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Obama: The Kingpin of Broken Promises

Posted on August 27, 2011August 27, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

Well, let’s get the ball rolling on another broken promise from The One, Barack Hussein Obama, shall we? I mean, every time we think we are done chronicling his broken promises we have to do a reset. He’s had so many gutter balls on this that it is hard to keep them straight. His record […]

$1.2 Trillion in Secret Loans to Wall Street Crony Capitalists

Posted on August 23, 2011 by Dave Blount

Ask yourself if this is the sort of thing you ever expected to see happen in America: Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke’s unprecedented effort to keep the economy from plunging into depression included lending banks and other companies as much as $1.2 trillion of public money, about the same amount U.S. homeowners currently owe on […]

Get Ready for A Laugh Riot New Obama Movie: ‘Porkulus II, The Next Fail’

Posted on August 22, 2011August 22, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

That’s right, folks, if you thought Porkulus one was a laugh a minute, get ready for “Porkulus II: The Next Fail,” a new flick coming soon from Obama/Alinsky/Marx productions. If you thought the last Porkulus was a failure wait till you see the next one. Click image to see larger version Yes, all your favorites […]

Union Astroturf Pretends Like Tea Partiers to Attack GOP

Posted on August 21, 2011August 23, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

The Hill has an interesting, if not a bit slanted, report about the faux grassroots efforts of unions and left-wing advocates to pretend they are somehow just like the Tea Party by attacking the town hall meetings of various GOP congressman across the country this Summer. The Hill dutifully reports without complaint the union’s claims […]

Big Donor to Democrats Appointed to Obamacare Policy Panel

Posted on August 18, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

We’ve seen it over and over with the Obama administration. All one need do to become a “czar” or get a plum appointment to yet another Obama regulatory board is to donate big money to Obama’s campaigns specifically or the Democrats in general. Now it’s happened again. The Washington Examiner’s Lachlan Markay reports that Judith […]

Another Favored Obama Green Business Goes Bankrupt

Posted on August 16, 2011August 18, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

It seems that the surest way to go bankrupt is to have President Barack Obama use your business as some sort of example of the wonders of his administration and we have yet one more example of that in Evergreen Solar, Inc., the heavily taxpayer funded business that has now closed its doors. In April […]

Rick Perry’s NAFTA Superhighway Problem

Posted on August 12, 2011 by Rachel Alexander

Move over Mitt Romney. Rick Perry has a bigger problem to defend from his tenure as governor. Remember the NAFTA Superhighway project? It was to consist of a two-mile wide $184 billion transit system of toll roads, rail lines and utilities from the Texas-Mexico border all the way up to the Minnesota-Canadian border, to make […]

Before Pipeline Explosion Calif. Utility Spent Millions on Political Campaigning

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

Back in September of 2010, a gas pipeline running underneath the city of San Bruno, California ruptured. The resulting explosion killed eight people. A recently finished investigation has revealed safety and engineering failures at many levels but, sadly, even the state agency charged with investigating seems to be hoping that the failures are hushed up. […]

The Union Job Security Act Equals Endless Road Construction

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Rachel Alexander

Have you noticed how there is more road construction than usual lately, which never seems to end? In some states it has gotten so bad their departments of transportation have set up road closure email alerts on each highway. This is a direct result of President Obama’s stimulus spending. Last summer, Obama proposed spending $50 […]

Virginia Attny Gen to Sue FCC Over Net Neutrality

Posted on June 29, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

Up to this point, the far left has won the war for branding on the issue of Net Neutrality. Even many conservatives and Republicans have been fooled by the “freedom of the Internet” lies that the left has spun with NN. But the Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli of The Commonwealth of Virginia means to change […]

Senator Coburn’s Ahistorical, Unworkable Tax Hike Plans

Posted on June 28, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

Senator Tom Coburn (R, OK) is trying to break heavy with the Tea Partiers — and for that matter his own party — by encouraging Republicans to include massive tax hikes in the on going budget discussions in congress this year. Coburn appears to feel that a tax hike simply must be part of the […]

We Don’t Need an Investor-in-Chief

Posted on June 26, 2011 by Brian Garst

How was anything ever invented before government started “investing” in new technologies? One wonders these things, given the seriousness with which Keynesians seem to believe that if they don’t choose the economic winners and then throw large sums of money at them – other people’s money, of course – then there will be no innovation […]

(VIDEO) Sen. Johnson: Obama and his Administration Have ‘Little Experience in Manufacturing or Business’

Posted on June 24, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

Senator Ron Johnson (R, Wis.) commented in advance of the President’s speech on manufacturing and is here to tell President Obama, “the government doesn’t create jobs, it creates debt and it is the private sector that creates long-term, self-sustaining jobs.” Today the President is traveling to Pittsburgh to talk about manufacturing. As a person who […]

Contrary to Claim, White House Did Control GM’s Daily Business And Cut Workers Pay?

