Category: Government Waste

U.S. Post Office Looking to Stop Mail-to-Your-Door Delivery

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The U.S. Post Office is loosing money every day it operates, but one cost-cutting measure being proposed is to end having mail delivered to American homes. The Post Office is proposing “centralized delivery,” instead of to-your-door delivery. Here homeowners would go pick up their mail at a bank of P.O. boxes, or “cluster boxes,” instead […]

 

Obama-Created Healthcare Call Center Hires for Part Time, Pays no Healthcare Benefits

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

So, here is an amusing one: Obama created a call center for Americans to call in and find out about how Obamacare will “help” them out. But the call center is stocked with mostly part time jobs and isn’t paying any healthcare benefits to its employees. As Eliana Johnson notes at NRO’s The Corner, “Obama […]

 

Texas Planned Parenthood Abortion Mill Defrauded Medicaid to Tune of $1.4 Million

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In Texas, abortion mill operators Planned Parenthood has been found to have defrauded Medicaid to the tune of $1.4 million and is being ordered to repay the stolen money. In 2012, a former employee of Planned Parenthood’s Gulf Coast offices filed a whistleblower’s complaint with the Attorney General of Texas and the U.S. Department of […]

 

Al Jazeera Employees Resign Over Network Siding with Muslim Brotherhood

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Just as Al Jazeera America prepares for its national debut, employees of Al Jazeera’s parent network are resigning in anger over the network’s blatant bias in favor of Egyptian President Mursi and the Muslim Brotherhood. Many in Egypt feel that Al Jazeera is clearly promoting the agenda of the extremist Islamist organization and working to […]

 

George Soros Funding ‘Nonpartisan’ Attackers of Kansas Gov. Brownback

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It is now being reported that billionaire liberal activist George Soros is the bankroll behind the “nonpartisan” attacks on Kansas Governor Sam Brownback’s new judicial selection plan. Two organizations in Kansas have led the charge against the Republican Governor’s proposal and both claim to be nonpartisan. But the two groups, Justice at Stake and the […]

 

Green Fail: New York Metra Gives Up on Hybrid Busses

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In a reversal of greenism, Michael Bloomberg’s New York Metropolitan Transit Agency is giving up on hybrid transportation. The city with the mayor nicknamed “Nanny Bloomberg” may be stumping for all sorts of chic, activist causes, from the campaign to rid us of our Second Amendment rights, to the elimination of trans fats in our […]

 

More Proof That Democrats Hate Democracy and the Constitution

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

There was once a day when the Democrat Party was very concerned about the protections of the U.S. Constitution and the due process of the law. But they used that fealty to the law of the land to protect slavery and disenfranchise blacks. To eliminate this, the system was used against Democrats to destroy their […]

 

‘New Yorker’ Portrays a Gay Bert & Ernie to Celebrate End of DOMA

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The cover for the July issue of The New Yorker celebrates the end of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and the nullification of California’s one-man-one-woman marriage amendment with a portrait of Sesame Street characters Bert and Ernie in each other’s arms as they watch a TV showing an image of the nine Supreme Court […]

 

Government Picking Winners & Losers… IRFA

Posted on by Rodney Lee Conover

The Internet Radio Fairness Act of 2012 is likely to be reintroduced either this year or the next, and that’s a good thing. As the bill remains in a senatorial limbo, the fate of internet radio is something that’s uncertain to everyone. Outrageous royalty fees threaten to diminish even the most successful companies in the […]

 

Americans Funding IDs for Voters in Kenya

Posted on by Dave Blount

Obama is doing more over there in Africa than frivolously flinging as much as $100 million of our hard-earned cash to the four winds. The White House has produced a helpful document entitled “U.S. Support for Strengthening Democratic Institutions, Rule of Law, and Human Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa.” It describes how our government is throwing […]

 

Poll: Words Like ‘Incompetent’ and ‘Liar’ Most Used to Describe Obama

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Pew Polling firm has found an interesting change in the way President Obama is being described with the use of words like “incompetent” and “liar” on the rise. The latest Pew poll finds that one-word impressions of Obama are turning negative more often than they have in the past. Until now, Pew says, these wholly […]

 

Colorado Sen. Who Spearheaded Anti-Gun Laws Close to Recall

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In the aftermath of the crime at a Colorado movie theater where 12 people were murdered, the Colorado State legislature quickly moved to adopt stricter gun laws and Senate President John Morse led that effort. But now, after his anti-gun bills were successfully passed into law, Morse faces a recall election that could turn him […]

 

National Review Hammers the ‘Gang of Eight’ Immigration Team

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In a new editorial, the folks at National Review came out strongly against the immigration plan being sponsored by the so-called “gang of eight” Senators, a group that includes Florida Senator Marco Rubio, calling the bill “Rubio’s Folly.” NR urges Senator Rubio to vote against the bill he has helped craft, disparaging the proposed legislation […]

