Year: 2011

Court: Obama White House MUST Make Visitor Logs Public (Who Yelled About Bush’s ‘Secrets’)

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

After running on the claim that he’d make presidential records more available and after criticizing George W. Bush and Vice President Cheney for “secret meetings” in the White House because visitor logs were kept from public view, the Obama administration continued the Bush era practice of keeping White House visitor logs secret. Now a court […]

 

Happy 5th Month On Your Libyan Kinetic Military Operations Adventure, Mr. Obama!

Posted on by William Teach

And like any big 5 month old, your attention span is rather short On March 18, President Obama told congressional leaders that the “kinetic activity” (fighting) we were getting into in Libya would be a matter of “days, not weeks.” He used the same “days and not weeks” phrase in a news conference on March […]

 

Democrats Get Their Marching Orders On Tax Increases (On Other People)

Posted on by William Teach

The sheeple were told what to do by their Liberal masters, and have shown up in force On Wednesday morning, as his tinted black bus pulled into Randy Hultgren’s congressional district, President Obama told residents that Republicans like Hultgren must be willing to raise taxes to reduce the deficit. A few hours and 90 miles […]

 

Things Caused By Globull Warming: An Attack On Earth By Aliens

Posted on by William Teach

I’m kinda bummed that I waited till this morning to post this fun story, as so many others beat me to the punch. Oh, well, such is life in the blogosphere. Via Tom Nelson and Tory Aardvark, we get this howler of a story from the UK Guardian Aliens may destroy humanity to protect other […]

 

Liberals Should LOVE America’s Economic Slowdown

Posted on by John Hawkins

I’m 100 pages into Mark Steyn’s extraordinary book After America: Get Ready for Armageddon” and I’m already wishing we could make it mandatory reading for every American in the country. Incidentally, if anyone does buy that many copies and ship them out to everyone in the country, I’d like a 1% cut of sales for […]

 

Michele Bachmann’s Myrtle Beach Fundraiser (8 Pics)

Posted on by John Hawkins

Michele Bachmann is doing a three day swing through South Carolina and last night, she did a small fundraiser in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The fees ranged from $35 for peons like me, up to $200 a head for the high rollers. Given that Myrtle Beach is a fairly small area, that didn’t seem like […]

 

This Week In Quotes: Aug 12 – Aug 18

Posted on by John Hawkins

The entire Democratic Party is currently promising to “save” Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid in their present form. According to Obama’s own Treasury Secretary, Tim Geithner, in less than 10 years, spending on those three entitlement programs, plus servicing the national debt, will consume 92 cents of every dollar in the federal budget. The Democrats […]

 

AirSea Battle

Posted on by Courtney Messerschmidt

It’s complicated! Collectivist China’s nat’l pride feel good sortee sexercise with Shi Lang aside, Great Satan’s Quad Def Review prophesied thatPeople’s Liberation Army Navy would focus without modesty or restraint on her twin dreams of area denial, securing needed resources and Taiwan: First, China seeks to: deny access: by Great Satan and other naval powers to the […]

 

Bureaucrats Use Environmentalism to Choke Off Colorado Resources

Posted on by Dave Blount

In Atlas Shrugged, Colorado undergoes a terrific boom that could lift the whole country — until statists crush it into poverty with their demented regulations. Once again the book is proving prophetic, as the federal government tightens a garrote around the state’s throat by listing three weeds as endangered or threatened: The U.S. Fish and […]

 

As US Credit Rating Falls, Florida’s Rises

Posted on by Dave Blount

Elections matter. Even as America’s credit worthiness has fallen for the first time in history under President Downgrade, Florida’s under Republican Governor Rick Scott is on the rise: While the United States credit rating with Standard & Poor’s may have been downgraded recently, Florida’s credit outlook has been revised from negative to stable. The improvement […]

 

Big Donor to Democrats Appointed to Obamacare Policy Panel

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

We’ve seen it over and over with the Obama administration. All one need do to become a “czar” or get a plum appointment to yet another Obama regulatory board is to donate big money to Obama’s campaigns specifically or the Democrats in general. Now it’s happened again. The Washington Examiner’s Lachlan Markay reports that Judith […]

 

Obama Blames Job Loss on Technology, Internet and Efficiency

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

During his Midwest Misery Tour, President Obama was back to blaming technology, the Internet, and ATMs again for America’s job loss. At a stop in Atkinson, Illinois Obama spoke about the need for education at an agricultural company named Wyffels Hybrids, Inc. He said that America is no longer a place where you can just […]

 

Union Thugs Deface Funeral Homes Over Union Fight

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Apparently unions don’t even respect the dead. In Chicago, union thugs are defacing funeral homes over a contract dispute. Yeah. Property damage. That sure is a legitimate way to go about business, isn’t it? Good thing some of the people in those businesses are already dead or they’d have something to fear from the union […]

 

Can The School System Be Charged With Aiding And Abetting A Rape?

