Category: Economy

Net Neutrality: Free Press Loses a Schtick Contest

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Recently Comm Daily (subscription required) reported that an FCC decision on net neutrality was unlikely before its January meeting. While uninteresting in itself the one remarkable line in the story had to be this quote from a senior FCC official: “While they are busy handing out waffles and making posters, we are focused on creating […]

 

During Breast Cancer Month Obama’s FDA Ponders Delisting Cancer Drug

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

So you have Avastin, a drug used to treat breast cancer that has a record of extending the lives of sufferers for at least five and a half months, and it’s October, the month declared Breast Cancer Awareness Month. If you are the Obama Federal Drug Administration, what do you do? Apparently you look to […]

 

Net Neutrality Supporters Admit, They Want Property Rights Eliminated

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Oh, Net Neutrality sure sounds like a great idea. Why, Net Neutrality supporters only want what’s best for “the people,” right? They only want the Internet to be a playground for all, free of the influence of evil corporations, and they want fees to be reasonable for the lowly masses, right? Turns out, not so […]

 

NJ Teachers Union Bragging They Can’t Be Fired

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Shock videographer James O’Keefe has released video of New Jersey teachers union members bragging that it is nearly impossible for them to be fired by the state. Daily Caller reports: In one video, Alissa Ploshnick, who is identified as a special educator at Passaic Public Schools, seems to verify the worst suspicions of education reformers. […]

 

For Democrats, Math Is Hard. So Is The Truth.

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

Originally posted at David Horowitz’s NewsReal: The two latest examples of Democrat ineptitude, incompetence and total math fail come to us from none other than Nancy Pelosi (the best speaker of the house EVAH):  and Joe “doll hair” Biden. First up is Nancy Pelosi with both bad math and shameless lies. As Ben Domenech points […]

 

Will The Treasury Dept. Turn the U.S. Into A New Weinmar Republic?

Posted on by Jeff Dunetz

Germany in the 1920’s did not “invent” Hyperinflation, they just made it famous. Hyperinflation was first systematically:  documented in Germany. The currency on the left is a relic:  from the Weinmar Republic. It was originally:  a 1,000 Mark currency note, but:  because of inflation, it was re-stamped to make it 1,000,000 Marks. You see:  inflation […]

 

Public Pensions Spell Certain Doom for California

Posted on by Dave Blount

Liberals love the word “sustainable.” However, the mess they’ve made of California is anything but: California, which has the largest U.S. public-pension fund, faces liabilities that may exceed its annual state-tax revenue fivefold within two years unless lawmakers rein in benefits, according to a study. To keep their promises to retirees, the California Public Employees […]

 

Monday Funnies: Obama May Focus On Deficit Over The Next Two Years

Posted on by William Teach

One has to wonder whether this trial balloon comes from the administration, or the Associated Press. Either way, if Obama gives the deficit the same attention he gave jobs creation, it’ll balloon even more Preparing for political life after a bruising election, President Barack Obama will put greater emphasis on fiscal discipline, a nod to […]

 

Restrained No More’s — Big $pender-Like a Kid in a Candy Store

Posted on by Sharise Parviz

We all know who the Big $$pender is … Here’s a little tune to sing on the way to the polls. Just make sure you take your billy clubs (oops! Sorry, wrong audience.) I mean your boas ;) For other episodes of the show, a “backstage pass” and to download songs go to – http://www.restrainednomore.com/

 

A Break for ‘Mob Banker,’ Feds Releasing Report After Election

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It must be nice to be an Obama insider like Democrat Senate candidate Alexi “The Mob Banker” Giannoulias is. Obama’s FDIC is obviously in his corner, it seems. After all, the FDIC decided to wait until after the election is over to release its report on the failure of Giannoulias’s family bank. So, Giannoulias might […]

 

Aw. Obama Says He Didn’t Market His Vastly Unpopular Legislation Enough

Posted on by William Teach

Poor baby. If only he had been able to spend more time talking about how great his mostly outsourced legislation, people would love it. Sniffle President Barack Obama told a friendly backyard gathering on Thursday that he was so focused on getting the policy right on helping the economy recover that he didn’t devote enough […]

 

George Soros’ Millions Buying ‘Political Reporters’ For NPR

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The left loves to go wild claiming that Ruppert Murdock, a famous conservative, owns a few news outlets. The left is also aghast that well-known righty Roger Ailes guides Fox News. Ailes’s ideology makes of his network a compromised product, they claim. It’s all a travesty of “news,” and “proof” that those agencies are contaminated […]

 

An Obama Endorsement May Not Be The Kiss Of Death, But, It Sure Has Cooties!

