Category: Economy

Maryland’s Toxic Teachers Union

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

We all know the drill, right? Unions curry favor with compliant politicians, the unions then donate campaign cash to them hoping for political favors later down the line. Yes, that’s the drill… unless you are the Montgomery County, Maryland teachers union. See, in that case candidates are expected to pay the union for its favors, […]

 

How Media Chooses Words Adds to Bias

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Politico had a story about Big Labor penned by Jeanne Cummings, the reporter famed for going after Sarah Palin’s Party purchased wardrobe during the 2008 presidential campaign, that was an object lesson in Old Media bias. Her piece headlined “Labor helps kill its own top priority” is a great example of using language to […]

 

Some Letters Beating Me Up Over My Tea Party Articles

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Well I’ve now written six — this makes seven — articles criticizing certain failures of the Tea Party movement thus far. They are all meant to be constructive criticisms, though, not dismissive nor derogatory of them. It’s measured introspection I employ in each of these articles. No name calling, no laughing, no hate. There is […]

 

Obama Can’t Even Create or Save an OBAMA STORE

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

Image courtesy of weasel zippers That’s right; Obama can’t even “create or save” : the creepy shrine-like store specializing in merchandise with his likeness. It’s a sure sign that the honeymoon is totally over when even the sheep-like and the “hipsters” (redundant?) are far too ashamed to continue wearing Obama head t-shirts — although, I thought […]

 

Barbara Boxer, Ma’am: Obama, Can You, Like, Sign Stuff and Make Icky Banks Lend?

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

During the question and answer period between Obama and Senate Democrats the other day, Barbara Boxer, Ma’am asked if Obama could, you know, sign stuff like Executive Orders, and:  force banks to lend money. No, really. She asked that. Dear Ma’am: Who is John Galt? (Okay, I hate the overuse of that phrase, but it’s […]

 

Looking for a New ‘America’s Mayor’? I Choose Mayor of Las Vegas

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

Obama can’t seem to keep that “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas” thing straight. He keeps forgetting that you have to GO to Vegas first and, instead, he is: constantly deterring people from visiting the sin-alicious city. The: Mayor of Las Vegas has had just about enough. “He has a real psychological hang up about the […]

 

The Global Warming Guerrillas

Posted on by Ed Driscoll

“The Climate Consensus may hold the establishment — the universities, the media, big business, government — but it is losing the jungles of the web. After all, getting research grants, doing pieces to cameras and advising boards takes time. The very ostracism the sceptics suffered has left them free to do their digging untroubled by grant applications and invitations to Stockholm.”

 

Pia for Pennsylvania’s First District

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Pia Varma, an American of Indian background… not not a redskin, an actual Indian… wants you to send her to Congress, Pennsylvania. And so she has announced her run for Pennsylvania’s First District Congressional seat (Philadelphia). She tells us that her grandfathers were fighters in the Indian Independence movement of the 1960s, though she was […]

 

John Boehner is Kidding Himself

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Yesterday our Republican minority leader in the House of Representatives proved that he still isn’t seeing the problem with the GOP. He’s living in denial, at least he is if we can take his words at face value. On the Mike Gallagher radio show yesterday, leader Boehner insisted that there is no substantive ideological differences […]

 

Why Unions Can’t Work in Education

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Atlantic’s Megan McArdle had a great piece pinpointing exactly why unions don’t work, especially for education. Her piece headlined “How Unions Work,” really brings it home why unions can’t agree to merit pay for teachers. McArdle’s post was prompted by a piece by left-winger Matthew Yglesias whose post is meaningless and I won’t go […]

 

Joblessness: Bad News Is Unexpected News

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

When bad things happen during the Obama administration it’s always so “unexpected”. The latest round of unexpectedly unexpected news was in the jobs arena. The AP reports: WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of newly laid-off workers filing initial claims for jobless benefits rose unexpectedly last week, evidence that layoffs are continuing and jobs remain scarce. […]

 

Union Chief: Senators Are ‘Terrorists’ For Not Voting With Big Labor

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Service Employees International Union President Andy Stern said that Senators that vote against his ideas are “terrorists.” That’s right, folks, this union chief is saying that any politician that votes against the politically motivated ideas of Big Labor should be branded a “terrorist.” This is the sort of gutter rhetoric that union thugs specialize in […]

 

Obama Budget To Hit $3.8 Trillion, Deficit $1.6 Trillion

Posted on by William Teach

Just a few short days ago, during both the State Of The Union and the GOP Retreat, President Obama told us he was concerned with the growing deficit – and, as usual, blamed it mostly on Bush – and that he would address it and reduce it. Stuttering Bob Gibbs even told us that Obama […]

 

Tax Problems For 5th District Candidate Ratowitz? (Illinois Primary, Fed 2)

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

David Ratowitz is presenting himself to voters as the business oriented, conservative candidate for their 5th District Congressional seat. Ratowitz says he represents “hard-fought professional achievement” and “personal resilience,” and says his “genuine free market outlook” makes him the perfect candidate for conservatives. Also, many of Mr. Ratowitz’ press releases state that he’s for fiscal […]

 

