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South Oregon Proves Gov’t Subsides Are Bad for You

Posted on February 25, 2014 by Warner Todd Huston

The Beautiful Rogue River in South Oregon A very long article at the conservative Washington Free Beacon describes how economic recession and a changing timber industry has turned parts of southern Oregon into a “lawless” area with toothless authorities, few police, and empty government treasuries. But what the article really proves is that government subsides […]

Environmentalists Target Fracking

Posted on February 24, 2014 by Rachel Alexander

The environmentalist movement’s latest target is fracking. Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, is the process of extracting shale gas from deposits underground. Natural gas releases less CO2 than oil into the environment. For this reasons, environmentalists concerned with global warming should be pleased to be moving away from oil and toward natural gas, but instead they […]

No Gov’t Employee Should Make $400,000 a Year

Posted on February 22, 2014 by Warner Todd Huston

A new transparency project has been launched in California that helps citizens learn just how much salary their government employees earn and the results are shocking. Hundreds of government workers make upwards to and more than $400,000 a year even as California drowns in taxes to pay for it all. Over at Forbes, Mark Bucher […]

Retired Sheriff: $276,000 per Year Pension Is Not Enough

Posted on February 21, 2014 by Dave Blount

Liberalism often works by starting with an arguably good thing and taking it to such an extreme that it becomes pernicious. Public sector pensions are a prime example. Few would deny retired police officers either a pension or a savings plan. But in liberal states greed has gotten completely out of control. From Ventura County, […]

Obamacare to Come: Canadian Man Dies Ignored in Hospital Waiting Room

Posted on February 20, 2014 by Warner Todd Huston

Foreshadowing Obamacare, the family of a Canadian man who died sitting in his wheelchair in the waiting room of a Winnipeg hospital for 34 hours has withdrawn from the inquest being undertaken to find out what went wrong. The man, Brian Sinclair, 45, was left by hospital workers for 34 hours when he arrived at […]

Tax Preparers Getting Tax Dollars to Sign You Up for Obamacare?

Posted on February 19, 2014 by Warner Todd Huston

It is tax season and Americans everywhere are taking their receipts and forms to their favorite tax preparer to find out what that final tally will be. But are our tax preparers getting a cash bonus from the taxpayers to sign customers up for Obamacare while they are filling out our tax forms? It seems […]

Thought Police: Employers Will Be Forced to Inform Obama Why They’re Firing Someone

Posted on February 12, 2014 by Warner Todd Huston

Now businesses will have to go hat in hand to Obama to explain themselves about why they are firing any particular employee. This is just another of Obama’s steps toward the fascist-styled control by Washington bureaucrats over the entirety of the business sector. As Fox News reported it: “Obama officials made clear in a press […]

House Passes Clean Debt Ceiling Hike

Posted on February 12, 2014 by William Teach

Many conservatives/Republicans range from agitated to apoplectic. Liberals are crowing. The Washington Post’s uber-leftists (like the WP’s opinion pages aren’t chock full of them, has to be at least a 85-15% split) goes with this provocative headline GOP debt limit extortion is dead Because attempting to limit the insane debt increases is apparently a bad […]

Senator Dick Durbin Lies With Impunity

Posted on February 11, 2014 by Warner Todd Huston

Senator Dick Durbin is at it again, lying through his teeth, this time about Obamacare. On Sunday’s Meet The Press, Illinois Democrat Durbin made the wild-eyed claim that ten million Americans found new health insurance thanks to Obamacare. He also claimed that Obamacare would lower the deficit. But even the Washington Post gave its worst […]

Era of Obama: Number of Americans Renouncing Citizenship Soars

Posted on February 8, 2014 by Warner Todd Huston

During the age of Obama, Americans have renounced their citizenship at record numbers. In fact in four out of Obama’s five years in the White House, expatriation numbers set record highs. Just as an example, during all eight years of George W. Bush’s terms in office, 3,865 Americans renounced their citizenship and moved overseas. But […]

