Category: Crime

Andy Stern: Union Chief Fleeing Ahead of Illinois Indictment?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Until recently, Andy Stern was the President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), a union that has served as one of President Obama’s biggest donors as well as filling the ranks of his ground troops. In a surprise move, Stern resigned his post this month and no one is really sure why at this […]

 

$338.3 Billion Paid to Service America’s Illegal Aliens

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

My friend Gary Karlin over at the Evanston Conservative blog has spent the last year or so collecting a series of stories detailing the costs of illegal aliens to the United States. With just the 14 news stories he highlights, the cost rings in at a staggering $338.3 Billion in money wasted by government giving […]

 

Policing for Profit – The Abuse of Civil Asset Forfeiture

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A group called the Institute for Justice (http://www.ij.org/) is doing yeoman’s work alerting everyone to the simply un-American powers that police agencies across the country have been afforded by an out-of-control government. Police agencies have been given ever increasing stormtrooper-like powers to steal your property and assets because they merely suspect you might have gotten […]

 

Unions Killing Chicago Convention Biz

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Chicago Tribune has an editorial that shocks for the outrageousness that is the corruption and overcharging that unions have forced upon the convention business at Chicago’s McCormick Place. It is so bad, the costs are so outrageously higher in Chicago, that conventions are fleeing the city in droves (as we’ve discussed here several times). […]

 

Father of Fallen Marine Forced to Pay Creep’s Court Costs

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The creeps at the Westboro Abomination are at it again, this time finding a compliant judge to force the father of a fallen Marine to pay their further court costs from a recent case. On March 6, 2006 Marine Lance Corporal Matthew Snyder of Finksburg, Maryland lost his life in Al Anbar province, Iraq in […]

 

Actress Maria Conchita Alonso Smacks Down Useful Idiot, Sean Penn

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Sean Penn is a bona fide useful idiot, we all know. He doesn’t have two synapses to rub together, it is obvious. Unfortunately, though, his every utterance is reported widely by the star-struck media no matter how stupid he is. Lately his foolishness has turned toward supporting one of the worst dictators in the world, […]

 

FBI Raids On Militias In Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

There’s a Muslim Militia? Mike Lackomar, of Michiganmilitia.com, said both The Southeast Michigan Volunteer Militia and the Michiganmilitia.com were not a part of the raid. Lackomar said he heard from other militia members that the FBI targeted the Hutaree after its members made threats of violence against Islamic organizations. “Last night and into today the […]

 

Government Is Not Our Friend

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Small-government conservatives have always been suspicious of government. Whether city, county, state or federal all government is looked on as a troublesome but necessary evil that must be tightly controlled and oft times opposed. This anti-government attitude, of course, is a complete mystery to socialist Democrats. They just don’t understand why conservatives mistrust government and […]

 

Questions That Answer Themselves: Why Isn’t There An Investigation Of White House Bribery Allegations?

Posted on by John Hawkins

If you want to get an idea of just how corrupt the Democratic Party has gotten, then you need do nothing more than consider this situation: We have a sitting Democratic congressman publicly admitting that he was offered a bribe by the White House and we still can’t get an investigation: Rep. Darrell Issa, the […]

 

ACORN’s Tangled Branches

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

News is all over the country that the often criminal group the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) is dead, folding its tent, kaput. All this is because, as Politico puts it, of a “conservative assault that never prompted any prosecutions.” But let us not get our hopes up that ACORN is defeated. […]

 

Cato Study: Unions Violate Freedom

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Cato Institute has issued its latest Tax and Budget bulletin, this one centered on public-sector unions. The essence of the report is that public employee unions violate freedom, make government more expensive and inefficient, and the incestuous relationship between unions and politicians takes away power from the voters. While labor unions do play a […]

 

As Government Fist Tightens, Philadelphia Degenerates Into Anarchy

Posted on by Dave Blount

Here comes the Hopey Change. In Venezuela, even as Hugo Chavez consolidates totalitarian control over the government, the streets have descended into chaos. That oil-rich country’s socialism-induced decline toward failed state status presages what Hope & Change are inflicting on America. The size and scope of our government are exploding; when the ramifications of the […]

 

Trials for bin Laden? Why?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

There has never been a trial of a fallen national leader that would stand up to the scrutiny of good criminal law. They have always been politically motivated, full of passion, and short on legal niceties or any observation of technical precision. Because of this, should the United States capture Usamma bin Laden, she should […]

 

Lord of the Rings Updated for 2010, The Dark Lord ACORN Lives

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The last book of the famous Lord of the Rings Trilogy is ripe for some updating, so here’s a proposal to that end. The Dark Lord Sauron is a perfect evil villain, of course. He’s shadowy, unseen, hard to grasp, but pervasive and the personification of oppression and evil. But his name needs to be […]

 

Democrat Memo Reveals: Lies, More Lies and Damnable Lies

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

A Democrat memo reveals that the Democrats are intentionally misleading the public on the CBO analysis of Obamacare. While we knew this, this is proof that they know it and are purposefully lying. RedState has the memo, scanned into pdf format. You can find it here. Key excerpt (emphasis by Ed Morrissey at Hot Air) […]

 

Obama Set to Create More Joe Stacks

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Republican members of the House Ways and Means committee today alerted the country to the appalling fact that Obama and his Democrat cohorts will be creating 17,000 new IRS agents with the President’s signing of Obamacare. With animosity against the Internal Revenue Service growing, it seems clear that Obama is creating more Joe Stack […]

