Category: Corruption

Rancho Cordova Blast Fine Too Low to Assure Future Public Safety

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In 2008 a pipeline operated by Pacific Gas & Electric exploded destroying several homes and killing 72-year-old Wilbert Paana. Since that time authorities have been attempting to determine what sort of fines PG&E should face for its negligence. Recently administrative law judge John Wong proposed that a fine of $38 million — and an end […]

 

ENOUGH of GOP ‘Debates’ Where Mediots Show Us How Tough They Are

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In the upcoming Republican primary I am not voting for Brian Williams, Brett Baier, Scott Pelly, Wolf Blitzer or any other member of the Old Media. I am trying to figure out which Republican nominee for president I might want to support. So why has every so-called debate featured mediots trying to prove to their […]

 

‘Swag Industry’ Whines About Obama Cutoff

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Warning, here you will see me praise President Barack Obama. Last week the President issued a directive for his various agencies to cut down department spending and one of those ways he targeted to achieve that was to cut out “swag” — items such as coffee mugs, pens, or other items with department logos that […]

 

Coke Heads Protest Koch Heads at Blogcon 2011

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Well, here we are we conservative bloggers gathered together at Blogcon 2011 (sponsored by Freedom Works) in downtown Denver, Colorado and what do we find? You guessed it, the Occupy-Whatevers, ever present Guy Fawkes masks in hand, came to disrupt our little conference. Just after 3PM the Occupiers tried to Occupy Blogcon yelling out epithets […]

 

NYPD Police Union: Another Example of Why Public Employee Unions Need to be Outlawed

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Last week 16 dirty New York cops went on trial for all sorts of criminal behavior. From dealing drugs, to assault and grand larceny, and “unrelated corruption,” these cops are proving to be some very crooked characters. But fellow officers don’t care about that. They have ginned themselves up to act like the punks and […]

 

An Example of Why Radio Host Michael Medved is No Conservative

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Michael Medved is touted as a “conservative” radio host from the Salem Radio Network. But just how conservative is he? One has to wonder with his constant dismissive attacks against any and every conservative politician. But this week he revealed another reason why he is less conservative than he pretends. Medved started his political life […]

 

An Open Letter To “progressive” Politicians

Posted on by Michael Fell

Families in America must live within their means, and it’s time for the United States federal government to do the same. Don’t tell me it can’t be done. Since I lost my last full time job back in 2008, I’ve been able to make ends meet with less than half my previous income while simultaneously […]

 

A Proposal on Personhood

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Yesterday a measure failed in the Mississippi elections. The measure would have declared that life begins at conception and therefore what liberals like to call an “unviable tissue mass” deserves to have the rights of a human being. I agree to a small degree that if the measure would have passed that a whole lot […]

 

Ripping Off California at the Speed of High Speed Rail

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

One of President Obama’s favorite go-to items to “stimulate” the economy is building new rail lines, especially high-speed rail. Many states have been smart enough to cancel the high-speed rail projects, but oh, not California. California’s project rolls inexorably onward. Still, California does help show the rest of the country why high-speed rail is a […]

 

Defeat of OH Issue 2 Means $1,468 More Per Taxpayer By 2015

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Matt Mayer of the Buckeye Institute has done the math on what a defeat of Issue 2 will cost Ohio’s taxpayers. Turns out it will cost taxpayers $1,468 more a year by 2015. Mayer made a simple calculation by taking the $8 billion tax hike that a defeat of Issue 2 will usher in by […]

 

Abe Lincoln and His Convicted Felon Pal, Bill Cellini?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Corruption in Illinois strikes again. This is the kind of nonsense that we get with political influence peddling and corruption. A painting that now hangs in the new Lincoln library and museum in our state capitol has a ridiculous tie to long-time Springfield corruption king Bill Cellini, who was just last week convicted on charges […]

 

One Chance That a President Mitt Romney Wouldn’t Be So Bad

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

I cannot support Mitt Romney in this coming GOP primary. The one reason why can be summed up simply as this: he flip flops. Romney has more flip flops than a California beachfront. Mitt has been proven a man without anchor adrift in a sea of issues that push him and pull him with the […]

 

Death By Regulations: Has Obama Lost Senator Blanche Lincoln?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Last year for the 2010 midterms Arkansas Senator Blanche Lincoln was in trouble with her reelection. Up until 2010 most felt her seat was a safe one but Democrat challengers pushed the sitting Senator to a runoff that she barely won. 55% of her constituents opposed her. Lincoln welcomed the support of President Obama who […]

 

Occupy LA Video: ‘Get Rid of America and Everything it Stands For’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Occupy Whatever movement — if it can be called a movement — is at its heart a hate-America movement. With each new video we see this more and more and this cretin at Occupy Los Angeles is just one more example. An avowed communist, like so many of these people are, he feels that […]

 

Reject the Occupy Wall Street Haters!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

-By Warner Todd Huston As each day passes we see more of the violence, theft, property destruction and anti-Semitism of these Occupy-Whatevers. We are learning that these Occupy events are run by ACORN, big labor and various anti-American groups such as communists, socialists, and what have you. Worse there are instances of rape going on […]

