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War on Women: Wash. State Dems Take Advantage of Nursing Mother to Rush Vote on Bill

Posted on March 20, 2013 by Warner Todd Huston

In another episode of a political “war on women,” Senate Democrats in Washington State took advantage of the absence of a Republican Senator who briefly stepped off the floor to feed her newborn son–leaving the GOP one vote short of control–to push through a vote on a bill that wasn’t even on the schedule. Of […]

Sources: NRA Won’t Oppose New Background Check Legislation

Posted on March 20, 2013 by Warner Todd Huston

A new reports claims that Senate insiders are saying that the National Rifle Association will not oppose new gun control measures that will require universal background checks on all gun sales, including those between private citizens, but only if certain records keeping requirements are removed. NBC reports that unnamed Senate aides say that the NRA […]

Sen. Feinstein’s Assault Weapons Ban Amendment is DOA

Posted on March 19, 2013 by Matt Vespa

Well, any conservative could have seen this coming, despite the incessant rambling of anti-gun zealots calling for a ban on so-called assault weapons. : The first ban had a de minimis effect on lowering violent crime, and Democrats paid a heavy political price during the ’94 midterms for it. : Now, the: Washington Post’s: Ed O’Keefe: reports today: that this anti-gun […]

Thomas Perez: Another Thumb in America’s Eye

Posted on March 19, 2013 by Dave Blount

If there is one scuttling bug in Washington that causes the skin to crawl even more than the others, it is Thomas Perez of the Department of Social Justice, who has taken a lead role in attempting to reenact the 2008 housing market collapse by forcing banks to make race-based loans (see here and here). […]

Hacker To Distribute Confidential Hillary Clinton Emails On Benghazi

Posted on March 19, 2013 by William Teach

What’s in them? We don’t know yet. Will they be big? That remains to be seen, but why bother if they are tepid and meaningless? (The Smoking Gun) Armed with confidential memos to Hillary Clinton that were stolen from the e-mail account of a former White House aide, a hacker has distributed some of the […]

Harry Reid Drops Scary Looking Gun Ban From Anti-Gun Legislation

Posted on March 19, 2013 by William Teach

You could almost see this coming. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D) is a fan of guns, and also knows that legislation like an assault weapons ban could seriously damage the Dems chances for the 2014 mid-terms for Senate races. And, really, how often did you hear him discuss the ban? Beuller? (Politico) Sen. Dianne […]

ABC’s Latest Misleading Gun Poll

Posted on March 18, 2013 by Warner Todd Huston

ABC has released the results of another gun poll claiming that support for background checks at gun shows has “vast public support.” But neither the poll nor ABC’s report notes that background checks already routinely occur at gun shows. The poll focused on the various gun control bills currently coursing through Congress with one question […]

USDA to Furlough Meat Inspectors While Advertising Food Stamps in Mexico

Posted on March 18, 2013 by Dave Blount

Here is how Wikipedia describes the Washington Monument Syndrome… The Washington Monument syndrome, also known as the Mount Rushmore Syndrome, or the firemen first principle, is a political tactic used in the United States by government agencies when faced with budget cuts. The tactic entails cutting the most visible or appreciated service provided by the […]

NY Times: The Real Spending Problem Is Tax Breaks

Posted on March 17, 2013 by William Teach

Not actual spending, not $16 trillion in debt, not borrowing 43 cents for every federal dollar spent, not wasting taxpayer tax dollars on pork and projects that should be funded by private entities, not hundreds of billions in cost overruns, not the POTUS using up millions to fly across the country to make a 30 […]

CPAC: Folks, Mitt Romney Lost

Posted on March 15, 2013 by Matt Vespa

Mitt Romney addressed CPAC this afternoon, and I did support his candidacy. : After all, he was the only person in our miserable 2012 crop of candidates that had the best chance of winning. : However, his communications team was mostly on defense, his high-tech GOTV ORCA program crashed rendering 30,000 volunteers helpless on Election Day, and […]

