Year: 2011

Newt Gingrich’s Twitter Followers Faked? Not So Fast.

Posted on by John Hawkins

These days, all it takes to create a scandalous story is someone spouting off anonymously to a major news source and next thing you know, it’s news, whether it’s true or not. In Newt Gingrich’s case, he’s been accused of buying most of his 1.3 million Twitter followers. gawker.com is suggesting that many of Gingrich’s […]

 

Thought Of The Day: The Idea That Government Spending Drives Economic Growth Should Be Dead

Posted on by John Hawkins

If government spending were enough to make the economy hum, we should already have the fastest growing economy on earth. The fact that the economy’s limping along while we’re spending so much borrowed money that it’s pulling us towards bankruptcy should be enough to kill the whole Keynesian stimulus idea dead as a doornail.

 

A Succinct Explanation Of America’s Social Security/Medicare Crisis

Posted on by John Hawkins

The ultimate issue is that over the years, the cost of Social Security and Medicare has escalated dramatically and the government, being the government, has failed to demand that people pay as much into the programs as they’re going to take out. That worked out okay for awhile because of the population bubble created by […]

 

Are Liberals Trying To Kill Tea Partiers….With Their Language?

Posted on by John Hawkins

Remember when the Left was accusing Sarah Palin of causing the Gabrielle Giffords shooting by putting her district in the crosshairs? Liberals became so sensitive about that kind language that CNN actually apologized because a guest used “crosshairs” on the air. Of course, the demands for delicate phrasing only expanded from there. It got so […]

 

The Union Job Security Act Equals Endless Road Construction

Posted on by Rachel Alexander

Have you noticed how there is more road construction than usual lately, which never seems to end? In some states it has gotten so bad their departments of transportation have set up road closure email alerts on each highway. This is a direct result of President Obama’s stimulus spending. Last summer, Obama proposed spending $50 […]

 

Illinois Budget Deficit: Worst of the Worst

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Illinois ended 2010 as the most indebted state in the union. Sadly, not a thing has been done so far in 2011 to make it better. Instead, it will get worse. As State House News reports, the state rings in at number 50 in the nation’s most broke states. Illinois owed $37.9 billion more than […]

 

Union Member Fined $300K Just for Finding Work!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The lesson: if you are a union member, better to sit on your rear-end and do nothing than find gainful employment. A poor Chicago-area carpenter who was sick and tired of waiting for his useless union to find him work struck out on his own and got a job with a non-union shop. Big mistake. […]

 

When MSNBC Says A Double Dip Recession Is Here….

Posted on by William Teach

Then things are quite a bit worse then they appear. Douglas A. McIntyre provides 10 signs the double-dip recession has begun Friday’s news on GDP shows the double dip has arrived – an expansion of only 1.3 percent and consumer spending up 0.1 percent in the second quarter. Astonishingly low by any account. The debt […]

 

Debt Deal Winners And Losers

Posted on by William Teach

Over at the Washington Post, Chris Cillizza breaks down the winners and losers in the debt deal. Here are a few of his winners Tea party: There were major questions coming into the 112th Congress about who would blink first – the largely establishment-aligned leaders of the new Republican House majority or the tea-party-aligned freshman […]

 

Interviewing Jedediah Bila About Her Book “Outnumbered: Chronicles of a Manhattan Conservative.”

Posted on by John Hawkins

I was pleased to get an opportunity to talk to Jedediah Bila about her new book, “Outnumbered: Chronicles of a Manhattan Conservative.” What follows is a slightly edited transcript of our conversation. Your book is sort of a diary telling people what it was like to be a Palin-supporting conservative in New York in the […]

 

A Real World Example: How Liberals Drive American Jobs Overseas

Posted on by John Hawkins

Over at Hot Air, they have an absolutely fantastic story about how liberals end up driving American jobs overseas. This is a story the Left could learn a lot from if it paid attention. Boston Scientific Corp. said yesterday that it plans to eliminate 1,200 to 1,400 jobs worldwide during the next 2 1/2 years […]

 

Are The Smurfs Little Blue Godless Commies?

Posted on by John Hawkins

“From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.” — Papa Smurf Sure, Marx said it first, but it applies to the Smurfs much better than you might think. In a textbook communist society, all citizens are equal. They labor for the common good. Money is unnecessary. Individual liberty takes a back […]

 

PIMCO Chief: US Credit Rating Will Get Downgraded Regardless Of Deal

Posted on by William Teach

Hmm, hasn’t President Snippy Pants been running around, scaring people, telling them the US credit rating will get downgraded if Someone Else doesn’t put a deal together? Not so fast, “according to PIMCO founder and managing director Bill Gross” When asked by CNN host Ali Velshi on Sunday whether the U.S. deserved to maintain its […]

 

This Week in Automotivators, July 25-31

Posted on by TrogloPundit

Following a week’s hiatus, This Week in Automotivators makes its triumphant return! Just click on the link under each picture if you aren’t sure what the hell I’m talking about. First, and most importantly: The debt ceiling thingie kinda paled in comparison. Which of course leads us to: Onward: Link: Da Tech Guy. Picture by […]

 

OK kids, it’s time once again to play “Name That Party!”

Posted on by Chris Wysocki

A Newark, NJ “campaign worker” pled guilty to election fraud on Friday. Angel Colon admitted submitting fraudulent absentee and messenger ballots on behalf of State Senator Teresa Ruiz in 2007. Ruiz won the election. Now here’s the test. Go read the AP story. Did you notice any mention of Colon’s or Ruiz’s political party affiliation? […]

 

Gays, Media, Ignore MSNBC Talker’s Gay Slur

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

We all know that the Old Media is filled with double standards where it concerns treatment of conservatives and liberals. Last week we found yet another example of the media’s penchant to hypocrisy when a talking head on MSNBC used a derogatory term associated with gays yet the entire militant gay establishment and their pals […]

 

A Few Things Illinois Needs to know about the Debt Crisis

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The debt crisis is a national disaster, of course. But Illinois will likely be affected worse than many other states. For one thing, Illinois is the most broke state in the union and will be affected more immediately by the mess that is our national economy than any other state. But, as Fox Business network’s […]

 

Is There A Tentative Compromise Debt Deal?

Posted on by William Teach

ABC News is reporting that there is tentative debt deal, per “congressional sources”. Here’s the deal they are reporting, according to both Dem and GOP sources A debt ceiling increase of up to $2.1 to $2.4 trillion (depending on the size of the spending cuts agreed to in the final deal). They have now agreed […]

 

The Devil’s In The Debt Ceiling Details

Posted on by John Hawkins

Since Cut, Cap, & Balance can’t move through the Senate, we’ve been having a big fight to decide which plan that won’t fix our problems is going to become law. Here’s the compromise that has supposedly been decided upon, A White House official cautioned that no deal had been reached and that details floating out […]

 

One picture, two metaphors.

Posted on by TrogloPundit

I was searching for good pictures of ceilings, prepping this week’s Week in Automotivators post (coming tomorrow), when I found this: Wow I love that picture. The metaphors write themselves. For example: The two guys could represent Global Warmism Climate Changism, smoking the tobacco of belief no matter what the Surgeon General says on the […]