Obameconomy: Wages Almost Flatlining

Posted on February 8, 2014 by William Teach

The jobs report released Friday was bad. “Unexpectedly”. We seem to see quite a few of these. Though the White House always tells us “it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report.” But there was another little bomb within the report, and Nelson D. Schwartz at the NY Times performs […]

Obama Imports ‘Advisor’ From Socialist Europe to Push Obamacare

Posted on February 4, 2014 by Warner Todd Huston

Now Obama is importing big government advocates from Europe to help him push Obamacare on Americans. Obama is importing Germany’s former health minister, Daniel Bahr, to help push the President’s failed Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. He is also joining the extremist, left-wing think tank, the Center for American Progress (CAP). Bahr lost his government […]

Imperial President’s Newest Lawbreaking: Violating Trademark Laws

Posted on January 31, 2014 by Warner Todd Huston

With his introduction of his new (and useless) MyRA investment program, we discover that President Obama is so dismissive of following the law, he doesn’t even think that he has to abide by trademark and copyright laws. A law abiding entrepreneur has one chore to satisfy before launching a new ad campaign, product, or offering […]

Autocrat-lite POTUS To Unilaterally Raise Minimum Wage For Federal Contractors

Posted on January 28, 2014 by William Teach

I’m sure Team Obama gave long, careful thought to this, weighing the pros and cons, considering the costs….or, really, sat around in a bull session which included political wonks, none with any experience in the private market, saying “how can we pump up he moonbat base”? (NY Times) President Obama plans to sign an executive […]

Missouri’s Kit Bond Shows Why Politics Has No Soul

Posted on January 27, 2014 by Warner Todd Huston

Missouri’s Kit Bond is a perfect example of why regular Americans hate, hate, hate politicians and politics. It’s because Bond and his ilk prove to many that politicians are nothing but money-grubbing liars. Duane Lester of The Missouri Torch gives us the perfect example of this cynical example of the worst in politics with the […]

Moody’s Downgrades Health Insurance Industry Due to ObamaCare

Posted on January 24, 2014 by Dave Blount

One advantage of disregarding the rule of law and governing basically as a dictator is that it allows Obama to make changes to the laws his allies in Congress ram through on the fly, without any tedious constitutional rigmarole. A disadvantage is that dictatorships don’t tend to be as economically successful as the USA was […]

In America, the Have-Nots Have Plenty

Posted on January 23, 2014 by Dave Blount

If you are tempted to take Obama’s rhetoric regarding income inequality at face value, have a look at this graph from the book The Haves and the Have-Nots by World Bank economist Branko Milanovic: Amazingly, it was published by the New York Times a few years ago, along with this explanation: Here the population of […]

Illinois Ranks as One of Worst States for Losing Citizens

Posted on January 22, 2014 by Warner Todd Huston

Illinois keeps racking up those plaudits as the worst of the worst states in the country, this time coming in second of the top states for outward migration. Illinois has seen more of its citizens fleeing its failing edifice than every other state but New Jersey. This list is maintained by one of the nation’s […]

Prosperity Redistributed: The Real Unemployment Rate and Misery for All

Posted on January 22, 2014 by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

By: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton NoisyRoom.net Marxists: Let the unemployed eat cake… Guess I was wrong… but not in the way the Left would like to see. For years now, I have told our readers that the unemployment rate is closer to 25%. That the government is manipulating the rate and outright lying to America. David John […]

Target Joins Growing Number Of Companies Dropping Health Insurance For Part-Timers

Posted on January 22, 2014 by William Teach

More victims of Obama’s signature legislation, aided and abetted by most Democrats (Bloomberg) Target Corp. (TGT) said it will end health insurance for part-time employees, joining Trader Joe’s Co., Home Depot Inc. and other retailers that have scaled back benefits in response to changes from Obamacare. About 10 percent of Target’s part-time employees, defined as […]