 

Detroit Goes Under: “There Is No Way Out But Collapse”

Posted on by Mac Slavo

Though most Americans go through their day thinking everything is now returning to normal, the fact of the matter is the situation is anything but stable. With crime rates skyrocketing, home prices: dropping to under $500: for a house, and the local government out of solutions, the city of Detroit is the latest to join the: likes of: Stockton, […]

 

IRS To Hire ‘Diversity and Inclusion Specialist’ At $123,758 Salary

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

After repeated scandals, the IRS is looking to hire a new “Diversity and Inclusion Specialist” and is offering a generous $123,758 annual salary plus benefits. The opening was announced on June 11 and will be advertised until June 24. According to the description this “diversity” officer will “serve as a change agent to provide strategies, […]

 

Miss Alabama 2013 Proves American Freedom is Dying

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Mary Margaret McCord, the dull witted “beauty queen” from Alabama, said during the 2013 Miss USA contest that she’d trade freedom and liberty for safety. This empty-headed twit proves that the liberals have won. We have lost our freedom if people care so little about it that they would trade liberty and freedom for government-sponsored […]

 

Activism, Not Journalism? Radical Filmmaker Laura Poitras Shares Washington Post Byline on NSA Story

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Washington Post recently made waves with a story on the National Security Agency’s domestic data mining project “Prism,” but interestingly one of the co-authors of the article is a radical, left-wing filmmaker who has been a loud critic of U.S. counterterrorism policies. The article, “U.S., British intelligence mining data from nine U.S. Internet companies […]

 

Obama Claims He Doesn’t Want to ‘Tax All Businesses Out of Business’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

During a recent fundraiser, President Obama told an audience that he and the Democrats don’t want to tax all business out of business. He also said he doesn’t believe in “top down” government. The President made these comments at a private residence in Palo Alto, California during a Democratic Senatorial campaign fundraiser in the first […]

 

Obama’s Intelligence Agency Looking to Hire ‘Digital Exploitation Specialist’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The National Security Agency (NSA) has been in the spotlight since news broke that the agency has been collecting massive amounts of data from everyday Americans and with some of the worst timing ever, the NSA is now advertising for new employees for positions as “Digital Exploitation Specialists.” According to the NSA job description, the […]

 

Susan Rice Gets Pass While Media Discounted Condi Rice

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Noah Rothman recently did an excellent job detailing what the progressive media said about Condoleeza Rice when George W. Bush appointed her as his Secretary of State in 2005. Rothman noted how the media dismissed Condi Rice as merely a “friend” of Bush and otherwise made it seem as if her appointment was just a […]

 

NYT Changes Editorial to Soften Its Own Criticism of Obama

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

= On the afternoon of June 6, Breitbart correspondent Ben Shapiro marveled at how harshly President Obama was treated in an editorial by The New York Times, but as the day wore on, the paper went back and altered its editorial to soften its own criticism of the President. As Shapiro noted, “Mr. Obama is […]

 

IRS Spent $50 Million in Two Years on ‘Conferences’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A report to be released on Tuesday investigating expenditures by the Internal Revenue Service will reveal that $50 million was lavished on some 220 conferences for employees between 2010 and 2012. In one case alone, the report finds that the IRS spent $4 million on a conference for 2,600 IRS employees held in Anaheim, California […]

 

LET’S ALL SUE THE I.R.S.!

Posted on by Josh Bernstein

Unless you have been living under a rock or in a cave somewhere you have heard all about the I.R.S. scandals. The Internal Revenue Service, or should it be renamed the Internal Rectal Service has been intentionally performing financial colonoscopies on Conservatives from all walks of life for the past few years. The so called […]

 

Marshall University Professor Suggests Using Military to Kill NRA Members/Conservatives

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Charlestown Gazette recently published the editorial by a Marshall University professor who advocated using an “M1A Abrams tank, supported by an F22 Raptor squadron with Hellfire missiles” to kill NRA members, Republicans, Conservatives, and those who support the Second Amendment. In an anti-gun piece that could best be described as a foaming-at-the-mouth tirade, Professor […]

 

Congressmen Urge AG Holder to Grant Asylum to Homeschooling German Family

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A coalition of 27 Congressmen have joined together to sign a letter urging the Department of Justice and Attorney General Eric Holder to rescind an order to deport a German family whose only crime was to homeschool their children. In 2008 German citizen Uwe Romeike, his wife, and five young children fled Germany and took […]

 

Longtime Democrat Consultant: Obama’s White House is Incompetent Like Carter

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Bob Shrum, a longtime Democrat operative, has decided that President Obama’s handling of the White House during this IRS scandal is bad. Maybe not “Nixonian” bad, but is instead a sort of Carteresque incompetence because of the way the President has handled these recent crises. Shrum is a high powered, Democrat operative of the first […]