Posted on by John Hawkins

True story. I once went on a date with a teacher. It was going okay until she told me a story about a kid at her school. She basically said the kid was developmentally disabled and that his mother had insisted he be allowed to go to school with “normal” kids. She then said, for […]

 

After AFPak

Posted on by Courtney Messerschmidt

Strategic cul de sac? As America withdraws troops from remote areas of Afghanistan like the Tangi, Korangar, and Pech Valleys, insurgents are flooding back in to wreak havoc, necessitating retaliatory raids, redeployments, and stiffening operations to kill insurgents and to protect local Afghan units and villagers, even though some of these Afghan units and villagers […]

 

Obama’s Tour Bus Not Stopping In Black Communities: Is That Really What Black Americans Should Be Angry About?

Posted on by John Hawkins

Uh-Oh! Maxine Waters says the black caucus is tired of making excuses for Obama. So, did they finally realize the stimulus was a disaster? That Obamacare destroys the finest medical care on the planet? That the bailouts were a mistake? Not exactly. “We don’t put pressure on the president,” Waters told the audience at Wayne […]

 

HuffPo: Before 2011, Weather Never Happened

Posted on by William Teach

I’ve been reading and studying the whole anthropogenic global warming issue for over 20 years, and this seems like something that would have been written back in 1995. Alarmists keep regurgitating the same old tired talking points You can say this for 2011: There’s never been a year quite like it. Dangerous summer heat waves […]

 

Five Places Obama Might Have Gone On Vacation Instead

Posted on by William Teach

As Mr. Obama wrapped up his magical misery tour and taxpayer funded campaign speeches, and prepares for his high toned and fancy tadoo vacation in Martha’s Vineyard, along with (supposedly) turning his focus to jobs (deja vu) while his approval on handling the economy drops to 71%, the Politico offers up 5 places where he […]

 

An Economic Illiterate in the White House

Posted on by Doug Ross

Following up on his assertion that ATMs cause unemployment, the President today claimed that the Internet is behind the nation’s rampant unemployment. One of the challenges in terms of rebuilding our economy is — businesses have gotten so efficient, that, uh, when was the last time somebody went to a bank teller? Instead of using […]

 

Sudanocide

Posted on by Courtney Messerschmidt

Kordofan! As best understood – Sudan’s chief exports are refugees fleeing misery projection, genocide, slavery, intolerance and a super suck of a self imposed 7th century mindset.:  Since seizing power in a coup d’etat eons past – Sudan’s Field Marshal President For Life Omar Bashir (the world’s only sitting Head of State indicted for war […]

 

New York Times Columnist Attacks Perry With Twitter, Gives Biden/ Demos A Pass

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

As if we needed another example of the utter hypocrisy of the Old Media, we get New York Times screed-maker Binyamin Appelbaum who used his Twitter feed to smear Gov. Rick Perry over his Bernanke comments while giving V.P. Joe “Tea Partiers are Terrorists” Biden a complete pass. Once again, Twitter catches the unhinged left […]

 

Ohio Businessman Suffers Union Harassment, Property Damage, Violence, Finally a Shooting

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Once again we see the un-American criminality of violence-prone union thugs, this time with the disgusting tale of the IBEW carrying on a years long intimidation campaign against a Toledo area, non-union electrical contractor which has progressed from mere harassment to now a shooting. On August 10, the owner of King Electrical Services, John King, […]

 

Obamacare Far, Far Worse Than Imagined

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Congressional Budget Office has said that only about 7% of employers will drop their own company-offered plans and enter the new government plans that Obamacare will feature when the crap hits the fan in 2014. This small percentage, though is likely untrue. More likely it will be somewhere around 30% — or higher — […]

 

Good News! Thousands Sign Up To Be Arrested For Climate Change

Posted on by William Teach

Yes, another day, another set of climate alarmists demonstrating to tell government to make Someone Else change their behavior. Ultra-Warmist (and climate hypocrite) Bill McKibbon is given a platform at the Washington Post to air his idiocy and tell us that this is a Watershed moment for Obama on climate change Ain’t eBay grand? For […]