Category: Government Waste

American Cancer Society Attacks Me by Name Over California Tax Grab?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Oddly enough, a coalition of big tax hikers in California, including the American Cancer Society, has attacked me by name for daring to write about Proposition 29, a California ballot measure that will appear on this year’s ballot. Prop 29 will force Californians to foot the costs of nearly a billion dollars in new and […]

 

Mayor Emanuel Puts Himself in GOP Primary Race, Joins ‘Republican War on Women’ Lie

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Mayor Emanuel has not left Barack Obama. This is clear with his latest foray into national political issues by joining Obama’s orchestrated “Republican war on women” lie that has been drummed up to take America’s attention away from Obama’s monumental failures as president. To help his old boss, Emanuel decided to pipe up about Rush […]

 

Paul Ryan: America Deserves a Better Path [VIDEO]

Posted on by Sunshine State Sarah

[Note from Sarah: Hi everyone. This is my first post at Right Wing News. Thanks to John for inviting me to contribute here. You can follow me on Twitter @rumpfshaker or my regular blog at Sunshine State Sarah.] Reason #7,519,078 why I love Paul Ryan: he gets it, I mean: really gets it, regarding the financial […]

 

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Newt Responds to President: Let Obama Be the Saudi Oil and Algae Guy, I’ll be the American Jobs Guy

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Republican Presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich appeared at Otto Engineering in Carpentersville, Illinois this afternoon and had a few choice words for Barack Obama. Newt told the president than he can be the fantasy algae guy and he, Newt, will be the science candidate. Newt Slams the President as a member of the “Flat Earth, Sierra […]

 

The Chamber Of Commerce Challenges Obama On The National Labor Relations Board

Posted on by John Hawkins

It’s no secret that Barack Obama is in Big Labor’s pocket and if anyone had doubts about that, Obama’s decision to bypass Congress and recess appoint three union flunkies to the National Labor Relations Board removed it. Given that the NLRB has shown that they’ll willing to egregiously abuse their power, for example, by refusing […]

 

No Brainer Liberals Resist Because They’re Idiots #528: Drug Testing For Welfare Recipients

Posted on by John Hawkins

You don’t have a right to food stamps, welfare, or any other program in our social safety net. However, because we’re a forgiving and compassionate society, we’ve chosen to put programs in place to help those who’re having a tough time. Of course, if you’re going to ask people who are working for a living […]

 

ABC News That’s Not So New

Posted on by Michael Fell

One of the breaking headline news stories online from ABC News just today, Tuesday, March 6, 2012 reads: Green Firms Get Fed Cash, Give Exec Bonuses, Fail. http://news.yahoo.com/green-firms-fed-cash-execs-bonuses-fail-200314806–abc-news.html Ronnie Greene and Matthew Mosk, for ABC News, aggressively reporting news with an edge, convey how companies like Solyndra, Ener1and Beacon Power took money from the Department […]

 

Creating Problems Where They Don’t Exist: “Food Deserts.”

Posted on by John Hawkins

When you can’t deal with the real problems in this country, which mainly revolve around government getting too big, spending too much, and interfering too much with people’s lives, it’s easier for people to create non-existent problems for people to solve. More than a third of Baltimore neighborhoods don’t have ready access to healthy foods, […]

 

Competition or Cartel Control? An Entrepreneur’s Fight for Fairness

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

How government uses its powers to regulate and license to act as a cartel for established businesses and to exclude new businesses Artist, veteran, and entrepreneur Julie Crowe wishes to provide a female-friendly vehicle-for-hire service for students in the Bloomington-Normal community, but her attempts are thwarted by city officials who insist students have no need […]

 

Gov’t Waste Watch: Former California Treasury Official Slams Prop 29

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The opposition to Proposition 29, the nearly billion dollar per year tax hike slated for the June ballot, is growing. A new wrinkle comes from former California Treasury official Mark Paul who hit the nail on the head in an interview with the Los Angeles Times last week. It seems that another celebrity is barging […]

 

Chop Licking: How Obama Uses Falsehoods to Advance His Policies

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Last week we all got a great lesson in how the left promotes a lie to make Republicans the enemy and this time President Obama was a chief participant. This is how the game is played: the left-leaning media establishment makes a claim about how rotten Republicans are and Obama then echoes the claim and […]

 

We Need YOUR Help to Fight Voter Fraud in Wisconsin Recall Elections

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Patriots are fighting to uphold the integrity of the election process in Wisconsin WILL YOU HELP? Wisconsin is Just the Beginning. In an effort to oust Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (along with the Lieutenant Governor and 4 Senators) the union backed group United Wisconsin led a massive drive to fill petition pages by any means […]

 

Would you trust these people with $1 billion?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

If the members of the California State Legislature had to get real jobs, most of them would have been fired by now. Incapable of solving any of the problems that have crippled California, they instead fritter away their time giving perks to special interests and passing endless new regulations that have decimated California’s business community. […]

 

Happy Belated Third Birthday, Stimulus!

