Category: Budget

Colt Firearms Threatens to Leave Connecticut Over Strict Gun Laws

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Continuing the trend of firearms related companies that have been contemplating moving their businesses out of states instituting strict gun control laws, Colt Manufacturing is now considering a move out of Connecticut after 175 years in business. This is due to the new gun bans being mulled by the state legislature and Democrat Governor Dannel […]

 

Feds Waste $3.8 Million to ‘Decrease Human-Elephant Conflict’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The federal government is looking into the serious issue of the “conflict” between humans and elephants. To help out on that important issue, the government generously gave $3.8 million of your tax dollars to study the matter. The princely sum was awarded in 2011 and 2012 for the African Elephant Conservation grant and was sent […]

 

Sequester? Federal Gov’t Still Offering High-Paid Internships

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Even as President Obama ginned up fears of a government shut down because of cuts from sequestration, the federal government is still offering a myriad of high-paid internships. A search by Fox News of the federal employment site found 84 new internships and student programs that had been posted in the last 10 days. The […]

 

Dismantling Washington

Posted on by Josh Bernstein

Washington, D.C. (which the DC part now stands for dirty cesspool) should become a thing of the past. Society has outgrown the need for a centralized government full of power hungry aristocrats, greedy lobbyists, and corrupt white collar criminals. When I say criminals I am not just talking in the abstract; I am referring to […]

 

NH Dem. Says Gov’t Employees are Like ‘Our Children’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The rap on Democrats is that they fully misunderstand what the relationship should be between citizen and government. Many claim Democrats think government should be mommy and daddy to us all. Well, one New Hampshire Democrat revealed that this is exactly what she thinks. At a Belknap County budget meeting in the first week of […]

 

Bloomberg Businessweek Apologizes for ‘Racist’ Magazine Cover

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s media group has apologized for its February 21 cover of Bloomberg Businessweek over complaints that it used racist imagery to illustrate the feature story on the housing market. With a title of “The Great American Housing Rebound: Flips. No-look bids. 300 percent returns. What could possibly go wrong?,” the cover […]

 

Greens Fret Over Obama Admin Keystone Report

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The State Department has released its much-anticipated report on the environmental impact of the Keystone Pipeline and, to the alarm of the green lobby, it seems to leave President Obama with little reason to continue delaying construction. The 2,000-page report makes no final recommendation on whether or not to approve construction of the energy project, […]

 

Rep. Maxine Waters Inflates Sequester to ‘170 Million’ Jobs Lost

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D, CA) had a dire prediction for America due to sequestration claiming that 170 million jobs would be lost as a result of the policy. But according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics there are only about 140 million jobs in the whole country. During a press conference on February 28, Waters […]

 

What We Don’t Need

Posted on by Robert Cleveland

One of the most frustrating thing about the current debate on gun control is the obfuscation and lies that are constantly passed around by the Left. The very idea that the Second Amendment might just be about self-defense, home-defense, hunting, and sport shooting is absolutely ludicrous, yet arguments based on this premise are treated as […]

 

Democrats Want Background Checks… Except When They Don’t

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

One of the main discussions in this ginned up, fact-free anti-gun debate coming from the Democrats and their fellow extreme leftists is that they want “universal background checks” for gun purchases. So, “background checks” are a good idea to left-wingers… but in all cases? As it happens, NO is the answer to that. Democrats don’t […]

 

NYT Hails Obama’s ‘Signal’ That Era of ‘Single-Minded Deficit-Cutting Should End’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The paltry spending cuts coming out of Congress are no where near enough to balance Washington’s budget, but in his analysis of the President’s State of the Union speech, New York Times writer Mark Landler happily went to pains to note that Obama signaled the end of “the era of single-minded deficit-cutting.” One has to […]

 

NPR Falsely Claims GOP Invented Sequestration

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Ahead of the President’s State of the Union speech, taxpayer funded National Public Radio (NPR) tried to help the White House push the false notion that the sequestration budget cut policy was conceived by the Republicans. In truth, it was initiated by Obama and pushed by the Democrat Party. In order to advertise its coverage, […]

 

My Amazing, Earth-Shattering, Dynamic, Never-Before-Seen Analysis Of The State Of The Union

Posted on by Robert Cleveland

OK, I confess: I didn’t actually watch the speech. I tried, I really did. Well, okay, I didn’t even really try. I did manage to muddle through the first few minutes of the speech as I waited for my wife to get ready to go out to dinner – which basically amounted to waiting until […]

 

We Will Always Need More Taxes

Posted on by Robert Cleveland

According to President Obama, there is no longer any doubt that America needs to raise taxes yet again. In his interview with CBS that aired just before the Super Bowl, the president stated “there is no doubt we need additional revenue coupled with smart spending reductions in order to bring down our deficit, and we […]