Year: 2011

This Week in Automotivators, September 12-18

Posted on by TrogloPundit

Just click the links if you’re not sure what the hell. Link: Trog. Link: Pundette. Link: Left Coast Rebel. Link: Legal Insurrection. Link: Yid with Lid. Link: Sipsey Street Irregulars. Link: Da Tech Guy. Link: The Other McCain. Previously: This Week in Automotivators, August 29-September 4 This Week in Automotivators, September 5-11 Make your own […]

 

Supermarket Union May Force Hundreds Of Stores To Close….Over $9 A Week

Posted on by William Teach

Apparently, all the unionized supermarket workers in California don’t want to pay their fair share The “Big Three” Southern California grocery chains are bracing for a strike and possible shut down after the union representing grocery workers canceled their contract with the stores. About 62,000 workers in the United Food and Commercial Workers union at […]

 

“Snail Mail Spam Subsidies Stuttering Towards A Stop”

Posted on by Craig Newmark

Walter Mead Russell has been doing a great series on the failure of the blue state social model. Here’s the opening to another fine piece:’ The USPS is one of the great surviving examples of the blue social model and, not surprisingly, it is going down the tubes.:  Technological change has made its original mission […]

 

Five Ways The Internet Is Ruining Our Culture

Posted on by John Hawkins

If you went back through the whole of human history, for the most part you’d find people living in poverty and ignorance under one sort of tyranny or another. Travel was difficult, disease was rampant, wealth was sparse, scientific advances were slow and uneven, and parents had little reason to think their children would have […]

 

Wow, today was a big day in history.

Posted on by TrogloPundit

In reverse order: 1976 — The first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, is unveiled by NASA. 1920 — The National Football League is organized in Canton, Ohio, United States. And God bless ’em for it, go Pack. 1862 — American Civil War: the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in American history. 1814 — Francis Scott Key […]

 

The Town Government With More Cars Than Employees

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

There is a town in Tennessee whose government owns more cars than they even have employees to drive them. This is the sort of excess that every anti-big government activist points to in order to show the bacchanalia of spending to which governments in our fair country are prone. The Times Free Press of Chattanooga, […]

 

Global Warming Will…Wait, Improve Our Lives? Shouldn’t It Kill Us All?

Posted on by William Teach

Has global warming occurred? Yes. It has. Warming is what took us out of the Little Ice Age. And the Dark Ages. And many other little ice ages since the end of the last glacial period wound down 20,000 years ago. And a new study says “hey, warming is a good thing” A new study […]

 

Obama Approval Rating At All Time Low

Posted on by William Teach

Who or what should be blamed for this? The Japanese earthquake has been blamed already, but, perhaps we can blame the Virginia earthquake? As concerns about the struggling U.S. economy grow, a new CBS News/New York poll finds that President Obama’s overall approval rating has dropped to 43 percent, the lowest so far of his […]

 

“Letter to a Liberal Friend”

Posted on by Craig Newmark

Great. One of the classmates I contacted this year is a Washington tort lawyer. He told me how he recently represented an entrepreneur who got a permit from the Department of Interior to develop a coal mine in Tennessee, spent $3 million developing infrastructure, and was then told by the bureaucrats that they had changed […]

 

Fox Business Network Takes on Regulations Burying the Open Road Trucking Industry

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Much of what you eat, wear, read, play with, drive, and ride gets to your hometown store via a truck of some kind so the open road trucking industry — as well as local, short distance haulers — is a vital link between all of us and the necessities of life. That is why the […]

 

I Question Any Tea Party Group That’s Against E-Verify

Posted on by John Hawkins

E-Verify is THE only way we have to prevent illegal aliens from getting jobs in this country. If the program were expanded and the government actually put some resources into it, it would make it extremely difficult for illegal aliens to get any job worth having in this country. In other words, it’s the single […]

 

Down the Rabbit Hole with Duchess Rebecca

Posted on by rebeccagrunewald

Hey kids, here’s the latest webisode of Down the Rabbit Hole with Duchess Rebecca. Alex Jones and I discussed Afghanistan living, Bachmann’s problem with Gardasil, Sarah Palin’s juicy (possibly made up) past, why Bud Selig is an unpatriotic turd, Michelle Obama’s latest food casualty plus a phone-a-friend bonus, Adam Dawson, who moonlights as the drummer […]

 

