Category: Economy

Why Isn’t Obama’s Teacher Lie National News?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

During the latest campaign appearance disguised as a presidential press conference, President Obama uttered one straight out lie that stands out above the rest of them. To help sell his “jobs bill,” Obama claimed to have met a Boston-based teacher named Robert Baroz and intimated that Baroz had no job despite his excellent teaching credentials. […]

 

Obama’s Senate Dems Prove They are NOT Interested in Working With Republicans

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat from Nevada, has just proven that while Obama runs around the country on campaign appearances claiming that he wants to work with Republicans to “pass this bill,” his party has no interest whatsoever in actually doing so. Reid is trying to pass new rules to prevent Republicans form […]

 

Unions In for Anti-American, Anti-Capitalist ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Protests

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Looks like the Unions are now endorsing the unwashed masses infesting… er, investing Wall Street. CNN has the story… Wall Street Protests Grow After Unions’ Endorsement Wall Street protests swelled Wednesday to their largest numbers yet, after local unions pledged support to a third week of demonstrations against income inequality, corporate greed, corruption and a […]

 

Debunking Obama’s Tax Demagoguery

Posted on by Dick Morris

When President Obama says that the rich don’t pay their share of taxes, he is lying, distorting and demagoguing. Here are the facts according to the IRS: ___Those making more than $1 million pay 24 percent of their income in taxes. ___Those making $200,000 to $300,000 pay 17.5 percent. ___Those making $100,000 to $125,000 pay […]

 

Alabama Shows the Best Way to Limit Illegal Immigration

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Tougher than Arizona’s, Alabama’s new immigration law is a perfect example of the best way to put limits on illegal immigration. Sadly these are laws being forced upon the states to implement instead of coming from the federal government, but regardless they are effective in limiting illegals. The Mobile Press-Register has a story sort of […]

 

Voters Aren’t Buying Obama’s “Bad Luck” Meme

Posted on by William Teach

ATM’s, floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, European debt, Arab spring, you name it, the voters aren’t buying blaming it (Fox News) Most American voters blame bad leadership for the condition of the economy, and think Democrats and Republicans alike have hurt more than helped the situation. That’s according to a Fox News poll released Friday. President Obama […]

 

“Google And The Antitrust Case Against Antitrust”

Posted on by Craig Newmark

Fine piece by Wayne Crews on dopey antitrust pursuit of high-tech companies, particularly Google. Furthermore, Google appears vulnerable, because the characteristics of searches to be conducted on tomorrow’s Internet will not entirely resemble today’s. You can drive a big Google Earth van through the hole to be opened up by future search-technology opportunities. Even if […]

 

Obameconomy: 90% Say It Stinks

Posted on by William Teach

Obviously, this is Bush’s fault. Or the Japanese earthquake and subsequent tsunami. Iraq. Afghanistan. Republicans. America has “gotten a little soft.” Bad luck. European debt. Greece. The Arab Spring. Bo ate his plan. (CNN) Three years after a financial crisis pushed the country deep into recession, an overwhelming number of Americans – 90% – say […]

 

NYTimes Sunday Review Again Pushes Lie that Billionaires Run Tea Party

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It is a lie that serves as the left’s basic narrative for the birth of the Tea Party movement and this weekend it was The New York Times’s turn to push that lie claiming that the Tea Party is “led by veteran conservative activists and bankrolled by billionaires.” This bull hockey (yes, I said bull […]

 

Ron Paul: NOT a Serious Candidate

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Ron Paul is not serious about running for president nor is he a serious candidate even were he to be so inclined. But serious or no, he is a horrible candidate regardless. Now, there may have been a time a decade or so ago when Ron Paul really thought he had a shot at being […]

 

Angry Man Obama Attacks Republicans At West Coast Fundraisers

Posted on by William Teach

He’s continuing his Mr. Angry tone. And we all know that insulting and denigrating one’s opposition is the best way to get them to co-operate (Fox News) President Barack Obama charged that the Republican vision of government would “fundamentally cripple America,” as he tried out his newly combative message on the liberal West Coast. Aiming […]

