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Texas and Beer: Not As Great a Combination As You Think It Would Be

Posted on March 7, 2013 by Unicorn Jones

Everyone loves Texas. In fact, if there was a state in the union that most people who didn’t even live there would consider themselves a fan of, it would probably be Texas. It’s everything that’s great about America: wide open frontier, simple people who live off the land, a cowboy attitude and the potential to […]

Amendment To Continuing Resolution Would Bar Obama Golf Outings On Public Dime

Posted on March 6, 2013 by William Teach

At least until PINO Obama resumes White House tours (Daily Caller) Republican Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert introduced an amendment to the Continuing Resolution that would not provide the White House with any taxpayer funds to transport President Barack Obama to and from any golf course until they resume White House public tours. In a House […]

Bloomberg Businessweek Apologizes for ‘Racist’ Magazine Cover

Posted on March 5, 2013 by Warner Todd Huston

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s media group has apologized for its February 21 cover of Bloomberg Businessweek over complaints that it used racist imagery to illustrate the feature story on the housing market. With a title of “The Great American Housing Rebound: Flips. No-look bids. 300 percent returns. What could possibly go wrong?,” the cover […]

Greens Fret Over Obama Admin Keystone Report

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Warner Todd Huston

The State Department has released its much-anticipated report on the environmental impact of the Keystone Pipeline and, to the alarm of the green lobby, it seems to leave President Obama with little reason to continue delaying construction. The 2,000-page report makes no final recommendation on whether or not to approve construction of the energy project, […]

Paper Which Just Laid Off A Bunch Of Employees Hysterical Over “Austerity”

Posted on March 3, 2013 by William Teach

It’s nice to wake up on a Sunday morning and give a hearty chuckle followed by a good facepalm. The NY Times’ Jackie Calmes needs KCCO The latest budget impasse ushered in a new round of austerity on Saturday, with the nation facing reduced federal services, canceled contracts, job furloughs and layoffs. For those who […]

Rep. Maxine Waters Inflates Sequester to ‘170 Million’ Jobs Lost

Posted on March 2, 2013 by Warner Todd Huston

Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D, CA) had a dire prediction for America due to sequestration claiming that 170 million jobs would be lost as a result of the policy. But according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics there are only about 140 million jobs in the whole country. During a press conference on February 28, Waters […]

Sequestration Starts: World Has Yet To End

Posted on March 1, 2013 by William Teach

And the media is still spinning as to what the “cuts” really are. Either that or they are just partisan fools (The Hill) Nineteen months after it was put into place, the sequester has arrived. Barring unexpected developments, President Obama will issue an order at some point on Friday – perhaps as late as 11:59 […]

The Democrats’ Sequester Narrative: Setting the GOP Up as the Scapegoat

Posted on March 1, 2013March 1, 2013 by Greg Campbell

The sequester cuts are scheduled to occur today. Do you have your fallout shelter prepared for the “disastrous” economic collapse that is about to befall America? Have you stockpiled your medical supplies, knowing that fire departments and emergency responders will be all-but eliminated? If you believe even a quarter of what the hysterical left has […]

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

Posted on February 28, 2013 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 […]

Obama To Finally Meet With Congressional Leaders On Day Sequester Takes Effect

Posted on February 28, 2013 by William Teach

This is leadership in the age of Obama (Daily Caller) President Barack Obama will wait until the sequester hits to have his first sequester-related face-to-face meeting with congressional leaders on Friday, according to a report by ABC News’s Jonathan Karl: “A congressional source with direct knowledge of the plans tells me the top four congressional […]

What We Don’t Need

Posted on February 28, 2013February 28, 2013 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 […]

NY Times Trots Out “Austerity” Regarding Sequester

Posted on February 27, 2013 by William Teach

Nowhere in this article, which could have been written by the White House (but, really, this is just the way Liberals think) is it mentioned that Sequestration is simply a slight reduction in the growth of government Austerity Kills Government Jobs as Cuts to Budgets Loom I know, I know, you’re really, really, really broken […]

Sequestration In Context: US Borrows Cost Of Sequestration Every 28 Days

Posted on February 26, 2013 by William Teach

Daily reminder: they aren’t cuts. Just a slight reduction in the rate of spending increase, but, you know, if the Sequestration is allowed to proceed the animals in the national parks will turn feral and start eating tourists before joining forces and attacking cities (Daily Caller) In an effort to put the looming automatic spending […]

White House Release Super Duper Dire We’re Doomed List Of State By State Sequestration Results

Posted on February 25, 2013 by William Teach

Leading by fear-mongering (The Blaze) On Sunday, the White House continued its effort to prevent the $85 billion in automatic spending cuts known as “sequestration” from starting this Friday, releasing a dramatic state-by-state list of how they claim each state will be impacted if Congress fails to act. It’s worth remembering that the “cut” is […]

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

Posted on February 23, 2013February 23, 2013 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 […]

Hooray, Obama Proposes A Replacement Plan For Sequestration!

