Year: 2011

When The TSA Thugs Humiliate 95 Year Old Cancer Patients, They Want You To Know They’re Just Following Orders

Posted on by John Hawkins

The government’s TSA rent-a-thugs have been hard at work — not catching terrorists, of course. Their security procedures aren’t designed to do that effectively. However, they are good at one thing: Harassing, humiliating, and traumatizing American citizens who have to be exposed to them in order to fly. This time, the TSA outdid themselves. News […]

 

A GOP Debt Limit Warning On Taxes

Posted on by John Hawkins

Despite the fact that the Democrats want to actually increase spending right now, the GOP has been earnestly trying to get them to reduce spending in exchange for raising the debt limit. As you can imagine, that’s probably a difficult task that involves hours per day of basic economics, explaining the negatives of just printing […]

 

The Soccer Capitol Of The Americas: Los Angeles, Mexico.

Posted on by John Hawkins

How does anyone listen to this story and think there’s nothing to worry about here? How does anyone hear this and think it’s healthy for America? It was imperfectly odd. It was strangely unsettling. It was uniquely American. On a balmy early Saturday summer evening, the U.S soccer team played for a prestigious championship in […]

 

Comparing The GOP Presidential Contenders On Their Number Of Twitter Followers

Posted on by John Hawkins

Social media is more important than ever, blah, blah, blah. Measure of strength, blah, blah, blah. May disagree over how important this is, blah, blah, blah! Your mileage may vary, blah, blah, blah! Oh, and Ron Paul! Now, without further ado, a ranking of GOP presidential contenders (and some select “maybe they’ll runs”) based on […]

 

Google: Tool or trust?

Posted on by Ron Coleman

Five years ago I asked, “Is Google a utility?” : A utility, of course, is usually a “natural monopoly”; it provides some infrastructure-type product or service in a market where competition supposedly makes no economic sense. : Its profits are essentially assured but managed; its rates are regulated; it has little choice over with whom it may […]

 

Down the hole with the copyright trolls?

Posted on by Ron Coleman

Let us reflect a little on: what justice “copyright troll” Righthaven has wrought,: so far. : Wired weighs in on the latest Righthaven woes: A federal judge ruled Monday that publishing an entire article without the rights holder’s authorization was a fair use of the work, in yet another blow to newspaper copyright troll Righthaven. It’s not often […]

 

We Don’t Need an Investor-in-Chief

Posted on by Brian Garst

How was anything ever invented before government started “investing” in new technologies? One wonders these things, given the seriousness with which Keynesians seem to believe that if they don’t choose the economic winners and then throw large sums of money at them – other people’s money, of course – then there will be no innovation […]

 

Allegations of assault in the Wisconsin Supreme Court, or: another story out of Wisconsin that could suck up my entire weekend if I (or my wife) would let it:

Posted on by TrogloPundit

Holy crap. Here I am, trying to enjoy a nice weekend when the sun is shining and my kids are home and there’s very little on our family calendar, when I suddenly notice this: Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser allegedly grabbed fellow Justice Ann Walsh Bradley around the neck in an argument in her […]

 

For Every Awful Gov’t Action There is An Equally Awful Reaction, Horses Worst Hit!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

There is a jester of a Chicago Alderman named Ed Burke who back in the early 1990s made local radio audiences laugh by his plaintive plea of “what about the horses” on the floor of Chicago’s City Hall. He was worried that horses in downtown Chicago’s carriage trade were somehow being mistreated and so he […]

 

ICE agents warn Americans “to brace themselves for what’s coming” as catch-and-release of illegals — caught committing other crimes — begins

Posted on by Doug Ross

You may have read that President Obama is now quietly offering a quasi-amnesty for illegal immigrants in a cynical attempt to rebuild his voting base. Under his direction, new prosecution rules* put ICE agents in a bureaucratic box if they choose to prosecute illegals, with dozens of new, subjective guidelines. In essence, Obama is forcing […]

 

Media And Squishes Favorite Jon Hunstman Won’t Win Because He’s “Not Angry”

