Category: Crony Capitalism

Global Warming ‘Experts’ Admit: We Lied

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A leaked copy of a UN report on global warming says that scientist’s claims that global warming was going to destroy us were drastically wrong. The Daily Mail reports that in 2007 the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) claimed that the planet was going to rise 0.2 Celsius every decade, a claim that […]

 

President Obama Declares Health Insurance is ‘A Right’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

During his weekly address from August 17, President Obama declared that health insurance isn’t just a privilege–it’s a right. The address, titled “Working to Implement the Affordable Care Act,” featured all the President’s well-worn claims about Obamacare that we are used to hearing. Obama touted the fact that people under 26 can stay on their […]

 

New Obama Rules Will Force ‘Diversity’ on Your Community

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Obama is taking steps to begin to force “diversity” on your neighborhood through new fiat changes to policies of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Many fear this will force lenders right back into the sort of dangerous Democrat-sponsored lending practices that brought us the recent economic collapse. This move corresponds to Obama Executive […]

 

Washington Bridge Collapse Being Used to Push Big Government

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

By all accounts the Interstate 5 bridge collapse in Washington State was a result of an over sized truck load as opposed to “failing infrastructure.” But a plea for greater federal spending figured prominently in many reports on the accident nonetheless. Naturally, many on the left stampeded immediately to decrying “austerity,” or accused the Republicans […]

 

AP: Gosnell’s Gruesome Assistants ‘Only Following Orders’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In shades of the Nuremberg Trials, an April 12 article from the Associated Press seems to excuse away the actions of the assistants of accused criminal abortionist Kermit Gosnell as “only following orders.” For the AP, Maryclaire Dale begins her piece with that very sentiment saying, “They say they were just doing what the boss […]

 

The CA Bill That Would Shut Down Every Small Restaurant

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The State of California has one of the worst proposals of any legislature in the country this year with a new bill that would force every restaurant and food service business in the state to commission an expensive “risk assessment” test for every menu item, a test that could cost thousands of dollars for every […]

 

Supernanny Cass Sunstein’s ‘Friendly Paternalism’: It’s For Your Own Good, America

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Cass Sunsetein, one of President Obama’s leading left-wing, university eggheads, has penned an interesting piece in New Republic explaining how the nanny state is really a very important and useful aspect of today’s modern Democrat scheme. It’s for your own good, don’t you know? Launching his April 8 piece, “Why Paternalism Is Your Friend,” Sunstein […]

 

Quit Laughing, Hillary Really is Just LIke Margaret Thatcher

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

With the passing of Margaret Thatcher, one of the greatest, most powerful women in recent political history, the American Old Media establishment is all abuzz about… Hillary Clinton. To their minds, talk of the powerful and brilliant Thatcher naturally brings to mind the wife of one of their favorite presidents and Hillary, as far as […]

 

Eagle-Killing, Investment-Wasting ‘Renewable’ Energy

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The “Green Energy” sector has been hit with a series of setbacks over the last few years. From a wind farm being cited for killing an endangered eagle, to solar energy’s tumble from investor favor over dismal performance, to a growing list of companies gone bankrupt even after President Obama pumped millions of our tax […]

 

All Other Problems Solved, Chicago Democrats’ New Law Worried About Dogs Behind the Wheel

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Having apparently solved all of the other debilitating problems Illinois is facing, Chicago Democrats have now turned their considered attention to making sure dog owners don’t let their puppies get behind the wheel of an automobile. This important bill (HB1581) amends the Illinois vehicle code to ban drivers from putting their pooch on their laps […]

 

Dismantling Washington

Posted on by Josh Bernstein

Washington, D.C. (which the DC part now stands for dirty cesspool) should become a thing of the past. Society has outgrown the need for a centralized government full of power hungry aristocrats, greedy lobbyists, and corrupt white collar criminals. When I say criminals I am not just talking in the abstract; I am referring to […]

 

Democrats Want Background Checks… Except When They Don’t

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

One of the main discussions in this ginned up, fact-free anti-gun debate coming from the Democrats and their fellow extreme leftists is that they want “universal background checks” for gun purchases. So, “background checks” are a good idea to left-wingers… but in all cases? As it happens, NO is the answer to that. Democrats don’t […]

 

Surprise! FTC Drops Google Anti-Trust Case

Posted on by William Teach

I’m wondering if Liberals and Occupiers will protest against what appears to be yet another Big Company involved in a pay for play scheme to avoid punishment? Anyhow, there are two big stories over at Politico about how Google beat the feds, the first linked by Drudge, more about the nuts and bolts of the […]

 

What Fiscal Cliff? VP Biden, Gov’t Workers Getting Raises

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Imagine you are working for a company that is going bankrupt, but everyone you work with and your bosses are getting pay raises. Seem absurd? Not if you work for the failing federal government because President Obama has happily decreed that Vice President Biden, members of Congress and most federal workers are getting raises for […]

 

