Year: 2011

Narcissist in Chief: Obama’s ‘Look At Me’ Photo

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Back on Sept. 20, President Obama stood with the folks from the Open Government Partnership to get a group photo taken. But, even in a photo of over a dozen folks, as far as Obama was concerned it was all about Obama. There he is, calling attention to himself like a ten-year-old on the carousel […]

 

Would You Be Shocked That “Climate Funds” Have Been Abused?

Posted on by William Teach

Would you be further shocked that the Huffington Post exposes the abuse? If the World Bank and an Indian power utility have their way, the Rampur hydropower project in Northern India will increase global CO2 emissions by 15 million tons, at a cost of $164 million to unsuspecting energy consumers in Sweden. The project is […]

 

President 39% Sees Massive Pessimism On Economy

Posted on by William Teach

Hey, remember when the media would spend hours talking about Bush when his approval rating dropped a bit? Anyhow According to this McClatchy-Marist Poll, the president’s approval rating is at 39% among registered voters nationally, an all-time low for Mr. Obama. For the first time a majority – 52% – disapproves of the job he […]

 

5 Thoughts About What Intelligence Means In An Age Of Specialization

Posted on by John Hawkins

There’s a lot of talk about anti-intellectualism and intelligence in politics and much of it, like these comments from Kathleen Parker, manages to miss the point. Are Republicans stupid? This seems to be the question du jour. Chris Matthews entertained this idea with guests recently, pointing to several Republican presidential candidates as evidence. How else […]

 

If Rick Perry Wants To Be The GOP Nominee, He’s Going To Have To….

Posted on by John Hawkins

Rick Perry’s numbers skyrocketed when he entered the race, but predictably, after the media and the other candidates hammered him relentlessly, his numbers started to drop. The good news for Perry is that he’s still in first place. If the election were today, he’d win Iowa, he’d win South Carolina, and he’d go on to […]

 

Intimidation: Obama’s Dept. of Labor To Supply Replacement Workers’ Names AND Addresses to Union Thugs

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

“Since 1975,” a study of union violence says, there has been “more than 9,000 reports of union violence.” With that in mind, wouldn’t it scare you if you were told that your name and address would be made public knowledge if you were hired as a temporary or replacement worker during a union strike? If […]

 

EPA Declares Hay to Be a Pollutant

Posted on by Dave Blount

The totalitarian fist of the EPA is tightening not only around industry and energy production. Our green rulers have learned from Stalin that the real key to power is choking off food. That’s why the malignant agency has declared hay a pollutant: A recent report from R-CALF USA, an advocacy group for American cattle producers, […]

 

Obama Burns Bridges to Mexico With Fast & Furious

Posted on by Dave Blount

Now that Barack Hussein Obama is President, all the world loves us, just as liberals promised. But don’t tell that to the allies he has knifed in the back, like Britain, Israel, Poland, and Honduras — or to our next door neighbor to the south, which is understandably enraged that our federal government has been […]

 

Texas Redistricting: Forget About ‘Justice,’ Obama’s DOJ is ALL About Politics

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Obama’s Department Of Justice claims that Texas redistricting is somehow “unfair” because Democrats have lost power. Therefore the DOJ is going to take the state to court over its new map. Yet, in Illinois, the Democrats have decimated Republican districts and slighted several Hispanic districts, yet the DOJ has turned a blind eye to pleas […]

 

Good News! Cost Of CFLs To Skyrocket

Posted on by William Teach

This one’s a few days old, but, puts a bit of knowledge into the legislating people into CFLs unintended consequences In the name of fighting pollution, China has sent the price of compact fluorescent light bulbs soaring in the United States. By closing or nationalizing dozens of the producers of rare earth metals – which […]

 

Sssshhhh: Obama’s Deficit Plan Will Tax More Than The Evil Rich

Posted on by William Teach

Anyone who thinks this is anything more than a raise taxes on everyone plan is deluded, and his liberal cheerleaders will suddenly realize that the old Democrat axiom “do you get a paycheck? You’re rich” is in play It’s not just millionaires who’d pay more under President Obama’s latest plan to combat the deficit. Air […]

 

Obama Vs. Joe Arpaio’s “Cold Case Posse”

Posted on by John Hawkins

Joe Arpaio would probably be better served by steering clear of this silliness. Arizona’s Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio told WND he has assigned a five-member “Cold Case Posse” to investigate the authenticity of Barack Obama’s birth certificate. The decision, he says, is simply a matter of doing his duty …But in the past few […]

 