 

Ballot Measure Boondoggle – High Speed Rail Costs Balloon to $100 Billion

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

By Steve Maggi Nearly $100 billion. That’s what High Speed Rail is now going to cost California taxpayers — more than double the costs initially promised by the proponents of Prop 1A, which contained the initial taxpayer financing for the project. 2033. That’s when the HSR project is now expected to be completed — 13 […]

 

Gov. Quinn Appoints Muslim Linked to Terror Groups to State Advisory Council

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

-By Warner Todd Huston Recently Illinois Governor Pat Quinn announced the formation of the Illinois Muslim American Advisory Council, a group that will somehow “ensure” that Muslim American concerns are taken into account in state government. Among those appointed by the Governor to this board is ISNA Secretary-General Safaa Zarzour, a man who has been […]

 

Help Stop The High Cost of Federal Regulations

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

One of the reasons that our economic recovery has been so slow is that the Obama administration has opened a continuous avalanche of regulations affecting jobs, hampering businesses, and costing all of us billions in lost revenue, taxation, and waste. But there is a bill in the House called the REINS Act that could help […]

 

Obama’s Regulations So Far Cost Us $84.8 Billion And Climbing Weekly

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

There is a lot of talk about the high cost of regulations (in fact, a lot of talk from me about them). But how do you put a number on that cost? Well Sam Batkins of the American Action Forum has been keeping a running tab not only on the high cost of the regulations […]

 

Vanity Fair Compares Herman Cain to ‘Sociopathic’ Movie Character

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Juli Weiner of Vanity Fair may have thought she was being “clever” with her Nov. 1 blog post, but instead she looks by turns blindly partisan, foolish, ignorant of facts, childish, and lacking even a tiny bit of knowledge about men’s headwear when she compared Herman Cain to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff as well a […]

 

VIDEO: Pelosi: Boeing Plant Should Unionize or be Shut Down

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The now thankfully former Speaker of the House Nancy “San Fran Nan” Pelosi said in a recent interview that a Boeing plant in South Carolina should either unionize or be shut down by the iron fist of government. So much for America being the land of the free, eh? Pelosi appeared on CNBC with hostette […]

 

Let the Children Vote? What Lunacy From Think Progress?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Matt Yglesias of Think Progress apparently feels it’s a good idea for kids to vote in U.S. elections. No, not just 18-year-old kids. All kids regardless of age. It is ideas impossible to take seriously like this that makes one wonder why liberals are ever listened to about anything by anyone. I have to say, […]

 

Illinois Government’s War Against Religious Child Services Continues

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Earlier this year the State of Illinois moved to force religious-based children’s services to break their religious principles and give children in their charge to homosexual couples. Organizations such as Catholic Charities have been told by the state that they either break their religious principles or face being shut down by the state. So, pursuant […]

 

Alter: Obama is ‘Honest’ and ‘Free of Scandal’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

When does a columnist write something so utterly absurd that his credibility is forever damaged? I am not sure how to answer that in general terms, but I think at least one journalist answered the question for his own, now thoroughly destroyed veracity. Jonathan Alter of Bloomberg has written one of the most ridiculous, least […]

 

Atheists Lie And Do So On a Billboard!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Talk about making a mistake everyone can see! Atheists in California have done a disservice to their own crusade to spread atheism by launching a new billboard campaign that ascribes a false quote to Thomas Jefferson. That’s right, they’ve essentially become liars for atheism. In Costa Mesa, California a group of atheists calling themselves Backyard […]

 

Ill. Policy Institute CEO John Tillman Rebuts Critiques of His Op Ed

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Last week I wrote a piece expressing my dismay at an op ed written by John Tillman, CEO of the excellent Illinois Policy Institute. In his piece he claimed there was common ground between the “Occupy” folks and the Tea Party. I wholly disagreed with that. Mr. Tillman has written a follow up that he […]

 

Occupy Wall Street Kitchen Staff Tired of ‘Freeloaders’?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Apparently some of the folks slaving away to cook politically correct meals for the participants of Occupy Wall Street are sick and tired of working themselves to the bone for homeless people, criminals, and other freeloaders who are eating their food. This is called being mugged by reality. It is also pretty darn funny. The […]

 

VIDEO: Walker’s Wisc. Union Reforms Are Working! (A Lesson for all Blue States)

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Governor Scott Walker was the worst devil the unions could imagine. They targeted him and Wisconsin’s Republicans mercilessly earlier this year. Fortunately, the unions and their Democrat handmaidens lost most of these battles. But now some results are being seem from the efforts to curtail the un-democratic, unearned power of Wisconsin’s government employee unions. A […]

 

Ill. Policy Institute CEO Tillman Is Just Plain Wrong About ‘Occupy’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

John Tillman, CEO of the Illinois Policy Institute, penned an op ed in the Chicago Tribune touting what he claims is the common ground between conservatives and the Occupy Wall Street leftists who have trickled into the streets across the country. I hate to say it, but his op ed was puzzling and its base […]