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Politicized Obama DOJ Finally Sues Alabama Over Illegal Immigration Law

Posted on August 2, 2011 by William Teach

You just knew that this was bound to happen at some point. And what better time to sneak in this lawsuit than when everyone was focused on the debt ceiling fight? The Justice Department filed a challenge to Alabama’s tough anti-illegal-immigration law Monday, arguing that the Constitution prohibits state and local governments from creating a […]

Illinois Budget Deficit: Worst of the Worst

Posted on August 1, 2011 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 August 1, 2011 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. […]

Debt Deal Winners And Losers

Posted on August 1, 2011 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 […]

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

Posted on July 31, 2011August 2, 2011 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 […]

A Few Things Illinois Needs to know about the Debt Crisis

Posted on July 31, 2011 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 […]

Shocker! Economy Falters Dramatically In First Quarter

Posted on July 30, 2011 by William Teach

I know, I know, you’re saying “how could that possibly happen after two years of far left Keynesian economic policies?” The economic recovery faltered dramatically in the first half of the year, and that means more trouble ahead. The latest Commerce Department figures show that the nation’s economic output was gasping for breath long before […]

Man With No Plan Demands Deal By Tuesday In Weekly Radio Whinefest

Posted on July 30, 2011August 1, 2011 by William Teach

There’s an old saying: respect the office, if not the man. But, what if the man uses the office to make the presidency as much of a joke as he is himself? Anyhow, Obama has used his perch to complain like a 5 year old who isn’t allowed to have a cookie before doing his […]

Q&A Friday #108: What Will The Outcome Of The Operation Fast and Furious Scandal Be?

Posted on July 29, 2011July 29, 2011 by John Hawkins

Question: What do you expect the outcome of the Congressional investigation into Operation Fast and Furious to be? Will any prominent heads roll, or will some middle management types be forced to fall on their swords and the scandal be swept under the rug? — Good_Ol_Boy Answer: You’d go to jail for the rest of […]

How Barack Obama is destroying the American economy in two nauseating charts

Posted on July 28, 2011 by Doug Ross

You don’t need to be a math major to understand these devastating charts (slightly modified from the originals to depict the beginning of the “one-time, emergency Stimulus”): …next time Obama or his allies in the press go back to the well and recite the well-worn verse that spending is all the other guy’s fault, take […]

Man With No Plan Ramps Up PR In Debt Debate

Posted on July 28, 2011 by William Teach

President Snippy Pants is doing what he does best: voting present, then giving speeches As House Republicans slog toward a Thursday vote on raising the debt ceiling, President Obama and his staff have hit the airwaves in a massive, all-hands-on-deck public-relations effort to turn the tide of political opinion in their favor. All told, the […]

Did Team Obama Pay The Washington Post For Fawning Coverage?

Posted on July 26, 2011 by William Teach

Apparently, they watched a different speech than the rest of us did. Here’s Charles Krauthammer on Obama’s Monday night repeat, via Gateway Pundit: Don Surber has some other quotes which lambaste President Snippy Pants. And So It Goes In Shreveport eviscerates (whoops, sorry, uncivil word) Obama’s class warfare scaremongering blamestorming 5 year old tantrum presser. […]

Why Barack Obama Reminds Me Of Fabio

Posted on July 26, 2011December 30, 2012 by John Hawkins

Like him or hate him, Barack Obama has been extraordinarily successful. How has he done it? He used the same strategy at every level. He gives speeches, people are impressed by the fact that he has some charisma, and they elect him to office. Then, he gives more speeches, people talk about how great he […]

Oh, Good, Obama’s Going To Be On TV Yet Again: Obama Bingo Time!

Posted on July 25, 2011 by William Teach

What else is there to say that hasn’t already been said? In a fresh challenge to President Barack Obama, House Republicans unveiled reworked legislation Monday to avert a potentially devastating government default in barely a week – but along lines the White House has already rejected. Democrats countered quickly with an alternative that drew presidential […]

Shockingly, Obama Is Unable To Charm Businesses

Posted on July 25, 2011 by William Teach

I know, I know, it’s extremely strange, historic and unprecedented, if you will, that an administration that spends much of its time railing against and demonizing private enterprise would have a tough time charming the same The Obama administration’s push to mend its relationship with business has gone cold only six months into the effort. […]

It’s Another Great Moment From The Obama Era!

Posted on July 25, 2011December 30, 2012 by John Hawkins

America’s deficits have finally spiraled completely out of control, losing our AAA rating, the destruction of America’s health care system, and the end of the Space Shuttle. Worst. President. In. American. History.

NY Times Blames The Deficit On……..

