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Obamanomics: Poll Finds US In Decline, Outlook Grim

Posted on October 24, 2011October 24, 2011 by William Teach

Let’s, for a minute, as an intellectual exercise, say that the recession was the fault of George W. Bush, Republicans during Bush’s 2 terms, and Reagan’s tax cuts. Why can’t the Smartest Man In The World:® fix it? (The Hill) More than two-thirds of voters say the United States is declining, and a clear majority […]

Two on the causes of the recession

Posted on October 23, 2011October 21, 2011 by Craig Newmark

Megan McArdle makes short work–again!–of something that didn’t cause it: repeal of Glass-Steagall. The Economist briefly review two books that persuasively argue that a totally out-of-control Fannie Mae was a key cause.

VIDEO: Suspected Terror Supporter Attacks Jews at Occupy Chicago

Posted on October 22, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

Chicago’s RebelPundit came across some of those nice Occupy Chicago folks wishing good thoughts for all the kind participants at the protest… they kindly wished that Israel be destroyed. Worse, one of the guys these Occupy-Whatevers allowed to speak is a suspected funder of Middle Eastern terrorists. Just like the left, eh? Haters, racists, and […]

“Math vs. Myth”

Posted on October 22, 2011October 19, 2011 by Craig Newmark

Five excellent points by Michael Tanner. The last two are especially important: we can’t solve our fiscal problems by taxing the rich and closing corporate loopholes and we can’t solve the problems by cutting “waste, fraud, and abuse” either. (But it would help.)

Senate Votes Against Obama’s Jobs Bill That Stops Rapists And Murderers

Posted on October 21, 2011 by William Teach

Well, I’m sure that will be the Joe Biden point of view (Washington Post) Nine days after President Obama’s $447 billion jobs package was blocked in the U.S. Senate, one of the plan’s key components – which would provide $35: billion to states and local governments to hire teachers and first responders – suffered the same […]

The Middle Class & Affluent Deprivation (Q&A Friday #108)

Posted on October 21, 2011October 21, 2011 by John Hawkins

Question: One issue the OWS people are talking about that actually makes a lot of normal folks turn their head and listen is the growing wealth inequality in America. I don’t blame Wall Street for this phenomenon, but it is a real issue, and mostly due to the fact that people in other nations can […]

Occupy Wall Streeters: Communists, Anti-Capitalists And now Rapists?

Posted on October 20, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

We know that the Occupy Wall Streeters are extremists in nature and far outside the American norm. We know they are communists, they hate capitalism, they are against the U.S. Constitution, American history and character, and believe in all sorts of wacky, fringe stuff. But thanks to Occupy Cleveland, we now see that they are […]

Obamanomics: American Standard Of Living Drops

Posted on October 20, 2011 by William Teach

Maybe this is what Obama mean by Hope and Change? Or, perhaps, when he was talking about this being the time that the sea rise started to slow it was actually a metaphor for the American standard of living Think life is not as good as it used to be, at least in terms of […]

What Are We Protesting Again?

Posted on October 19, 2011October 19, 2011 by Rachel Alexander

As the Occupy Wall Street protesters finish their first month of protests, they seem more confused and disorganized than ever. It is not clear exactly what they are protesting other than big banks and high unemployment. One protester on the Twitter #OccupyPhoenix channel asked a few days ago, “What are we protesting again?” The Occupy […]

Why Is Steubenville, Ohio, A Model Of Economic Success?

Posted on October 19, 2011 by William Teach

I know the supporters of Obama’s failed and destructive policies would love to say “Obamanomics!” Alas, no (ABC News) Steubenville, Ohio, may not look like a city sitting on a multi-billion dollar industry. Unemployment here reached 15 percent in 2010, and a now-shuttered steel mill — which was once the lifeline of the Steubenville economy […]

Another California Tax Hike to Fund a Boondoggle Program

Posted on October 18, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

As a result of years of budget deficits and wasteful spending by the state legislature, California faces difficult budget challenges for the next ten years. This bad news is courtesy of a recent analysis of the state’s long-term debt obligations by state Treasurer Bill Lockyer (Download .pdf of Lockyer’s Report). The analysis adds to a […]

VIDEO: Rep. Joe Walsh Discusses Obamacare

Posted on October 18, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

Representative Joe Walsh appeared at a conference earlier this month and he was asked to address some of the troubles that this nation is going to suffer once Obamacare really kicks in. Walsh is 100% right about his contentions over this destructive Obamacare mess. Representative Walsh has already announced that he will run against Republican […]

Lisa Fithian: Teaching Radicalism to Chicago Teachers Union

Posted on October 18, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

Violent, union thug comes to Chicago to fake teacher “arrests” When people ask me, “What do you do?” I say I create crisis, because crisis is that edge where change is possible. — Lisa Fithian The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) trained under radical street organizer, and leader of the anti-capitalist #occupy movement, Lisa Fithian, to […]

Did a Big Dem Donor Turned Obama Medical Records Czar Hoodwink Members of Congress?

