Category: Government Waste

Maryland State Dems Claim Fundraising on 9/11 Is ‘Patriotic’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Here on the 11th Anniversary of the attacks that took some 3,000 American lives on September 11th, 2001, a pair of Maryland State Democrats are throwing fundraisers. If that isn’t bad enough, one of them even said it is “patriotic” to hold a fundraiser on the anniversary of the day we were so brutally attacked. […]

 

Media Blackout: GAO Says Obama’s Welfare Waivers Illegal

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

On Sept. 4, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) made a startling assertion saying that Obama circumvented the law when he summarily waived the work requirements in the welfare law. Perhaps not as shocking, to date, few news outlets seem interested in the story. In its Sept. 4 letter, the GAO found that Health and Human […]

 

NBC’s Absurdly Rosy Jobs Reporting

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Friday morning’s Today show on NBC did its best to paint the most rosy scenario possible on Obama’s latest dismal jobs report. Attempting to inoculate Obama from this economic downturn, host Matt Lauer said that analysts he had “been reading” claimed that the economy will add up to 12 million new jobs, “no matter who […]

 

What Obama Meant to Say in His DNC Speech

Posted on by Rachel Alexander

Fellow Americans and community organizers, So glad to see all of you people here tonight! I apologize for moving the location inside, unfortunately the turnout was drastically lower than we expected, so a smaller venue became necessary in order not to make the convention look like a failure. How do you like all the change […]

 

History Reveals Obama’s Radical Second Term Agenda

Posted on by Brian Garst

During his convention speech accepting renomination, President Obama didn’t offer much in the way of policy specifics. Charles Krauthammer described it as “one of the emptiest speeches [he] had ever heard,” and then in a devastating critique observed: “At least Romney had a five point plan. What we heard from Obama was a vision. And […]

 

HuffPo Scolds Dems for ‘Caving’ On Reinsertion of God and Jerusalem Into Platform

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It might appear odd, but Huffington Post seems to be scolding the Democrats for having “caved in” to pro-religion and pro-Israel forces in the Democrat Party for succeeding in having God and Jerusalem put back into the Democrat Party platform after they were removed earlier today. Clearly proving that there is a great division in […]

 

The Democracy Alliance: Soros-Linked Liberal Super Group & Its Secret Funding of Democrats

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Washington Free Beacon has undertaken a series of reports that are important for anyone interested in a follow-the-money investigation of one of the biggest influences on today’s Democrat Party. This is a hard-core group of far left extremists holding the Democrats purse strings and is called the Democracy Alliance. It is a George Soros-sponsored […]

 

Obama Needs to Stop Saying ‘I Am GM, Hear Me Roar’

Posted on by Matt Vespa

If I have to hear left-wingers touting the “success” of the auto bailout one more time, I might as well toss a chair through my window. : It’s patently false to say that the auto bailout was a success. : Furthermore, it was more of an United Auto Workers union bailout than it was for the auto […]

 

The Free Press Act: A Proposal to Reinvigorate Our Freedom of Speech

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In this day of mounting threats to our freedoms it is time to reinvigorate our Bill of Rights and so Senator John Kyl (R, AZ) has introduced S. 3493, The Free Press Act. This bill aims to prevent nuisance lawsuits meant only to quash freedom of speech, to stop the intimidation of journalists, bloggers, and […]

 

Frmr Sec of State Madeleine Albright Says Her Bush Hate Lasts Forever

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Obama-pushing former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has at last revealed when Obama will stop blaming George W. Bush for every ill of our day. Never! At least that is what she told attendees at an Obama rally in Highlands Ranch, Colorado this week. Albright was speaking to a small audience of Obama supporters and […]

 

Heartbreak: Obama Disses White House Press Corps

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The sycophantic press has once again been given the back of The One’s hand as the President took time out from his busy schedule of golf and fundraisers to give some interviews to the entertainment press, all the while ignoring the White House press corps with whom he hasn’t spoken in more than two months. […]

 

Democrats Are Pushing Grandma Off The Cliff By Ignoring Facts

Posted on by Matt Vespa

First, it’s baffling that advocating for reform of a broken system is anathema to liberals. : I’ve never met anyone who is against efficiency. Second, who cares if the right tried to ‘end medicare as we know it.’ : Emancipation from wasteful government entitlement programs is inherently moral and enhances the freedom of the American people. : However, […]

 

DNC Chair Says She Doesn’t Know if Obama’s Super PAC is a Democrat Group

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Democrat National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz said in a recent interview that she had “no idea” about the political affiliation of the super PAC that is endorsing Barack Obama. Asked if the group was a Democrat group, she feigned that she didn’t know whether or not they were Democrats despite that the front man […]

