Category: Economy

Rep. Blackburn Introduces Bill to Preempt FCC Internet Takeover

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Representative Marsha Blackburn (R, TN) has introduced a bill to preempt the December power grab by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski and she has made the bill bipartisan with the support of Democrat Dan Boren (Oklahoma). Blackburn’s bill would place all rules governing the Internet in the purview of Congress and would take the […]

 

Great Oceanic Garbage Patch Not So Large As Thought

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Remember the floating patch of plastic garbage swirling in the Pacific Ocean between California and Japan that was claimed to be the “twice the size of Texas”? Well if Texas is the size of, well, Teaxs, it turns out that the plastic patch isn’t quite so large. Like most of the wild-eyed claims by enviro-Nazis […]

 

Obama Plans Massive Land Grab

Posted on by Dave Blount

Nothing better sums up the Left’s antidemocratic and antihuman agenda that the Obama Administration’s policy of circumventing Congress to seal off our own land from use. An Obama administration directive designed to preserve more public lands as wilderness is stirring anger in the West, where ranchers, sportsmen and energy companies say they could lose access […]

 

Obamacare: When Obama LIKES Imposing Higher Costs on ‘The Poor’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

My friend George Scoville, who works for the CATO Institute, asked a question that really does go to show the left’s hypocrisy. This time the question reveals a “feature” of Obamacare that tends to expose hypocrisy so large that an ambulance could drive through it. (See how I said “ambulance” there to keep with the […]

 

Stagehands Extort Hundreds of Thousands From Theater Goers

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

If there never was a story that explains how unions are really little else but a criminal extortion racket, the story by James Ahearn in the New Jersey Began Record helps explain it for us. Ahearn’s piece headlined “For Backstage Labor, Rich Rewards,” informs us that some stagehands in New York theater make upwards to […]

 

90-Year-Old Post Office Workers Still Getting Workers Comp?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Years after most Americans retire, in fact years after the federal retirement age of 68, more than 100 U.S. Postal Workers in their 90s are still getting 75 percent of their salaries (tax free, yet) of federal workers compensation payments instead of having been graduated to the cheaper retirement payments at 60 percent of their […]

 

Thanks to Big Government, Oil Prices Headed for the Sky

Posted on by Dave Blount

What might an irresponsible, authoritarian, hyper-intrusive government driven by a radical environmentalist agenda and hostile to American interests do to the energy sector? It might prevent the building of nuclear plants and oil refineries, squash drilling in the ANWR wasteland and the Gulf of Mexico, and declare drilling to be out of the question most […]

 

Snap! The Hill Says Obama And The Democrats Job Creation Policies Rock!

Posted on by William Teach

Vicki Needham is working hard to provide cover for the Obama administration and Congressional Democrats, who just got whacked during the 2010 mid-term Job creation is happening at a faster rate than during previous recessions, more good news for the White House and congressional Democrats who have spent the past two years defending their policies […]

 

Obama’s Labor Dept. to Force Employers to tell Employees They Have a Right to Unionize

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Obama’s intrusive National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the government regulatory agency responsible for making rules to govern the relationship between employer and employee, has decided that as an employee you are stupid. Worse, the NLRB also decided that it has the power to force your employer to waste its resources holding your hand as an […]

 

Readers Choice of My Top Fifteen Posts (on The Lid) For 2010

Posted on by Jeff Dunetz

Since it the end of the year many of my favorite bloggers are making their choice of their favorite posts of the year. For example John Hawkins posted The 15 Most Popular Political Posts On Linkiest For 2010 and The 20 Most Popular Non-Political Links On Linkiest For 2010 this morning. As I will be […]

 

Merry Christmas from Jerry Brown! More “Green” and Tech Jobs Leave California

Posted on by Jane Jamison

Obviously “encouraged” by all of the incoming governor’s dire warnings about tax increases and budget cuts, more “green jobs” are running for:  the border. Here ‘s the headline in the San Jose Mercury News. “Nordic Windpower leaving California”:  (OH, the irony, it’s a company based in Berserkley, the “mecca” for the enviro-mental faithful.) Nordic Windpower, […]

 

Extravagant Arab Lifestyles Funded by Americans at the Gas Pump

Posted on by Jane Jamison

Lifestyles of the Petro-Elite Should be Seen by American Public:  Class Warfare Should be Waged Against Oil-Producers–DRILL DRILL DRILL:  Democrats are waging “class war” against the wrong people.: :  The people to be villified are not the wealthy Americans who employ Americans.:  America needs to understand how we are being:  harmed by our government: energy policy.:  We […]

 

Strong Coalition Urges House Republicans to Create Anti-Appropriations Committee

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

President of Americans for Tax Reform (ATR.org), Grover Norquist, wrote about having an “anti-appropriations committee back in June n the American Spectator. Norquist talked of Democrats, Republicans and “the appropriators” in congress and proposed an idea to take the starch out of the appropriator’s assumed sense of entitlement to spend our money with abandon. Hearkening […]

