Category: Economy

“With The Recovery Entering Its Fifth Year…”

Posted on by William Teach

We certainly should recall that “it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report and it is informative to consider each report in the context of other data that are becoming available.” (Bloomberg) Employers added fewer workers than anticipated in July even as the U.S. jobless rate dropped to 7.4 percent, […]

 

Obama: Country Would Be ‘Better Off’ If More Worked for Government

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

President Obama loves him some big government policies, we all know, but now he’s saying that just about everyone should work for the government and if they did the economy would be “better off.” So, who would pay all the taxes if everyone made a living FROM those taxes? He doesn’t seem to have an […]

 

Democrats Want to Give the IRS Even More $$ in Budget!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Even after the IRS has proven to be a tool of the left-wing attack machine instead of merely being a non-partisan taxing agency like it should be, after we’ve all learned that the IRS is a giant bottomless pit of wasteful spending, and after we’ve learned that the IRS has essentially become a satellite office […]

 

The Phony President

Posted on by Robert Cleveland

All of a sudden, President Obama is once again on a big push to change his administration’s priorities back to the economy. Of course, it has long been known that economic issues are at the forefront of the American People’s concerns, but they never seem to be a convenient topic for the president until things […]

 

Organizing For Action Declares Obama’s Economic Pivot Over

Posted on by William Teach

Not that this pivot, the 19th during his 4 1/2 years in office, really went far in the first place. A couple speeches, a weaselly Weekly Address, an interview with the NY Times, none of which did more than offer the same tired campaign rhetoric of Blamestorming, division, and failed (and even contradictory – he […]

 

Obama Will Evaluate Keystone XL Solely On Its “Climate Change” Effects

Posted on by William Teach

In a long, boring interview with the NY Times, in which (NMP) Obama dishes forth the same old failed policies, engages in lots and lots of Blamestorming as if this wasn’t his second term in office, patronizes, and offers little in the way of new policies, we find this bit on page 5 (via Tom […]

 

Obama Wonders Why He Gets Resistance Even Though the Media Loves Him?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Gosh, if the media loves him, how can things be looking so bad for President Obama? At least, that was the President’s attitude in a recent speech. But is relying on an institution that most Americans distrust such a great idea, Mr. Obama? The President’s tin ear was in full force in a speech on […]

 

What To Watch For In Today’s “Economic” Speech By Obama

Posted on by William Teach

Today begins yet another pivot to the economy by Community Organizer in Chief Obama, whose previous pivots have worked so well. Does anyone remember the one back in May? Where’d that go? Anyhow, consider this comment by Victor Davis Hanson, made it terms of Obama’s race comment The president, I think, spoke out for three […]

 

Here We Go Again, Another Weinergate Scandal!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Anthony Weiner lost his seat in Congress in 2011 because he was caught exchanging sexually explicit messages (including naked photos) with a woman that was not his wife. This year he’s running for mayor of New York City but today he’s been exposed–if you will–in yet another sexting scandal. Weiner has admitted that it is […]

 

Obama Plans Yet Another Campaign Style Pivot To The Economy

Posted on by William Teach

This reminds me of one of those bad movies they keep playing on TV. Or of Sharknado, which had enormous hype, and was even worse than the usual dreck on the SyFy channel. (NY Times) With major battles looming in the fall over the federal budget and the debt ceiling, President Obamais trying to regain […]

 

Detroit As A Stand In For America

Posted on by William Teach

In noting this article by Walter Russell Mead, Ace notes that Mead keeps typing “Detroit” instead of “America” Obama to Detroit: Drop Dead This is where blue governance has brought Detroit in the end: not even a liberal Democratic administration will step in to save the pensions of thousands of public workers and African Americans, […]

 

Weekly Address: Obama Really Wants Non-Americans To Have Jobs

Posted on by William Teach

Of course, these current illegal aliens and potential immigrants (both temporary and permanent) should be careful, because Obama’s job’s policies for actual American citizens have been disasters. WEEKLY ADDRESS: Strengthening our Economy by Passing Bipartisan Immigration Reform Hi, everybody. Two weeks ago, a large bipartisan majority of Senators voted to pass commonsense, comprehensive immigration reform […]

 

Bank Insecurity: Your Money is at Risk Through Cyber Theft

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

We all, individuals and businesses alike, have this basic assumption that when we put our money in a bank it is safe. But is it? Apparently not so much as the experience of small business TRC indicates when hackers reached into the company’s California-based bank account and drained it of nearly $300 thousand. Worse, the […]

 

U.S. News Lumps LaRouchie in With Tea Partiers at IRS Rally

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Lyndon LaRouche and his followers have never been welcomed into the Tea Party movement but his followers shadow nearly every Washington-based protest that occurs, whether left, center, or right. But in its coverage of Wednesday’s D.C.-based IRS rallies, U.S. News featured a follower of LaRouche as if he were a legitimate part of the Tea […]

 