Posted on February 23, 2013 by William Teach

I guess David Brooks is wrong: Obama does have a plan. Or at least an outline of a plan. Whether there are any actual details and legislation that can be voted on is unknown. Here’s Jennifer Palmieri blogging for Obama A Balanced Plan to Avert the Sequester and Reduce the Deficit Good thing America doesn’t […]

Reenacting the Housing Crisis

Posted on February 21, 2013 by Dave Blount

The financial crisis of 2008 — from which the country has still not recovered — was caused largely by the government forcing banks to make Affirmative Action mortgage loans to people unlikely to repay them in order to redistribute wealth. Has the government learned anything from this debacle? Of course it has. By vastly expanding […]

Rand Paul Slaps Obama For Sequester “Histrionics”

Posted on February 20, 2013February 20, 2013 by William Teach

One of the big problems with the GOP over the past 10 years, and especially since Obama assumed his throne, is that they have attempted to be the Adult In The Room. The responsible party. The ones who speak in a quiet manner, which refuses to get down in the mud with Obama and the […]

Democrats Want Background Checks… Except When They Don’t

Posted on February 18, 2013 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 […]

“Progressives” and the Death of Mainstreet USA

Posted on February 18, 2013February 18, 2013 by Greg Campbell

The day after President Obama gave his State of the Union address, I drove through my hometown of Roseburg, Oregon. An old mill-town that once hummed with the sounds of log trucks coming and going, Roseburg is now dying. While it still deals with the overly-harsh environmental regulations on timber put forth during the Clinton […]

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

Posted on February 15, 2013 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 February 15, 2013 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, […]

White House Pressures GOP To Fix Sequester Plan Obama Proposed

Posted on February 11, 2013 by William Teach

Of course, what Team Obama really wants is more “revenue”, ie, tax increases (The Hill) The White House on Sunday sought to pressure Republicans to “come to the table” to strike a deal to avert sequester cuts slated to hit at the end of the month. In a blog post on the White House website, […]

Where’s The Obama Recovery?

Posted on February 4, 2013 by William Teach

The Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin argues it never arrived The economy may or may not wind up in a technical recession (two quarters of negative growth), but in fact the Obama economy never really made a recovery. Its endemic low growth and high unemployment now define the U.S. economy – unless we chart another course. […]

Paul Krugman: Let’s Just Print More Money

Posted on February 3, 2013 by Warner Todd Huston

Once again liberal economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has said that our government trillions in debt is not a problem and even intimated that we might we crank up the printing presses and print more fiat money to get us out of our bad economy. Krugman appeared on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal” program […]

Obama Operatives Training Media How to Sell Obamacare

Posted on February 3, 2013 by Warner Todd Huston

The Old Media is getting a little help from team Obama on how to report about Obamacare the “correct” way. To achieve that goal, Obama operatives are setting up propaganda symposiums for journalists and giving large cash donations to journalism associations to help spread Obama’s word. This Obamacare propaganda campaign seriously blurs the line between […]

Jesse Jackson Calls for Looting Pension Funds

Posted on February 1, 2013 by Dave Blount

As Margaret Thatcher observed, sooner or later socialists run out of other people’s money. But the looting won’t stop until they have stolen your last penny. Did you expect to have a secure retirement after working your whole life? Sucker: At a three-day conference in New York that began on Wednesday, [Jesse] Jackson discussed a […]

The Reality of Long Term Unemployment

Posted on January 31, 2013 by Michael Fell

In his “Mission Accomplished” moment, Barack Hussein Obama ended his jobs council on Thursday, January 31, 2013. Despite the fact that more than 12 million people in the U.S. are still out of work. Obama’s allies will point out that when the jobs council began two years ago, unemployment was above 9 percent and has […]

ATF’s Epic Fail In Milwaukee

Posted on January 31, 2013January 31, 2013 by Matt Vespa

As Harry Reid: bolts: from Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s renewed push to ban so-called assault weapons, other senators, including Pat Leahy and Al Franken, may politick their way into killing the bill in committee. : As Ed Morrissey of Hot Air: posted yesterday, No one thought Reid would be excited to support a new assault-weapons ban.: He didn’t support the […]

Leonardo DiCaprio to Fly Jet Around World To Save the Environment

Posted on January 24, 2013 by Warner Todd Huston

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio is taking a break from acting to help save the environment by pursuing his environmental activism but maybe someone needs to tell him how “saving the environment” might work. DiCaprio told members of the entertainment media that after doing so many movies in a row he’s tired and needs a break from […]