Category: Government Waste

Roll Call: Obama Has ‘Given Up’ On Those Darn Republicans

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In an interesting break from reality, Roll Call posits that Obama has now “given up” on Republicans as partners for helping him get some “governing done” in Washington DC. Of course, the Capitol Hill newspaper fails to show when it was that Obama ever consider the GOP to be his governing partner in the first […]

 

America’s Sheriff, Joe Arpaio, Stands Alone Against Unions And Outsiders in Recall Effort

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Only three weeks after re-election in 2012, Sheriff Joe Arpaio was hit with a recall effort. Now, with anti-Arpaio petitions in circulation in Maricopa County, Arizona, “America’s Sheriff” is organizing his forces to oppose a recall backed by the deep pockets of the unions, millions in outside money, and a flood of non-Arizonans arriving to […]

 

Quit Laughing, Hillary Really is Just LIke Margaret Thatcher

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

With the passing of Margaret Thatcher, one of the greatest, most powerful women in recent political history, the American Old Media establishment is all abuzz about… Hillary Clinton. To their minds, talk of the powerful and brilliant Thatcher naturally brings to mind the wife of one of their favorite presidents and Hillary, as far as […]

 

Two Quick Examples of U.S. Government Lies in Labels

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Political fancy talk is always fascinating. By this I mean, the essential lies that government tells by re-naming something to make it sound benign or even beneficial when it is really just another anti-American, liberty-killing government initiative, or giving it a harsh label in order to destroy whatever activity that government wants destroyed. Here I […]

 

Barack Obama: The Best Lying Demagogue Ever to Infest the White House

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

As he disgustingly used law enforcement officials as a back drop in Colorado, President Obama uttered a few lines about his un-Constitutional gun grabbing policy ideas that truly proves he’s the best lying demagogue to ever sit in the Oval Office. Obama had a message about elected officials, who they are, and what they want […]

 

Should Congressional Staffers Have Their Private Twitter Accounts Published?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A Congressional watchdog group called LegiStorm has announced a sweeping new project aimed at government transparency. But part of that project has staffers on Capitol Hill crying foul because it lists all their private Twitter accounts. On April 3, LegiStorm announced its new StormFeed tool saying it is a, “real-time, full-text searchable access to every […]

 

Under ObamaCare, Medicare to Cover Sexual Disfigurement Procedures

Posted on by Dave Blount

ObamaCare has greatly accelerated Medicare’s inevitable decline into bankruptcy. But for the profligate moonbats running the federal government, that is no reason not to spend still more using it to advance depraved social engineering objectives: For the first time since 1981, when it dubbed sex-change operations “experimental,” Medicare has opened the door to covering transsexual […]

 

Eagle-Killing, Investment-Wasting ‘Renewable’ Energy

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The “Green Energy” sector has been hit with a series of setbacks over the last few years. From a wind farm being cited for killing an endangered eagle, to solar energy’s tumble from investor favor over dismal performance, to a growing list of companies gone bankrupt even after President Obama pumped millions of our tax […]

 

All Other Problems Solved, Chicago Democrats’ New Law Worried About Dogs Behind the Wheel

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Having apparently solved all of the other debilitating problems Illinois is facing, Chicago Democrats have now turned their considered attention to making sure dog owners don’t let their puppies get behind the wheel of an automobile. This important bill (HB1581) amends the Illinois vehicle code to ban drivers from putting their pooch on their laps […]

 

Disability Rolls Explode

Posted on by Dave Blount

Disability isn’t just for the disabled anymore. The Obama Administration has been using it to keep the official unemployment rate down to only twice what it was under Bush by paying people not to work when they have “disabilities” including unprovable back pain and mental problems such as mood disorders, which between them account for […]

 

Pamela Geller on the Left’s ‘Stealth Jihad’ on Our Free Speech

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Famed anti-jihad activist Pamela Geller made a splash with her appearance at the special Breitbart breakout panel, “The Uninvited,” at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). In true Breitbart fashion, Breitbart News–itself a sponsor of the 2013 CPAC–held its own panel and stocked it with some of those voices that were systematically prevented from […]

 

ABC’s Latest Misleading Gun Poll

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

ABC has released the results of another gun poll claiming that support for background checks at gun shows has “vast public support.” But neither the poll nor ABC’s report notes that background checks already routinely occur at gun shows. The poll focused on the various gun control bills currently coursing through Congress with one question […]

 

Piers Morgan: We All ‘Need The Nanny State Occasionally’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

CNN’s Piers Morgan sees no reason why America shouldn’t turn into a nanny state. During his March 11 broadcast, Morgan insisted that, “people need the nanny state occasionally.” With guest Christine Quinn, on his late evening CNN talk show Morgan lamented what he felt was a bad decision by a New York judge who shut […]

 

