

Bill Clinton’s Hypocrisy On Rick Perry And Israel

Posted on by John Hawkins

According to Bill Clinton, Rick Perry and the GOP are just too doggone pro-Israel. Perry spoke to a group of pro-Israel activists earlier this week in New York City and sharply criticized President Barack Obama for being too close with Palestinian leaders. “It is time to change our policy of appeasement toward the Palestinians to […]

 

Why Do Liberals Have Such a Soft Spot for Cop Killers Like Troy Davis?

Posted on by John Hawkins

Mumia Abu-Jamal killed Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. Leonard Peltier murdered FBI agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams. Liberals enthusiastically supported both of them. Now, the latest liberal cause célèbre is Troy Davis, who shot police officer Mark MacPhail to death in a crowded Burger King parking lot. We have a justice system that is […]

 

This Week In Quotes: Sept 16 – Sept 22

Posted on by John Hawkins

You know, if a ballplayer threw a game and they get caught, they go to jail. Well, what are we going to do to the Republicans who are throwing the country? “They’re throwing our country, and they all should be put in jail for what they’re doing, because they’re destroying our country, because they said […]

 

Debate Analysis: Winners And Losers Of The Fox/Google Debate

Posted on by John Hawkins

The Fox/Google Debate covered a lot of old ground, spent too much time focused on Romney and Perry, and there weren’t a lot of great lines delivered. In other words, it wasn’t a particularly exciting debate. Winner — Mitt Romney He was consistently good, sharp, funny, and he won his exchanges with Perry. Although the […]

 

Attention AFL-CIO, IBEW, Teamsters and UMW Members: Your Christmas Gift From the White House is Here… 116,000 Layoffs

Posted on by Doug Ross

CleanTechnica gleefully reports that effective January 2012, the EPA is scheduled to shut down 20 percent of all coal plants in America. The EPA will shut down an estimated 20% of the nation’s coal plants through the ground-level ozone rule (the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) ) through cap and trade that is about to be implemented […]

 

LightSquared: Poster Child for Crony Capitalism

Posted on by Rachel Alexander

Two high-level government officials have: revealed: they were pressured by the Obama administration to change their testimony to Congress in order to favor a wireless company linked to a high-level Democratic Party donor, and to sound supportive of Obama’s stated goal of bringing high-speed wireless to at least 98 percent of Americans within five years. General William […]

 

Poll: What issue is most important to you?

Posted on by Duane Lester

In 2008, Human Events polled their readers to find out what issues were most important to them. I have been waiting and waiting for more polls like this from them, but have been left wanting. So, I decided to conduct the poll myself. I asked around and looked at some various websites and pulled together […]

 

Obama Video: The Economy Isn’t My Fault, I SWEAR TO GOOOOOOOD

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

I have to apologize to Freedom Works. I stole their video and added the Jake Blues apology scene into it. Freedom Works did not add that scene from the movie, but I just couldn’t resist it. Just to be 100% clear, Freedom Works did not have the movie clip in their original video. I just […]

 

Educrats Confiscate Old Glory From Autistic 12-Year-Old

Posted on by Dave Blount

Imagine the mayhem that would result if bureauweenies weren’t there to keep us safe. They even protect us from American flags brandished by autistic children. A New Hampshire woman is upset that middle school officials confiscated her autistic son’s American flag because the rod it was attached to was deemed a safety hazard and, the […]

 

Injustice Department Flings Our Money to the Four Winds

Posted on by Dave Blount

The reason government bureauweenies spend money so extravagantly that they are literally bankrupting the country is that it is our money, not theirs. For example, the leftist ideologues running the rogue Justice Department — who help drug cartels smuggle weapons and will not investigate civil rights abuses if the victims are Caucasians — pay $16 […]

 

President Obama’s NLRB & Their Summer Assault On American Jobs

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Obama pretends that he wants to cut regulations and make it easier for businesses to make jobs. Unfortunately, what he says and what he does with his powers to regulate are two very, very different things. From the Workforce Fairness Institute: The Workforce Fairness Institute today unveiled a new web video spotlighting President Obama’s National […]

 

Chicago: Union Members Collect Millions in Tax $$ With Sweetheart Pension Deal

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Now this is the sort of corruption we are used to seeing in Illinois, eh? This week the Chicago Tribune and WGN TV has found up to 23 retired union operatives that are collecting millions in taxpayer dollars because they had pals in government tweak the state’s pensions laws to favor them. These former government […]

 

Did 85 Democrats Vote In Favor of Government Shutdown?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Back on August first the whole country was waiting for the House of Representatives to raise the debt ceiling and offer a continuing resolution to prevent a feared government shutdown. That was done with the support of 95 Democrats who claimed they were desperate to prevent that shut down. (Relevant amendment) However, in a follow […]

 

The Democratic Underground: The Real Bad Guy Isn’t Troy Davis, It’s Mark MacPhail’s Family

Posted on by John Hawkins

Cop killer Troy Davis finally got his just reward last night for murdering a police officer in a crowded Burger King parking lot. Of course, as per usual with lefties, their sympathies are with the criminal, not the victim. So, they’ve made Davis into an innocent martyr and of course, if he’s the good guy, […]

 

The Blame Obama Poverty Tour of Cornel West and Tavis Smiley

Posted on by Kathleen McKinley

Hold on to your coffee mugs. I am about to write a post defending Pres. Obama. Adam Serwer at American Prospect writes a piece about Prof. Cornel West and talk show host Tavis Smiley’s “Poverty Tour.” Prof. West and Mr. Smiley are touring poor communities to bring attention to the extreme poverty specifically in the […]

 

Democrats Can’t Even Agree To Cut $1 Billion From Budget

Posted on by William Teach

There was a vote Wednesday on a temporary spending bill, and the narrative is that John Boehner has lost control of Conservative Republicans and Democrats are now in control of the process. How about the narrative that Democrats are so spending drunk that they cannot even cut a measly $1 billion? The House stunned Republican […]

 

Markos Moulitsas Zuniga’s “Taking On The System” In Quotes

Posted on by John Hawkins

Obviously, I’m not a big Kos fan. I don’t agree with him on the issues and I don’t think he’s much of a writer, has a great understanding of politics, or is much of a political analyst. He’s also…well, kind of an amoral creep. That being said, I do admire his talent for organization and […]

 

Even After Solyndra, Obama Continues to Shovel Our Money Down Green Energy Rat Holes

Posted on by Dave Blount

At least after the Solyndra, SolarCity, and Solexel debacles, Comrade President will be shamed out of laundering mountains of our money through green energy boondoggles for awhile — or maybe not: The Obama administration, defying congressional Republicans after the failure of solar-panel maker Solyndra LLC, is working to award as much as $9.2 billion in […]

 

Obama Announces From His Sinking Ship: “Hopey Changey Stuff” Is Real

Posted on by Dave Blount

Great news for those gullible enough to buy into the patently moronic hype that swept a hard left community organizer with no qualifications and an alarming background into the White House — all that vacuous Hope & Change froth was real and still exists. You know it must be true because your Moonbat Messiah says […]

 

Obama Donor, Now Medical Records Czar Gets Little Gov’t Job BIG Gov’t Contracts

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Must be nice to be a member of the “in” crowd, the crowd of crony capitalists to whom President Obama has given so much of the taxpayer’s money. And not just money but positions of power in the government. Take, for instance, Obama’s newest czar, Judith Faulkner, recently named Obama medical records czar. She was […]