 

Calif., Illinois, New York at Bottom of Favorable Business Climate List

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Thanks to Illinois Democrats and Governor Pat Quinn, Illinois now sits among the worst states in the country for jobs and business. Texas and North and South Carolina rank as the best. Illinois is the state with the third worst business climates in the country. Only New York and last rated California are worse in […]

 

Obama’s Mounting Scandals

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Heritage Foundation has a post giving a run down of some of the scandals mounting in the Obama administration… you know, the most ethical administration ever? Yeah. That one. Most of them have to do with Obama’s penchant for crony capitalism. Like the good socialist he is, Obama wants to pick the winners and […]

 

President Obama’s NLRB & Their Summer Assault On American Jobs

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Obama pretends that he wants to cut regulations and make it easier for businesses to make jobs. Unfortunately, what he says and what he does with his powers to regulate are two very, very different things. From the Workforce Fairness Institute: The Workforce Fairness Institute today unveiled a new web video spotlighting President Obama’s National […]

 

Chicago: Union Members Collect Millions in Tax $$ With Sweetheart Pension Deal

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Now this is the sort of corruption we are used to seeing in Illinois, eh? This week the Chicago Tribune and WGN TV has found up to 23 retired union operatives that are collecting millions in taxpayer dollars because they had pals in government tweak the state’s pensions laws to favor them. These former government […]

 

Did 85 Democrats Vote In Favor of Government Shutdown?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Back on August first the whole country was waiting for the House of Representatives to raise the debt ceiling and offer a continuing resolution to prevent a feared government shutdown. That was done with the support of 95 Democrats who claimed they were desperate to prevent that shut down. (Relevant amendment) However, in a follow […]

 

Obama Donor, Now Medical Records Czar Gets Little Gov’t Job BIG Gov’t Contracts

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Must be nice to be a member of the “in” crowd, the crowd of crony capitalists to whom President Obama has given so much of the taxpayer’s money. And not just money but positions of power in the government. Take, for instance, Obama’s newest czar, Judith Faulkner, recently named Obama medical records czar. She was […]

 

Intimidation: Obama’s Dept. of Labor To Supply Replacement Workers’ Names AND Addresses to Union Thugs

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

“Since 1975,” a study of union violence says, there has been “more than 9,000 reports of union violence.” With that in mind, wouldn’t it scare you if you were told that your name and address would be made public knowledge if you were hired as a temporary or replacement worker during a union strike? If […]

 

Sssshhhh: Obama’s Deficit Plan Will Tax More Than The Evil Rich

Posted on by William Teach

Anyone who thinks this is anything more than a raise taxes on everyone plan is deluded, and his liberal cheerleaders will suddenly realize that the old Democrat axiom “do you get a paycheck? You’re rich” is in play It’s not just millionaires who’d pay more under President Obama’s latest plan to combat the deficit. Air […]

 

Illinois Congressman Apologizes to Muslims for Being Discriminated Against

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Mike Quigley, the Democrat Congressman from the Chicago area’s 5th Congressional District thinks he needs to apologize for America. Why? Well, because we have been so darn evil towards Muslims and all, dontcha know? And why are we so mean to Muslims? It’s because Republicans want to cut the budget. It looks like Quigley has […]

 

Obama’s Pleas for Civility Don’t Apply to Union Leaders

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Michael Barone, one of America’s premier political analysts, unleashed a corker this week looking over how sold out to unions our president as been. It is something that union watchers such as myself have been saying since day one. It’s bad enough that Obama has been so bought and paid for by union bosses, but […]

 

Shockingly, Obama’s Deficit Reduction Plan Reads Like A Bone To His Hard Left Base

Posted on by William Teach

When you have one of the his biggest cheerleaders at The Politico, Carrie Budoff Brown, positioning the plan as such…. President Barack Obama will release a plan Monday to cut the federal deficit by $3 trillion over the next decade, drawing half the savings from new tax revenue and sparing Medicare recipients from having to […]