Piers Morgan: We All ‘Need The Nanny State Occasionally’

Posted on March 13, 2013March 12, 2013 by Warner Todd Huston

CNN’s Piers Morgan sees no reason why America shouldn’t turn into a nanny state. During his March 11 broadcast, Morgan insisted that, “people need the nanny state occasionally.” With guest Christine Quinn, on his late evening CNN talk show Morgan lamented what he felt was a bad decision by a New York judge who shut […]

Henry Waxman Strikes Again

Posted on March 13, 2013 by Dave Blount

Just as rats will always find something to gnaw on, traitors will always find a way to betray their country. For example, readers will recall that Rep Henry Waxman (D-CA) helped Code Pink provide the insurgents fighting US troops in Fallujah with $600,000 in cash and supplies. Now that Obama has abandoned Iraq to Iranian […]

Obama Trying to Deport Homeschooling Family

Posted on March 12, 2013March 12, 2013 by Warner Todd Huston

In 2010 a federal immigration judge awarded political asylum to a family whose German government was persecuting for having the temerity to homeschool their children. Now, three years later, the Obama administration seems poised to reverse that decision and deport the family back to Germany. Uwe Romeike, his wife, and children were told that they […]

The Blind Leading The Blind

Posted on March 12, 2013March 12, 2013 by Robert Cleveland

It is hard enough to trust politicians as it is, but when it comes to trusting anyone on the Left on the issue of gun control, it seems to become harder and harder every day.: The idea that we should sit by and listen as national or state policy is dictated to us by people […]

NH Dem. Says Gov’t Employees are Like ‘Our Children’

Posted on March 11, 2013 by Warner Todd Huston

The rap on Democrats is that they fully misunderstand what the relationship should be between citizen and government. Many claim Democrats think government should be mommy and daddy to us all. Well, one New Hampshire Democrat revealed that this is exactly what she thinks. At a Belknap County budget meeting in the first week of […]

Democrats Mostly Against Any Obama Grand Bargain

Posted on March 11, 2013 by William Teach

Unless it includes lots of tax increases and sharing the wealth policies (though none of them have been willing to send a check to the IRS themselves) (Politico) President Barack Obama may be thinking about a “grand bargain” to address spending and the federal deficit, but there’s a key constituency he has to persuade to […]

Dear Government: You Can’t MAKE Me Buy A Gun, Either

Posted on March 10, 2013 by Warner Todd Huston

I stand 100% against any government leach or placeman telling me I cannot have a gun. It is unconstitutional and violates my God-given civil rights. But, I am just as much against the same class of people telling me I must own a gun. A town in Maine is the newest town to put in […]

Colorado Dems Pull Two Of The “War On Women” Gun Bills

Posted on March 10, 2013 by William Teach

However, the rest of their anti-personal protection legislation passed in the Senate (Daily Caller) But two of the most contentious bills – one which would ban concealed weapons on college campuses and one that would make owners, sellers and manufacturers of assault-style weapons liable for violent acts committed with the guns – died when their […]

VIDEO: Sen. Dianne Feinstein Lies in Senate Gun-Ban Hearing

Posted on March 9, 2013 by Warner Todd Huston

-By Warner Todd Huston Senator Dianne Feinstein (D, CA) lied outright in a recent hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee as she advocated for her anti-Constitutional gun-ban bill when she said that it is “legal to hunt humans” with large capacity ammunition magazines. This is why Feinstein and all like her are clowns… These anti-American, […]

Berkley Councilman Proposes Taxation on Emails To Save Postal Service

Posted on March 9, 2013 by William Teach

What would you expect from a confirmed Leftist in Berkley? (Huff Post) If the post office is going to go down, perhaps it should at least go down with a fight. Gordon Wozniak, a city councilman in Berkeley, Calif., has proposed an email tax to provide much-needed revenue to the ailing U.S. Postal Service, local […]

