Category: Democrats

CNN Takes A Stab At Why There’s Really No Job Recovery

Posted on by William Teach

Surprisingly, Bush was not mentioned. Instead, they find a different villain The problem with bringing down the stubbornly high unemployment rate is that employers are learning to do more with less. Employers still aren’t hiring enough. Just look at November’s disappointing employment report, which barely eked out a gain in jobs. Or better yet, look […]

 

Lame Duck Threat to Bailout Union Pensions

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Connie Hair has an informative piece at Human Events about what Democrats are hoping to do in the next few weeks in this lame duck session by pushing another big union bailout. In October, Sen. Tom Harkin (D, Iowa) heard witnesses advancing the “Guaranteed Retirement Account” (GRA) idea authored by left-wing activist and purported “labor […]

 

The Con in Cancun: UN Climate Change Summit Update

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

I am here in Cancun, Mexico investigating the U.N. Climate Change Conference to see what sort of wonderful solutions to save our very planet are being planned for all of us here in sunny Mexico. It’s always nice that we can come to save the planet… at a nice resort hotel complex… on a beach… […]

 

Why has Media Not Played up Republicans Taking Obama’s Senate Seat?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Wouldn’t you think it would be a big deal if a Republican president lost his senate seat to a Democrat only 2 short years after he was elected to the highest office in the land? I mean, don’t you think the media would think that a Republican president losing his own former office to the […]

 

Expensive, Stupid Public Transit Tricks: San Francisco’s “MUNI”

Posted on by Jane Jamison

San Francisco city government is totally, utterly out of control.:  Shame on California voters for rewarding the dippity-do mayor Gavin Newsom with the Peter Principle promotion to lieutenant governor.:  Newsom’s absentee leadership while campaigning continuously leaves behind a city mired in half a billion in red ink.:  The failure to deal effectively with the city’s […]

 

More Palin Bashing: How CNN Misleads With Headlines

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

CNN indulged a classic left media tactic by misleading with a headline in a recent piece on former Governor Sarah Palin. The headline, if read by itself, seems to be saying that Sarah Palin delivered a “gaffe-filled message,” when the truth is that her message talked about gaffes, but wasn’t “filled” with them per se. […]

 

UN Climate Summit: The Con in Cancun

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In but a few hours I’ll be headed to Chicago’s O’Hare airport to wing my way to sunny Cancun to do a few days reporting on the U.N. Climate Change Summit. As is my luck in life, sunny Cancun will be rainy Cancun if the weatherman is to be believed. Of course, weather reports aren’t […]

 

New Hawaii Government Transparency Website Debuts

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Grassroot Institute of Hawaii is starting a new effort to spotlight wasteful government spending in the Aloha State and one of the central parts of this program is a new website that the group promises will, “revolutionize government accountability in Hawaii by revealing waste, fraud, and abuse of taxpayer dollars at the state and […]

 

Now That He’s Won, Reid’s Paying Back Unions

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Harry Reid survived his brush with electoral death winning yet another term as Nevada’s Senator. Reid knows what side of his bread is buttered, too. Big Labor gave him millions in campaign donations and Reid knows who he owes — or rather who owns him. Now that he’s fairly won he’s promising his patrons in […]

 

Teachers Union’s BIG Break: Obama Let’s Them Get Out of Obamacare

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

As the list was revealed of 111 corporations and unions that got a free pass to get out of having to suffer under Obamacare given them by their bought-and-paid-for president, we see that the teachers really got a break. With over 350,000 members, the United Federation of Teachers is one of the largest organizations on […]

 

Obamacare Forces Union to Drop Insurance for 6,000 Children

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Remember how Obama said that if you liked your healthcare plan you could keep it? Apparently someone forgot to tell the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) in New York because they’ve announced that Obamacare is forcing them to drop coverage for the children of its 30,000 low-wage members. The union will be dropping coverage for […]

 

Terrorism, Sure. Oh, but it’s ‘Not a Conspiracy’!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

How many terror attacks or attempted terror attacks have occurred on U.S. soil since 9/11? Five? Six? Ten? According to our government each and every one of these attacks, whether failed or not, have had one thing in common: “they are not part of a conspiracy.” Clearly, however, our officials are lying to us on […]

 

Illegal Alien’s Bill of Rights

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

President Barack Obama will soon introduce the Undocumented Resident’s Affirmative Toleration Act (URAT) in order to protect those unfortunate minorities that didn’t win life’s lottery by being born in the U.S.A. President Obama’s compassion for these downtrodden and oppressed peoples is well known, but he wants particular attention paid to those human beings that white […]

 

