Category: Corruption

The Lies States Peddle on Pension ‘Savings’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Pensions are fast becoming the time bomb that will destroy the financial well being of our state budgets. Because public employee unions have been allowed to outrageously grow their retirement benefits by supplying billions in campaign donations to compliant politicians, most state pension plans are deeply in the hole. Many states have at last begun […]

 

Illinois Budget Mess Deepens: Using 2011 Funds to Pay 2010 Bills

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

From The Bond Buyer, a website that tracks news on the bond market we see that the president’s home state is in an ever deeper budget hole every day. In a stark illustration of Illinois’ deteriorating balance sheet, the state ended the first quarter of fiscal 2011 with $5.5 billion in overdue bills and faces […]

 

Postal Workers Union Election on Hold Over Ballots Lost in the Mail

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The incompetence of public employee unions strikes again. The American Postal Workers Union has been forced to extend its election because too many mail-in ballots have yet to get to their final destination. That’s right, the postal workers election is on hold because the post office lost the ballots in the mail. The union’s election […]

 

Michelle Obama on ‘World’s Most Powerful Women’ List. Why?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Forbes has published its world’s most powerful women list and on that list, in the top slot no less, is Michelle Obama, the wife of the President of the United States of America. Along with Obama a few singers and entertainers made the list. It all goes to prove that apparently no one knows what […]

 

Vice President Biden Wants to Strangle Opponents

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

On the tail of the Enviro-Nazis making a film depicting children being murdered because they refused to agree to the globaloney religion — showing the left’s inability to brook opposition without resorting to violence or threats of same — Vice President Joe Biden has announced that he’d like to “strangle” any Republican that opposes his […]

 

Feds Build $1 Billion Virginia Office Complex Without Parking Or Roads to Get To It

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The federal government has built a one billion dollar office complex in Virginia to house some 6,400 Pentagon workers that are to be moved soon. It’s a beautiful new office complex that rises like a mountain next to Northern Virginia’s I-395. But there are a few little problems. There is no parking for one thing […]

 

New The Hill Poll: 12 Freshman Democrat Held Districts Show Major GOP Gains

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

On Wednesday The Hill reported on a new poll it has conducted of the 2010 midterms with initial focus on 12 districts held by freshmen Democrats and the news isn’t good for those incumbent Dems scrutinized. On the other hand, the poll seems to show that it isn’t pat that Republicans will necessarily run away […]

 

Unwrapping the Red Tape

Posted on by Amy Miller

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. That would be the First Amendment. Remember it? That little […]

 

Lefty Bloggers Eating Each Other, White House Not Amused

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Politico has a delicious story detailing how lefty bloggers seem to be on the outs with the Obama administration over their constant stream of complaints unleashed about the president’s lack of supplication to the most extreme left-wing policies. Politico found Peter Daou, another “progressive” blogger, who thinks he knows why Deputy White House Press Sec. […]

 

Daley Buddy Not Billed for Years of Water Use

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Apparently some of Daley’s buddies never paid for their water use being fortunate enough to have City Hall pick up the tab. As the era of Daley winds down these sort of stories will continue to eek out, but it shows the illicit nature of the Daley Democrat machine in the crooked city of Chicago. […]

 

Video: Leftist Pigs Make Democrat Dumpster of D.C.

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The extremists of the left-wing had their march yesterday and now look at the garbage they left on our National Mall in Washington D.C. This disgusting video shows what a few foreign tourists found on the Nation Mall in D.C. after the pigs and slobs of the left-winger’s “On Nation” rally left that public space. […]

 

Rick Sanchez And The Showbiz Third Rail

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Bob Parks of Black&Right is talking about that “third rail” of the entertainment industry: them Joooos. Bob is a bit mystified as to why it’s such a no-no to say that the entertainment industry is filled with folks of the Talmud? Unless Jews are hired into the business based primarily on their ethnicity and not […]

 

U of Chicago Prof Says His $400,000 Salary Is Taxed Too Much

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

University professors so often get the reputation of being ivory tower pinheads sheltered from real life and out of touch with reality. Professor Todd Henderson of the University of Chicago sure didn’t help change that perception when he posted a blog post detailing how Obama’s tax hikes will hurt and that his combined family income […]

 

Video: Eco-Fascists in England Want You Dead Unless You Agree With Them

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

There is an eco-nazi effort going on in England called the 10:10 Campaign and in a video meant to encourage people to join the green effort people that disagree with the eco-nazis are murdered for their skepticism. Apparently murdering those that disagree with you is supposed to be funny. In a Telegraph article, James Delingpole […]

 

Feds Making NYCity Spend $27M to Change Lettering on Street Signs

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

So you are a busy federal agency with lots and lots to do. You have roads to build, bridges to reinforce, and infrastructure to shore up, but there is something gnawing at your paper pushing soul. It’s those darn street signs in New York City and others. So, like a good, jackbooted government automaton, you […]

 