Minn. TV News Ignores Facts: Muslims Attacked Christian Church Meeting

Posted on March 8, 2013 by Warner Todd Huston

A Minnesota TV news story perpetrated a perfect example of one-sided “news” coverage especially where it concerns the politically correct treatment of two, innocent, doe-eyed Muslims who, gosh darn it, just want to be loved like you and me. Naturally, the TV station does not report the truth that the two Muslims they laud actually […]

Tom Brokaw: Obama Spends Too Much Time Campaigning

Posted on March 6, 2013 by Warner Todd Huston

Old NBC News hand Tom Brokaw made an appearance on MSNBC’s The Cycle on March 4 and criticized President Obama for campaigning too much instead of governing. Brokaw also castigated Obama for refusing to negotiate with Republicans over the budget impasse and the sequester cuts. Extremely liberal panel member, Touré, asked Brokaw if the budget […]

Dem: No Need For Guns, Just Tell Men Not To Rape

Posted on March 6, 2013 by William Teach

If only there were laws against things like sexual assault, violence, and rape. Why has no one thought to pass laws? (The Blaze) Appearing on Fox News Tuesday night, Democratic Strategist Zerlina Maxwell argued that preventing rape should start by simply “telling men not to rape women.” She was arguing against women using guns as […]

Let’s Keep It Real

Posted on March 6, 2013March 6, 2013 by Robert Cleveland

New projections by the Congressional Budget Office show that this could be a record year for federal tax revenue – according to the CBO, the federal government should be bringing in $2.7 TRILLION this year, an all-time record.: At first blush, one would think this is good news, and a vindication of President Obama’s “balanced […]

Bloomberg Businessweek Apologizes for ‘Racist’ Magazine Cover

Posted on March 5, 2013 by Warner Todd Huston

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s media group has apologized for its February 21 cover of Bloomberg Businessweek over complaints that it used racist imagery to illustrate the feature story on the housing market. With a title of “The Great American Housing Rebound: Flips. No-look bids. 300 percent returns. What could possibly go wrong?,” the cover […]

Colorado Dem To Rape Survivor: Being Raped Is Less Dangerous Than Carrying A Gun

Posted on March 5, 2013 by William Teach

The real war on women (The Blaze) Rape survivor Amanda Collins bravely spoke about her horrific attack during a Monday legislative hearing concerning Colorado’s proposed ban on concealed firearms on college campuses. She explained how she wished she would’ve had a firearm to defend herself from her rapist, which could have possibly prevented the attack […]

Greens Fret Over Obama Admin Keystone Report

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Warner Todd Huston

The State Department has released its much-anticipated report on the environmental impact of the Keystone Pipeline and, to the alarm of the green lobby, it seems to leave President Obama with little reason to continue delaying construction. The 2,000-page report makes no final recommendation on whether or not to approve construction of the energy project, […]

Perino: When Bush Admin Tried to Slam Bob Woodward, The Left Rallied For Him

Posted on March 3, 2013 by Warner Todd Huston

In an appearance on Fox News, former Bush White House Press Secretary Dana Perino noted that when the Bush team tried to push back against Bob Woodward’s reportage it “failed miserably” because the media rallied behind the iconic reporter. Yet now, after harsh words about Obama, Woodward is being treated like a pariah by that […]

Rep. Maxine Waters Inflates Sequester to ‘170 Million’ Jobs Lost

Posted on March 2, 2013 by Warner Todd Huston

Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D, CA) had a dire prediction for America due to sequestration claiming that 170 million jobs would be lost as a result of the policy. But according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics there are only about 140 million jobs in the whole country. During a press conference on February 28, Waters […]

Bashing Benedict: Networks Slam Retiring Pope

Posted on March 1, 2013 by Warner Todd Huston

A new study by the Culture and Media Institute of Pope Benedict’s retirement reveals constant attacks, ridicule, and repeated allusions to scandals as ABC, CBS, and NBC reported on Benedict’s final days. The survey reveals that the Catholic Church was repeatedly deemed “troubled,” the Church was attacked for not “modernizing,” the real-world Church was constantly […]