Socialized Medicine = Healthcare Rationing in Britain

Posted on by Dave Blount

Milton Friedman famously observed that if you put Big Government in charge of the Sahara Desert, within 5 years it would run a shortage of sand. What would happen if you let statist bureaucrats take over the healthcare system? Britain shows us: A survey of GPs [general practitioners] has found that many agree restrictions are […]

 

Obama Spends $4,853,000 per Green Energy Job

Posted on by Dave Blount

As anyone whose eyes weren’t clouded by moonbattery could easily have seen in advance, the Obama Regime’s push to spend “green jobs” into existence has been a colossal failure: A $38.6 billion loan guarantee program that the Obama administration promised would create or save 65,000 jobs has created just a few thousand jobs two years […]

 

War Drums Beating: Anti-American George Soros Promoting Anti-Americanism in Central Asia

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Richard Miniter has a very interesting article in Forbes about the damage anti-American millionaire George Soros is causing to both Central Asia and the foreign policy of the United States. Soros is an interesting if risible figure. For good reason his name is a boogieman name for we on the right. Truthfully, though, most on […]

 

Lib Activist Physically Assaults GOP Lawmaker in Wisconsin, Media Silent

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A known liberal activist that has for months been stalking several Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin, verbally abusing them, has finally crossed the line into a physical attack. So… where is the Old Media to chronicle this assault? Sadly, no where to be seen. On Sept. 14 left-wing activist Miles Kirstan entered The Inn at 22 […]

 

EPA to Give Itself Powers to Preemptively Deny Natural Resource Development?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Once again an Obama regulatory agency tries to give itself wild new powers, powers that would crush American energy and natural resource development, powers meant to quash the business sector. A press release from Resourceful Earth News imparts a warning about the Environmental Protection Agency’s newest powergrab. A lfet-wing Democrat Senator is asking the EPA […]

 

Obama Chief Of Staff Blamed For Obama Incompetence

Posted on by William Teach

He’s just the latest scapegoat for everything that goes wrong in ObamaLand. It’s never Obama’s fault. It’s Europe, earthquakes, tornadoes, that darned TEA Party, the Republicans who were apparently in charge of Congress since Obama was coronated, the fact that Obama doesn’t have power like China’s leaders, and, of course, George W. Bush. The front […]

 

Obama Official: Illegal Immigration Like Jaywalking

Posted on by William Teach

I know, I know, you’re kinda shocked to learn that….. Washington (CNSNews.com) – Cecilia Munoz, the White House director of intergovernmental affairs, compared the federal crime of being in the country illegally to jaywalking. “If you were running the police department of any urban area in this country, you would spend more resources going after […]

 

The Obama Administration Fights To Keep Incompetent Teachers In The Classroom In The Name Of Civil Rights

Posted on by John Hawkins

Democrats incessantly tell everyone how much they care about education and then they turn right around and fight anything and everything that will actually improve education while inconveniencing their union allies. It almost defies belief, but in Arizona, the Obama administration is fighting to keep teachers with mediocre English skills in the classroom teaching students. […]

 

I Agree With the People Who Yelled “Yes,” We Should Let Him Die at the Debate

Posted on by John Hawkins

There’s a lot of controversy over a question asked to Ron Paul at the Tea Party debate and the response yelled by a handful of audience members. Here it is…. BLITZER: …A healthy 30-year-old young man has a good job, makes a good living, but decides, you know what? I’m not going to spend $200 […]

 

Mich. House Moves to Ban Union Dues Deducted from Teachers’ Paychecks

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A new measure has been introduced in the Michigan House of Representatives that would ban school districts from automatically deducting union dues from teachers’ paychecks and handing that money over to unions. The practice of having state governments deducting dues automatically from state employees is quite common in northern and western states that are in […]

 

CA Dem Operative Embezzles Millions in Campaign $$, Dems Go Back to Donors For More

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Imagine if you are a high dollar donor to California Democrats. Imagine you just found out that all the cash you donated was stolen by one of the state party’s top operatives. Well, if you really are a donor, you don’t have to imagine. It is real. This week Kinde Durkee, a longtime California Democrat […]

 

Gov. Perry and the HPV Vaccine..The Rest Of The Story

Posted on by Kathleen McKinley

Gov. Perry has been taking heat for the controversial executive order he issued four years ago that mandated that all 11- and 12-year-old girls be vaccinated for human papillomavirus, or HPV, a sexually transmitted virus that can cause cervical cancer. The legislature made it non mandatory, and Perry has now admitted that he would handle […]