Category: Economy

Unions Sign On To Obama’s Penalizing of Banks

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

According to The Hill, “several union officials” plan to make Obama’s newest attack on America’s banking industry part of their criteria for determining which candidates to support for 2010. So, the unions want to use support for this economy killing tax as a criteria for supporting a candidate. If a politician is for it, then […]

 

Obama Declares War on Banks

Posted on by Dave Blount

The left-wing fanatics running our government are doing their very best to recreate the halcyon days of big government liberalism — the Great Depression. Comrade Obama’s latest assault on the economy: President Obama called on Congress Thursday to expand the government’s ability to limit the size and complexity of major financial institutions… He cast his […]

 

John Edwards Admits Rielle Hunter’s Kid “Quinn” Is His, News Media Shocked!

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

So John Edwards is the baby’s father. Shocking! Not. From Fox: In a statement released to NBC News, Edwards said, “I am Quinn’s father. … It was wrong for me ever to deny she was my daughter and hopefully one day, when she understands, she will forgive me.” Friends of the family said that Edwards […]

 

CATO on Brown: This is like Ted Kennedy being elected in Utah

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

-By Warner Todd Huston There’s a lot of analysis out there on why Scott Brown defeated nearly 50 years of Democratic rule of the Massachusetts Senate seat, but the CATO Institute has some cogent, logical points that we should all carefully consider. But before I give you the CATO video, remember this…. it’s time to […]

 

Louisiana Legislature Floating Bill Making Obamacare Illegal in State

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Louisiana State Senator A.G. Crowe (R, Slidell) is introducing a bill for the 2010 legislative session in Baton Rouge that would make Obamacare illegal if it violates state laws, effectively making Obamacare null and void in the Pelican State. Senator Crowe states that his bill “provides that no law or rule shall compel, directly or […]

 

Krugman Says Obama Doesn’t Blame Bush Enough?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

One of the worst writers in political punditry, a man with a little deserved reputation as a thinker and analyst, is New York Times columnist Paul Krugman. Sometimes the things he says are so absurd that it is hard to believe that even he believes what he is writing. Aside from his discreditable insistence that […]

 

America Now Less Free Than Canada

Posted on by Dave Blount

Sweet Land of Liberty, this was once called; and it will be again — provided our current government is run out of Washington. Under Comrade Obama, America is dropping like a stone on the Index of Economic Freedom. This year, of the world’s 20 largest economies, the U.S. suffered the largest drop in overall economic […]

 

$42 Million Union Embezzlement case, Little Media Coverage

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Union operative Melissa King of the Laborers International Union of North America (LIUNA) has been arrested for stealing $42 million in union funds to support the lavish lifestyle to which she and her daughter have become accustomed. It is being called the biggest union theft in history. So why haven’t we heard of this union […]

 

Next to Be Nationalized: 401Ks

Posted on by Dave Blount

The next target in Comrade Obama’s blitzkrieg against the economic freedom that made America wealthy is our retirement accounts: President Barack Obama is calling for establishing automatic workplace pensions and expanding unemployment insurance as part of his spending plan for the U.S. Labor Department next fiscal year. We liken this to an “Obama 401k Plan.” […]

 

How A Brown Win Could Help The Economy

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

The economy stinks. It’s not getting better. The recovery is being hampered by mixed messages and downright hostility toward the private sector. Business owners have been holding. They haven’t upped production. If business is good, they’ve cautiously hired, if at all. If business is fair, they’ve resisted increasing overhead for fear they’ll need the extra […]

 

Now WE Will Pay for Unions Fancy Healthcare Packages

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

As if there were ever any doubts, the unions bosses that descended upon the White House earlier in the week appear to have succeeded in getting their members excluded from the so-called Cadillac taxes on expensive healthcare packages. The Obama administration, having been bought and paid for by unions, agreed to demands that unions be […]

 

Book Review: What Are These Tea Parties About, Anyway?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A new book about the Tea Party movement — and a movement it really is — will soon be hitting the shelves. “A New American Tea Party” penned by John M. O’Hara, one of the many folks that helped bring us some of those protests in early 2009, is a book that hopes that the […]

 

Colonel Saunders “Saved Or Created” 2 Million Chickens!

