Category: Corruption

Green Fail: New York Metra Gives Up on Hybrid Busses

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In a reversal of greenism, Michael Bloomberg’s New York Metropolitan Transit Agency is giving up on hybrid transportation. The city with the mayor nicknamed “Nanny Bloomberg” may be stumping for all sorts of chic, activist causes, from the campaign to rid us of our Second Amendment rights, to the elimination of trans fats in our […]

 

More Proof That Democrats Hate Democracy and the Constitution

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

There was once a day when the Democrat Party was very concerned about the protections of the U.S. Constitution and the due process of the law. But they used that fealty to the law of the land to protect slavery and disenfranchise blacks. To eliminate this, the system was used against Democrats to destroy their […]

 

Facebook Blocks Fox News Reporter Starnes Over ‘Politically Incorrect’ Gun Post

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Todd Starnes of Fox News reports that Facebook blocked his postings because he posted support for the National Rifle Association (NRA), Paula Deen, Chick-Fil-A, and Jesus on his page. The blocked comment was a snarky commentary on several news stories. It ended up eliciting hundreds of replies and likes before Facebook deleted it leaving a […]

 

Nancy Pelosi Recommends We ‘Celebrate’ Obamacare on July 4th

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

California Democrat, Representative Nancy Pelosi recently informed the nation that July Fourth isn’t just for fireworks and dissing the Brits any more. It is also the day we should “celebrate” Obamacare. Sure July Fourth is traditionally celebrated as the day we declared independence from Great Britain, an action that preceded the Revolutionary War and set […]

 

NBC’s Deceptive Editing Makes Rabbi Appear to be Covering Up Sex Abuse

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In a June 24 report for NBC’s Rock Center, video for a story was deceptively edited and misleading voice overs added to quotes from an Hasidic Rabbi that made it seem as if the Rabbi was insisting that allegations of sex abuse should only be handled internally, within the community, and should not be taken […]

 

‘New Yorker’ Portrays a Gay Bert & Ernie to Celebrate End of DOMA

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The cover for the July issue of The New Yorker celebrates the end of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and the nullification of California’s one-man-one-woman marriage amendment with a portrait of Sesame Street characters Bert and Ernie in each other’s arms as they watch a TV showing an image of the nine Supreme Court […]

 

DOJ Defunds Youth Programs that Reference God

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Obama’s Department of Justice has summarily removed federal funding from two Louisiana youth programs, one a Young Marines program, because a local official refused to sign a pledge stating he would require the programs to ban mentions of God. Julian Whittington, the sheriff of Bossier Parish, La., told Fox News that Obama’s Justice Office of […]

 

Edward Snowden: Traitor or Hero?

Posted on by Rachel Alexander

A whistleblower has exposed the National Security Administration’s warrantless spying on: millions: of ordinary Americans, and conservatives are divided in their reactions. Dick Cheney and Michele Bachmann are calling former NSA contractor Edward Snowden a traitor. This may be the only time I ever disagree with them. Snowden revealed that judges are approving warrants allowing the government […]

 

Bank Insecurity: Your Money is at Risk Through Cyber Theft

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

We all, individuals and businesses alike, have this basic assumption that when we put our money in a bank it is safe. But is it? Apparently not so much as the experience of small business TRC indicates when hackers reached into the company’s California-based bank account and drained it of nearly $300 thousand. Worse, the […]

 

Senator Corker: 11 Million ‘Citizens’ Are ‘in the Shadows’ Today

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

During further debate of the Senate’s immigration bill on the floor of the Senate in the late afternoon of June 25, Tennessee’s Republican Senator, Bob Corker, claimed that 11 million “citizens” are “in the shadows today” and proclaimed himself “thrilled” to vote for the amnesty bill under discussion. The Senator is a big supporter of […]

 

Liberals Being Very Un-Liberal On The Voting Rights Act

Posted on by Robert Cleveland

The very un-liberal attitude American liberals are taking over the Supreme Court’s decision on the Voting Rights Act is downright perplexing. To hear some on the Left tell it, you would think that the United States Supreme Court just declared the Emancipation Proclamation to be unconstitutional, and re-instituted slavery in America. But all of the […]

 

Poll: Words Like ‘Incompetent’ and ‘Liar’ Most Used to Describe Obama

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Pew Polling firm has found an interesting change in the way President Obama is being described with the use of words like “incompetent” and “liar” on the rise. The latest Pew poll finds that one-word impressions of Obama are turning negative more often than they have in the past. Until now, Pew says, these wholly […]

 

Colorado Sen. Who Spearheaded Anti-Gun Laws Close to Recall

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In the aftermath of the crime at a Colorado movie theater where 12 people were murdered, the Colorado State legislature quickly moved to adopt stricter gun laws and Senate President John Morse led that effort. But now, after his anti-gun bills were successfully passed into law, Morse faces a recall election that could turn him […]

 

National Review Hammers the ‘Gang of Eight’ Immigration Team

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In a new editorial, the folks at National Review came out strongly against the immigration plan being sponsored by the so-called “gang of eight” Senators, a group that includes Florida Senator Marco Rubio, calling the bill “Rubio’s Folly.” NR urges Senator Rubio to vote against the bill he has helped craft, disparaging the proposed legislation […]

