Category: Culture

U.S. News Lumps LaRouchie in With Tea Partiers at IRS Rally

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Lyndon LaRouche and his followers have never been welcomed into the Tea Party movement but his followers shadow nearly every Washington-based protest that occurs, whether left, center, or right. But in its coverage of Wednesday’s D.C.-based IRS rallies, U.S. News featured a follower of LaRouche as if he were a legitimate part of the Tea […]

 

IRS To Hire ‘Diversity and Inclusion Specialist’ At $123,758 Salary

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

After repeated scandals, the IRS is looking to hire a new “Diversity and Inclusion Specialist” and is offering a generous $123,758 annual salary plus benefits. The opening was announced on June 11 and will be advertised until June 24. According to the description this “diversity” officer will “serve as a change agent to provide strategies, […]

 

Activism, Not Journalism? Radical Filmmaker Laura Poitras Shares Washington Post Byline on NSA Story

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Washington Post recently made waves with a story on the National Security Agency’s domestic data mining project “Prism,” but interestingly one of the co-authors of the article is a radical, left-wing filmmaker who has been a loud critic of U.S. counterterrorism policies. The article, “U.S., British intelligence mining data from nine U.S. Internet companies […]

 

Welcome to AMERICAN CULTURE

Posted on by Joe Wurzelbacher

As Americans, it’s fair to say that we find ourselves not just in times of uncertainty, but many of us wake up every day to find a little bit more of our culture, our way of life, perhaps the American Dream itself disappearing before our eyes. There’s no shame in admitting that it’s scary. The […]

 

New Film ‘The Purge’ A Slam on NRA, Tea Party Movement

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The new Ethan Hawke thriller The Purge was number one at the box office during its opening weekend, but critics are slamming the film for its thinly veiled commentary against the National Rifle Association, Sarah Palin, and Tea Party groups. The plot brings moviegoers to the near future where in 2022 a new regime has […]

 

Bikinis Banned From Miss World Pageant to Placate Muslims

Posted on by Dave Blount

What won’t we let them take away? Add bikinis to the long list of things that will not be allowed in an increasingly dhimmified world: Miss World contestants will not wear bikinis when they vie for the pageant’s crown in Indonesia this September to avoid causing offence in the world’s most populous Muslim country. … […]

 

New Organization of Leading Women for Shared Parenting May Finally End Courts Favoring MothersNew Organization of Leading Women for Shared Parenting May Finally End Courts Favoring Mothers

Posted on by Rachel Alexander

A new group is emerging that may finally change the way Family Courts treat mothers and fathers. Currently, the default in most states is to award the lion’s share of the time with the children to mothers, and require the father to pay child support. This is unfair to fathers, and has resulted in massive […]

 

Marshall University Professor Suggests Using Military to Kill NRA Members/Conservatives

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Charlestown Gazette recently published the editorial by a Marshall University professor who advocated using an “M1A Abrams tank, supported by an F22 Raptor squadron with Hellfire missiles” to kill NRA members, Republicans, Conservatives, and those who support the Second Amendment. In an anti-gun piece that could best be described as a foaming-at-the-mouth tirade, Professor […]

 

Soledad O’Brien to Grads: Don’t Take Anyone’s Advice

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Former CNN on-air anchor Soledad O’Brien was chosen by students to deliver Harvard’s 2013 Class Day speech–an address delivered to seniors the day before graduation. O’Brien had two important bits of wisdom to pass on to the graduates: “Most people are idiots” and “don’t take anyone’s advice.” O’Brien said that the “idiots” advice was passed […]

 

Congressmen Urge AG Holder to Grant Asylum to Homeschooling German Family

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A coalition of 27 Congressmen have joined together to sign a letter urging the Department of Justice and Attorney General Eric Holder to rescind an order to deport a German family whose only crime was to homeschool their children. In 2008 German citizen Uwe Romeike, his wife, and five young children fled Germany and took […]

 

Longtime Democrat Consultant: Obama’s White House is Incompetent Like Carter

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Bob Shrum, a longtime Democrat operative, has decided that President Obama’s handling of the White House during this IRS scandal is bad. Maybe not “Nixonian” bad, but is instead a sort of Carteresque incompetence because of the way the President has handled these recent crises. Shrum is a high powered, Democrat operative of the first […]

 

Criminal Unions: The Perfect ‘Government Union Fat Cat’ Story

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Today’s example of why government unions should be outlawed is a union chief who ostensibly “works” for the people of New York. He has a grueling two-hour-a-day “work” schedule and spends that time eating lunch, then sleeping. He’s a real life union fat cat, a perfect example of why government unions should be illegal, and […]

 