Posted on by William Teach

It would really be great if all the Democrats looked to Obama for an endorsement, have him stump for them, maybe do a radio ad. It’ll make the Republicans win even more seats On a list of six prominent Democratic and Republican politicians, voters rank President Obama as the one who carries the most weight […]

 

The Politico: The Rich Defending Not Being Taxed Out The Ying Yang Is “Whiny” And “Upsetting”

Posted on by William Teach

Personally, I’ll never understand the liberal doctrine to punish people for doing well, instead of applauding them and incentivizing them to pump that money back into the private sector, creating jobs and wealth down the food chain. Alas, it is not to be President Barack Obama plans to raise taxes on “the rich,” and he […]

 

Obama Rules That SEIUs Law Breaking is OK By Him

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

With a recent Federal Election Commission decision Obama’s government has ruled in favor of the SEIU’s illegal kickback scheme and decided that such law breaking it is A’OK as far as he is concerned. Ostensibly, FEC law states that unions cannot require member locals to pay a specific amount of money into a union’s political […]

 

Weight of Taxation Is Heavier Than Most Know

Posted on by Dave Blount

The official unemployment numbers are downright comforting, compared to the actual total number of people who are unemployed. The same applies to the massive burden of taxation our moonbat rulers are inflicting on the economy. Duke University research scholar Christopher J. Conover explains: When the government taxes apples, people buy and sell fewer apples. That […]

 

Chile’s Miners Would Still Be Down There if They Were Democrats

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The world is rejoicing that the miners trapped for over a month in the bowels of a mountain in Chile are finally rescued. As the rescue was ongoing President Barack Obama said of the worried families, “the tears they shed after so much time apart expressed not only their own relief, not only their own […]

 

Union Killing Local Libraries?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In this era of severe budget cuts, layoffs, and job loss, people in the real world are making due with less. Businesses are cutting back and people are hurting everywhere in this era of Obama. Local governments are also starting to find this economic climate challenging. But even as local budgets are taking hits, unions […]

 

Hard to Believe That Alexi Giannoulias ‘Didn’t Know’ Of Mobster’s Crimes

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Alexi Giannoulias is well known as the “Mob Banker” for the fact that his family bank lent $20 million to two mobsters while Alexi was an officer of the bank. The Illinois Democrat’s Senate candidate has finally answered to this loan a bit more directly than he has in the past and his answer is […]

 

Uncle Sam’s Plantation

Posted on by Dave Blount

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Founding Father of the American welfare state, appeared to have qualms about the Frankenstein monster he set in motion: “The lessons of history … show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber. To dole out relief in this way is to […]

 

Obama’s Healthcare Rules Will Shut Down Catholic Hospitals Nationwide

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Some of Obamacare’s most destructive forces are quickly becoming common knowledge. We have, for instance, become painfully aware that Obama’s claim that we all could keep our plans and doctors “if you like them” is an outright falsehood as some people are already losing their coverage. It is also becoming clear that companies will be […]

 

Union Realizes Its Labor Is Too Expensive, Actually Proposes Cutting Rates

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Chicago’s electrical workers union is making ready to cut costs of its services with a unique solution to the high cost of its labor in this down economy. At the bidding of the national office the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in Chicago has announced a plan to add a new classification of workers who […]

 

Video: What We Tea Party Conservatives Believe

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Bill Whittle has a great, great video here helping to explain our conservative views in an intelligent, even soft-spoken, style. This is part one of two, the second to come soon. Progressive ideas have always failed and our ideas are successful every time they are tried. Bill Whittle is the host of PJTVs Afterburner.