Category: Democrats

An Interesting 10th Amendment Case That Doesn’t Seem Like One

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Sometimes standing up for the Constitution seems a bit annoying, especially in the case of violent felon Mrs. Carol Bond. Fortunately, standing for the Constitution here doesn’t necessarily release a horrible woman into freedom, but it does help to spotlight some unconstitutional federal overreach. In this case, it also centers on the Tenth Amendment, or […]

 

Child Molesting Teacher Can’t Be Fired Thanks to Union

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In 1997 a Brooklyn teacher was accused of attempting to molest a sixth-grade girl at PS 138. As it happened, he admitted the behavior, but no criminal charges were filed when all was said and done. Still one would think the fact that he inappropriately fondled a teen should be enough to get him fired […]

 

Beware When They Say a Government Program Will ‘Make Money’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The New York Times had a small story that it likely thought was just an amusing little tale of a quirky government program from Los Angeles. Centered on the gift shop run by the L.A County Coroner’s Department, the Times indulged such lines as “we’re dying for your business,” and headlined the piece “Dealing in […]

 

President Gets Around Annoying Voters, Instills Death Panels By Regulation

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Some of you may have missed this story since it was published on the day after Christmas (and a Sunday at that), but Obama’s death panels are back, this time via the president’s fiat regulatory powers. Since it was easy to have missed, I’ve decided to post the story today (Monday) so that more people […]

 

Why Won’t MSNBCs Ed Schultz Interview Republicans? Cuz he is ‘Sick of ‘Em,’ of Course

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

t’s funny how lefties always consider themselves the more “logical,” the more civilized,” and more “adult” side of the argument. Why, they just want to have an adult debate to explain how correct their ideas are, right? Well, they might unless they work for MSNBC, apparently. Especially if they’re Ed Schultz. Ed Schultz, you see, […]

 

Snap! The Hill Says Obama And The Democrats Job Creation Policies Rock!

Posted on by William Teach

Vicki Needham is working hard to provide cover for the Obama administration and Congressional Democrats, who just got whacked during the 2010 mid-term Job creation is happening at a faster rate than during previous recessions, more good news for the White House and congressional Democrats who have spent the past two years defending their policies […]

 

Obama’s Mouthpiece? ABC’s Cokie Roberts Says Voters Will Make Republicans Compromise in 2011??

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

ABC News talking head Cokie Roberts was shilling for the Obama administration once again on Good Morning America during an interview with former Clinton operative George Stephanopoulos. She wasn’t just shilling for Obama but tying to mold the news and public opinion to her left-wing druthers instead of giving an honest review of today’s political […]

 

Obama’s Labor Dept. to Force Employers to tell Employees They Have a Right to Unionize

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Obama’s intrusive National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the government regulatory agency responsible for making rules to govern the relationship between employer and employee, has decided that as an employee you are stupid. Worse, the NLRB also decided that it has the power to force your employer to waste its resources holding your hand as an […]

 

Readers Choice of My Top Fifteen Posts (on The Lid) For 2010

Posted on by Jeff Dunetz

Since it the end of the year many of my favorite bloggers are making their choice of their favorite posts of the year. For example John Hawkins posted The 15 Most Popular Political Posts On Linkiest For 2010 and The 20 Most Popular Non-Political Links On Linkiest For 2010 this morning. As I will be […]

 

Merry Christmas from Jerry Brown! More “Green” and Tech Jobs Leave California

Posted on by Jane Jamison

Obviously “encouraged” by all of the incoming governor’s dire warnings about tax increases and budget cuts, more “green jobs” are running for:  the border. Here ‘s the headline in the San Jose Mercury News. “Nordic Windpower leaving California”:  (OH, the irony, it’s a company based in Berserkley, the “mecca” for the enviro-mental faithful.) Nordic Windpower, […]

 

Batman’s Politically Correct European Vacation

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Reality isn’t always very fun, granted. Because of that many people turn to comic books for a little escapism. But there’s escapism and PC indoctrination. Sadly, it appears that DC Comic’s Batman is angling for the latter and not the former. You see, Batman has decided to hire a Muslim to “save France.” First the […]

 

Holiday Reminder: Kwanzaa Was Created by a Rapist and Torturer

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Every year I post a pre-Christmas piece on the farce that is Kwanzaa. This year will be no exception. Note, some of the newspaper articles I quote are several years old so some may no longer be online. Each year, with the onset of Christmas, we are treated to another gauzy, fluff piece about how […]

 

Indiana County Throwing Man off His Own Property For Living in Camper

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A county government in Indiana has decided that a man that is bothering no one, a man living a very simple lifestyle, a man living on his own property must be evicted from it. Why have these jackbooted government thugs decided that this must be done? Because the man has the gall to live so […]

 

Strong Coalition Urges House Republicans to Create Anti-Appropriations Committee

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

President of Americans for Tax Reform (ATR.org), Grover Norquist, wrote about having an “anti-appropriations committee back in June n the American Spectator. Norquist talked of Democrats, Republicans and “the appropriators” in congress and proposed an idea to take the starch out of the appropriator’s assumed sense of entitlement to spend our money with abandon. Hearkening […]

 

With Census Out And Democrat States Losing Badly, Obviously, Moonbats Want “Change”