Dem. Senator Durbin Not Sure if Bloggers Deserve Constitutional Protection

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In an appearance on Fox News Sunday, senior Illinois Senator, Democrat Dick Durbin, expressed his doubt as to whether bloggers deserved Constitutional protection for their work online. On the May 26 broadcast of the Sunday show, Durbin told host Chris Wallace that he wasn’t sure if bloggers or “someone who is Tweeting” should be given […]

 

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 […]

 

Even New Yorker Sides With Fox on DOJ Attack on James Rosen

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Earlier today it was reported that several Fox News reporters were targeted by the Department of Justice over interaction with an employee(s) at the State Department. In the investigation, Fox News’ James Rosen was fingered by the DOJ not as just a reporter getting “classified” information, but an “aider and abettor and/or co-conspirator.” This is […]

 

Piers Morgan: This IRS Thing is ‘Vaguely Tyrannical Behavior by the Government’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

CNN’s chief anti-gun zealot Piers Morgan may have been loathe to admit it, but this IRS scandal seems to validate some of his detractor’s distrust of government. During his evening show on May 16, Morgan’s guest was magician Penn Jillette and the discussion turned to the admission by the Internal Revenue Service that it had […]

 

Gov’t Obtains Phone Records of 100 Associated Press Reporters

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In the newest overreach perpetrated by the Obama administration, the Associated Press has discovered that some 100 of its Washington-based reporters have had their phone records–both personal and business–secretly obtained by Eric Holder’s Justice Department. The AP reports that the phone records were subpoenaed as a result of a DOJ investigation into who inside the […]

 

Sycophancy: MSNBC Host Grovels for Elizabeth Warren’s Autograph… ON the Air!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

So, much for unbiased, just-the-facts, journalism over at MSNBC. The Last Word host Lawrence O’Donnell was so star struck when Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren came on his show that he stopped everything in order to get her autograph and did so on the air! Like a kid meeting his favorite teen rock star, O’Donnell shoved […]

 

Mom of Son Slain At Benghazi: “I want to wish Hillary a Happy Mother’s Day. She has her child. I don’t have mine because of her.”

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Pat Smith’s son, Sean, was murdered by terrorists in Benghazi, Libya (9/11/12) thanks to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama’s negligence. On Sunday, she has a message for Obama and Hillary. “I want to wish Hillary a Happy Mother’s Day,” Smith said. “She has her child. I don’t have mine because of her.” Mrs. Smith appeared […]

 

3D-Printed Gun Plans Downloaded 100,000 Times in Two Days

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The 3D-printable gun craze is just beginning as the blueprint plans for the new “Liberator” plastic gun were downloaded nearly 100,000 times in just a two-day period this month. Cody Wilson, founder of the 3D-Printed firearm company Defense Distributed, announced the creation of the first fully printable gun on May 3 and in only a […]

 

New ‘Explosives’ License Impinges on Gun Owners that Load Own Ammo

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Before the smoke had cleared after the terror attacks during the Boston Marathon last month, New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg employed Obama’s favorite axiom of never letting a good crisis go to waste by immediately proposing major changes to federal laws pertaining to loose gun powder and explosives. Reports quickly emerged after the bombing that […]

 

Soft Drink Mountain Dew Pulls Ad Over Charges of Racism

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

PepsiCo, Inc, owners of Mountain Dew soda, has pulled an online video ad after viewers complained of its use of racial stereotypes. The ad also seemed to be making light of violence toward women. The video ad begins by showing a police lineup of various thug-like African Americans–among them a goat–and transitions to the other […]

 

Newspaper Union Declares Koch Brothers Unfit to Own Newspapers

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

On the heels of reports that “half” the staffers at the L.A. Times would resign if the paper was sold to conservative billionaires the Koch brothers, the Newspaper Guild—Communications Workers of America, a journalist labor union, have issued a statement declaring the pair unfit to own a newspaper. At the end of April, reports on […]

 

Bloomberg Assembles Leftist Cartoonists to Attack Second Amendment

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is touting his newest effort to cancel the U.S. Constitution and the Second Amendment with a gathering of cartoons by 21 cartoonists who have taken a stand against our Constitutional right to self-protection. As Bloomie has it, they are “the nation’s best loved cartoonists.” But what Bloomberg doesn’t mention is […]

 

Another Example of How Our Miseducation System is Failing Our Kids

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Remember how you were taught in school how to add a series of numbers? Remember how you were told to write each set of numbers on top of each other, to stack them so you could then add them together to get a total? Kids aren’t taught that any more. In fact, the system of […]

 

Reliable Sources: CNN’s Kurtz Faults CNN’s, NBC’s Boston Bombing Coverage

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

On his Sunday broadcast, CNN’s Howard Kurtz was critical of both CNN’s and the rest of the media’s coverage of the quickly moving story of the apprehension of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects on Friday. “What is the rush to put this information that has not been confirmed on the air?” Kurtz asked of his […]