Year: 2014

Independent Federal Watchdog Group Says NSA Phone Program Is Illegal

Posted on by William Teach

And recommends shutting it down. Good thing the NY Times buries the story on page A14 of the print edition, wanting to protect Obama and his 100% support of the domestic spying program. (NY Times) An independent federal privacy watchdog has concluded that the National Security Agency’s program to collect bulk phone call records has […]

 

Obama Admin Fears Failure To Fix Healthcare.gov Could Bankrupt Insurers

Posted on by William Teach

They’ve already wasted hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars building a barely functional website though a no-bid contract to CGI. Now they have to spend hundreds of millions more (Fox News) While the administration publicly expresses full confidence in its health care law, privately it fears one part of the system is so flawed it […]

 

Union leaders getting rich with money taken from members

Posted on by Eagnews

NEW YORK — The: New York Post: apparently has heard enough from the city’s teachers union about charter school profits. The United Federation of Teachers union often points to the fact that some charter school operators earn more than the city’s schools chancellor, with the implication that’s somehow wrong. “Funny thing,” said a recent Post editorial. “As […]

 

Allen West: Obama May Actually Want His Policies to Fail

Posted on by John Hawkins

How bad is Obama’s performance as President? There’s a legitimate debate about whether he’s destroying the nation accidentally or on purpose and Allen West seems to be leaning towards the former. With a record 20 percent of households on food stamps, former Florida Rep. Allen West says it’s time to stop saying President Barack Obama’s […]

 

Robert Gates and the taint of the insider tell-all

Posted on by Victor Davis Hanson

For all hysteria over former Defense Secretary Robert Gates’ new insider memoir of his tenure during the Bush and Obama administrations, the disclosures are more breaches of trust than earth-shattering revelations. Much of “Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War” is the ordinary stuff of public service. What little gossip in the book that may […]

 

Sorry About Calling You ‘Uncle Tom’

Posted on by Larry Elder

The Rev. William Barber, head of North Carolina’s chapter of the left-wing NAACP, recently said this about black, tea-party-supported Republican U.S. Sen. Tim Scott, S.C.: “A ventriloquist can always find a good dummy.” Sounds like Barber might have mentored an ex-high school classmate with whom I recently had the following exchange: Ex-Classmate: “Uncle Tom in […]

 

Cuomo to conservatives: Leave New York

Posted on by Cal Thomas

Everyone “knows” it is conservatives who are mean-spirited, intolerant, censors of speech with which they don’t agree, anti-gay, anti-black and anti just about everything else, right? We know this because the left keeps telling us so. Which is why in this era of increasingly corrosive language — note the overuse of the f-word in the […]

 

The Happy State of Gov. Jerry Brown

Posted on by Debra Saunders

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Jerry Brown is in an enviable position. He delivered a State of the State address Wednesday that did not require hand-wringing about ugly shortfalls and painful cuts for public schools. As he prepares to run for re-election, he doesn’t even need to announce that he is running for re-election. No Democrat […]

 

Bakers facing fines, hate for saying no to lesbian ‘wedding’ cake aren’t backing down

Posted on by Joe Saunders

The Oregon bakers who declined to make a cake for a lesbian couple celebrating their “marriage” have been found guilty in a state investigation of violating the women’s rights — even though the state of Oregon itself doesn’t even permit: gay marriage. Photo: KATU-TV Aaron and Melissa Klein, co-owners of: Sweet Cakes by Melissa, have endured nearly […]

 

Ted Cruz Calls for Special Prosecutor to Investigate IRS

Posted on by Duane Lester

For some time, the right has called for a Republican with a spine. : Sen. Ted Cruz is the answer to that call: Sen. Ted Cruz wants a special prosecutor to investigate misconduct at the IRS. … Cruz’s IRS-related request comes in a letter to Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. He’s looking for a special […]

 

Bill Gates: Big Minimum Wage Raises Can Destroy Jobs (Video)

Posted on by Duane Lester

I doubt that lefty Mika was expecting this answer from Bill Gates: “Within certain limits, it doesn’t cause job destruction, but if you really start pushing it, then you’re just making a huge tradeoff,” Gates said on Morning Joe. “You have to say which are the households that end up benefiting: Is it much more […]

 

Ex-Secret Service Agent Says Obama Uses Govt as ‘Personal Weapon’

Posted on by Duane Lester

Former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino said President Obama uses government not as a political weapon, but as a personal weapon, targeting and punishing those who don’t agree with his faith in government: “[Obama] does what’s best for his ideology . . . His religion is government. And when your religion is government, you do […]

 

Campus Racists Demand Cash, Threaten “Physical Action”

