Category: Economy

Video Interview: Herman Cain… for President?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Where ever Herman Cain goes he meets enthusiastic crowds. There is a reason for that: He is an incredibly dynamic man. He has a compelling life story and boy can he whip up a crowd! Every time I’ve seen him he has the folks on their feet in wild applause. And Cain revels in the […]

 

Video: Jindal Calls Obama’s Actions in Gulf a ‘War’ on Louisiana

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Governor Bobby Jindal gives a speech at the Rally For Economic Survival in Lafayette, Louisiana. Over 11,000 people gathered at the Cajun Dome to protest what they say is an assault on Louisiana’s economy by President Barack Obama. “The fact that the federal government can’t do its job shouldn’t cost thousands of Louisianans OUR jobs.”

 

Cook County Board to Extort Suburban Drivers

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Just a reminder of how Obama’s Chicago Way-style of politics works…. THIS is where he comes from: Oh, the games Cook County Board President little Todd Stroger plays. And they are always about sticking it to the taxpayers, aren’t they? Stroger and his Democrat co-conspirators have really proven that county Democrats are more like a […]

 

Recess missing one key demand from the Obama/Pelosi Led House

Posted on by Heather Bachman

: : : : : : : : : : :  The one thing Obama seemed to pride himself on was that his legislative majority, especially in the house, was behind him.:  When ObamaCare was signed into law, it was called a triumph by many of the liberal Representatives who supported it.:  However, when it came to actually supporting it on their land via health-care […]

 

Confirmed: Administration Playing Games On Issue Of Unemployment Benefits Extension

Posted on by Sister Toldjah

CBS News’ Mark Knoller reports on how both the administration and Democrats in Congress have shamelessly used the issue of the unemployment benefits extension in an attempt at political gain during an election year: In signing the bill restoring unemployment benefits to 2 million Americans jobless for more than 26 weeks, President Obama is also […]

 

Teachers Unions Spent $100 Per Teacher on Politics

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Education Next undertook for the first time an effort to find out how much of their members dues money that teachers unions spent on political action. The results are very interesting. The analysis discovered that, “national teachers unions and their state affiliates spent more than $100 per teacher in five states, with Oregon at the […]

 

Obama Parody Brilliance: Same as it Ever Was… After the Oils Gone

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

This is some brilliant parody of the Talking Heads song “Same As It Ever Was.” This one lampoons Obama’s sad reaction to the Gulf oil spill. Smashing work, from The PolitiZoid Channel. They also gave us this one… Love it. (H/T HotAir.com and alhouse.blogspot.com)

 

Jury Damage Award Could Close Calif. Healthcare Facilities

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

When companies are found to have violated regulations that govern their industry, is it right that a jury of non-experts can award damages the amount of which will wipe the company off the face of the earth? That is a question that has been raised in a case recently decided against Skilled Healthcare LLC of […]

 

AEI: More Unions Means Fewer Jobs

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In April Lee Ohanian of the American Enterprise Institute published a paper on the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) that is a must read. But this month he published a shorter piece that is just as interesting. In it, Ohanian claims that if we increased unionism as the Obamaites want to do, we’d actually lose […]

 

Pets Subjected to Healthcare Reform

Posted on by Dave Blount

Under Canada’s socialized medicine, you can get faster medical attention at the veterinarian than you can at the hospital. But that won’t happen here. California bureauweenies are seeing to it by imposing “healthcare reform” on pets: Democratic state Assemblyman Dave Jones, who is running for state insurance commissioner in the November election, said some of […]

 

Obama’s FDR-Like Bait and Switch

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Remember when Barack Hussein Obama first became president and the left-wing Old Media universally indulged the claim that he was “just like FDR“? Of late the Old Media has backed off that hyperbolic statement, but at least in a single incident, Obama has proven indeed to be just like FDR. The similarity entails laws about […]

 

Calif Video: Union Goons Start Pushing and Hitting Videographers

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

This is how “nurses” act? The kind, gentle folks of the California Nurses Association are seen in this video intimidating, pushing and knocking around some videographers at the union’s recent pro-Democrat rally in California. Mike Griffing is the bearded fellow acting the thug at the end of the video. But he isn’t just some run-of-the-mill […]

 

WSJ: Obama Presser Highlights Failure Of His Own Policies

Posted on by William Teach

How bad are Obama and the Democrats policies for unemployment? This bad Presidents typically invite Americans to appear at Rose Garden press conferences to trumpet their policy successes, but yesterday we saw what may have been a first. President Obama introduced three Americans–an auto worker, a fitness center employee and a woman in real estate–who’ve […]

 

Know What’s Awesome? Being Unemployed!