Posted on October 17, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

Did Obama’s medical record czar, Judy Faulkner, hoodwink five members of Congress into pushing her own medical records company as the solution for the problem of electronic medical records for all government contracts? That’s what some wonder as Obama’s search for an electronic medical records solution evolves. In a likely earnest effort to bring jobs […]

Occupy Wall Street’s Essential Hypocrisy

Posted on October 17, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

There are a few major reasons that this Occupy-Whatever “movement” is as hollow as a Halloween pumpkin. One is that they are employing the sort of rhetoric with their “we are the 99%” claim that they complained about from Tea Partiers and two that some of their spokesmen are not what they claim to be. […]

Government Kills… Businesses, Anyway

Posted on October 16, 2011October 15, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

A small business named Nice Cream found that government wasn’t very nice to its bottom line. In fact, due to its heavy hand, government froze the company into nonexistence. So much for everyone loving ice cream! The other day, while discussing the failures of government unions and their pliant, paid-for, lapdog politicians, one of my […]

Occupy Boston Ruins Food Bank Fundraiser, Conservatives Step in With $3,700 Fund Drive

Posted on October 15, 2011October 15, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

The Greater Boston Food Bank intended to have a fundraising event in Boston’s Dewey Square over the weekend of the 14th of October. It was to be called the “Greenway Mobile Food Fest” and was supposed to help raise funds to feed the poor and needy. But due to the tantrums being thrown by the […]

Congresswoman Schakowsky Says The Communist, Maoist, Illiterate, Hate-Filled OWS Protesters Are ‘Ordinary Americans’

Posted on October 14, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

Apparently, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky of the Illinois 9th District, a sitting Congresscritter, mind you, decided it was a great idea to march with the Occupy-Whatevers on Thursday. Interestingly, a large contingent of these people sported T-Shits with Che Guevara, Mao Tse-tung, and other communist heroes emblazoned upon them. Guevara, a murderer, coward, and communist, is […]

Nancy Pelosi Says Republicans Want to Kill Women — But Who Are Really the Killers?

Posted on October 14, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

Nancy Pelosi has a message for you: Republicans want to kill women. Yes, there it is, another fine example of the Democrat “new tone.” All one can say to that is, “Nancy, you ignorant slut.” (If you’ll excuse my channeling an SNL era Dan Aykroyd?) What’s all her hypocritical fury being directed at? The Protect […]

Senate GOP Set To Unveil Jobs Plan

Posted on October 13, 2011 by William Teach

It’s a real jobs plan, one meant to stimulate the economy and get people back to work, unlike Obama’s one which was a campaign platform that had so many poison pills that even his own party couldn’t pass it in the Democrat controlled Senate (The Politico) President Barack Obama had his American Jobs Act. Now, […]

Blame Corporations?

Posted on October 12, 2011October 12, 2011 by Michael Fell

Would you hire people purely out of national loyalty knowing that doing so meant your company would eventually become fiscally insolvent? Corporations, like any business, are in business to make profits. Jobs are the byproduct of profits, not the other way around. Until U.S. corporate tax rates are cut to globally competetive levels, the corporations […]

Labor Unions Support Wisconsin Agitators

Posted on October 12, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

Until now many of the often-illegal antics perpetuated by several individual Wisconsin-based protesters appeared to be random acts committed by disillusioned agitators. But the MacIver News Service has learned that these acts have been highly orchestrated and perpetuated by an organization whose members are told to deny their involvement in the group. A group, we’ve […]

PG&E’s Catastrophic Failure of Public Trust By Company and Government Both

Posted on October 12, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

Another in a long line of explosions and other catastrophic safety failures occurred at the end of September when a natural gas pipeline built and owned by Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) ruptured in Roseville, California. This is just of a piece of the failure of PG&E to ensure public safety, a failure that the […]

The Hate From The Occupy-Whatever Left

Posted on October 11, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

The left is built on pure hate. Hate for patriotism, hate for the Constitution, hate for our troops, hate for the left’s opponents… just plain hate. Accuracy in Media, Let Freedom Ring and Young America’s Foundation have joined forces to invade Occupy DC. Our objective: to see what happens when three peaceful fans of capitalism, […]

ABC’s Diane Sawyer: ‘Protests Have Spread to 1,000 Countries’… Ooops, There’s Only 195 Countries

Posted on October 11, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

Showing that the people that sit in front of the cameras at the Networks aren’t really journalists, but are merely pleasant looking readers of Teleprompters, Diane Sawyer of ABC News sonorously informed readers that the Occupy-Whatever protests have now “spread to 1,000 countries.” Speaking of Wall Street, we thought we’d bring you up to date […]

Senate Dems Go With Plan B On Obama’s “Jobs” Bill: Treat It Like Castor Oil

Posted on October 11, 2011 by William Teach

As Obama runs around the country pretending to be a parrot …. “pass my bill, pass my bill, Obama wants a campaign donation” …. Senate Dems have a different plan (The Politico) Democrats may not vote on President Barack Obama’s jobs bill just once. They could hold several votes on it, even though they know […]

How Obama Is Bypassing Democracy, Congress and YOU

Posted on October 10, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

Phil Kerpen has a warning for you, America. He wants to alert you to the fact that Barack Obama is using his powers to create regulations to undermine Congress, ignore voters, and “radically transform America.” But Kerpen also has some good news. There’s a way to stop this left-wing assault on our country. You can […]

Rep. Jan Schakowsky Thinks Gov’t ‘Creates Jobs’

Posted on October 10, 2011October 11, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

Recently Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D, Illinois 9th District), whose husband has been convicted of bank fraud and tax evasion, was interviewed by the far left website truthout. You’ll remember truthout for its scoop back in 2009. It was truthout that was the first to report the big news that Karl Rove had been indicted. Unfortunately […]

Occupy Wall Street Morons Pushing For Boycott Against Banks

Posted on October 9, 2011 by William Teach

And, when I call them morons, I’m not simply using typical language that us folks in political blogging use against our opponents (unlike those on the left, I do not consider them enemies, like the left thinks about the right): in this case, they are morons. Here’s a CNBC story from Friday which jumped into […]

New Bill Introduced to Roll Back Obama’s Anti-Business NLRB Rules

Posted on October 8, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman Rep. John Kline (R, Minn.) is tired of sitting around doing nothing while Obama ramps up his extremely anti-business, anti-jobs regulatory regime. So Kline has introduced a new bill to roll back some of these harsh rules. Since he became president Obama has been using his power to […]