Posted on by William Teach

I knew there was something else I wanted to write about Friday. The 3rd anniversary of Obama’s massive, pork laden, campaign donor hookup entitled the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, otherwise known as The Stimulus That Didn’t. It’s rather strange that neither Obama nor any Democrats talked about how great Stimulus was yesterday (IBD) Without […]

 

Newspapers Defend Their Crony Capitalism: Outdated Monopoly on Public Notices

Posted on by Rachel Alexander

Ever wonder why taking out a public notice costs so much money? It shouldn’t be that way. With the demise of print newspapers, it no longer makes sense to require that public notices be published only in newspapers. More people have access to the internet now than subscribe to print newspapers. Yet print newspapers have […]

 

Obama Programming Media Matters, or is it the Other Way Around?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

-By Warner Todd Huston There has been a lot of chatter about the blockbuster report at DailyCaller.com revealing the extent to which the self-proclaimed “media watchdog” outfit Media Matters for America is joined at the hip with the White House. Many are shocked at just how much Obama is seemingly programming the media with the […]

 

How effective were Obama’s green jobs initiatives?

Posted on by Wintery Knight

From the LA Examiner. Excerpt: U.S. House of Representatives investigations have revealed the failed green jobs initiative in President Obama’s ambitious environmental agenda. : With an initial government cost of one-half billion dollars, evidence proves that only about 10% of sponsored trainees were placed in green jobs. As part of the Obama green energy program, the […]

 

Obama’s Budget: More Tax, Borrow and Spend

Posted on by Michael Fell

The White House presented its 2012 budget Monday. A $3.8 trillion proposal which includes $1.43 trillion in new taxes on households whose incomes meet or exceed $250,000 (note: this is the new “progressive” definition of millionaires and billionaires), a fourth straight year of $1 trillion-plus deficit spending (which will require yet more borrowing), and new […]

 

Red Light Cameras: Government’s ‘It’s For Public Safety’ Lie

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Red light cameras are a mixed bag across the USA. Big cities love them, small cities increasingly less. But one thing is universal where ever they are tried. The whole thing is about revenue generation, not public safety. Most city administrations try desperately to hide their greed behind hoary claims of safeguarding the public, but […]

 

New York teacher worth $10 million is paid $100,000 a year to do nothing

Posted on by Wintery Knight

The New York Post reports on: the horror of teacher unions. Excerpt: In a defiant raspberry to the city Department of Education – and taxpayers – disgraced teacher Alan Rosenfeld, 66, won’t retire. Deemed a danger to kids, the typing teacher with a $10 million real estate portfolio hasn’t been allowed in a classroom for more […]

 

PG&E Wants Higher Rates Even While Collecting Millions for Improvements Never Made?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Since the several disastrous accidents that claimed the lives of too many Californians, Pacific Gas & Electric has been fighting criticism over its dismal safety record. In response, the energy provider cried poor and said it needed billions for upgrades and repairs and wanted ratepayers to pay even more for its services. But a new […]

 

Wisconsin School Punishes Christian Kid for Being a… Christian Kid

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Superintendent Todd Carlson of Shawano High School in Shawano, Wisconsin is sorry a student observed his First Amendment rights and had his article published in the school newspaper that denounces homosexuals adopting children. And so Superintendent Carlson is making amends by punishing this Christian kid for being so darn Christian. Superintendent Carlson has also decided […]

 

Chicago Sun-Times Shows White Flag: No More Political Endorsements

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Chicago Sun Times has received your message loud and clear, dear readers. As much as admitting that they are biased and they know it, the long-time Windy City staple has decided that hence forth it will no longer endorse candidates for political office. In a Sunday editorial, the 71-year-old paper announced its new policy […]

 

Indiana Democrats Fleebagging Again, Abandoning Their Jobs

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Once again Indiana Democrats are playing the fleebagger game. Because they don’t have enough votes in the Indiana Statehouse, Hoosier Democrats are abandoning their rightful duties and fleeing the Capitol over Indiana’s right-to-work bill currently under consideration in Indianapolis. Indiana Senate Bill 269 and House Bill 1001 would make it illegal to require workers in […]

 

Occupy Wall Street Stealing From The Poor to Give to Themselves!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It is more common everyday. A man buys a house, the market collapses and suddenly his house is worth less than the mortgage, then he loses his job until, as a single father, he finds himself in foreclosure with no place to raise his two preteen daughters. It’s a case made for the Occupy Wall […]

 

Every Year Boondoggles Pile Up in California

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The left-wing idea that it’s good for government to always wildly increase spending is dying a quick death these days. But this good sense has not made it to every state in the union yet — two disastrous states in particular; California and Illinois. These two states have not learned the lesson about the ruinous […]

 

Obama Excuses Over 500,000 Union Members From Obamacare

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Remember back in the days of the debate over Obamacare when unions were the biggest voices screaming in support of the legislation? Many labor union bosses said that nationalized healthcare was exactly what they wanted. Further they said it was what was good for the country. Yet now we learn that Obama has given waivers […]