Posted on by John Hawkins

One of the most ludicrous assertions of the Obama Administration is the claim that they’ve “saved or created” jobs with their policies. Why is it ludicrous? Setting aside the fact that the government’s massive deficit spending, new taxes, takeovers of private companies, and threats of huge new expenses for companies via the Cap and Trade […]

 

No, I Don’t Want To Be Like Europe, Paul Krugman

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

No, I don’t want to learn from Europe. And this is why: 5. Although Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark are among Europe’s wealthiest countries, as U.S. states they would be between 14.5% and 18% below the U.S. average. Go read the whole thing. Also this. These are just financial, quality of life reasons I don’t want […]

 

Unions and Corruption Plague Chicago’s Convention Business

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Chicago’s McCormick Place convention center is one of the largest convention halls in the world. With a total of 2,670,000 square feet of exhibition space and clocking in at a building cost of nearly one billion dollars it had better be one of the biggest, after all Chicago does do things big. Sadly that includes […]

 

…Yet Not ALL Unions Willing to Bend Over for Obamacare Tax Hike

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Yesterday I posted a story about how the two big public employees unions were looking the other way on Obamacare and helping Obama to pass his socialist take over of our healthcare system even though the plan would hike taxes on their very own members and would devastate their helathcare plans. Well, not all unions […]

 

Looking For Trumbo: California’s Basket-Case Economy

Posted on by Ed Driscoll

George Will crafts quite a descriptive metaphor for California’s failing economy, comparing it to the titular ultimate basket-case soldier in Dalton Trumbo’s infamous 1939 anti-war novel “Johnny Got His Gun.” As Trumbo writes, if Johnny got his gun, then most certainly, “Berkeley Got Its Liberalism.”

 

Time: Conflating Big Spending With ‘Moderate’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

(My first piece for Breitbart’s new BigJournalism.com site is up. And here it is…) One of the tricks that the Old Media consistently uses to paint conservatives as walking on the dark side is to call Republicans who lean left “moderates,” while those who lean to the right are “right wing” or “hardcore” Republicans. This […]

 

Crain’s Chicago: Earring Wearing ‘Journo’ Attacks ‘Tea-Baggers’ and Conservatives

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Crain’s Chicago Business has just gotten into the business of indulging in foul, sexually charged name calling, apparently. Yes, you can mark Crain’s Chicago Business as only the latest news outlet to decide it’s funny to call conservatives “tea-baggers.” It’s a name that lefties have been tagging the movement with all winter, one derived from […]

 

Unions to Rake in $19 Billion Per Year From Obamacare

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Over at BigGovernment.com, Don Loos posited an excellent reason about why the big public employees unions are falling all over themselves to help Obama force Obamacare down America’s throats even though their members would lose their lavish healthcare plans as a result. The reason? $19 billion in likely dues money that these unions will get […]

 

Sen. Ben Nelson: Say, Maybe We Shudda Waited on Healthcare ‘Reform’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Every week we are seeing another Democrat deciding not to run for re-election or one that is switching parties to the GOP all due to the wild, left-wing overreach indulged in by the Obama Administration and its cohorts in Congress. Connecticut’s Senator Chris Dodd is only the latest heavy hitter Democrat that is looking for […]

 

In Worst Economy In Decades Oregon Considers Massive Tax Hike

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

If you Tea Party goers in the western U.S. want a specific battle to fight there is none better than ballot measures 66 and 67 in the State of Oregon. The venerable Beaver State is preparing to chase out even more jobs and intends to tax its industry and small businesses to death with these […]

 

Tea Party Debate Continued: My Reply to Steve McQueen of BigGovernment.com

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In what I suppose is round three, I’d like to take a moment to reply to the criticism of my Tea Party article which was titled “Tea Parties: The Biggest Mistake We Could Make in 2010.” That criticism is penned by my fellow BG contributor, Steve McQueen whose piece titled “For Tea Parties, Bigger Is […]

 

The Case Against Public Sector Unions

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

By now you are all familiar with my beating on my little unions-are-bad-for-government drum… ya may even be tired of it by now. Still, I’d like to pass on the work of friend to the blog David Denholm who has also addressed this point in the past. On the Public Service Research Foundation website can […]

 

America Is Now A Dependent Society–UPDATED

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

People don’t vote against their own interests. At least, that’s the theory. So, when their own interests involve keeping their government job, they’ll vote Democrat. They want a politician who is interested in expanding the government, i.e. their paychecks. That’s why this chart worries me: Lavishly paid government workers means less money going to the […]

 

Once Again Unions Find a Pliant Judge to do Their Bidding

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In another example of why unions are antithetical to good government, a pliant, left-wing judge in California has ruled that the Schwarzenegger Administration cannot furlough state workers that belong to three powerful public employees unions. Governor Schwarzenegger has been battling to cut his over spent state budget for several years now and one of the […]