Posted on by Dave Blount

As civil society decays, groups find it most effective to pursue their objectives at the expense of other groups by force or the threat of force: Members of the University of Michigan Black Student Union (BSU) are calling for “physical action” against the school if it does not meet their list of seven demands in […]

 

Josie Gracchi, Casualty of Collectivization

Posted on by Dave Blount

Bold moves like the imposition of ObamaCare are bound to have unintended consequences among the little people who have no seat at Big Government’s table. However, our wise leaders have deemed this to be an acceptable price to pay to further increase their power over us. A woman diagnosed with breast cancer, whose life-saving surgery […]

 

FL House Candidate said about Obama: “Hang him high”

Posted on by Tiffiny Ruegner

Do you believe that Obama is a traitor to the United States of America? In law, treason is the crime that covers some of the more extreme acts against one’s nation.To avoid the abuses of the English law, treason was specifically defined in the United States Constitution, the only crime so defined. Article III Section […]

 

Illinois Ranks as One of Worst States for Losing Citizens

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Illinois keeps racking up those plaudits as the worst of the worst states in the country, this time coming in second of the top states for outward migration. Illinois has seen more of its citizens fleeing its failing edifice than every other state but New Jersey. This list is maintained by one of the nation’s […]

 

Prosperity Redistributed: The Real Unemployment Rate and Misery for All

Posted on by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

By: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton NoisyRoom.net Marxists: Let the unemployed eat cake… Guess I was wrong… but not in the way the Left would like to see. For years now, I have told our readers that the unemployment rate is closer to 25%. That the government is manipulating the rate and outright lying to America. David John […]

 

Wall Street Memo To Clients: Actual unemployment is 37.2%, ‘misery index’ worst in 40 years

Posted on by John Hawkins

If you listened to the media and the Obama Administration, you’d think the economy is recovering. Meanwhile, 20% of Americans are on food stamps. If that doesn’t make sense to you, it’s because — surprise, surprise — the economy actually isn’t doing so well. Don’t believe the happy talk coming out of the White House, […]

 

Prosperity Is Driving Climate Change, Per UN Report

Posted on by William Teach

Being a rich country is considered bad, as is living a modern lifestyle (Daily Caller) Growing global economies through expanded trade between rich and poor countries is driving global warming, according to a draft report from the United Nation’s climate bureaucracy. The international agency said that rich countries are “outsourcing” carbon dioxide emissions to poor […]

 

Target Joins Growing Number Of Companies Dropping Health Insurance For Part-Timers

Posted on by William Teach

More victims of Obama’s signature legislation, aided and abetted by most Democrats (Bloomberg) Target Corp. (TGT) said it will end health insurance for part-time employees, joining Trader Joe’s Co., Home Depot Inc. and other retailers that have scaled back benefits in response to changes from Obamacare. About 10 percent of Target’s part-time employees, defined as […]

 

The EPA Shrinks The Size of Wyoming by a Million Acres

Posted on by John Hawkins

Since when do the worthless bureaucrats in the EPA trump the state of Wyoming, Congress and a hundred years of history? Why is the EPA altering state boundaries in Wyoming – and reversing over 100 years of established law? Well, apparently the city of Riverton now falls under the jurisdiction of the Wind River Indian […]

 

Jerry Sandusky’s adopted son says he was ‘betrayed’ by family after testifying against his father who sexually abused him

Posted on by John Hawkins

It was appalling to find out that there were people who turned a blind eye to Jerry Sandusky’s molestation of kids at Penn State. Unfortunately, it goes even deeper than that because some members of Sandusky’s family are STILL making excuses for that monster. Jerry Sandusky’s adopted son has spoken about his life with the […]

 

Greta Van Susteren recounts administration’s shocking attempt to persuade her to kill Benghazi coverage

Posted on by Janeen Capizola

Fox News’: Greta Van Susteren: shared a very personal and very disturbing story about the extent to which the: Obama administration: attempted to shut down: Fox News Channel: from reporting on the terror attack in Benghazi. On Thursday, the day after the bipartisan: Senate Intelligence Committeereport on Benghazi was released, Van Susteren took to her blog, “Gretawire,” and said the Obama administration […]

 

Lessons for Shove Guv Andrew Cuomo

Posted on by Michelle Malkin

Not so fast, Andrew Cuomo. We see what you did there. After publicly bashing conservative New Yorkers as “extreme” people who have no place in his state, the intolerant Democratic governor wants to blame the media for his unmistakable contempt for those who oppose abortion, support gun rights and defend traditional marriage. Newsflash: Crapweasel politicians […]