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“Snail Mail Spam Subsidies Stuttering Towards A Stop”

Posted on September 18, 2011September 13, 2011 by Craig Newmark

Walter Mead Russell has been doing a great series on the failure of the blue state social model. Here’s the opening to another fine piece:’ The USPS is one of the great surviving examples of the blue social model and, not surprisingly, it is going down the tubes.: Technological change has made its original mission […]

The Town Government With More Cars Than Employees

Posted on September 17, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

There is a town in Tennessee whose government owns more cars than they even have employees to drive them. This is the sort of excess that every anti-big government activist points to in order to show the bacchanalia of spending to which governments in our fair country are prone. The Times Free Press of Chattanooga, […]

Fox Business Network Takes on Regulations Burying the Open Road Trucking Industry

Posted on September 16, 2011September 16, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

Much of what you eat, wear, read, play with, drive, and ride gets to your hometown store via a truck of some kind so the open road trucking industry — as well as local, short distance haulers — is a vital link between all of us and the necessities of life. That is why the […]

Obama Spends $4,853,000 per Green Energy Job

Posted on September 16, 2011 by Dave Blount

As anyone whose eyes weren’t clouded by moonbattery could easily have seen in advance, the Obama Regime’s push to spend “green jobs” into existence has been a colossal failure: A $38.6 billion loan guarantee program that the Obama administration promised would create or save 65,000 jobs has created just a few thousand jobs two years […]

Lib Activist Physically Assaults GOP Lawmaker in Wisconsin, Media Silent

Posted on September 16, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

A known liberal activist that has for months been stalking several Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin, verbally abusing them, has finally crossed the line into a physical attack. So… where is the Old Media to chronicle this assault? Sadly, no where to be seen. On Sept. 14 left-wing activist Miles Kirstan entered The Inn at 22 […]

EPA to Give Itself Powers to Preemptively Deny Natural Resource Development?

Posted on September 16, 2011September 16, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

Once again an Obama regulatory agency tries to give itself wild new powers, powers that would crush American energy and natural resource development, powers meant to quash the business sector. A press release from Resourceful Earth News imparts a warning about the Environmental Protection Agency’s newest powergrab. A lfet-wing Democrat Senator is asking the EPA […]

Mich. House Moves to Ban Union Dues Deducted from Teachers’ Paychecks

Posted on September 15, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

A new measure has been introduced in the Michigan House of Representatives that would ban school districts from automatically deducting union dues from teachers’ paychecks and handing that money over to unions. The practice of having state governments deducting dues automatically from state employees is quite common in northern and western states that are in […]

Good Thing Obama’s Jobs Bill Isn’t About His Election

Posted on September 15, 2011 by William Teach

That was Wednesday, a tweet from Obama’s official 2012 campaign Twitter account. But, remember, his jobs bill isn’t about him getting re-elected. But, if you love him, you’ll help him pass the bill. Which is kinda weird on its own Not for the first time, Obama called back to an audience member who shouted “I […]

Incompetence: Obama Even Loses the Name of His Jobs Bill

Posted on September 14, 2011September 14, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

Texas Representative Louie Gohmert is a genius. He’s absconded with the name of Obama’s jobs bill — the American Jobs Act of 2011 –and used it for his own tax-cutting bill. Is it a Republican dirty trick? How can Gohmert do this? Because Obama is either incompetent or cynical. Here is the thing, either Obama […]

Solyndra: Green Jobbery, Green Robbery

Posted on September 14, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

We have come to learn something about our president. He really loves green. But what we can’t quite decipher is if that green is green jobs and energies or just the good old fashioned green of tax money. Whatever the case, it sure is true that the green of U.S. tax dollars is far more […]

Union Thugs Hurl Racial Taunts in North Dakota

Posted on September 14, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

Union-lovers and Democrats point to Tea Party enthusiasts routinely calling them “racists” and “violent.” Yet, since the Tea Party movement began, no racial epithets nor violence has been reported or proven. On the other hand, month in and month out we have seen one example of union members engaging in both racism and violence. This […]

Democrats Rather Surly Over Nevada And NY Losses, Blame Obama

Posted on September 14, 2011 by William Teach

There is no love today in Liberal Land, starting with The Politico The Democratic Party’s rare loss of a congressional seat in its urban heartland Tuesday, accompanied by a blowout defeat in a Nevada special election, marked the latest in a string of demoralizing setbacks that threatened to deepen the party’s crisis of confidence and […]

Poverty Rate Rises Under Obama

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Dave Blount

How’s that Hope & Change working out for you? Unless you’re a well-connected crony capitalist or a power-drunk government bureaucrat, probably not too well: Amid a still struggling economy, more people in America fell below the poverty line last year, according to new census data released Tuesday. The nation’s poverty rate rose to 15.1% in […]

Obama Now Trying to Intimidate Consultants and PR Firms of Businesses

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

True to form, even as he says he wants to cut regulations, Obama’s regulatory army is marching hard against business and this week the president’s Labor Dept. has unleashed yet another salvo in order to hurt the business sector. Before I start this explanation of yet another Obama powergrab through his powers to regulate, may […]

Great New Ap That Will be Destroyed By Government

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

There is a new smart phone ap out there that is a pretty good idea. It’s called “CLOO’.” Unfortunately, no matter how good it is there is an absolute certainty that the government — whether local, state, or federal, or even all of them — will destroy this great idea with regulatory red tape. The […]