US Still Insisting Brazil is The Best Bet for Our Military

Posted on by Unicorn Jones

So remember a while ago when I told you that the Obama Administration was basically making life easier for people who don’t really like America by handing them awesomesauce defense contracts while people in America go without jobs because this administration has the economic foresight of a Mack Truck in a snowstorm? Let’s just say […]

 

Obama Readying Emission Limit Plan To Deal With Hotcoldwetdry

Posted on by William Teach

Alternate headline: Obama readying plan to artificially raise your electricity costs and the costs of everything else by executive fiat (NY Times) President Obama is preparing regulations limiting carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, senior officials said Wednesday. The move would be the most consequential climate policy step he could take and one likely […]

 

IRS To Hire ‘Diversity and Inclusion Specialist’ At $123,758 Salary

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

After repeated scandals, the IRS is looking to hire a new “Diversity and Inclusion Specialist” and is offering a generous $123,758 annual salary plus benefits. The opening was announced on June 11 and will be advertised until June 24. According to the description this “diversity” officer will “serve as a change agent to provide strategies, […]

 

Obama Claims He Doesn’t Want to ‘Tax All Businesses Out of Business’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

During a recent fundraiser, President Obama told an audience that he and the Democrats don’t want to tax all business out of business. He also said he doesn’t believe in “top down” government. The President made these comments at a private residence in Palo Alto, California during a Democratic Senatorial campaign fundraiser in the first […]

 

Google Hires Obama’s Campaign E-Team

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The hand-in-hand nature of this White House and some of the nation’s biggest corporations is seen in yet another incident as Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign data team is now moving from team Obama to team Google. This week, Bloomberg reported that Obama’s data mining team, used to such great effect during his 2012 re-election for […]

 

Propaganda: NPR Incorrectly Claims IRS Has Nothing to do With Obamacare

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

During the May 22 broadcast of National Public Radio’s “Talk of the Nation,” host Neil Conan repeatedly contradicted a guest by claiming that the IRS has nothing at all to do with Obamacare. NPR’s Conan is, of course, completely incorrect. The IRS is up to it’s Tea Party harassing neck in Obamacare. The guest Conan […]

 

Washington Bridge Collapse Being Used to Push Big Government

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

By all accounts the Interstate 5 bridge collapse in Washington State was a result of an over sized truck load as opposed to “failing infrastructure.” But a plea for greater federal spending figured prominently in many reports on the accident nonetheless. Naturally, many on the left stampeded immediately to decrying “austerity,” or accused the Republicans […]

 

New York Times: IRS Scandal Ignored Because of Rush Limbaugh

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

There has been much speculation in the media on why Obama’s current scandal of the IRS targeting conservative groups for attack didn’t come out last year when the initial flurry of reportage on the incident was seen. Well, The New York Times thinks it has the answer: it was Rush Limbaugh’s fault. When the IRS […]

 

WaPo/ABC Poll: Obama Lying About Benghazi, IRS Targeting ‘Inappropriate,’ Media Still Distrusted

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A new poll conducted jointly by The Washington Post and ABC News revealed some interesting trends. Among other findings, more Americans feel that Obama and his administration are lying about Benghazi, a majority feel that the IRS acted inappropriately by targeting conservative groups, and the media is still distrusted with a majority feeling that the […]

 

Piers Morgan: This IRS Thing is ‘Vaguely Tyrannical Behavior by the Government’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

CNN’s chief anti-gun zealot Piers Morgan may have been loathe to admit it, but this IRS scandal seems to validate some of his detractor’s distrust of government. During his evening show on May 16, Morgan’s guest was magician Penn Jillette and the discussion turned to the admission by the Internal Revenue Service that it had […]

 

Feds Killing Off Private Bus Lines Based on Fraudulent Study

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The story of the coming demise of Chinatown bus lines in New York City is a tale of multiple failures in both government and the media and shows that both have a bias against entrepreneurs that kills new, start up ideas with unfair regulations, faux public advocacy, and dismal reporting. A “Chinatown buss” was a […]

 

Square Mobile Payment Systems Modifies User Agreement to Prohibit Gun-Related Purchases

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Square payment services is one of those new payment applications that merchants can put on a smart phone and, along with the plug-in hardware, is used like a credit card swipe machine to accept payments made by their customers. This month, however, Square has changed its user policy and is now prohibiting merchants from using […]

 

Store Owner Installs $350K of Surveillance to Stop Frivolous Lawsuits

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Supermarket owner Rafael Cuellar from Passaic, NJ, reports that he had to spend $350,000 to install 69 surveillance cameras, recording devices, and video storage banks in order to stop fake “slip and fall” insurance claims against his store. It’s a cost that just adds to the cost of living for everyone and is a perfect […]

 

Our Future Foretold in a Petri Dish

Posted on by Dave Blount

Obama’s reelection confirms that we have passed the tipping point; the takers and their ideologically depraved allies now outnumber the makers. Consequently, those who feed off coercive wealth redistribution dictate the policies of the government, which will naturally be run by the likes of Obama, who effectively enslave those who work for a living on […]