Category: Government Waste

Empire of the Entitled

Posted on by Dave Blount

Democrats win elections because they have the numbers — truly frightening numbers. For example, to keep the official unemployment rate at only twice what it was under W, nonworkers are encouraged to go on disability: The total number of people in the United States now receiving federal disability benefits hit a record 10,978,040 in May, […]

 

Criminal Unions: The Perfect ‘Government Union Fat Cat’ Story

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Today’s example of why government unions should be outlawed is a union chief who ostensibly “works” for the people of New York. He has a grueling two-hour-a-day “work” schedule and spends that time eating lunch, then sleeping. He’s a real life union fat cat, a perfect example of why government unions should be illegal, and […]

 

Dem. Senator Durbin Not Sure if Bloggers Deserve Constitutional Protection

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In an appearance on Fox News Sunday, senior Illinois Senator, Democrat Dick Durbin, expressed his doubt as to whether bloggers deserved Constitutional protection for their work online. On the May 26 broadcast of the Sunday show, Durbin told host Chris Wallace that he wasn’t sure if bloggers or “someone who is Tweeting” should be given […]

 

Washington Bridge Collapse Being Used to Push Big Government

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

By all accounts the Interstate 5 bridge collapse in Washington State was a result of an over sized truck load as opposed to “failing infrastructure.” But a plea for greater federal spending figured prominently in many reports on the accident nonetheless. Naturally, many on the left stampeded immediately to decrying “austerity,” or accused the Republicans […]

 

New York Times: IRS Scandal Ignored Because of Rush Limbaugh

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

There has been much speculation in the media on why Obama’s current scandal of the IRS targeting conservative groups for attack didn’t come out last year when the initial flurry of reportage on the incident was seen. Well, The New York Times thinks it has the answer: it was Rush Limbaugh’s fault. When the IRS […]

 

Obama’s Attorney General Hypocrisy: Alberto Gonzalez vs Eric Holder

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In 2007 when Barack Obama was running for President the first time there was a controversy raging over whether U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez was right to accede to President Bush’s order to fire a handful of U.S. attorneys. Obama then criticized the AG for politicizing the office. Flash forward to 2013 and he’s now […]

 

WaPo/ABC Poll: Obama Lying About Benghazi, IRS Targeting ‘Inappropriate,’ Media Still Distrusted

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A new poll conducted jointly by The Washington Post and ABC News revealed some interesting trends. Among other findings, more Americans feel that Obama and his administration are lying about Benghazi, a majority feel that the IRS acted inappropriately by targeting conservative groups, and the media is still distrusted with a majority feeling that the […]

 

Even New Yorker Sides With Fox on DOJ Attack on James Rosen

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Earlier today it was reported that several Fox News reporters were targeted by the Department of Justice over interaction with an employee(s) at the State Department. In the investigation, Fox News’ James Rosen was fingered by the DOJ not as just a reporter getting “classified” information, but an “aider and abettor and/or co-conspirator.” This is […]

 

CNN’s Crowley Admits Obama Didn’t Call Benghazi a Terror Attack

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

On the May 19 broadcast of CNN’s State of the Union, host Candy Crowley said that Obama was late in identifying the attacks in Benghazi as terrorism quite contrary to what she said during the Presidential debates late last year. As Crowley questioned White House spokesman Dan Pfeiffer, she pressed him on whether or not […]

 

Piers Morgan: This IRS Thing is ‘Vaguely Tyrannical Behavior by the Government’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

CNN’s chief anti-gun zealot Piers Morgan may have been loathe to admit it, but this IRS scandal seems to validate some of his detractor’s distrust of government. During his evening show on May 16, Morgan’s guest was magician Penn Jillette and the discussion turned to the admission by the Internal Revenue Service that it had […]

 

New State Dept. Spokesperson Gets Slammed Over Benghazi

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It has been 8 months since the terrorist attacks on our facilities in Benghazi, Libya, attacks that ended up killing four Americans including our ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens. Still we haven’t had a concrete explanation about this incident and new State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki didn’t do anything to alleviate that state of affairs […]

 

Feds Killing Off Private Bus Lines Based on Fraudulent Study

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The story of the coming demise of Chinatown bus lines in New York City is a tale of multiple failures in both government and the media and shows that both have a bias against entrepreneurs that kills new, start up ideas with unfair regulations, faux public advocacy, and dismal reporting. A “Chinatown buss” was a […]

 

Gov’t Obtains Phone Records of 100 Associated Press Reporters

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In the newest overreach perpetrated by the Obama administration, the Associated Press has discovered that some 100 of its Washington-based reporters have had their phone records–both personal and business–secretly obtained by Eric Holder’s Justice Department. The AP reports that the phone records were subpoenaed as a result of a DOJ investigation into who inside the […]

 

Mom of Son Slain At Benghazi: “I want to wish Hillary a Happy Mother’s Day. She has her child. I don’t have mine because of her.”