 

Brent Bozell: If a Story Doesn’t Help Obama, The Media Won’t Cover It

Posted on by Matt Vespa

Ginni Thomas of The Daily Caller sat down last week with L. Brent Bozell, Founder and President of the Media Research Center, to discuss a wide variety of issues ranging from media bias to the future of the conservative movement. Bozell asserted that the most under-reported story this year will be the degree in which […]

 

70 Things Barry Doesn’t Want You To Know About The Economy

Posted on by Matt Vespa

The Blaze posted an interesting story yesterday concerning the 70 things the Obama campaign might not want to tell voters concerning our economic state. :  Taken from Sen. Tom Coburn’s 2011 Edition of his Wastebook, I’m sure you will find some interesting factoids to share with your liberal friends. Here are a few of them […]

 

Shocker! Low Taxes and Responsible Government Drives Economic Growth

Posted on by Matt Vespa

While many : in the political arena are focused on national elections, we can’t forget how local issues also effect the socioeconomic fabric of local communities. : As The Defending The American Dream Summit hosted by Americans for Prosperity begins, one of the sessions focused solely on this issue concerning state policy and how it drives economic […]

 

Obama’s Campaign Most Cynical in Recent Memory

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Obama is running probably the most cynical campaign in recent memory. At Obama’s hands, Romney is suffering the worst treatment a presidential candidate has gotten from an opponent since Gov. Al Smith was ripped to pieces by anti-Catholic operatives in 1928 giving Herbert Hoover an easy White House win. Obama and his surrogates are simply […]

 

Even TIME Says Mayors Emanuel and Menino Wronging Chick-Fil-A

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It’s a “First Amendment buzzsaw,” that the mayors of Chicago and Boston have walked into over misuse of their powers in denying Chick-Fil-A the right to open and operate their fast food stores in the two cities. This is from TIME, yet. And if even TIME realizes that the Democrats are misusing their powers, well, […]

 

Obama Conference Call Ignoring Administration’s Syria Stagnation

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

President Obama’s reelection team held a conference call recently. The call was meant as an attack on Mitt Romney’s trip abroad, a trip meant to burnish his foreign policy creds. But one thing that team Obama seemed to want to ignore was Obama’s own foreign policy failures in Syria. And so the civil war in […]

 

Solyndra Republicans, Why the GOP Cannot be Trusted

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

On Friday, July 20, Politico reported that GOP leadership in the House beat back an attempt by recalcitrant members of their own caucus to continue to quietly support the sort of pork spending that gave us Solyndra in the first place. House GOP leadership has been beating the Democrats up for the pure wasteful spending […]

 

Obama Did Build This…

Posted on by Matt Vespa

  To no one’s surprise, Obama treated his donors well after the 2008 election. : He may not have built a small business that employed people, but he’s sure good at building a culture of corruption that ends in more folks being sent to the unemployment line. :  However, for a candidate who campaigned as a […]

 

Treasury Department Doled Out Cash to Prostitutes

Posted on by Matt Vespa

The federal government has many problems. : They can’t count to three when it comes to collecting and spending our tax dollars. : We have federal programs that are inefficient, ineffective, and, at times, unconstitutional. : However, it seems prostitution, or being caught in the act, can be added to the list. : These serial incidents of ineptitude and […]

 

Holder’s DOJ Unaccountably Hikes Claims of Number of Texans Lacking Photo I.D.

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder originally said that some 600,000 Texans lacked a voter I.D. and therefore would be disenfranchised by the Texas voter I.D. law, but Department Of Justice lawyers have suddenly upped that number greatly. Holder’s DOJ now claims that 1.4 million otherwise eligible Texas voters don’t have proper I.D.s. Unfortunately, Holder did […]

 

Dept. of Homeland Sec. Again Calls Patriotic Americans ‘Potential Terrorists’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Are you a patriotic American that thinks that our American way of life is in danger? Are you a Tea Partier? If so, Obama’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) wants you to know that you might be a terrorist. Or, at least, the DHS wants to characterize you as a potential terrorist, anyway. Once again […]

 

Obama is the Outsourcer-in-Chief

Posted on by Matt Vespa

As: President Obama slams Romney for being a “pioneer” in outsourcing jobs: overseas, it appears the president himself and his most loyal supporters are leading the charge in American outsourcing. : According to William Bigelow of Breitbart.com, “Obama’s second largest: fundraiser: is John Rogers, the CEO of: investment giant Ariel Capital Management. He has raised more than: $1.5 million: for Obama’s reelection campaign. […]