Posted on by John Hawkins

Seriously, that’s the theme of this blog post at Fox News, A growing group of jobless across the nation are joining a self-proclaimed movement: ‘funemployment.’ It’s a group of jovial unemployed who say they’re finally doing what they’ve always wanted to do – whether it is blogging or starting a nonprofit. Christy Annis knows this […]

 

The Video President Obama Doesn’t Want You To See

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

The oil spill is a travesty beyond all imagination. It’s hard to get a grip on how awful this all is. Watch this video of Bill Nungesser talking about what’s happening. Once again The Right Scoop, scoops everyone. It very nearly made me cry because of the abject helplessness: Brian, at The Right Scoop says […]

 

For All Teachers’ Whining, Almost Half of Chicago Area Teachers Make $100K a Year

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

As the Obama economy tumbles farther and farther down into depression, as states begin to face the reality of a budget crunch that can only be solved by layoffs of public employees, and as teachers find they are open to those layoffs, we commonly hear teachers claim that they are perennially underpaid and don’t deserve […]

 

Snap! Companies Consider Moving Overseas Thanks To Finance Bill

Posted on by William Teach

Newton’s Third Law of Motion states that for every action there is an equal and opposite action. Too bad over-blown and idiotic legislation doesn’t do the same, because, in this case, when you push the ball at 5mph, it explodes and moves at 50mph, causing all sorts of damage U.S. banks, hedge funds and other […]

 

Unions Holding Up Cash for the Troops

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Last week the Washington Times had a story that should enrage every true American. The Democrat Congress is allowing Big Labor’s needs to come before the needs of our troops. The supplemental budget that Congress is considering is supposed to be about funding the troops and their efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, but Democrats are […]

 

Noblesse Oblige: Obama’s Dog Gets Own Plane on Vacation Trip

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Morning Sentinel, a small paper from the state of Maine, has a travelogue story of the Obama’s vacation in and about Maine today. It has a very interesting little tidbit in it that should enrage every American. It is something that really shows Barack Obama’s arrogance and his obviously assumed air of noblesse oblige. […]

 

Financial Reform? More Like Union Giveaways!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

On Thursday the Senate passed the Democrat’s financial reform bill. But even as Obama claims that this bill will “solve” the financial crisis, a look at the thing seems to prove that things financial took a back seat to giveaways to Obama’s union pals and sops to many of the Democrat’s other special interest friends. […]

 

Government #3 On List Of American’s Concerns

Posted on by William Teach

As Obama goes on yet another vacation, this time to Maine, at the end of a week where Michelle Obama urged everyone (else) to visit the Gulf region and take a vacation there, no one should be surprised by these numbers. Except Obama, who’s probably thinking he and the Dems are doing a miraculous job […]

 

Obama’s ‘Keep Your Doctor’ Lies

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Heritage Foundation wants to repeal Obamacare… Repeal Obamacare from Heritage Action for America on Vimeo. The Heritage Foundation recently launched a sister organization, Heritage Action for America. Heritage Action is leading a national campaign to repeal Obamacare. Join the fight to repeal Obamacare with your donation to Heritage Action for America. As the CEO […]

 

Video: How Obama’s Drilling Moratorium Affecting LA Citizens

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Tens of thousands of jobs lost to Obama’s drilling moratorium… A Discussion on Obama’s oil drilling moratorium by Doctor Bill Cassidy, R. LA 6th Congressional District. This was filmed at the Tea Party of Louisiana July 12, 2010 townhall meeting.

 

No Problems With Union Nap Time

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Do you get paid to sleep on the job? The union employees of New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority apparently do. And if caught sleeping on the job, the punishment seems to be just a slap on the wrist, a wink and a nod, and business as usual afterward. All at $33 dollars an hour of […]

 

Companies Sitting On Cash, But, Not Hiring. Media Shocked!

Posted on by William Teach

Hidden within this Washington Post article is a warning to “Corporate America”: Obama is probably going to be coming after you in short order Corporate America is hoarding a massive pile of cash. It just doesn’t want to spend it hiring anyone. Way to start off on a truly negative note, WP. Nonfinancial companies are […]

 

Democrat Governors’ Reason for Fear of the Immigration Lawsuit Shows How Power Hungry the DNC Is

Posted on by Heather Bachman

While the statement may bring a sigh of relief to some who are happy to see that at least our state leaders know what really needs attention, deeper within their rejection of the lawsuit, you see nothing but the dangerous hunger of the liberals. Despite this lawsuit being an example of a nation attacking itself […]

 

Video: Is The U.S. Too Big to Fail? Greece Wasn’t…

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

SIGN THE PETITION NOW!!! www.crnc.org/petition The College Republican National Committee is thrilled to announce the “Don’t Put It On Our Tab” debt-awareness initiative! The national debt poses a lethal threat to our economic future, and we’re not about to let the Democrats think we are ignorant to that fact. Help the CRNC stand up and […]

 

Experts: Obama’s Debt Will “Destroy Us From Within”

Posted on by Dave Blount

The Manchurian Moonbat’s Cloward-Piven economic policy is working as planned: The government’s current spending trends “will destroy the country from within,” said the co-chairmen of Obama’s national commission on debt. Commission chairmen Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson spoke Sunday at the annual National Governor’s Association meeting in Boston, Mass., reported the Washington Post. Medicare, Medicaid, […]