Category: Crony Capitalism

College Course Teaches That Capitalism Should be ‘Overthrown’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A University of Michigan “activism” class is teaching students that capitalism needs to be “overthrown” in order to fix the country. Your education tax dollars at work, folks. The class on “activism”–and how is that a class in the first place?–features a “textbook” called “Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution.” The book is assigned as […]

 

Despite Obama Wasting $39 Billion on Solar Energy, Only .5% of Our Power Comes From Solar

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Despite the fact that Obama has thrown over $39 billion in our tax money at the solar energy industry, America still only gets a tiny .5 percent of its energy from solar. Yet Obama wants to keep throwing billions more of our tax dollars at this non-existent energy source. As Obama and his minions spend […]

 

VIDEO: Gallup CEO Says He Might ‘Suddenly Disappear’ For Telling the Truth About Obama’s Failed Economic Recovery

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Jim Clifton, head of the Gallup Organization, and Diane Swonk, Mesirow Financial, recently appeared on CNBC to discuss the unemployment rate and outlook for U.S. jobs. But Clifton has become known, now, for pointing out that Obama has lied terribly about his unemployment figures. And now it seems that Mr. Clifton is worried that he […]

 

Nanny Statists Give Cultural Conservatives A Bad Name

Posted on by Counter Cultured

by Anna Maria Hoffman and Gabriella Hoffman  Big government sadly pervades our country today. Whether it’s the marriage of big business and government or the union of nanny statism and Cultural Marxism (political correctness), big government policies adversely affect people on the cultural and economic fronts. Though we are inclined to criticize and condemn the […]

 

The Trans Pacific Partnership: The most DANGEROUS legislation you never heard of…until now

Posted on by Josh Bernstein

Forget about Executive Amnesty for a moment. Forget about repealing The Unaffordable Careless Act. Forget about who is going to run or not run for President. None of the above is of any importance if God for bid Barack Obama gets “Trade Promotion Authority” or what is known as “Fast Track.” So what could be […]

 

VIDEO: Former White House Space Agency Advisor: Climate Change ‘Greatest Scientific Fraud in History’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A former White House advisor has taken the brave step of coming forward to affirm that global warming–of as they are calling it this month, “climate change”–is the “greatest scientific fraud in history.” The man saying this is John Casey, a former White House space program advisor and current president of the Space and Science […]

 

Operation Remove Speaker Boehner

Posted on by Josh Bernstein

Mr. Speaker, Here we are again. Maybe you remember me. I am the Conservative Talk Show Host Josh Bernstein who over the summer due to your weakness and ineptitude instructed listeners and followers of my top rated show to send you some balls. I am sad to say that apparently you did not receive enough […]

 

Warren Buffett Tries to Keep Secret How Many Birds His Wind Turbines Kill

Posted on by Dave Blount

The zillionaire Obama supporter Warren Buffett is the quintessential crony capitalist. It should surprise no one that he is invested in green energy, the quintessential crony capitalist boondoggle. Apparently Buffett has been falling behind on his donations to the Democrat Party: Pacificorp — an energy company owned by Warren Buffett’s holding company, Berkshire Hathaway — […]

 

Taxpayers Lose $23.5 Million to Pay IRS Union Members to Do Union Business On The Clock

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Here is a perfect example of why unions should be outlawed for all government workers. And I do mean all government workers. A new study finds that we, the American taxpayer, are ripped off to the tune of $23.5 million a year in tax money that goes to pay IRS union members to do union […]

 

Berkeley Pays Clinton Pal $240K a Year to ‘Teach’ About ‘Income Inequality’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The University of California-Berkeley is paying long-time Clinton apologist Robert Reich $240,000 a year to teach one little class about so-called “income inequality.” (Reich also makes $100,000 per speech.) I guess it could be a direct, object lesson, right? I mean, here is a guy who does practically nothing yet he makes $240K a year […]

 

Public Utility Attempting to Buy Arizona Elections

Posted on by Rachel Alexander

What’s happening in Arizona right now is sufficient to make every conservative shudder. : And I’m not talking about the border crisis. I am talking about the state’s largest regulated utility, Arizona Public Service (APS). APS is literally attempting to purchase its regulators in the state’s August 26thRepublican primary (early ballots go out this week). If […]

 

Obama Thinks You’re too Stupid to Pick Good Food, Wants ‘Talking Shopping Cart’ to Guide You

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

So, you are just a lowly, stupid American that needs Obama to guide you in all aspects of your life. In fact, you are so stupid you don’t know how to pick the “right” foods, so The One wants you to use his “talking shopping cart” in the grocery store, a device that will “congratulate” […]

 

VA Whistleblower: ‘They Had Us Stop Work Processing Vets Applications’ for ‘Obamacare Enrollment’, Complaint Was Leaked to His Boss by WH in Retaliation