Posted on by William Teach

The Politico’s Mike Allen and Jim Vandehei start out in the right direction, but, quickly lose their way: Buzzkill: The problem with Jon Huntsman Hype From afar, it’s easy to get swept up by the hype: Jon Huntsman is accomplished, handsome, smart, and his civility message has appeal beyond the meat-eaters who dominate this early […]

 

“The science is settled: US liberals really are the dumbest creatures on the planet”

Posted on by Craig Newmark

(Sorry if this is a duplicate post–I searched for it on 6/24 and didn’t find it.) James Delingpole, “a writer, journalist and broadcaster who is right about everything,” at the UK Telegraph makes a disquieting discovery: And guess what these liberals believe the problem with Climate Change is? Go on: think of the most stupid, […]

 

Oh great, Green Power will screw up the electrical grid and make our clocks run fast

Posted on by Chris Wysocki

Starting next month the clock on your oven will probably be wrong. No, it won’t be broken, but the electric current it relies on to count the minutes will start deviating from the tried and true standard of 60 cycles per second. Since 1930, electric clocks have kept time based on the rate of the […]

 

President Obama’s plan to win the war election: bring the troops home!

Posted on by TrogloPundit

So President Obama’s going to bring 30,000 or so military personnel home from Afghanistan just as soon as he’s done closing Guantanamo Bay. No, wait, he said next Summer. He’s going to bring 30,000 troops home by next Summer. Good idea? Militarily, I leave it to those with more information, knowledge, and experience than I […]

 

Chicago’s New Top Cop: A Race Baiter That Stands Against the U.S. Constitution

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Once again St. Sabina, the “Catholic” Church on Chicago’s South Side, makes the news for race-baiting and down talking our U.S. Constitution. This time it is Chicago’s new Police Superintendent, Garry McCarthy, who appeared at the church and indulged his inner Father Pfleger with a rant on how the US is filled with racists and […]

 

While Obama Finds Excuses For Lybia, Syria Is Still Killing Activists

Posted on by William Teach

But, Syria would be hard work, and there is golfing to be done Witnesses and activists in Syria say at least 15 people were killed Friday when security forces fired on crowds as tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets nationwide in another round of demonstrations aimed at overthrowing President Bashar al-Assad. The […]

 

Obama’s Medal of Honor Gaffe

Posted on by Dave Blount

Somehow I get the impression that our Community Organizer in Chief doesn’t take military matters terribly seriously. After announcing that he would effectively surrender in Afghanistan, but leave most of our troops there hanging in the breeze for awhile, he made a poorly prepared speech to a division that has been heavily involved in the […]

 

Liberals’ Frankenstein Monster Runs Amok in Chicago

Posted on by Dave Blount

Civilization is coming unraveled in the city that gave us Barack Hussein Obama and much of his crew. But don’t be racist by noticing: Pardon the unintentional rhyme, but Chicago is under attack by packs of wild Blacks. (Paul Kersey is all over this.) They’re storming buses 15 at a time, beating White people with […]

 

(VIDEO) Sen. Johnson: Obama and his Administration Have ‘Little Experience in Manufacturing or Business’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Senator Ron Johnson (R, Wis.) commented in advance of the President’s speech on manufacturing and is here to tell President Obama, “the government doesn’t create jobs, it creates debt and it is the private sector that creates long-term, self-sustaining jobs.” Today the President is traveling to Pittsburgh to talk about manufacturing. As a person who […]

 

Delta Airlines: Anti-Soldier, Anti-Jew, Anti-Christian, but Now Pro Racist Muslims

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

I think Delta Airlines should change its name to Omega Airlines because at this point it is the last airline that I’ll ever fly. Not only did Delta try to charge our returning soldiers thousands of dollars to check their bags as they came back from the wars, now the airlines has intertwined itself with […]

 

Contrary to Claim, White House Did Control GM’s Daily Business And Cut Workers Pay?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

When Barack Obama threw millions of our tax dollars at General Motors to “save it,” the administration claimed that it would not involve itself in the “day-to-day management” of the venerable car company. New emails obtained by The Daily Caller, however, casts doubt on this claim. In fact, as Matthew Boyle reports, the emails “reveal […]