Category: Democrats

After Millions in Tax Breaks for Hollywood, DreamWorks’ Jeffery Katzenberg Kills 350 Jobs

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Despite some $430 million in tax breaks for Hollywood in last year’s “fiscal cliff” deal, DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg has announced that he is cutting 350 people by the end of the year. After the disappointing box office for DreamWorks’ latest film, The Rise of the Guardians, Katzenberg said that the $165 million loss […]

 

Ana Marie Cox Thinks Breitbart and His ‘Minions’ Are Bad Bad People

Posted on by Matt Vespa

Ana Marie Cox of the: Guardian: isn’t on our team. That’s fine. : However, to label us: the “jackass” wing: of journalism only demonstrates the left’s inability to hold their own side accountable. She seems to feel that all of the criticism she outlines in her piece about conservative media are absent on the left. : This Friday will mark the […]

 

What We Don’t Need

Posted on by Robert Cleveland

One of the most frustrating thing about the current debate on gun control is the obfuscation and lies that are constantly passed around by the Left. The very idea that the Second Amendment might just be about self-defense, home-defense, hunting, and sport shooting is absolutely ludicrous, yet arguments based on this premise are treated as […]

 

Slavery Flap Shows Emory University Professors are Morons

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Earlier this month the President of Emory University wrote a piece for the school magazine about the efficacy of compromise. By the 24th he was forced to apologize for the piece because he mentioned slavery fully in context in his piece. The faux outrage that his comments caused proved three things: that no one at […]

 

Obama Fails to Register ‘OrganizingForAction.net,’ Hilariously, Site Re-Directs to NRA Homepage

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

At the beginning of the year, President Barack Obama’s new 501(c)4 political nonprofit, Organizing For Action, was launched with all the usual bells and whistles. But the tech wizards at OFA forgot one important rule in today’s Internet world: Register all the iterations of your website address before someone else does. Now Obama’s team is […]

 

Chicago Police Chief McCarthy’s Shocking Ignorance of History, the Law, and the U.S. Constitution

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Chicago’s top cop is a shockingly ignorant man. Apparently what he knows of American history, the law, and the U.S. Constitution can be held in a thimble. This became glaringly obvious in a radio interview he gave to WLS Radio’s political reporter Bill Cameron. Chief Garry McCarthy’s blather blather about the Second Amendment is amazing […]

 

Biden: No Law-Abiding Citizen Objects to Attack on Constitution

Posted on by Dave Blount

Even coming from Joe “Heartbeat Away” Biden, this quote is shocking. Emphatically yelled in Danbury, CT last Thursday during a speech advancing the ongoing attack on the Second Amendment: “No law-abiding citizen in the United States of America has any fear that their constitutional rights will be infringed in any way. None. Zero.” Really? Then […]

 

Visual Aid: The Stupidity of What Constitutes an ‘Assault Weapon’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

First of all, there is no such thing as an “assault weapon.” But, despite that fact, when half-wit leftists try to define what an “assault weapon” is, all they really end up doing is describing what such a weapon looks like not what the weapon does. Essentially you get this… Note that the two weapons […]

 

Acorn-Affiliated Blueprint NC Puts A Hit On State’s Republican Leadership

Posted on by Matt Vespa

The war of ideas is alive and well. In North Carolina, it’s taken a vicious turn,with progressives targeting the state’s Republican leadership and Governor Pat McCrory, who was elected in 2012. : Spearheading this effort is a 501 (c)(3) group known as: BluePrint NC, which, according to their website: is a partnership of public policy, advocacy, and […]

 

Gov. Baby-Killer?

