Year: 2011

Put ‘Country Before Party’ and Admit Social Security Is a Ponzi Scheme

Posted on by John Hawkins

There are few issues where we need to put “country before party” more than Social Security, which is why Rick Perry’s comments about the program were a breath of fresh air. Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s assertion this week that Social Security is a “Ponzi scheme” touched off a heated debate within the GOP whether voters […]

 

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; me and Leah Trost (…or is it Leah Trost and I??? Ugh, grammar is hard) discuss the key to ageing successfully, the blogger who cried “rape”, Celine Dion’s bathtub, bear punching, grandma tattoos, great-grandma boob jobs and more. I probably said […]

 

Longshoreman Gives Rational and Coherent Statement to Media…Just Kidding, He Threatens Everyone There

Posted on by Duane Lester

The local media was outside of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU Local 21) offices in Longview, Washington gathering interviews and b-roll. Here’s what happened when one of the union members, who said his name was “F*ck You C*cksucker,” came outside to discuss their possible trespassing: Aside from the lack of employment at the […]

 

Irrelevant Jobs Speech: The Presidential Speech No One Attended

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

President Obama gave his much delayed “jobs” speech on Thursday, one he’s been promising since 2008. Unfortunately for this president, few people much cared. In fact, the most damning indictment about how irrelevant this speech and this president is was seen during the speech in the House gallery, a space that was, unlike any other […]

 

Actress Mila Kunis: Middle America Stupid for Not Loving Obama

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It is always amusing to hear actors and actresses venture into the unfamiliar territory of politics when interviewers are cruel enough to broach such issues. Sadly, actress Mila Kunis is no exception to that Hollyweird tendency toward guffaw inducing political bloviating. Naturally and in keeping with most of the rest of the industry, in a […]

 

Lefty Protesters: Here’s a Poll to Help Us Find Out What We are REALLY Mad About

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

I had to laugh when I found out about the left’s newest protest du jour. They are hopin’ mad, don’t cha know? So mad that they are busy organizing marches, protests, civil disobedience, and all sorts of activities to protest it all. But amusingly they aren’t even sure what it is they are mad about. […]

 

Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges

Posted on by Courtney Messerschmidt

Leggy bay bee! As best understood, Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges is ancient Romanspeak roughly (very roughly, mind ye) xlated as “In combat time, attorneys can like STFU” During the decade of war (so far – nicht wahr?) Attorneys and their legion of the discombobulated detached detachment of inapropriate handwringers, boring assetted, worrying about the […]

 

Apparently, There’s No Such Thing As Natural Weather Anymore

Posted on by William Teach

Another day, another bit of raving, anti-science discourse and scaremongering by a climate alarmist. Let’s start out with Heat waves, droughts, blizzards and the the rest of the year’s U.S. record-breaking extreme weather, likely enjoyed a boost from global warming, suggests a climate report. Well, there’s a truly scientific word “suggests.” Can they put an […]

 

Raising Red Passes 250,000 On Facebook

Posted on by John Hawkins

After Slatecard failed to take off during the last cycle, I got together with Charlie Smith and suggested that we create our own online fund raising vehicle from scratch so that conservatives could have a place online to contribute to Republican candidates for office. That was the day when Raising Red was born. Since then, […]

 

Herman Cain Sends Out The Best Press Release I’ve Seen In Years

Posted on by John Hawkins

Most candidate press releases are filler that aren’t worth sending out or receiving. Every once in a while, the release says something memorable or includes some useful facts or figures that at least make it worth reading. But then, every once in a blue moon, a candidate sends out a press release that can best […]

 

Analysis Of Obama’s Speech: This Was His Jump The Shark Moment

Posted on by John Hawkins

Obama is still suffering from the Speech Illusion, the idea that he can come down from the mountain, read from a Teleprompter, cast a magic spell with his words and climb back up the mountain, while we scurry around and do what he proclaimed. — Maureen Dowd This speech was classic Obama….which is exactly the […]

 