Dismantling Washington

Posted on by Josh Bernstein

Washington, D.C. (which the DC part now stands for dirty cesspool) should become a thing of the past. Society has outgrown the need for a centralized government full of power hungry aristocrats, greedy lobbyists, and corrupt white collar criminals. When I say criminals I am not just talking in the abstract; I am referring to […]

 

NH Dem. Says Gov’t Employees are Like ‘Our Children’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The rap on Democrats is that they fully misunderstand what the relationship should be between citizen and government. Many claim Democrats think government should be mommy and daddy to us all. Well, one New Hampshire Democrat revealed that this is exactly what she thinks. At a Belknap County budget meeting in the first week of […]

 

These GOP Senators Went to Dinner with Obama Instead of Supporting Rand Paul

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Rand Paul excited conservatives, libertarians, and even some liberals with his filibuster performance on the floor of the Senate on Wednesday. It was some 13 hours of a discussion on Obama’s desire to use drones to kill Americans here at home. Unfortunately, there were seven Republicans Senators that decided it was a better idea to […]

 

Tom Brokaw: Obama Spends Too Much Time Campaigning

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Old NBC News hand Tom Brokaw made an appearance on MSNBC’s The Cycle on March 4 and criticized President Obama for campaigning too much instead of governing. Brokaw also castigated Obama for refusing to negotiate with Republicans over the budget impasse and the sequester cuts. Extremely liberal panel member, Touré, asked Brokaw if the budget […]

 

Greens Fret Over Obama Admin Keystone Report

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The State Department has released its much-anticipated report on the environmental impact of the Keystone Pipeline and, to the alarm of the green lobby, it seems to leave President Obama with little reason to continue delaying construction. The 2,000-page report makes no final recommendation on whether or not to approve construction of the energy project, […]

 

Rep. Maxine Waters Inflates Sequester to ‘170 Million’ Jobs Lost

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D, CA) had a dire prediction for America due to sequestration claiming that 170 million jobs would be lost as a result of the policy. But according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics there are only about 140 million jobs in the whole country. During a press conference on February 28, Waters […]

 

The Sequestration Scare

Posted on by Rachel Alexander

As predicted, the Democrats’ refusal to cut any spending other than the military only delayed the inevitable. Now, as is already taking place in Greece, France and Spain, deep cuts must take place or the government will shut down. The fiscal cliff agreement and the Budget Control Act of 2011 called for sequestration on March […]

 

MSNBC: NRA Chief Wayne LaPierre is ‘Afraid of Dark People’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Once again MSNBC has accused the National Rifle Association of being racists. Now host Alex Wagner claimed that NRA chief Wayne LaPierre employed coded racism in a recent op ed he wrote. The day after the President’s State of the Union speech, LaPierre posted an op ed detailing the NRA’s response to Obama’s speech. In […]

 

NYT Hails Obama’s ‘Signal’ That Era of ‘Single-Minded Deficit-Cutting Should End’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The paltry spending cuts coming out of Congress are no where near enough to balance Washington’s budget, but in his analysis of the President’s State of the Union speech, New York Times writer Mark Landler happily went to pains to note that Obama signaled the end of “the era of single-minded deficit-cutting.” One has to […]

 

My Amazing, Earth-Shattering, Dynamic, Never-Before-Seen Analysis Of The State Of The Union

Posted on by Robert Cleveland

OK, I confess: I didn’t actually watch the speech. I tried, I really did. Well, okay, I didn’t even really try. I did manage to muddle through the first few minutes of the speech as I waited for my wife to get ready to go out to dinner – which basically amounted to waiting until […]

 

ABC Ignores Tim Scott’s Senate Appointment in Dec., By Jan. Hails Mo Cowan’s as ‘History’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In December, ABC’s World News saw no news at all in the historic appointment of African American Tim Scott to the Senate in South Carolina. No mention was made of it during the broadcast. Only a month later, though, the same program suddenly hailed African American William “Mo” Cowan’s appointment to the Senate as history […]

 

Vogue Editor Wintour’s Boyfriend Owes $1.2 Million in Taxes

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Only a month ago, Vogue editor Anna Wintour was being floated as an ideal candidate to become President Obama’s next ambassador to Britain but now the fashionista is in the news for another reason. A British newspaper has found that her boyfriend, J. Shelby Bryan, owes $1.2 million in back taxes to the IRS. Despite […]

 

Actor John Leguizamo a Big Fan of Big Government

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Actor John Leguizamo refuses to employ any cagey politically correct speak about his love for big government. There’s no dancing around or soft-pedaling with him. For Leguizamo, big government is all good. In a recent interview with Nicholas Ballasy, the actor asked “What’s wrong with big government?” “I’ve never had a problem with big government. […]

 

Food Stamps Recipients Increased 11,133 Per Day In Obama’s First Term

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

One way to mark the legacy of a presidency is to tally statistics and at least one stat is not very flattering for this president: Americans on food stamps have grown by 11,133 every day during his first term. In 2009, when Obama took office, recipients of SNAP, the Supplemental Assistance Nutrition Program, stood at […]