Heritage: Unions Ate Your Raise

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

James Sherk has a very good post over at the Heritage Foundation’s The Foundry blog about how unions have hurt us all by fighting for tax increases. Unions almost never go on strike anymore. Instead, they fight to get more for their members by lobbying for tax increases. Unions spent tens of millions of dollars […]

 

Which Ill. Candidates Have Signed Taxpayer Protection Pledge?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

With the Illinois primary coming up in only a few short days (Feb. 2, Groundhog’s Day) Americans for Tax Reform (atr.org) has a post up today reminding us all just which Illinois candidates have signed ATR’s no tax pledge. It’s called the Taxpayer Protection Pledge and you can see the pledge HERE. Happily, almost every […]

 

Obama’s Lobbyist Slams Masks Big K Street Payday

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In his State of the Union speech, the president puffed up his chest, fixed his Mr. scornful face, and once again pulled out the populist’s handbook to bash those evil, monstrous lobbyists. Obama mentioned lobbyists seven times in his address and in every case they were used as a scapegoat to explain away Washington’s inability […]

 

Teachers Union Ruins NY Shot at $700M in Stimulus

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Being a good conservative, I am torn on this story! It seems that the teachers union in New York State refused to comply with some simple requirements in cooperation with the state government so that New York could qualify for $700 million in federal stimulus money from a program known as Race to the Top. […]

 

How’s That Wall Street And Bank Demonization Working, President Obama?

Posted on by William Teach

The Wall Street Journal, known for having quite a bit more knowledge on financial issues than a community agitator, weighs in The problem with fires is that they can blow in any direction. Consider the White House, which is seeing a backdraft from the anti-Wall-Street flame it has been dousing with gasoline. His agenda on […]

 

Chgo Trib: Who Will Smack Down the Unions?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Dennis Byrne, a columnist with the Chicago Tribune, has a great piece asking the seminal question: what politician will take on the public employees unions? This is, of course, the question we’ve been asking here for years! Who will stop these union thugs that have bought for themselves a bevy of compliant politicians at the […]

 

Restrained No More’s — Happy Inauguration, Mr. President

Posted on by Sharise Parviz

As we wait for our 2010 state of the union address.:  It seemed fitting to take a look back just 1 year and 1 week to see where Obama started. For other episodes of the show or more info check out- http://www.restrainednomore.com/

 

What Lesson Did Brown Teach Obama/Democrats? Apparently Pass Bad Stuff Faster

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Once Scott Brown took away the Democrat super majority in the Senate by becoming the Republican’s 41st vote based in large part on the fact that Massachusetts voters were unhappy with Obamacare, one would think that President Obama and the Democrat Party would learn a vital lesson. A look at a dozen or so stories […]

 

Perhaps Obama Could Propose Reductions In Congressional AGW Travel

Posted on by William Teach

So, apparently, Obama is also going to throw out that he will freeze some small portion of federal spending during Wednesday’s SOTU, as directed by Secretary Teleprompter President Obama will call for a three-year freeze in spending on many domestic programs, and for increases no greater than inflation after that, an initiative intended to signal […]

 

Obama Retirement Trap

Posted on by Dave Blount

As noted earlier, it’s only a matter of time until our insatiably greedy socialist rulers seize our retirement accounts. Another ominous warning: Washington is in a desperate search for more revenue and a solution to the future financing of the trillions in national debt obligations currently held by foreign central banks and investors. Economists, politicians […]

 

Union Membership Down Another 10%

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

With some ups and downs, unions have been steadily losing members for quite a while and 2009 is no exception. According to the Labor Dept., private-sector unions lost 834,000 members last year. On Friday, the Labor Department reported private-sector unions lost 834,000 members, bringing membership down to 7.2% of the private-sector work force, from 7.6% […]

 

New Silicon Graffiti Video: Barack To The Future!

Posted on by Ed Driscoll

The latest edition of our Silicon Graffiti video blog is coming to you in glorious black & white this week, as a reminder that despite the hip, sleek high tech Internet campaign that Senator Barack Obama ran in 2008, President Obama has governed to date very much like a boring, mid century old fogy…

 

Restrained No More’s – Rhonda on her soap box.

Posted on by Sharise Parviz

As we think about the plight of the people in Haiti – the question of what does it mean to be Compassionate and Conservative comes to mind. RestrainedNoMore’s – Rhonda gets on her soap box about the term ‘Compassionate Conservative’ – because who really cares anyway? For other episodes of the show or more info […]

 

Obama Calls for Bipartisan Commission on Debt. Has He Tried, You Know, Adding?

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

Image Courtesy of iowntheworld.com No, really. They need: a commission to figure out: why there is so much of that annoying debt stuff. President Barack Obama on Saturday called on Congress to pass a bill creating a fiscal commission amid reports that he will likely create an executive commission if Congress does not act.: Obama issued a statement […]

 

Public Employees Unions Are Sinking California

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Steven Greenhut has a great piece in the Wall Street Journal about how the evils of public employees unions are destroying California. Greenhut begins by noting that with one of the highest unemployment rates in the country California is losing its “productive citizens” to other states but is still saddled with an economy killing surfeit […]