Posted on July 24, 2011July 24, 2011 by William Teach

….if the first thought that came to mind was “enormous and reckless spending by Obama and the Democrats,” well, sorry, nope, uh uh, you have to go back to the B and T words With President Obama and Republican leaders calling for cutting the budget by trillions over the next 10 years, it is worth […]

NY Times: Hey, Obama Should Violate The Constitution And Raise The Debt Ceiling

Posted on July 23, 2011 by William Teach

Well, as to the first part, op-ed contributors Eric A. Posner and Adrian Vermeule state that it would be perfectly Constitutional, and offer an extremely dubious rationale PRESIDENT OBAMA should announce that he will raise the debt ceiling unilaterally if he cannot reach a deal with Congress. Constitutionally, he would be on solid ground. Politically, […]

Obama’s Weather Underground Terrorist Friends in for Hollywood Whitewash

Posted on July 22, 2011July 22, 2011 by Dave Blount

Now that we have a president with numerous ties to the communist terrorists of the Weather Underground (e.g., Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, and Jeff Jones), it was only a matter of time until the lower dregs of Hollyweird (e.g., ultra-radical moonbat Robert Redford) applied some of the historical revisionism Tinseltown is known for to whitewashing […]

States Taking Pro-Jobs Rules Into Their Own Hands

Posted on July 22, 2011July 21, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

One of the first things that President Obama did when he walked into the White House was to authorize an Executive Order as a payback to his buddies in Big Labor by implementing project labor agreements (PLAs) for all federal construction projects. That this was his very first action upon taking office shows that he […]

EPA Joins in Obama’s Social Justice Looting Spree

Posted on July 21, 2011 by Dave Blount

Spreading the wealth around while America still has any to spread is such an urgent priority, even the ecofascists of the Environmental Protection Agency are getting in on the act. The federal agency that’s spending a fortune to bring “environmental justice” to poor and minority communities around the U.S. has just dropped an additional $6.2 […]

One Solution to Stop Some of Obama’s Union Pandering Labor Board Rulings

Posted on July 20, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

We’ve been talking for the better part of the year about how the Obama administration is using its powers to regulate labor and business relations to attack Boeing aircraft manufacturer for attempting to open a new manufacturing plant in North Carolina. Fortunately, there is one proposed law floating around in congress that would stop some […]

Video: ‘Cut, Cap, & Balance’ Will Help Stop the Spending Binge That’s Hurting Job Growth

Posted on July 19, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

Speaker of the House John Boehner (R, OH) takes his case for the Republican plan to the people. But, whether you like him or agree with him or not, the fact is that the GOP is the only party offering a plan, here. Obama has no plan. He’s made all sorts of vague claims about […]

Union Writing the Book on Intimidation and Violence

Posted on July 19, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

F. Vincent Vernuccio had a great piece in the Washington Times a few days ago revealing the the handbook written by the SEIU that teaches union thuggery to union operatives. The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has a 70-some-page manual that came to light in a recent court case. SEIU is in federal court defending […]

Oh, Noes, GOP Has Not Backup Debt Plan As Issue Turns “Scary”

Posted on July 19, 2011 by William Teach

It’s so terrible There’s a narrative gaining traction in Washington as a debt crisis looms: House Republican hard-liners might soften their stance once they’ve gotten a vote on their Cut, Cap and Balance proposal. But if that’s the case, the conservatives aren’t in on the plan. Well, that’s pretty much it for a story by […]

Why Angela Merkel Wouldn’t Follow Obama Over the Edge

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Dave Blount

You can’t call what Obama et al. are doing to the economy an honest mistake, because we have been down this road before, as have other countries like Germany. Let’s see how Obama’s economic policies are faring at this point: Obamanomics has produced the weakest, most anemic recovery since the 1930s, when another generation’s big-government […]

Video Interview: Florida Rep. Allen West

Posted on July 16, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

Rep. Allen West (R-FL) sat down with MRCTV on Wednesday, July 13, 2011 to talk about a wide range of issues from the debt crisis to the Obama administrations handling of fast and furious. West also stands by his statement that Attorney General Eric Holder should resign.

While We Celebrated, Obama Sneaked Terrorist Into US Courts on July 4

Posted on July 16, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

Did you know that a suspected Somali terrorist was sneaked into a U.S. criminal court in New York City over the July 4th holiday? Most people don’t. While we were all distracted by celebrating our Independence Day President Obama was sneaking foreign terrorists into our civil court system instead of taking him to Guantanamo. A […]

Obama To Meet With Dalai Lama Saturday – Hey, Didn’t He Offer To Meet With Others?

Posted on July 16, 2011 by William Teach

Obama’s still treating the Dalai Lama rather shabbily The White House announced late Friday that President Obama will meet with the Dalai Lama at the White House on Saturday, finally putting an end to mounting speculation about whether the Tibetan religious leader would get an invite to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. “This meeting underscores the President’s […]

Temporary Limit on Lightbulb Ban Passes House

Posted on July 15, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

In a small step in the right direction, the House of Representatives passed a provision to defund the 2012 Energy and Water Appropriations Act, denying the government the funds to enforce the new lightbulb standards that would have levied a defacto ban on incandescent bulbs. Of course, the problem is that this is a temporary, […]