 

Obama Tells Labor, I’m On Your Side

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

-By Warner Todd Huston They gave him hundreds of millions of dollars for his campaign for president and for that Barack Obama has given Big Labor many, many payoffs, sweetheart deals, and regulatory favors. And this week he met in the White House with members of Big Labor and told them that he was sill […]

 

Obamonomy: Companies Look More Towards Temporary Jobs

Posted on by William Teach

The good news is, there are some jobs out there. The bad news is they are simply temporary/contractor positions Temporary workers are starting to look, well, not so temporary. Despite a surge this year in short-term hiring, many American businesses are still skittish about making those jobs permanent, raising concerns among workers and some labor […]

 

Do Not Fear the Chinese Economy

Posted on by Brian Garst

Hand-wringing over Chinese economic growth is both common and bipartisan. Commentators and politicians from the left and right alike find something fearsome in the rise of China as an economic force to be reckoned with. From Paul Krugman to Pat Buchanan, we are told to be concerned. Be very concerned. But these concerns are almost […]

 

The 11 Republicans on the Powerful House Ways and Means Committee

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Veteran fiscal conservative Congressman Peter Roskam (R, IL) has announced the names of the 10 Republicans that are joining him on the House Ways and Means Committee, the powerful committee that has jurisdiction over taxes, trade, and programs such as Social Security and Medicare. Peter Roskam is the Representative for the 6th Illinois Congressional District […]

 

Illinois to the Elderly: Retire Somewhere Else, Will Ya? Top Ten Worst States to Retire To

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Guess which state is the single worst state to try and retire in? Yup. Illinois. TopRetirements.com, a site that tracks the best values for retirees, recently posted its top ten worst states to retire to and Barack Obama’s home state of Illinois tops the list of the worst. California comes up a close second worst. […]

 

A Detailed List of Earmarks in The Omnibus Spending Bill

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Pork, pork, pork. It’s enough pork to make a Southside Chicago BBQ joint greasy with envy. Yes, it’s a bacchanalia of pork spending and earmarks in the Omnibus spending bill, for sure, and we now have the database to prove it. Senator Tom Coburn has posted a Google Spreadsheet data base document on line and […]

 

Reid Still Looking to Introduce Forced Unionizing Bill

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

As we discussed a few days ago, Senate Democrat Majority Leader Harry Reid still intends to push the bill that wold nationalize all police and firefighter unions. The bill is titled the Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act (S 3391) and would force all local, city, county, and state police and firefighter unions to operate under […]

 

Obamanomics Changes Dynamics Of Letters To Santa

Posted on by William Teach

Old and busted: An Official Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model Air Rifle! New and sad: Kids write Santa this year for basic needs instead of toys Santa Claus and his elves are seeing more heartbreaking letters this year as children cite their parents’ economic troubles in their wish lists. U.S. Postal Service workers who […]

 

FDA: Dec. 17, Countdown to a Death Panel for Breast Cancer Drug Avastin

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In a few days the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is expected to release its final decision on whether or not 17,000 women across the country will have the same access to the breast cancer drug Avastin that they now have. Several congressmen, thousands of doctors and patients, and many small government activists stand against […]

 

Obama Using Regulatory Power to Force Card Check

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Congress has failed to pass Big Labor’s long sought after card check bill, the Orwellian named Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). The reason congress has not passed this destructive law is because the voters have repeatedly spoken by urging their representatives and senators to stand against it. The voice of the American people, though, does […]

 

(Video) Proof That British Students are Morons

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Last week thousands of coddled British students rioted because the British government decided that its children would have to… gasp… earn their own way through college. No longer would these petulant brats be given a free ride through higher education says the government. And these punks are not very happy about it. Well, one dimwitted […]

 

Muslim Congressman Advocates Economic Terrorism

Posted on by Dave Blount

The Muslim–moonbat alliance has an avatar in Keith Ellison, the leftist Nation of Islam alumnus Minneapolis sees fit to send to Congress. An interview with his fellow progressives at Minnesota Public Radio offers insight into our first Muslim Congresscritter’s mentality. Here’s why he doesn’t like the tax compromise Comrade Obama struck with Republicans: “I think […]

 

(Video) Townhall Meeting With Mark Kirk and Randy Hultgren, Saint Charles, Illinois

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

On Dec. 11, 2010, I attended a townhall meeting held in the 14th Congressional District featuring Congressman-elect Randy Hultgren and newly minted Senator Mark Kirk. The event was held in the theater of a local high school in Saint Charles, Illinois. The afternoon started out with an address by Senator Mark Kirk who already was […]

 

Countries Agree To Redistribute Wealth For Climate Change, As Snow Collapses Metrodome

Posted on by William Teach

Big doings in exotic Cancun, doings which highlight exactly what this whole farce is all about Delegates from 193 nations agreed Saturday on a new global framework to help developing countries curb their carbon output and cope with the effects of climate change, but they postponed the harder question of precisely how industrialized and major […]