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A whistleblower who was trying to help save the lives of our veterans at the Veterans Administration hospitals guilty of leaving many soldiers to die was tattled on by a White House eager to silence the warnings (and snuff out the careers) of these whistleblowers. Last week VA whistleblower Scott Davis was on with Niel […]

 

SCOTUS Unanimously Slaps Down Obama on Recess Appointments

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

This one is pretty amazing. The US Supreme Court has delivered a unanimous slap to the President saying that his recess appointments were illicit. Even the court’s liberals said Obama was wrong on this. If you are out of the loop, here is what happened: Obama wanted to make some extremely partisan appointments to the […]

 

The University of Chicago Needs Some Occupy Wall Street

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

If you’ll recall, the brief but noisy Occupy Wall street movement was all about protesting the “One Percent,” those evil rich folks that apparently return nothing to the nation. Well a look at the compensation of those at the University of Chicago in President Obama’s home city shows that the Occupy folks were protesting the […]

 

Illinois Ranks as ‘Worst’ For Small Businesses

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Once again Illinois and California are neck-and-neck in the calculations for the worst of the worst U.S. states, this time in a measure of how friendly the states are for the growth of small businesses. Earlier this month thumbtack.com released its third annual survey of the climate for small businesses exploring such ratings as the […]

 

Income Inequality FAR Worse in Liberal States Where Socialist Policies Reign

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The left’s latest, most favorite drum to beat is “income inequality” where they whine that the rich are too rich and the poor are barred by conservative policies from ever being able to catch up in pay. But it turns out that liberal states have worse income inequality than red states. Richard K. Vedder and […]

 

Under Obamacare, Healthcare Costs Soar & Obama’s $40 Million Vacation Tab

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Remember how our liar in chief said that under his all powerful Obamacare law medical costs would go down? That apparently was the next lie of the year after his lie that we could all keep our doctors and insurance if we liked it as spending on healthcare exploded in the first Obamacare quarter and […]

 

Obama Forcing the Closure of Fast Food Outlets on Military Bases

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Four restaurants, three of which are McDonald’s, have closed down on several military bases and a host of other outlets, like Pizza Huts, are also saying they will soon be closing their shops. These closures will seriously damage the quality of life for our soldiers on our military bases and it is all thanks to […]

 

Obama Library Starts Off With $100 Million in Corruption in Chicago

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Why is it not a surprise that the first moves to make Chicago the home of the Barack Hussein Obama Presidential Library are born in corruption? But I suppose it is a fitting way to start a library for one of the biggest failure and most corrupt politicians ever to sit in the White House. […]

 

Poll: Even People in Illinois Say Illinois Worst State to Live In

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Now, usually when a state is dissed it is dissed by people from outside the state. With the usual hometown bravado, and all, denizens of a state used to stick up for their own in the face of criticism. But a new poll finds that Illinois is so bad, even people that live there say […]

 

Western States Finally Standing Up to Rapacious Federal Gov’t

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Federal government is quickly becoming an enemy to the people. One more example of that is its theft of land. We recently saw an example of this in Nevada with Obama’s Bureau of Land Management attempting to destroy the livelihood of a Nevada rancher by stealing his cattle–and killing them–and sending hundreds of SWAT […]

 

Chicago Math: Three is Only Two

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

On WLS AM 89 radio in Chicago political reporter Bill Cameron featured an interview with Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel that shows just why math is soooooo darn hard for politicians. The interview was about Rahm trying to get hundreds of millions of our tax dollars to be set aside and wasted–er, bestowed–on a presidential library […]

 

Harry Reid Claims Those Who Say Obamacare Costs Them More Are Liars

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

From the floor of the Senate, Democrat Majority Leader Harry Reid has stated that all those thousands of Americans that have reported that Obamacare is driving up their costs, not reducing them, and that Obamacare is a “horror story” are simply lying. Yes, Harry Reid just called thousands of Americans liars. During remarks he made […]

 

Dodd-Frank: Making it Harder For You to Get a Mortgage

Posted on by Rachel Alexander

The Dodd—Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, sarcastically known as Dodd-Frankery and Dodd-Frankenstein, was passed into law in response to the financial crisis and recession of 2008. It contains the most drastic changes to financial regulations since the regulatory reform after the Great Depression. Proposed by Obama in 2009 and signed into law […]

 

Solar Industry Takes on Crony Capitalism in Arizona

Posted on by Rachel Alexander

A heated battle is taking place in Arizona between the fledgling solar industry and APS, the : state’s largest energy company, which enjoys a state-granted near-monopoly over energy. In sunny Arizona, it is peculiar that solar energy is being portrayed as the bad guy. Since Arizona is a Republican-dominated state, APS is sneakily buying up influential […]

 

Humanities Classes Falling Out of Favor is Higher Education’s Own Fault

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In The New York Times Tamar Lewin laments the slow death of the humanities in our system of higher learning. She notes that the humanities are going by the wayside with fewer students signing up for such courses every year. But Lewin gets the reason completely wrong. She blames the recession but in fact it […]