Posted on by Matt Vespa

Over the weekend, Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-New York) announced that he plans to relax his state’s abortion law, and allow women to obtain late-term abortions if their health is at stake. : It provides more latitude against the current statute, which says: the only legal justification for a late-term abortion — as: defined by the Supreme Court : — […]

 

Joe Biden Advocates Breaking The Law

Posted on by Matt Vespa

So, the Vice President argued that Americans should break the law in order to ward off would-be attackers. Besides being a spokesman for shotguns, Biden advised to fire warning shots into the air to scare intruders away.:  In a Facebook chat last Tuesday, the Vice President said that he instructed his wife, Jill, to blast […]

 

Michael Bloomberg Scalps Toi Hutchinson In Special Election to Fill Jackson’s Seat

Posted on by Matt Vespa

As Jesse Jackson, Jr. awaits sentencing for misuse of campaign funds, the special election to replace him has seen State Sen. Toi Hutchinson drop out due to her positive ratings from the NRA. : Hutchinson, a Democrat, received an A- rating from the organization, which is anathema to Democratic voters. : Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York […]

 

S.E. Cupp’s Unhelpful Apostasy

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Youthful commentator S.E. Cupp of the lamentable MSNBC recently made some trouble for herself by an ill-considered slam on Rush Limbaugh. Then, she made it worse with a subsequent doubling down on her unhelpful and unnecessary attack. For those unaware, S.E. Cupp is a young, conservative commentator that has been close to Glenn Beck–close as […]

 

Feminist, HuffPo Blogger Naomi Wolf Joining Al Jazeera

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Political consultant, feminist, and Huffington Post blogger Naomi Wolf is in talks to join Al Jazeera, the Qatari-owned news network that purchased Al Gore’s cable network, Current TV. Responding to inquiries, Wolf said the talks are “extremely informal and very, very preliminary.” Wolf currently writes for both the Huffington Post and the UK Guardian and […]

 

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 […]

 

That Ted Cruz Is So Canadian

Posted on by Matt Vespa

As Bryan Preston and Stephen Kruiser: noted: last week, the liberal media has: mounted a campaign: to destroy Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). : He’s a high priority target because he goes against everything the media has said about the Tea Party, and conservatism in general. : For all the talk about the Tea Party’s anti-intellectualism, Cruz received his B.A. at Princeton […]

 

MSNBC: NRA Chief Wayne LaPierre is ‘Afraid of Dark People’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Once again MSNBC has accused the National Rifle Association of being racists. Now host Alex Wagner claimed that NRA chief Wayne LaPierre employed coded racism in a recent op ed he wrote. The day after the President’s State of the Union speech, LaPierre posted an op ed detailing the NRA’s response to Obama’s speech. In […]

 

Sports Illustrated’s ‘Racist’ Swimsuit Issue

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Everything is racist these days. Even the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, apparently. At least that is the latest tempest in a teapot being stirred by our busy race merchants. The website Jezebel is the latest to stir the pot claiming that because SI used locations on all seven continents and featured people in native garb […]

 

Obama Tells Law Abiding Chicagoans They Should Be Further Disarmed Since He Knows What It’s Like To Grow Up On The Mean Streets

Posted on by William Teach

No, really (Politico) President Barack Obama offered a personal reflection on gun violence here Friday, tackling the issue not as a policymaker or parent, but as a black man himself who knew how close he’d come to a very different fate. Obama’s talked frequently about gun violence since the Newtown massacre, but never in these […]

 

NYT Hails Obama’s ‘Signal’ That Era of ‘Single-Minded Deficit-Cutting Should End’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The paltry spending cuts coming out of Congress are no where near enough to balance Washington’s budget, but in his analysis of the President’s State of the Union speech, New York Times writer Mark Landler happily went to pains to note that Obama signaled the end of “the era of single-minded deficit-cutting.” One has to […]

 

NPR Falsely Claims GOP Invented Sequestration

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Ahead of the President’s State of the Union speech, taxpayer funded National Public Radio (NPR) tried to help the White House push the false notion that the sequestration budget cut policy was conceived by the Republicans. In truth, it was initiated by Obama and pushed by the Democrat Party. In order to advertise its coverage, […]

 

My Amazing, Earth-Shattering, Dynamic, Never-Before-Seen Analysis Of The State Of The Union

Posted on by Robert Cleveland

OK, I confess: I didn’t actually watch the speech. I tried, I really did. Well, okay, I didn’t even really try. I did manage to muddle through the first few minutes of the speech as I waited for my wife to get ready to go out to dinner – which basically amounted to waiting until […]