Category: Government Waste

Sheldon Adelson: We Should Nuke Iran

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

American Jewish billionaire Sheldon Adelson is pretty sick and tired of President Obama’s bumbling foreign policy, especially his failed policy with Iran. In fact, he thinks that the U.S. should launch a nuclear bomb into the Iranian desert and then warn Tehran that the next one will be right down their throats in their capitol […]

 

Gay Marriage Makes Just ANY Relationship OK

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

One of the arguments that people that oppose gay marriage used to deny legal marriage for gays is that allowing gays to marry opens the door for every other sort of “marriage”–marrying gays, multiple partners, animals, even children–and this eventually destroys society. Gays denied that their support of gay marriage created that slippery slope toward […]

 

High Cigarette Taxes Bring Little Revenue and New Crime

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Rumors are once again rumbling in the cash-starved, big spenders in California’s legislature to raise tobacco taxes. But does this work? History says that not only does the tax hike rarely bring in more money to the state the hike also causes more crime as criminals move in with black market good s at cheaper […]

 

Dem. Senator Dick Durbin Lies That Republican Said He Couldn’t Stand to Look at Obama

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Illinois Senator Dick Durbin has not only been caught red (or blue) handed in a lie, but now he’s doubling down on that lie by claiming that a Republican leader in the House of Reps. told the President to his face that he “cannot stand to look at him.” Senator Durbin, the second highest ranking […]

 

Converting Food Stamps to Cash Is a SNAP

Posted on by Dave Blount

Money is fungible — including the $billions upon $billions Obama has been flinging to the wind via food stamps: Food stamp recipients are turning the government handouts into quick cash with ads on Craigslist, despite efforts to stem fraud. If the past 50 years of War on Poverty history are any indication, these efforts to […]

 

Consumer Reports Says Stay Away From Healthcare.gov

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

President Obama’s new healthcare website is so bad that even the famed consumer advocate magazine Consumer Reports is warning thatAmericans should steer clear of the Obamacare websites until (and/or IF) the website ever gets fixed. The absurd thing, here, it that Obama has been working on this system and this website interface for three years […]

 

Chicago Teachers Union: ‘This City Belongs to Black People’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) is pretty much run by communists and racebaiters. This month we get yet another example of that with a CTU organizer claiming that the city “belongs” to African Americans and not white people. This sort of hate is typical of the CTU. As seen in the video above, CTU President […]

 

Obama Threatens to Crash Global Economy Unless He Gets Everything He Wants

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

This is the most petulant, most arrogant president in American history and now he is threatening to purposefully crash the global economy unless the Republicans bend over backwards, betray their voters, and give Obama every political policy he wants. Obama keeps claiming that he and his Eurocratic Democrat Party cohorts won’t “pay a ransom” over […]

 

Food Stamp Crooks Ransack Wal-Mart

Posted on by John Hawkins

The sort of dishonest parasites who’d try to steal from their fellow citizens like this don’t deserve any help at all. Shelves in Walmart stores in Springhill and Mansfield, LA were reportedly cleared Saturday night, when the stores allowed purchases on EBT cards even though they were not showing limits. The chaos that followed ultimately […]

 

EBT card system down in 17 states, chaos ensues

Posted on by Cheryl Carpenter Klimek

The system: that processes: Electronic Benefit Transfer cards: — known as EBT cards — was down Saturday in 17 states, preventing: cash and food assistance. Xerox, the vendor handling the transactions, was quick to point out that the problem was not due to the: partial government shutdown. The Norwalk, Conn.-based company posted this statement on its: website: During a routine test […]

 

Illinois School Gives Kids a Death Panel Assignment

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A central Illinois school recently gave students an assignment many are calling a “death panel” assignment. The fifteen year olds were told to decide what six of ten people would be allowed to get life-saving medical treatment. double click on image to see larger The school, St. Joseph Ogden High School in St. Joseph, IL, […]

 

School Cancels ‘Religious’ Halloween, Says Constitution Forbids It

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

I hate to even use the word “school” for this sort of brainless stupidity, but here we go again having a school attempting to destroy our American traditions and character this time by banning Halloween. Why? Because it is a “religious” holiday and the Constitution forbids religion in schools, of course. Now you and I […]

 

Stamps Destroyed Due to Safety Concerns

Posted on by Dave Blount

Political correctness is fundamentally transforming America into something that would make a vulture barf so fast, not even bureauweenies can keep up with it. The U.S. Postal service prepared an entire run of stamps reportedly based on the Bitter Half’s “Let’s Move” initiative. But as if Big Government weren’t already wasting enough of our money, […]

 

84-Year-Old Obama Supporter Pulls Gun on Conservatives Protesting

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

An 84-year-old Obama supporter is accused of pulling a gun on a pair of middle-aged white women who were hosting a protest of Obama and his policies in Gwinnett County, Georgia. As WSBTV reports, “Protestors Toni Pendley and Marge Moore are part of the Overpasses for Obama’s Impeachment movement, a national movement that places signs […]