Posted on by William Teach

By now, you all know about the outcome of the Census, that marvelous job creator of the Stimulus bill…..what, it’s required by the Constitution?……well, anyhow, Dave Weigel has a nice little breakdown of which states lose House seats and which ones gain them. Northern Democrat stronghold seats are the biggest hit, and, let’s not forget […]

 

Arlen Specter’s Sad, Bitter, Goodbye Speech, Reeks of Arrogance

Posted on by Jeff Dunetz

Today Arlen Specter said goodbye to the Senate, and in doing so he showed himself to be a bitter, defeated old man. I suppose such is the fate of political opportunists. Ironically he devoted part of his speech to bashing the “right wing” voters who seek to back candidates whose Conservatism was pure. Specter’s career […]

 

Obama’s Attny Gen. Says Americans More Dangerous Than Al Qaeda

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Eric Holder told ABC News that he has “sleepless nights” over his worry about domestic terrorists. He thinks that Americans, natural born are far more dangerous than foreign terrorists. At some level he has a point, but the way he phrased the whole issue once again proves that neither he, nor his president by extension, […]

 

Obama Tells Labor, I’m On Your Side

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

-By Warner Todd Huston They gave him hundreds of millions of dollars for his campaign for president and for that Barack Obama has given Big Labor many, many payoffs, sweetheart deals, and regulatory favors. And this week he met in the White House with members of Big Labor and told them that he was sill […]

 

Hey, Liberals: Obama Lied to You on ‘Tax Cuts For the Rich’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Byron York assembled a collection of some of the many times that candidate Barack Obama told us he’d “roll back” those Bush tax cuts “for the rich.” Of course, we all know there was never any “tax cuts for the rich,” but from the left’s perspective, Obama has lied to them big time. Will they […]

 

FCC To Vote On Net Neutrality Today, Create Problem Where None Existed

Posted on by William Teach

Liberals blame Bush era policies for the economic mess we’re in right now, as well as a raft of other problems. Conservatives (rightly) blame the economic mess on Democrat policies, and highlight the problems caused by other legislation, such as ObamaCare and the Porkulus. Altogether, though, notice that government tends to create more problems while […]

 

Republicans Block DREAM Act, Another Old Media Lie

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Old Media is up to its old tricks again, this time making the GOP the fall guy for the failure of the latest immigration bill. Nearly every news outlet is reporting that the Republicans have blocked the DREAM Act, many of these reports even say so right in the headline. The truth, however, is […]

 

Obamonomy: Companies Look More Towards Temporary Jobs

Posted on by William Teach

The good news is, there are some jobs out there. The bad news is they are simply temporary/contractor positions Temporary workers are starting to look, well, not so temporary. Despite a surge this year in short-term hiring, many American businesses are still skittish about making those jobs permanent, raising concerns among workers and some labor […]

 

SHOCKING: Soros Funded University Poll Says Fox News Viewers Most ‘Misinformed’ Politically

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A poll conducted by WorldPublicOpinion.org, a “project” run out of the University of Maryland, was the toast of the left-wingers last week for its finding that Fox News viewers were the most “misinformed” during the 2010 election cycle. Sadly, few of the news pieces on this poll mentioned that WorldPublicOpinion.org is funded in part by […]

 

40% of Chicago Public School Teachers Send Own Kids to Private Schools

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Liberals love to claim that the public school system is the shining success story of the American political system. And even when the schools break down in effectiveness, liberals double down on their support for them and insist that we spend ever larger chunks of the taxpayer’s money to “fix” them. Of course, even as […]

 

A Child’s First Book of Government Regulations

Posted on by Doug Ross

The Obama Administration’s Official Alphabet Guide for Learning Government’s Role in Your Life Hi, I’m Omar, the Obama administration’s official kid’s ambassador. Today I’ll be guiding you through some of the many necessary regulations that government imposes on us for our protection — and we’ll learn the alphabet at the same time! A is for […]

 

Democrats Slip Bringing Terrorists to American Prisons into Defense Bill

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Senator Mark Kirk (R, IL) is raising a red flag over the defense bill because the Democrat led House of Representatives and Democrat led Senate has slipped in a provision that would allow accused terrorists to be housed in prisons in the interior of the United States. In an apparent effort to get around the […]

 

Our Idiotic Courts: Car Gets Stolen, Then Owner’s Held Liable For Theft, Also Trees Get ‘Rights’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

All too often it is an upside down world in our American court systems. Here we have two more stories that really argues for the word “impeachment” to get far more of a workout in our nation than it currently does. In one case, a woman whose car was stolen is held liable for the […]

 

Illinois to the Elderly: Retire Somewhere Else, Will Ya? Top Ten Worst States to Retire To

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Guess which state is the single worst state to try and retire in? Yup. Illinois. TopRetirements.com, a site that tracks the best values for retirees, recently posted its top ten worst states to retire to and Barack Obama’s home state of Illinois tops the list of the worst. California comes up a close second worst. […]

 

(Video) I Was a Guest on NRA Radio’s ‘Cam And Company’ Show

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

I was a guest on Cameron Gray’s National Rifle Association radio program “Cam and Company” last night. I was on the program to discuss my article about Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer’s wrong-headed interpretation of the Second Amendment as one that doesn’t really protect the individual’s right to bear arms. My article under discussion was: […]