 

Bill Ayers: Obama Should be Tried for War Crimes

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Former domestic terrorist and liberal educator Bill Ayers may think Obama is a charming and likable but he still thinks he should be tried for war crimes over his drone program and his military campaigns in Afghanistan and other places. In a continuing video series called the RCP Morning Commute, where well-known Chicagoans and folks […]

 

IRS To Hire ‘Diversity and Inclusion Specialist’ At $123,758 Salary

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

After repeated scandals, the IRS is looking to hire a new “Diversity and Inclusion Specialist” and is offering a generous $123,758 annual salary plus benefits. The opening was announced on June 11 and will be advertised until June 24. According to the description this “diversity” officer will “serve as a change agent to provide strategies, […]

 

Miss Alabama 2013 Proves American Freedom is Dying

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Mary Margaret McCord, the dull witted “beauty queen” from Alabama, said during the 2013 Miss USA contest that she’d trade freedom and liberty for safety. This empty-headed twit proves that the liberals have won. We have lost our freedom if people care so little about it that they would trade liberty and freedom for government-sponsored […]

 

Washington Post: Eric Holder’s Kind Of An Awesome AG, Isn’t He?

Posted on by William Teach

Unsurprisingly, the authors of the letter to the editor served under Holder Eric Holder has been an excellent attorney general We were disappointed to read David Ignatius’s June 9 op-ed column, “A mediocre attorney general,” purporting to represent the views of a number of unnamed Washington lawyers about Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.’s tenure. […]

 

Sarah Palin Calls Bill Maher Out for Calling Son Trig a ‘Retard’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Sarah Palin is getting back on track as an outspoken commentator on the news and her first step back in the spotlight is to slam so-called comedian Bill Maher for calling her son, Trig, a “retard” in his “comedy” act. Palin has recently re-signed as a Fox News commentator after having let her contract lapse […]

 

Activism, Not Journalism? Radical Filmmaker Laura Poitras Shares Washington Post Byline on NSA Story

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Washington Post recently made waves with a story on the National Security Agency’s domestic data mining project “Prism,” but interestingly one of the co-authors of the article is a radical, left-wing filmmaker who has been a loud critic of U.S. counterterrorism policies. The article, “U.S., British intelligence mining data from nine U.S. Internet companies […]

 

Obama Claims He Doesn’t Want to ‘Tax All Businesses Out of Business’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

During a recent fundraiser, President Obama told an audience that he and the Democrats don’t want to tax all business out of business. He also said he doesn’t believe in “top down” government. The President made these comments at a private residence in Palo Alto, California during a Democratic Senatorial campaign fundraiser in the first […]

 

New Film ‘The Purge’ A Slam on NRA, Tea Party Movement

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The new Ethan Hawke thriller The Purge was number one at the box office during its opening weekend, but critics are slamming the film for its thinly veiled commentary against the National Rifle Association, Sarah Palin, and Tea Party groups. The plot brings moviegoers to the near future where in 2022 a new regime has […]

 

Obama’s Intelligence Agency Looking to Hire ‘Digital Exploitation Specialist’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The National Security Agency (NSA) has been in the spotlight since news broke that the agency has been collecting massive amounts of data from everyday Americans and with some of the worst timing ever, the NSA is now advertising for new employees for positions as “Digital Exploitation Specialists.” According to the NSA job description, the […]

 

Susan Rice Gets Pass While Media Discounted Condi Rice

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Noah Rothman recently did an excellent job detailing what the progressive media said about Condoleeza Rice when George W. Bush appointed her as his Secretary of State in 2005. Rothman noted how the media dismissed Condi Rice as merely a “friend” of Bush and otherwise made it seem as if her appointment was just a […]

 

NYT Changes Editorial to Soften Its Own Criticism of Obama

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

= On the afternoon of June 6, Breitbart correspondent Ben Shapiro marveled at how harshly President Obama was treated in an editorial by The New York Times, but as the day wore on, the paper went back and altered its editorial to soften its own criticism of the President. As Shapiro noted, “Mr. Obama is […]

 

Google Hires Obama’s Campaign E-Team

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The hand-in-hand nature of this White House and some of the nation’s biggest corporations is seen in yet another incident as Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign data team is now moving from team Obama to team Google. This week, Bloomberg reported that Obama’s data mining team, used to such great effect during his 2012 re-election for […]

 

IRS Spent $50 Million in Two Years on ‘Conferences’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A report to be released on Tuesday investigating expenditures by the Internal Revenue Service will reveal that $50 million was lavished on some 220 conferences for employees between 2010 and 2012. In one case alone, the report finds that the IRS spent $4 million on a conference for 2,600 IRS employees held in Anaheim, California […]

 

LET’S ALL SUE THE I.R.S.!

Posted on by Josh Bernstein

Unless you have been living under a rock or in a cave somewhere you have heard all about the I.R.S. scandals. The Internal Revenue Service, or should it be renamed the Internal Rectal Service has been intentionally performing financial colonoscopies on Conservatives from all walks of life for the past few years. The so called […]