How To Fix Our Illegal Immigration Problem In 5 Steps

Posted on by John Hawkins

Illegal immigration has become a heads-we-win / tails-you-lose proposition in this country. If the supporters of amnesty and open borders could get that codified into law, they would. Since they can’t, they support comprehensive illegal immigration reform, with the idea being that the amnesty will occur, but they’ll stall and slow-walk the security measures into […]

 

Illinois Congressman Apologizes to Muslims for Being Discriminated Against

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Mike Quigley, the Democrat Congressman from the Chicago area’s 5th Congressional District thinks he needs to apologize for America. Why? Well, because we have been so darn evil towards Muslims and all, dontcha know? And why are we so mean to Muslims? It’s because Republicans want to cut the budget. It looks like Quigley has […]

 

TuckerGate–The Daily Caller Is Making Some Palinistas Sound Like Liberals

Posted on by Fingers Malloy

So this is delicious. In a complete kill the messenger moment, the Twitter has been blowing up over a Daily Caller piece regarding disgusting comments that Mike Tyson made about Sarah Palin. To read Tyson’s comments, check out Jeff Poor’s column here. This got many Palinistas hysterical. But the target of their hysterical, liberal like […]

 

Atheist Calls for Eradication of Christianity

Posted on by Dave Blount

Al Stefanelli, Georgia State Director of American Atheists, Inc. — the same outfit that has been raising a stink about a cross at Ground Zero — helpfully explains why it’s okay for militantly devout atheists to be such bigots. When they use our leftist courts to suppress Christianity, they are only being intolerant of intolerance: […]

 

Obama Continues to Funnel Our Money Into ACORN

Posted on by Dave Blount

Obama’s alma mater ACORN is dead, you say? Not hardly — the Moonbat Messiah is still stuffing its coffers with our money: An affiliate of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) received another $300,000 in taxpayer funding in early August, The Daily Caller has learned. President Barack Obama’s Department of Housing and […]

 

Let’s Call It ‘The American Class Warfare Package’

Posted on by Kathleen McKinley

So, Obama’s new plan is the old plan. He hasn’t changed his tune since he told Joe The Plumber that we need to “spread the wealth around.” From the AP: President Barack Obama called for $1.5 trillion in new taxes Monday, part of a total 10-year deficit reduction package totaling more than $3 trillion. Obama […]

 

Obama’s Pleas for Civility Don’t Apply to Union Leaders

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Michael Barone, one of America’s premier political analysts, unleashed a corker this week looking over how sold out to unions our president as been. It is something that union watchers such as myself have been saying since day one. It’s bad enough that Obama has been so bought and paid for by union bosses, but […]

 

Oceans Are Now “Hiding” The Effects Of Someone Driving An SUV Instead Of A Volt

Posted on by William Teach

See, the reason that the world is not burning to cinders from slightly above 350ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere….it’s about 387ppm now, a level certainly never seen in the history of the Earth. Doom!……..is because those mean oceans are hiding the effects New analysis led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) suggests […]

 

Shockingly, Obama’s Deficit Reduction Plan Reads Like A Bone To His Hard Left Base

Posted on by William Teach

When you have one of the his biggest cheerleaders at The Politico, Carrie Budoff Brown, positioning the plan as such…. President Barack Obama will release a plan Monday to cut the federal deficit by $3 trillion over the next decade, drawing half the savings from new tax revenue and sparing Medicare recipients from having to […]

 

A Report: Herman Cain and Rick Santorum In Myrtle Beach

Posted on by John Hawkins

On Saturday morning at 8 AM, Herman Cain rolled into Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. It was a little hard to get an exact crowd count since there were people eating breakfast in the restaurant, too, but I’d estimate there were about 100 people there. Not too shabby for Myrtle Beach at that time of day. […]

 

In Defense Of The Daily Caller On The Tyson/Palin Story

Posted on by John Hawkins

Super-creepy stalker Joe McGinniss has written a book full over-the-top, unsourced smears about Sarah Palin and so naturally, the mainstream media is fascinated with it. One of the allegations in the book is that Sarah Palin once slept with Glenn Rice. Incidentally, this allegation doesn’t seem to have been backed up by Sarah Palin or […]

 

Shockingly, Obama Calls For Taxation On Millionaires, Refuses To Send Check To IRS Himself

Posted on by William Teach

Yeah, I guess I should say something about Obama’s “Buffett tax,” though I really, really, really didn’t want to link the NY Times, thanks to that despicable 9/11 op-ed by Krugman. Alas, President Obama on Monday will call for a new minimum tax rate for individuals making more than $1 million a year to ensure […]