This Week In Quotes: Sept 2 – Sept 8

Posted on by John Hawkins

And given that the (Social Security) worker-to-retiree ratio is expected to fall from 3-1 today to 2-1 in 2030 (down from 16-1 in 1950) these taxes will only go up unless the government decides to kick retirees in their dentures and slash benefits. — Shikha Dalmia (Obama) believes people are stupid, or at least not […]

 

Live Tweeting Obama’s Jobs Speech: More Big Government Boondoggles

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

As I often do, I live Tweeted Obama’s address to the joint session of congress, but for sure this speech was little else but yet another plea from Obama for giant piles of government money to be thrown around in a bacchanalia of Keynesian spending. He may not have used the newly verboten word “stimulus,” […]

 

Fisking Yglesias: Social Security Not a Ponzi Scheme, No Different than 401k – UPDATED

Posted on by Duane Lester

Over at Think Progress, a George Soros outfit, Matthew Yglesias is actually comparing the Social Security System to your 401k, claiming there’s really not that much difference: What happens here is that you work while you’re working age. You earn money. You take some of that money to buy shares in firms. Your expectation is […]

 

As Texas Burns, Firefighting Aircraft Grounded by Feds

Posted on by Dave Blount

Here’s what the federal government is doing about the historic wildfires that have been devastating Texas — grounding firefighting aircraft: Nearly half of the federal government’s firefighting air tankers are sitting idle at a California airport, grounded by the Obama administration in a contract dispute just weeks before wildfires swept through Texas killing a mother […]

 

Obama Regime Puts the Squeeze on Construction Industry on Behalf of Unions

Posted on by Dave Blount

The current administration couldn’t care less about the interests of most Americans, but when it comes to unions, Obama et al. are devoted public servants. Here‘s what Big Union’s BFF is doing for them at the expense of the already moribund construction industry: The Labor Department is investigating pay practices at many of the top […]

 

Gov. Benzene: Huntsman a ‘Green’ Phony

Posted on by Robert Stacy McCain

For weeks, I’ve been mystified and irritated by the media’s love affair with Jon Huntsman, the former Utah governor who joined the Obama administration just about the time most conservatives were joining the Tea Party movement. Why the hell is this guy — “Governor Asterisk,” an irrelevant distraction, a Charlie Crist clone who represents no […]

 

USA Today Hit Piece on Christian Defense Attorney, Jay Sekulow

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

USA Today published a story recently by Bob Smietana of the Nashville newspaper The Tennessean attacking the integrity and work of well-known Christian First Amendment defense attorney Jay Sekulow that is shocking for what is left out. Sekulow is the head man of the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), a Washington D.C.-based organization […]

 

Obama Hypocrisy: From ‘Talking to Each Other in a Way That Heals,’ to Dismissing ‘Kabuki Theater’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Barack Obama is nothing less than a hypocrite on his admonitions over public discourse and the latest example of this truth lies in his refusal to condemn the violence-tinged language of Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa not to mention his similar silence on the obscene rhetoric of many of the leading members of the Congressional Black […]

 

World To End At 4:44am, Due To, Yup, Climate Change Hoax

Posted on by William Teach

And we get to learn about this from yet another unhinged film Abel Ferrara made his new film “4:44 Last Day on Earth” to serve as a wake-up call to humanity over impending ecological disasters. The movie, by the director of 1992’s “Bad Lieutenant,” focuses largely on one couple – played by Willem Dafoe and […]

 

Even The Politico Is Having A Tough Time Being Positive About Obama’s Speech

Posted on by William Teach

One of Politico’s biggest Obama cheerleaders, Carrie Budoff Brown, must have been sighing quite a bit while writing the article. Not the hopey changey 2008 campaign sighs of adoration, but the kind of sigh one gets when the puppy poops on the carpet for the 10th time this week. She was even nice enough to […]

 

Like RWN Has Been Telling You, Social Security Is A Ponzi Scheme

Posted on by John Hawkins

As Michael Kinsley once famously said, “A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.” Last night at the debate, Rick Perry told the truth about Social Security and although it’s not a gaffe in the conventional sense, you can expect to see both Republicans and Democrats who know he’s 100% right trying to spin […]