 

California’s Brown Tells Unions to ‘Attack’ His GOP Opponent

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

You couldn’t get any better proof that unions are little else but hatchet men for the Democrat Party than Jerry Brown’s recent visit to a labor group meeting in California this week. At a meeting of the Laborers’ International Union of North America in Sacramento, Brown gave marching orders to the unions in his race […]

 

Have You Heard? Clinton Appointed Judge Is Impeached

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Judge G. Thomas Porteous, Jr. was appointed to the federal bench by Bill Clinton in 1994. In March of 2010 he was impeached by the House of Representatives for bribe taking and corruption. I’m just curious, but have you heard this story about this Democrat judge being impeached? On March 11, Porteous, a Clinton appointee […]

 

AP Slips in ‘Poverty’ as Reason For Nigerian Massacres

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

True to its fealty to left-wing, western pop psychology, the Associated Press thinks it knows one of the principle reasons why roving gangs of Muslims are hacking Christians to death and burning their villages to the ground in Nigeria: It’s “poverty.” Liberals that struggle to understand why man is often so cruel to his fellows […]

 

150 Convicted County Officials in Obama’s Chicagoland Area

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Better Government Association (http://www.bettergov.org/), a beleaguered Chicago-based watchdog group that has its work cut out for it, recently released its “Hall of Shame” report that details the nearly 150 county officials that have gone to jail for corruption in Barack Obama’s home county of Cook. And that doesn’t even include the over 100 Chicago […]

 

Deutschland Deja Vu: The Baader Meinhof Complex

Posted on by Ed Driscoll

Watching The Baader Meinhof Complex’s titular Teutonic terrorist gang in action on the small screen, I was struck by déjà vu of it all. A small but growing band of radicals with a penchant for street theater, wishing to smash capitalism and destroy the system from within, led by a fanatical, brawling leader, with at least one articulate well-bred intellectual within the inner circle. Starting off by blowing up small, bourgeois shops. Eventually hooking up with sympathetic allies in the Middle East. Then killing American soldiers. And when finally cornered, going out in a Gotterdammerung of mass suicide rather than face punishment from their captors. That’s never happened in Germany before

 

Dem Leaders Knew of Massa’s Sexual Misconduct, Will Dems Be Held Accountable Like GOP Was Over Mark Foley

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Remember when Florida Congressman Mark Foley was outed for sexual misconduct with male pages in the House of Representatives in 2006? You’ll recall that the Democrats and the Old Media and the left were in some high dudgeon over the claim that Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert knew all about it before the […]

 

NOW is Racist and Sight-ist; Call for Governor Paterson to Resign

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

The increasingly irrelevant National Organization for Women has finally issued a statement regarding New York’s Governor Paterson and his involvement in intimidation and witness tampering. Allegedly. ALBANY, N.Y. – The National Organization for Women on Tuesday urged New York Gov. David Paterson to resign because of a report he directed two staffers to contact a […]

 

Rangel Wrangling

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

Some news outlets are reporting that the ever corrupt Charlie Rangel (D-NY) will be stepping down as chairman of the Ways and Means committee. Just breaking on Twitter, Chuck Todd of MSNBC claims: NBC News has learned Charlie Rangel will voluntarily give up his Ways and Means chairmanship, possibly as early as tonight. MI Dem […]

 

Global Warming Demented Parents Shoot Own Kids, Commit Suicide

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Argentine parents Francisco Lotero, 56, and Miriam Coletti, 23, were so worried about global warming that they decided to kill themselves and their children to avoid the calamity. It is surprising that this is the first suicide pact we’ve heard of connected to globaloney as the way the left carries on about this faux disaster […]

 

Seattle Radio Host Wants to Punch Out Ann Coulter, Octomom, Zach Effron, Others

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Brooke Fox of Seattle’s MOVIN, 92.5 FM radio show “The Ladies Room” wants to know who would be worth risking jail just so you could punch them out. Such violence. Of course, the question is what would have happened if a conservative radio show host had made this Twitter post? On her Twitter feed on […]

 

In Crystal Mangum, Duke Rape Accuser, Leftist Tactics Come Home To Roost

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

Crystal Gale Mangum, progressive heroine and the accuser in the infamous Duke Lacrosse Rape Case, is in the news once again: Durham police arrested Mangum for attempted murder, arson, and identity theft after responding to a domestic disturbance call: Durham police arrested Duke lacrosse accuser Crystal Gale Mangum, 33, late Wednesday after she allegedly assaulted […]

 

Allowing The Feds To Track Your Cell Phone Without A Warrant? Hell, No!

Posted on by John Hawkins

I am sympathetic to police, FBI, and law enforcement in general. Moreover, I think our system is geared too heavily towards protecting the guilty and shielding the innocent. That being said, I think Americans should be concerned about the government using technology to spy on people who haven’t necessarily done anything wrong. That’s one of […]

 

Some Letters Beating Me Up Over My Tea Party Articles

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Well I’ve now written six — this makes seven — articles criticizing certain failures of the Tea Party movement thus far. They are all meant to be constructive criticisms, though, not dismissive nor derogatory of them. It’s measured introspection I employ in each of these articles. No name calling, no laughing, no hate. There is […]