Union Outed Whitman’s Maid Story in CA Gubernatorial Election

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Meg Whitman’s race for Governor of California seemed to take a nose dive right after it was discovered late in the campaign that she had employed a maid that was an illegal alien. The San Francisco Chronicle reports on the “tantalizing mystery” of just who it was that launched this torpedo at the Whitman campaign. […]

 

Obama’s Government Denying Tax Status Based on Pro-Israeli Support?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A pro-Israel education group called Z Street is claiming that Obama’s IRS has violated its Constitutional rights by denying it tax exempt status solely because it supports Israel, support that apparently runs counter to Obama’s stance on Israel. Z Street reports that Obama’s IRS asked a telling question of the group as it sought the […]

 

Hollywood Lunatics and Other Stories

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It’s a holiday and some might say we should be charitable to the unfortunate. By unfortunate usually they mean those that don’t have as much as you and I. But one might construe “unfortunate” to mean being gut wrenchingly stupid, too. And when one thinks of the gut wrenchingly stupid one often thinks of the […]

 

Obama’s Labor Dept. To Create Gov’t Sponsored ‘Labor News’ Agency?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

What is it called when a government creates a state-sponsored “news” agency, again? Ah yes, it’s called government propaganda. And that is what the Obama administration seems interested in creating if the words of Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis’s senior advisor Carl Fillichio can be believed. On Nov. 19 Fillichio attended the annual meeting of […]

 

All Those Anti-Muslim Hate Crimes in the U.S. Aren’t Happening

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Apparently there is an awful lot of “anti-Muslim hate” going on in this post 9/11 America. At least that’s what the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) gravely tells us each and every day. Just look at all this anti-Islamic bigotry going on out there: In May, CAIR demanded that the GOP refudiate all that “racist,” […]

 

Teacher Union Chief: Big Boss, Big Hypocrite

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

What was it that our apologizer in chief and his minions have told us? Wasn’t it that we all have to sacrifice because the U.S. is less than she used to be? Well American Federation of Teachers union chief, Rhonda “Randi” Weingarten, says phooey on that. Sacrifice if for the unwashed masses, not her. Weingarten […]

 

How The Old Media Constantly Undermines Sarah Palin

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Most media-watching conservatives have simply been flabbergasted at how the Old Media establishment has so neatly come together to destroy Sarah Palin. The Internet has been abuzz with examples of this attack on Sarah since she was chosen by John McCain to be her number two during the campaign for the 2008 presidential election. Every […]

 

If You Got Cancer From Smoking, That’s YOUR Problem

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The government’s newest great idea to save us all from ourselves is to put billboard sized photos of cancer victims on packs of cigarettes. Big pictures of guys with holes in their necks, lungs blackened, maybe even the occasional really yellow teeth, or perhaps the severely calloused thumb of a smoker who was constantly flicking […]

 

Unions Fighting Over 2012 Democrat Convention

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Cleveland, Ohio chapter of the AFL-CIO is mad. After Cleveland was chosen as the host city for the 2012 Democrat Party convention some carped that Cleveland was not sufficiently unionized to qualify as the right place for the Democrats to hold their event. Cleveland’s AFL-CIO, however, begs to differ. The AFL-CIO was so incensed […]

 

Oh, Snap! ObamaCare Could Reduce Competition And Raise Costs (Part 2,467)

Posted on by William Teach

Seriously, who could have foreseen this coming? When Congress passed the health care law, it envisioned doctors and hospitals joining forces, coordinating care and holding down costs, with the prospect of earning government bonuses for controlling costs. And they would all join hands, sing kumbaya, and have a unicorn smoothie (Coke will soon be taxed […]

 

Make your check payable to “Bureau of the Public Debt” and STFU about raising taxes

Posted on by Chris Wysocki

This kind of stuff cracks me up. Millionaires to Obama: Tax us more! More than 40 of the nation’s millionaires have joined Patriotic Millionaires for Fiscal Strength to ask President Obama to discontinue the tax breaks established for them during the Bush administration. “For the fiscal health of our nation and the well-being of our […]

 

Video: CEI’s Vincent Vernuccio on Where Union Dues Go

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Vincent Vernuccio of the Competitive Enterprise Institute appeared on Fox Business Channel’s “Follow the Money” show and talked a little bit about where the dues that union members pay goes. Fox Business only gave a snippet of the video that CEI made so here is the full video.

 

COICA Bill Passes Senate Judiciary Committee – A Good Idea Gone Government

Posted on by William Teach

The setup U.S. agencies and officials would get new powers to go after foreign websites that sell counterfeit goods and pirated music, movies and books under a bill passed on Thursday by the Senate Judiciary Committee. The bill, which supporters hope will set the stage for action next year, targets “rogue websites” in countries such […]