Posted on June 24, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

When Barack Obama threw millions of our tax dollars at General Motors to “save it,” the administration claimed that it would not involve itself in the “day-to-day management” of the venerable car company. New emails obtained by The Daily Caller, however, casts doubt on this claim. In fact, as Matthew Boyle reports, the emails “reveal […]

Homeowners’ Associations Becoming Unavoidable and Quasi-Governmental

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Rachel Alexander

Homeowners’ Associations (“HOAs”) are losing money due to the high numbers of foreclosures and are scrambling to make up for it by assessing additional fees on the remaining homeowners. Banks are taking: longer to foreclose on homes, leaving homes in limbo for months on end with no monthly fees coming in to the HOAs.: 13 percent of […]

Video Interview: Eric O’Keefe and Getting Rid Of Obamacare With The Health Care Compact

Posted on June 21, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

Obamacare will sink this country if it is ever allowed to come into full operation. So says Eric O’Keefe, Chairman of Sam Adams Alliance, a Chicago-based, free market organization, and chief advocate for the Health Care Compact, an effort that can replace Obamacare and give us a truly American way to address our healthcare problems. […]

South Carolina Worker Sues Federal Gov’t Over Possible Loss of His Job

Posted on June 20, 2011June 20, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

Barack Obama’s interference in the business operations of Boeing new Dreamliner manufacturing project will likely cause thousands of workers in South Carolina to lose their jobs. Because of this, one Palmetto State worker is suing the federal government for its part in his probable future job loss. This is a story about Obama’s status as […]

Herman Cain: Obama’s NLRB ‘A Direct Assault on the Free Market System’

Posted on June 16, 2011June 15, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

Presidential candidate Herman Cain (R) recently spoke with FOX Business Network’s (FBN) Neil Cavuto about the dispute between the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and Boeing and its impact on the United States economy. Cain said what the NLRB is trying to do keeping Boeing out of Charleston is “a direct assault on the free […]

Urge Congress to Vote ‘NO’ On Striking $$ Saving Section From Federal Construction Projects Bill

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

Today there may be a vote on striking a section of H.R. 2055 that will insure that federal construction projects for the military are fairly priced and will save money for the taxpayers. Some representatives want this advantageous section struck out and replaced with a union-favoring provision that will cost the tax payers millions and […]

Obama’s Plan To Make Your Electric Bills Jump 60 Percent

Posted on June 12, 2011June 12, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

Only a few days ago I wrote about how Obama’s new EPA rules would force Americans to pay up to 60% more on their electric bills. This weekend, the Chicago Tribune said the same thing. Leading off saying, “Consumers could see their electricity bills jump an estimated 40 to 60 percent in the next few […]

Obama’s New EPA Rules Would Destroy Our Energy Sector

Posted on June 10, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

Half of America’s energy comes from coal-fired power plants but Obama’s new EPA rules would about destroy the coal industry driving our energy costs through the roof. That’s not all they would do, either. Even Paul Bedard of USNews says that Obama’s new EPA rules will “slam the coal industry so hard that hundreds of […]

Healthcare: Let The States Decide

Posted on June 9, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

The debate about healthcare coming from the Democrats is steeped in purposeful misdirection on one hand and a complete lack of any real knowledge about what Obamacare will even do on the other. It is also a major overreach on a federalism level which is why it is hard to understand why more people aren’t […]

Senator Seeking Answers on NLRB’s Attack on Boeing

Posted on June 9, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

Senator Jim DeMint (R, SC) wants some answers as to why Obama’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) thinks it has the power to tell American businesses where they are allowed to build their newest manufacturing facilities. On June 6 Senator DeMint’s office filed a freedom of information request demanding documents connected to the NLRBs decisions […]

Bailouts for Big Business, Bankruptcies for the Middle Class

Posted on June 4, 2011 by Rachel Alexander

While the Obama administration has been busy bailing out irresponsible financial institutions and big business, individual homeowners have been left with little relief, with many forced to file for bankruptcy. About the only relief Obama has doled out for the rest of us is the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP).: Launched in early 2009, it […]

Democrats Plan: Destroy U.S. Healthcare So They Can Re-Build it in Socialist Image

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

Obama and his Democrat pals have been lying to you, America. They do not want to find a cure for America’s obviously ailing healthcare system. They want to erect its headstone. Democrats want to destroy every aspect of our healthcare system. They have to, you see, because if they don’t they cannot rebuild it to […]

Political Corruption: An Illinois Specialty

Posted on May 24, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

In just one more example of the thousands of examples of political graft in Illinois, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that being a board member of the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board is one giant no-show, do-nothing pay off to friends, family, and allies of Illinois’ Democrats. Members make up to $100,000 a year to […]

Hypocrisy: Obama’s Stock And Trade

Posted on May 24, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

Obama’s National Labor Relations Board made itself infamous not long ago by attempting to tell Boeing in what state it was allowed to build a new manufacturing plant. Indulging his penchant toward anti-business, anti-capitalist sentiment Obama decided that he was the final arbiter on where companies were allowed to move and set up shop. Boeing […]

Sen. Dick Durbin Caused ‘Gang of 6’ Talks to Fall Apart

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

From a gang of six to a gang of Dicks, Durbin torpedoes compromise once again The “gang of six” is a group of senators who had taken it upon themselves to come to some sort of agreement over the competing budget ideas between Republicans and Democrats. It was hoped that these six senators could find […]

Newt’s Tuesday Blogger Conference Call

Posted on May 17, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

I just finished with a blogger conference call held by Speaker Gingrich in which he tried to further explain where he stands on Paul Ryan, the budget, and Obamacare. Newt has have been characterized as “trashing Paul Ryan,” and Ryan himself took a swipe at him on a Chicago radio show (Ryan said something like, […]

Another Example of How Ron Paul is Hypocritical on Supposed Fiscal Responsibility

Posted on May 15, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

Ron Paul’s acolytes like to claim that “Doctor” Paul is the only candidate that is serious on fiscal matters, the only candidate that is fiscally conservative, the only one that talks the talk and walks the walk. Too bad this is all BS… and here is yet another example of this fact. T. Boone Pickens […]