Seven Facts Defining the Obama Economy

Posted on January 21, 2014 by Dave Blount

Before allowing his enablers in the media to spin Obama’s misbegotten presidency as anything but a disaster, refer to the seven key economic facts gathered by Wynton Hall: 1. A Record 91.8 Million Americans Are No Longer in the Workforce 2. Since Jan. 2009, the Number of Jobless Working-Age Americans Has Risen [by] 9.6 Million […]

Allowing Unions to Organize Volkswagen is Like ‘Injecting Cancer’ Into US Auto Industry

Posted on January 21, 2014January 21, 2014 by Warner Todd Huston

It seems like a foolish move by Volkswagen for allowing the United Auto Workers (UAW) to organize its American plants. Not only did the UAW screw Volkswagen in the past, but even now the union admits that it is raising union dues solely to replenish its strike fund so unionistas can walk out. It’s like […]

The US and China — Mega Default Risks Eerily Similar

Posted on January 20, 2014 by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

By: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton NoisyRoom.net Well, it looks like the US and China have found common ground in the financial markets at last. They both are lurching towards a mega default of one form or another. Mark your calendars… China’s potential mega default is January 31st. Gordon Chang at Forbes wrote a piece that caught my […]

P0rn Stars Leave California For Vegas Over Condom Law

Posted on January 18, 2014 by William Teach

Laws have consequences. In this case, revenue and jobs are leaving California because of a law, something California should be used to (UK Daily Mail) It is known as the City of Sin, so it is perhaps no surprise to find that the porn industry is moving to Las Vegas after LA passed a law […]

The South Rose Again While The North Napped

Posted on January 17, 2014 by Warner Todd Huston

Northern elites love to look down their noses and sneer at southerners whom they consider loutish hayseeds who are just plain stupid. But as many in the north have dismissed the south, our states south of Mason and Dixon’s line has risen again right under the north’s very nose. Now, the best quality of life […]

Obama’s IRS Is Now Targeting Sarah Palin’s Father, Old Media Ignores

Posted on January 16, 2014 by Warner Todd Huston

Sarah Palin’s Father Chuck Heath, Dr. (left) and brother Chuck Heath, Jr. (right). Sarah Palin’s father, Chuck Heath, Sr., is being harassed by the IRS. And yet, the Old Media complex is not saying a word about this story. Imagine that. On his Facebook page, Sarah’s brother, Chuck Heath, Jr., posted that his father is […]

Bolstering the Marxist Vote

Posted on January 16, 2014 by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

By: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton NoisyRoom.net Weapons of Legislative Warfare As predictable as the rising and setting of the sun, the Republican machine is bent on betraying its base. They will force Amnesty on us in a brutish move that aligns itself with Obama and the other Progressive Marxists. Obama has declared that he will conduct weaponized […]

Exposing the Lie of the Merely Bad Unemployment Numbers

Posted on January 14, 2014 by Dave Blount

Never mind the official stats that tell us the employment situation is lousy. The real situation is actually much worse: The number of working age Americans that do not have a job has increased by nearly 10 million since Barack Obama first entered the White House. In January 2009, the number of “officially unemployed” workers […]

The Lynchpins Have Been Pulled

Posted on January 11, 2014January 11, 2014 by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

By: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton NoisyRoom.net History is repeating itself and it would seem, in the end, we have learned precious little. World War III was ignited with the Arab Spring and an ignored Archduke Ferdinand moment. The Leftists pushed for it and set the world on fire. Their hope was to reform the world closer to […]

Obama Exposed In Another Major Obamacare Lie

Posted on January 3, 2014 by Warner Todd Huston

If the Old Media establishment were honest, Barack Obama would long ago have replaced Richard Nixon as the biggest liar in Presidential history. And now, a new study reveals yet another major Obama lie. Just last November, for instance, President Barack “Milhous” Obama said that his failed Obamacare law would make healthcare cheaper by keeping […]