Obama “Jobs” Bill To Hit Municipal Bonds

Posted on September 13, 2011 by William Teach

What do municipal bonds have to do with Obama’s American Jobs Act? Well, according to Barron’s Municipal bonds have always been synonymous with tax-free income. That would end if President Obama gets his way. Under the jobs bill the President sent to Congress Monday, high-income individuals and families would no longer receive interest from state […]

Union Members Take Hostages, Destroy Property: But Remember, Tea Party is ‘Dangerous’

Posted on September 12, 2011June 19, 2017 by Warner Todd Huston

After months of accusations that it is the Tea Party movement that is somehow “dangerous” to America, much of such rhetoric coming from union members and their supporters, we get union members of the Longshoremen storming the Port of Longview, Washington taking hostages, destroying property, and generally acting like lawless thugs. Imagine what the news […]

Obama To Send Jobs Bill Over To Congress Monday Night (Updated with some plan links)

Posted on September 12, 2011September 12, 2011 by William Teach

Remember, he wanted this thing passed “right away,” as he said multiple times during his joint address. Four days later, we might actually see the text of his proposal President Barack Obama plans to send the text of his jobs bill to Congress on Monday night, a White House official said Sunday. At a Rose […]

AFL-CIO Prez: Hey, Remember 9/11? Was a Great Union Moment, Right?

Posted on September 10, 2011September 10, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

In one of the most disgusting examples of the self-absorption of the union mind set, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka decided that his 9/11 memorial would not be much about 9/11, but would instead be just another excuse to say how great unions are and how evil conservatives are. This isn’t just gauche, but insulting, infuriating, […]

Video: Obama Calls Lincoln ‘Founder of Republican Party’?

Posted on September 10, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

During his faux “jobs” speech on Sept 8, President Obama went off script for a brief sojourn into history to reveal to one and all that he hasn’t a clue about the subject. I say off script because these words are not in the prepared text… Sorry, big guy, but Abe Lincoln was not the […]

Irrelevant Jobs Speech: The Presidential Speech No One Attended

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

President Obama gave his much delayed “jobs” speech on Thursday, one he’s been promising since 2008. Unfortunately for this president, few people much cared. In fact, the most damning indictment about how irrelevant this speech and this president is was seen during the speech in the House gallery, a space that was, unlike any other […]

Actress Mila Kunis: Middle America Stupid for Not Loving Obama

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

It is always amusing to hear actors and actresses venture into the unfamiliar territory of politics when interviewers are cruel enough to broach such issues. Sadly, actress Mila Kunis is no exception to that Hollyweird tendency toward guffaw inducing political bloviating. Naturally and in keeping with most of the rest of the industry, in a […]

Angry Man Shows Up To Give Tired, Recycled Speech

Posted on September 9, 2011 by William Teach

Did I watch the speech? No. I went to the gym. Did I listen to it on my MP3 player with a radio or read the captions on the TV? No. Like the really boring “Interview with the Vampire” and horrible “Terminator: Salvation”, I felt no need to read or watch Obama’s speech. I’ve seen […]

Live Tweeting Obama’s Jobs Speech: More Big Government Boondoggles

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

As I often do, I live Tweeted Obama’s address to the joint session of congress, but for sure this speech was little else but yet another plea from Obama for giant piles of government money to be thrown around in a bacchanalia of Keynesian spending. He may not have used the newly verboten word “stimulus,” […]

Obama Hypocrisy: From ‘Talking to Each Other in a Way That Heals,’ to Dismissing ‘Kabuki Theater’

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

Barack Obama is nothing less than a hypocrite on his admonitions over public discourse and the latest example of this truth lies in his refusal to condemn the violence-tinged language of Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa not to mention his similar silence on the obscene rhetoric of many of the leading members of the Congressional Black […]

Even The Politico Is Having A Tough Time Being Positive About Obama’s Speech

Posted on September 8, 2011 by William Teach

One of Politico’s biggest Obama cheerleaders, Carrie Budoff Brown, must have been sighing quite a bit while writing the article. Not the hopey changey 2008 campaign sighs of adoration, but the kind of sigh one gets when the puppy poops on the carpet for the 10th time this week. She was even nice enough to […]

AP Editorializing in the ‘News’ Again

Posted on September 7, 2011September 7, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

In a recent article on the dissatisfaction of Big Labor once again we see making its way into what is otherwise supposed to be a normal, everyday “news” story, the Associated Press indulging its penchant for using biased labels and left-wing “definitions” in order to push a left-wing agenda on its readers. Even while presenting […]

Obama Jobs “Plan”: $300 Billion In Spending

Posted on September 7, 2011 by William Teach

Plan has to be put in quotations, of course, because a) we haven’t actually seen it yet, b) we’ll probably never see it, we’ll just hear about it Thursday night and during press conferences and campaign speeches, a c) we all know it will be the same old tired and failed ideas, per MSNBC: Obama […]

Rockford Tea Party Calls for Resignation of Teamsters President

Posted on September 6, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

After Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa incited violence against Republicans as he introduced President Obama at Monday’s rally in Detroit, at least one organization called for Hoffa to resign over his intemperate and violent rhetoric. The Rockford Tea Party of northern Illinois made the call for Hoffa to resign. Here is what Hoffa’s ignorant rhetoric sounded: […]

Obama Plans To Continue His “Patriotism” Calls During Boring Joint Session Speech

Posted on September 6, 2011 by William Teach

Hey, if Obama can pre-questioning the patriotism of Republicans for not passing a plan that he hasn’t even introduced yet, I can pre-call the campaign speech boring. As John Podhoretz points out, Obama will continue his despicable “country before party” nonsense News reports suggest that on Thursday night, the president will tell Republicans in the […]