 

Civilian mows lawn at Lincoln Memorial: ‘God bless that man’

Posted on by BizPac Review

There is really not much that needs to be said about the picture floating around Twitter of a guy, presumably an average citizen — flag in one hand -: mowing the lawn: at the: Lincoln Memorial: in the midst of the government shutdown.: As: Brandon Morse: : tweeted and: Monica Crowley: and others re-tweeted, ‘God bless that man!” LoveThis RT @TheBrandonMorse A guy has taken […]

 

Obamacare Will Cost Young People Thousands More Per Year

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

If you are under 30, if you are not very wealthy, and even if you are healthy your healthcare insurance costs will soar thanks to Obamacare. And you won’t have any choice in the matter, either, or you will be labeled a criminal under the law. Robert Graboyes has some of the facts at the […]

 

Elitist Democrat Congressman Bruce Braley Upset That His Servants Were Furloughed

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

What is a powerful, important, privileged Democrat member of the House of Representatives supposed to do when his House Gym towel boys have been furloughed? I mean are we to expect a high falutin member of Congress to get his own towel? SERIOUSLY? I mean, isn’t this far too much to expect of Representative Bruce […]

 

Obama Shuts Down House Boat Docks, Throws People Out of Their Homes

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

President Obama is attempting to make this partial shut down as painful for the American people as he possibly can by shutting down sites that he either doesn’t need to shut down, or shouldn’t be shutting down. In this case he is shutting down the docks on Lake Mead, Nevada, throwing many people–some of whom […]

 

Feds close parts of the ocean due to shutdown

Posted on by Michael Dorstewitz

On Day Three of the: government shutdown, the: Obama administration: is now closing the: ocean: to charter boat captains in South Florida. The White House is turning up the heat, applying one more turn of the thumbscrews and adding one extra crank on the rack while it remains unwilling to negotiate a continuing resolution deal with Republican leadership. According to […]

 

Scott Walker Defies Obama And Refuses To Close Parks In Wisconsin Over Gov’t Shutdown

Posted on by John Hawkins

A lot of the “pain” caused by the government shutdown is phony. The Obama liberals: were going to stop the Army/Navy game until it was revealed that it was all “optics.” They blocked off an open air WWII monument to hurt veterans. Obama is deliberately trying to tank the stock market. Along those same lines, they’re […]

 

Dem. Leader Sen. Harry Reid Says ‘No’ To Funding Kids’ Cancer Treatments

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Democrat leader Senator Harry Reid said that he has no interest in funding cancer treatments for kids today in a press conference about the ongoing government shut down fight. Instead of treating kids with cancer, Reid prefers to have a political tool to use against Republicans. In the presser CNN’s Dana Bash asked a very […]

 

Regime Spends Money to Close Park That Costs It No Money as Part of Shutdown Charade

Posted on by Dave Blount

As with the Sequestrocalypse dog and pony show, the Obama Regime is deliberately inflicting pain on American citizens as part of his government shutdown spectacle to convince the gullible that even a reduction in the explosive rate of growth in federal spending would result in hardship. One example is the WWII memorial, which Obama callously […]

 

Extremist, Liberal Radio Host Says Republicans are ‘Suicide Bombers Trying to Blow Your Children Up’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Extremist, left-wing radio talk show host Stephanie Miller is all about trying to find a way forward in this government shutdown crisis. She has a wonderful idea on how to reach across the aisle… by calling Republicans “suicide bombers” that want to “blow your children up.” Yep, that’s the kind of new tone, caring, loving […]

 

Obama Lies: Shutdown Fears Mirrors Blather About Bailout/Stimulus/Sequester Fears

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Worried about a government shutdown? Don’t be. It won’t affect you much. But that isn’t what the left and the Old Media establishment are saying. They are making this a doomsday scenario and the false rhetoric they are doling out to America is similar to the BS that we saw during the 2008 debate (see […]

 

VISA Credit Card Company Refuses Business of Firearms Store

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

VISA credit card company is now beginning to tell merchants that deal in firearms and firearms related merchandise that their credit transactions are no longer welcome with the credit card bureau. This is the newest front launched by the left to destroy America’s Constitutional rights. Leftists that stand against our Constitution seem to have realized […]

 

Big Media Conglomerates Pushing Shield Law

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Earlier in the month I reported on the media shield bill recently passed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Now that the bill is moving forward through the lawmaking process, a coalition of big media companies are putting their highly paid lobbying muscle behind it. According to disclosure reports, Time Warner, Hearst Corp., National Public […]

 

CNN Anchor Says Founding Fathers Would Support Obamacare Because ‘It’s a Law’ Or Something

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin is aghast that Republicans would try to defund Obamacare and she is sure that the founding fathers would support Obama’s signature healthcare law because, well, “it’s a law.” During a September 19 segment of CNN Newsroom, Baldwin said, “Congress passes a law, in this case Obamacare, and then some of its […]