Tearful Emanuel Leaves WH Job, Says Obama Leads in ‘Toughest Times’ in History?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In the worst kept secret in D.C., White House Chief of Staff Rham Emanuel officially left his post in a tearful press conference on the morning of Oct. 1. Most of what Mr. Emanuel had to say was your normal, average, everyday puffery that a junior member of a team says when he is leaving […]

 

As Obama Pretends at Its Freedom, His Gov’t Plans Takeover of Internet

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In an address to the United Nations on Thursday, Sept. 23, President Obama pledged to preserve a “free and open Internet” and would call out nations that censored content. In a veiled reference to China and other nations that censor the Internet, Obama said that a civil society fosters open government. “Civil society is the […]

 

Obama in Negative Numbers EVEN in Illinois?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Public Policy Polling has released a poll of voters in President Obama’s home state of Illinois. shockingly it shows that Obama has a 49% disapproval rating in Illinois. The Illinois poll we’ll release this week won’t do much to change the conventional wisdom on either the Senate or Gubernatorial race in the state but it […]

 

What the GOP Pledge Reflects and Why We Need To Stand By It

Posted on by Heather Bachman

: : : : : : : : : : :  When the Pledge to America was first announced, it immediately met backlash from the other side of the aisle. President Obama began a tour dedicated specifically to breaking down the plan’s items one by one.:  While to many political strategists, this response may be seen as politics as usual, there are many holes in […]

 

Vadum: A Reminder, ACORN Funding NOT Permanently Cut Off

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Matthew Vadum, ever vigilant on the evils perpetrated by ACORN, reminds us that the criminal community organizer has not had its federal funding cut off permanently. The temporary cut off is soon to expire and Vadum reports that there doesn’t seem to be anyone in Congress taking up a reinstatement of the ban. In his […]

 

Chicago News Outlets Miss That FBI Targeted Protester is Chief Steward for SEIU

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

One might think it would be big news that a Chief Steward for a Local chapter of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is being investigated by the FBI for possible connection to overseas terror networks. Apparently, though, several Chicago news outlets didn’t see a reason to add this little fact to their stories. And […]

 

Pot Smoking Gov’t Motors Car Builders Actually Fired

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Monday Government Motors (GM) took a hard line against the drunken, pot smoking union members that became the unwitting star of a news expose in Detroit last week firing the partiers. All 13 employees were fired after being shown on WJBK, Fox 2 News Detroit drinking and smoking pot in a local park on their […]

 

Video: Daily Show Humiliates Unions that Hire Non-Union Picketers

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) is attacking Walmart (and has been for years) and how are they doing it? By picketing, of course. Yes, they send their members down to Walmart to protest the evil, evil Walmart that refuses to hire union folks and…what? Wait. The union doesn’t send their members to […]

 

Charlie Crist VIDEO: ‘I’m Not Gonna Change My Stripes’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Despite some fool with his car alarm blaring in the background, in this video it is quite clear that Charlie “Fliparoo” Crist is claiming that the voters can trust him because he’s not going to “change my stripes.” Of course, he said this not long before he “changed” his Senate run from Republican to a […]

 

Mentally Retarded Now Have ‘Intellectual Disability’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Along with implementing a socialist takeover of healthcare making it more expensive and less attentive, aside from taking over America’s car industry and creating a new brand of auto — Government Motors — and right along side efforts to give Big Labor millions of our tax dollars in payoffs and bailouts, not to mention attempting […]

 

Sec. of Education Duncan Pledges to Turn Kids Into ‘Good Environmental Citizens’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Obama’s Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, pledged to turn America’s school children into good enviro zombies at an appearance at a Virginia high school earlier in the month and he intends to use federal funds to do it. CNSNews reports: “Right now, in the second decade of the 21st century, preparing our children to be […]

 

Government Motors Resumes Political Payoffs

Posted on by Dave Blount

If you aren’t enraged yet by Democrats’ nationalization of General Motors, maybe this will do the trick: General Motors Co. has begun to once again contribute to political campaigns, lifting a self-imposed ban on political spending put in place during the auto maker’s U.S.-financed bankruptcy restructuring last year. The Detroit company gave $90,500 to candidates […]

 

Remember That Business About Healthcare Being Cheaper and You Could Keep You Coverage…

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

… well, we are finding out now that millions of seniors will have to change their Medicare prescription plans because of “double-digit hikes” in costs. Premiums will go up an average of 10 percent among the top 10 drug plans that have signed up about 70 percent of seniors, according to an analysis of Medicare […]

 

County Sues Man for Growing Veggies?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Where’s Michelle “the Green Witch” Obama when you need her? She might have been able to save a man in Dekalb County, Georgia from being sued by his own county for growing too many vegetables in his garden. That’s right, you heard me: sued by the government for growing too many veggies. Steve Miller plants […]

 

Obama to Dumb Down Car Ratings Stickers

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Earlier this month the Obama administration floated a trial balloon about changing the way vehicle information stickers on new cars would be structured. The administration floated the idea of letter grades instead of the more full information that vehicle stickers now contain. The most fuel-efficient would get and “A” rating with less green cars having […]