Category: Corruption

Union Boss With History of Violence Decries Vitriolic Rhetoric of Right

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Well, it’s the old “glass houses” story, isn’t it? AFL-CIO boss Richard Trumka weighed in on the criminal shooting in Arizona and naturally he blamed the whole incident on “too much vitriolic, hate-filled rhetoric that we hear on radio and television.” This from a guy who has many times used worse rhetoric to incite violence […]

 

Want to See Some Hate From America’s Left-Democrats?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The left is filled with vitriol and hate. The American left despises anyone that disagrees with them. The American left hates the Constitution because it stands in its way to remake America in its own image. The American left practices the politics of personal destruction. The American left has called for rioting, murder, and has […]

 

Unbelievable: Democrat Group Using Gifford’s Shooting For Fundraiser!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

An extreme, left-wing Democrat group calling itself 21st Century Democrats has had the gall to send out an email blast using as a fundraising tool Saturday’s criminal shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona. Judge John Roll and four others were killed in the incident, one of them a 9-year-old girl, but these Democrats are […]

 

Even As Arizona Shooting Story Unfolds, Some Media Already Blaming Tea Party/Sarah Palin

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Even as the early, sketchy details of the shooting incident in Arizona were still emerging some members of the left-leaning media were already trying to tie the killer to Tea Party activism in general and Sarah Palin in particular. Andrew Sullivan of the Atlantic.com was early to attempt to link lunatic killer Jared Loughner to […]

 

Angry Father Attacks Schwarzenegger’s Shortening of Murder Sentence

Posted on by Jane Jamison

A followup to last week’s story here, ” Schwarzenegger’s Final Deal with the Devil” which related how, in the final hours of his term, outgoing California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger drastically shorted the murder sentence for the son of former Democrat speaker of the house Fabian Nunez as a political favor.

 

2010 Census Says California State Budget is $254 Billion, Not $90 Billion

Posted on by Jane Jamison

Californians have not been told the truth about how much the state government is spending.:  A blockbuster bit of information has been buried in a new U.S. Census report and has not been covered by the mainstream media.: : : This : raises questions about the integrity of:  California’s legislature,:  former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, indeed about ANYONE who has […]

 

Rep. Blackburn Introduces Bill to Preempt FCC Internet Takeover

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Representative Marsha Blackburn (R, TN) has introduced a bill to preempt the December power grab by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski and she has made the bill bipartisan with the support of Democrat Dan Boren (Oklahoma). Blackburn’s bill would place all rules governing the Internet in the purview of Congress and would take the […]

 

Great Oceanic Garbage Patch Not So Large As Thought

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Remember the floating patch of plastic garbage swirling in the Pacific Ocean between California and Japan that was claimed to be the “twice the size of Texas”? Well if Texas is the size of, well, Teaxs, it turns out that the plastic patch isn’t quite so large. Like most of the wild-eyed claims by enviro-Nazis […]

 

In 2011 Public Employees Unions Must Be Targeted for Elimination

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

-By Warner Todd Huston One of the biggest recurring themes in union reporting these days is music to the ears of any fiscally responsible American. It seems almost weekly that we are seeing stories that recount the ire being directed at public employee unions. Let us hope that this reporting is the first ripples of […]

 

GOP’s Speaker-To-Be Boehner Already Bowing to Democrats in House?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Think of this scenario: Your party has been swept into office with the biggest majority in generations. The majority of Americans think the country is on the verge of emergency and want things fixed pronto. And you are poised to become the next Speaker of the House. So what do you do? A). Steel your […]

 

Fox News’ Kirsten Powers Falsely Claims Bush Supported Earlier End-Of-Life Law

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

On the Sean Hannity Show on Fox News this week, Democrat Kirsten Powers offered some misinformed political analysis. Naturally, her analysis heavily favored the Obama administration’s goals. On the Dec. 27 show Powers insisted that inflamed talk about Obama’s “death panels” was nothing but a cynical spin meant to attack Obama because, she asserted, back […]

 

As Japan Abandons Emissions Caps, Obama Rushes Headlong Toward It

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Even as the Japanese have abandoned its national emissions trading scheme because they’ve realized how many jobs would be lost as a result of the draconian regulations involved, President Obama continues to claim that he wants to impose similar jobs-killing regulations on America. Japan initially announced that its national carbon trading scheme was to have […]

 

Video: Constitution Hard for Lefties Because It’s So Darn Old

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Well, it’s no wonder that leftists in America — you know, those folks that pretend to be Americans — have such a problem understanding the Constitution. It’s hard for them, you see, because… well… it’s old. This stark revelation was disgorged from the mouth of famed lefty blogger, and TV Wunderkind Ezra Klein of the […]

 

Obamacare: When Obama LIKES Imposing Higher Costs on ‘The Poor’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

My friend George Scoville, who works for the CATO Institute, asked a question that really does go to show the left’s hypocrisy. This time the question reveals a “feature” of Obamacare that tends to expose hypocrisy so large that an ambulance could drive through it. (See how I said “ambulance” there to keep with the […]

 

2010: The Entertainment Industry’s PC Year in Review

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

For the entertainment industry’s practitioners of political correctness, 2010 was another banner year. Even as conservatives have made deserved headway in La La Land and other areas of the industry, there still aren’t enough conservatives to bring much needed patriotism, logic, and common sense to the scene. Sadly, the industry is still filled with those […]