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Pat Smith’s son, Sean, was murdered by terrorists in Benghazi, Libya (9/11/12) thanks to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama’s negligence. On Sunday, she has a message for Obama and Hillary. “I want to wish Hillary a Happy Mother’s Day,” Smith said. “She has her child. I don’t have mine because of her.” Mrs. Smith appeared […]

 

Obama’s DOE Green Programs Spent $26 Billion On Less Than 3,000 Jobs

Posted on by William Teach

Don’t worry, Obama’s cool with this, it’s Someone Else’s money, and he can always get more. (Institute for Energy Research) Without much fanfare, the Department of Energy (DOE) recently updated the list of loan guarantee projects on its website. Unlike in 2008, when Barack Obama pledged to create 5 million jobs over 10 years by […]

 

Bloomberg Assembles Leftist Cartoonists to Attack Second Amendment

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is touting his newest effort to cancel the U.S. Constitution and the Second Amendment with a gathering of cartoons by 21 cartoonists who have taken a stand against our Constitutional right to self-protection. As Bloomie has it, they are “the nation’s best loved cartoonists.” But what Bloomberg doesn’t mention is […]

 

Traitors: American Journalists Attack Koch Brothers, Support Al Jazeera

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

There is a confluence of events over the last few weeks that perfectly proves the essential anti-Americanism of the Old Media establishment in this country today. It is evinced in two separate stories, one wheret the left is excoriating the Koch brothers for wanting to buy the L.A. Times and a contrasting story where journalists […]

 

GAO Investigating DHS Ammo Purchases

Posted on by John Hawkins

Republicans in Congress have introduced the AMMO ACT to limit enormous Department of Homeland Security Ammo Purchases. This comes after complaints that the DHS is buying 1000 more rounds per person than the army and may actually be driving up the cost of ammunition for the general public. Well now, the Government Accountability Office is […]

 

Another Example of How Our Miseducation System is Failing Our Kids

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Remember how you were taught in school how to add a series of numbers? Remember how you were told to write each set of numbers on top of each other, to stack them so you could then add them together to get a total? Kids aren’t taught that any more. In fact, the system of […]

 

Congressional Republicans Challenge DHS: Why Are You Buying 1000 Rounds More Per Person Than The Army?

Posted on by John Hawkins

Many Americans have been concerned about the sheer amount of ammunition that the Department of Homeland Security has been buying. The incredible volume begs a simple question:What exactly is the DHS preparing for that will take that much ammo? Now, Republicans in Congress seem to be asking the same question. Republican Jason Chaffetz said in […]

 

GOP Challenges DHS On Ammo Purchases

Posted on by William Teach

I haven’t really touched on the massive ammo purchases made by the Department Of groping people letting criminal illegal aliens go deeming Conservatives terrorists Homeland Security over the past 2 years or more. So much of what was out there seemed to be more in the way of conspiracy theories. I’m not particularly concerned with […]

 

Big Three Networks Cover Internet Cats Pics, Lit Trivia, Canadian Clumsiness, But Not Gosnell Trial

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Another week has gone by and the Big Three Networks, ABC, CBS, and NBC, again gave scant notice to the “house of horrors” that is the Kermit Gosnell abortion trial. The Nets had time for funny cat pictures on the Internet, a Canadian mayor bumping into a camera, and fun trivia about the book Breakfast […]

 

Resident Admits Tsarnaev’s Hate For US is Typical in Cambridge

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

What one resident of Cambridge, Massachusetts had to say about the atmosphere in that liberal area of the state was quite telling in revealing how essentially un-American leftism truly is. This resident practically admitted that the in that college town, everyone expresses the same basic hate for America that dead terrorist Tamerlan Tsarnaev so often […]

 

BBC Sends Reporters to North Korea Using Fake Student Credentials

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

One of the newest conservative news sites in Britain, The Commentator, has learned that the British Broadcasting Service (BBC) may have endangered a group of British students during a trip into North Korea by slipping several reporters into the group using student visas as cover for their activities. The trip was arranged by the London […]

 

The CA Bill That Would Shut Down Every Small Restaurant

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The State of California has one of the worst proposals of any legislature in the country this year with a new bill that would force every restaurant and food service business in the state to commission an expensive “risk assessment” test for every menu item, a test that could cost thousands of dollars for every […]