Weekly Standard’s Kristol Throws Up Hands, GOP Should ‘Acquiesce’ to Obama

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

-By Warner Todd Huston William Kristol, Editor of the Weekly Standard, seems to have decided that retreat is the way forward for the Republican Party. In a new editorial that approaches a meltdown, the Fox commentator and consummate Washington insider essentially advised the GOP to just throw in the towel on these fiscal cliff talks […]

 

VOTE FRAUD: Vir. Dem’s Field Director Conspires to Commit Voter Fraud, Forge Docs

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Jim Moran is an extremist, liberal Congressman from the state of Virginia and it appears that his campaign office thinks perpetrating vote fraud is a very good idea. So good that Moran’s campaign field director, his son Patrick, conspired with the undercover camera of James O’Keefe to commit vote fraud through forged documents and other […]

 

Softening The Blow: NPR Edits Word ‘Tax’ Out of Democrat Debate Performance

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Voters do not like taxes. So, National Public Radio in New Hampshire seems to have thought it would be nice to help Maggie Hassan, the Democrat candidate for Governor, by doing a little editing work to take the word “tax” out of one of her answers at a recent candidates debate. The radio folks claimed […]

 

Chevy Volt Battery Plant Floundering Despite $151 Million from Obama

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Another in a long list of Obama-touted and tax-supported “green energy” companies is on the verge of going out of business, this time in Michigan. Two years ago, President Obama visited the LG Chem battery plant in Holland, Michigan. Obama then hailed the plant saying, “You are leading the way in showing how manufacturing jobs […]

 

White House: Talk About Anything But Our Record

Posted on by Michael Fell

Ever since the 2009 GM bailout by “progressive” big government ended the pensions of 20,000 retirees at Delphi auto parts manufacturing, the White House and the Department of Treasury have laid the blame on the steps of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. Internal government emails have been obtained that show the U.S. Treasury Department, run […]

 

How Obama Enabled Unscrupulous Banks to Foreclose on Innocent Homeowners

Posted on by Rachel Alexander

The epidemic of home foreclosures has been made far worse than necessary due to the banks’ unwillingness to work with homeowners. Although Congress has passed numerous laws to force the banks to assist homeowners, the banks have found ways not to comply. The banks also brazenly break other laws to further their profits at the […]

 

Government or Business?

Posted on by Michael Fell

A review of history shows that smaller government and lower tax rates consistently prove more fiscally sound and achieve greater success at stimulating economies than do the big government, big spending policies of the current administration and fellow “progressive” Democrats. The White House’s agenda is disastrous for economic growth and stability. Much of what the […]

 

Solyndra Republicans, Why the GOP Cannot be Trusted

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

On Friday, July 20, Politico reported that GOP leadership in the House beat back an attempt by recalcitrant members of their own caucus to continue to quietly support the sort of pork spending that gave us Solyndra in the first place. House GOP leadership has been beating the Democrats up for the pure wasteful spending […]

 

One Way Transparency

Posted on by Michael Fell

White House spokesman Jay Carney dismissed Donald Trump’s position that should today’s Oval Office occupant keeps insisting Mitt Romney release his tax returns; Romney demand that barry soetoro, barrack hussein obama, or whatever his name is first make his college records public information.:  Rather than address the issue at hand, the administration consciously chose to […]

 

Simulus Funded Nevada Geothermal Close To Going Bust

Posted on by William Teach

Back on June 26th, Obama cheerleading The Politico was rating “green” companies that received DOE loans, and determined that Nevada Geothermal Power (NGP) as a “mixed bag” Nevada Geothermal: The company’s Blue Mountain project in northern Nevada received a partial loan guarantee for $98.5 million in 2010. The project is already generating power, but production […]

 

Success! Obama Spent $10B to Create 355 Jobs Per Year

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Well, after the news from the Obama administration of its “highly successful 1603 tax program” the fantastic program that is responsible for successfully creating literally dozens of jobs at a mere cost of 10 billion tax dollars, why, I don’t want to hear you naysayers out there dissing the big guy again! The Washington Free […]

 

Equal Pay? More Like Special Payoffs to Trial Lawyers

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Democrats and left-wing activists have lately been pushing the idea of “equal pay” for women in an attempt to find some issue that would take attention away from the horrible economic record of the Obama administration as the campaign for the White House heats up. But who really benefits from this push? Trial lawyers, of […]

 

Throwing Good Money After Bad

Posted on by Michael Fell

The Labor Department reported that the U.S. economy added 69,000 jobs last month, the lowest number since May of last year. Concurrently, the unemployment rate increased for the first time in eleven months. The “official” jobless rate rose to 8.2%. Additionally, it reported that in the past two months 49,000 fewer jobs were created than […]

 

Too Many Republican Congressmen Giving Unions Free Tax Dollars

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

For such a blue state, Illinois has some rather good Republicans in Congress, but on one issue many of them consistently fail. That is in their unfortunate support for Big Labor. The issue of Project Labor Agreements (PLAs) is a perfect example of this penchant to support issues dear to the hearts of Big Labor. […]