 

Wa Post Editorialist Admires Members of Taliban’s Armies, Are Just as Good as U.S. Soldiers

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Does anyone on the left understand right and wrong? Do any of them understand that some things humans do are morally reprehensible or is everything relative? If we could find one that understands it, it certainly won’t be Colman McCarthy. We can say this because this week the former Washington Post columnist and current director […]

 

Stagehands Extort Hundreds of Thousands From Theater Goers

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

If there never was a story that explains how unions are really little else but a criminal extortion racket, the story by James Ahearn in the New Jersey Began Record helps explain it for us. Ahearn’s piece headlined “For Backstage Labor, Rich Rewards,” informs us that some stagehands in New York theater make upwards to […]

 

90-Year-Old Post Office Workers Still Getting Workers Comp?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Years after most Americans retire, in fact years after the federal retirement age of 68, more than 100 U.S. Postal Workers in their 90s are still getting 75 percent of their salaries (tax free, yet) of federal workers compensation payments instead of having been graduated to the cheaper retirement payments at 60 percent of their […]

 

An Interesting 10th Amendment Case That Doesn’t Seem Like One

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Sometimes standing up for the Constitution seems a bit annoying, especially in the case of violent felon Mrs. Carol Bond. Fortunately, standing for the Constitution here doesn’t necessarily release a horrible woman into freedom, but it does help to spotlight some unconstitutional federal overreach. In this case, it also centers on the Tenth Amendment, or […]

 

Child Molesting Teacher Can’t Be Fired Thanks to Union

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In 1997 a Brooklyn teacher was accused of attempting to molest a sixth-grade girl at PS 138. As it happened, he admitted the behavior, but no criminal charges were filed when all was said and done. Still one would think the fact that he inappropriately fondled a teen should be enough to get him fired […]

 

Beware When They Say a Government Program Will ‘Make Money’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The New York Times had a small story that it likely thought was just an amusing little tale of a quirky government program from Los Angeles. Centered on the gift shop run by the L.A County Coroner’s Department, the Times indulged such lines as “we’re dying for your business,” and headlined the piece “Dealing in […]

 

President Gets Around Annoying Voters, Instills Death Panels By Regulation

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Some of you may have missed this story since it was published on the day after Christmas (and a Sunday at that), but Obama’s death panels are back, this time via the president’s fiat regulatory powers. Since it was easy to have missed, I’ve decided to post the story today (Monday) so that more people […]

 

Why Won’t MSNBCs Ed Schultz Interview Republicans? Cuz he is ‘Sick of ‘Em,’ of Course

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

t’s funny how lefties always consider themselves the more “logical,” the more civilized,” and more “adult” side of the argument. Why, they just want to have an adult debate to explain how correct their ideas are, right? Well, they might unless they work for MSNBC, apparently. Especially if they’re Ed Schultz. Ed Schultz, you see, […]

 

Obama’s Labor Dept. to Force Employers to tell Employees They Have a Right to Unionize

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Obama’s intrusive National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the government regulatory agency responsible for making rules to govern the relationship between employer and employee, has decided that as an employee you are stupid. Worse, the NLRB also decided that it has the power to force your employer to waste its resources holding your hand as an […]

 

Readers Choice of My Top Fifteen Posts (on The Lid) For 2010

Posted on by Jeff Dunetz

Since it the end of the year many of my favorite bloggers are making their choice of their favorite posts of the year. For example John Hawkins posted The 15 Most Popular Political Posts On Linkiest For 2010 and The 20 Most Popular Non-Political Links On Linkiest For 2010 this morning. As I will be […]

 

Batman’s Politically Correct European Vacation

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Reality isn’t always very fun, granted. Because of that many people turn to comic books for a little escapism. But there’s escapism and PC indoctrination. Sadly, it appears that DC Comic’s Batman is angling for the latter and not the former. You see, Batman has decided to hire a Muslim to “save France.” First the […]

 

Holiday Reminder: Kwanzaa Was Created by a Rapist and Torturer

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Every year I post a pre-Christmas piece on the farce that is Kwanzaa. This year will be no exception. Note, some of the newspaper articles I quote are several years old so some may no longer be online. Each year, with the onset of Christmas, we are treated to another gauzy, fluff piece about how […]

 

Indiana County Throwing Man off His Own Property For Living in Camper

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A county government in Indiana has decided that a man that is bothering no one, a man living a very simple lifestyle, a man living on his own property must be evicted from it. Why have these jackbooted government thugs decided that this must be done? Because the man has the gall to live so […]

 

New GOP Staffers Instructed on How to Cite Constitutional Justification

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Someone sent me the text of an info packet being given to GOP staffers in a series of training sessions on how they are to comply with a requirement to cite exactly where in the Constitution is the justification for the legislation they and their member are writing during the upcoming 112th Congress. We’ve heard […]

 

Strong Coalition Urges House Republicans to Create Anti-Appropriations Committee

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

President of Americans for Tax Reform (ATR.org), Grover Norquist, wrote about having an “anti-appropriations committee back in June n the American Spectator. Norquist talked of Democrats, Republicans and “the appropriators” in congress and proposed an idea to take the starch out of the appropriator’s assumed sense of entitlement to spend our money with abandon. Hearkening […]