Category: Government Waste

Labor Unions Support Wisconsin Agitators

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Until now many of the often-illegal antics perpetuated by several individual Wisconsin-based protesters appeared to be random acts committed by disillusioned agitators. But the MacIver News Service has learned that these acts have been highly orchestrated and perpetuated by an organization whose members are told to deny their involvement in the group. A group, we’ve […]

 

PG&E’s Catastrophic Failure of Public Trust By Company and Government Both

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Another in a long line of explosions and other catastrophic safety failures occurred at the end of September when a natural gas pipeline built and owned by Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) ruptured in Roseville, California. This is just of a piece of the failure of PG&E to ensure public safety, a failure that the […]

 

Illinois Government Continues War Against Religion

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In the first week of August the Thomas Moore Society filed an emergency injunction to prevent the State of Illinois from taking away the foster children that are currently under Catholic Charities’ care during the appeal currently underway. Shockingly, the government of the State of Illinois has determined that religious people are ill-suited to being […]

 

ABC’s Diane Sawyer: ‘Protests Have Spread to 1,000 Countries’… Ooops, There’s Only 195 Countries

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Showing that the people that sit in front of the cameras at the Networks aren’t really journalists, but are merely pleasant looking readers of Teleprompters, Diane Sawyer of ABC News sonorously informed readers that the Occupy-Whatever protests have now “spread to 1,000 countries.” Speaking of Wall Street, we thought we’d bring you up to date […]

 

How Obama Is Bypassing Democracy, Congress and YOU

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Phil Kerpen has a warning for you, America. He wants to alert you to the fact that Barack Obama is using his powers to create regulations to undermine Congress, ignore voters, and “radically transform America.” But Kerpen also has some good news. There’s a way to stop this left-wing assault on our country. You can […]

 

Rep. Jan Schakowsky Thinks Gov’t ‘Creates Jobs’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Recently Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D, Illinois 9th District), whose husband has been convicted of bank fraud and tax evasion, was interviewed by the far left website truthout. You’ll remember truthout for its scoop back in 2009. It was truthout that was the first to report the big news that Karl Rove had been indicted. Unfortunately […]

 

Why Isn’t Obama’s Teacher Lie National News?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

During the latest campaign appearance disguised as a presidential press conference, President Obama uttered one straight out lie that stands out above the rest of them. To help sell his “jobs bill,” Obama claimed to have met a Boston-based teacher named Robert Baroz and intimated that Baroz had no job despite his excellent teaching credentials. […]

 

Obama’s Senate Dems Prove They are NOT Interested in Working With Republicans

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat from Nevada, has just proven that while Obama runs around the country on campaign appearances claiming that he wants to work with Republicans to “pass this bill,” his party has no interest whatsoever in actually doing so. Reid is trying to pass new rules to prevent Republicans form […]

 

Obama’s Texas School Visit: Hi Kids, Let’s Read a Story About Me!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Can anyone be this arrogant? President Obama visited with some school children in Texas on Wednesday and read a nice little story book to the kiddies. Guess who the star of the book was? You guessed it, himself. Obama was visiting an early education program Eastfield College in Mesquite, Texas and chose to read a […]

 

Unions In for Anti-American, Anti-Capitalist ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Protests

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Looks like the Unions are now endorsing the unwashed masses infesting… er, investing Wall Street. CNN has the story… Wall Street Protests Grow After Unions’ Endorsement Wall Street protests swelled Wednesday to their largest numbers yet, after local unions pledged support to a third week of demonstrations against income inequality, corporate greed, corruption and a […]

 

Government Makes Us Poor

Posted on by John Stossel

Here’s my fantasy: Libertarians are elected to the presidency and to majorities in Congress. What would happen next? Well, if libertarians were “in charge,” you’d have more freedom and prosperity. Freedom frightens some people. They say if no one is in charge there would be chaos. That is intuitive, but think about a skating rink. […]

 

AP Says Michelle ‘O’ Just Happened to be Shopping at Target? Riiiiight!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

AP photographer Charles Dharapak is ballyhooing a photo he claims to have just happened to snap of First Lady Michelle Obama shopping at an Alexandria, Virginia Target department store. But come on. Does anyone believe that an AP photographer just by chance happened to spot the First Lady shopping at Target and just happened to […]

 

George Washington Said to Avoid ‘Entangling Alliances’… Or Did He?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

I have been interested these days to hear the left citing George Washington, the father of our country, to support their ideas against the GOP and their hope that Obama will pull out of the Middle East. Specifically they have been citing Washington’s farewell address where he supposedly warned Americans against getting involved with foreign […]

 

MSNBC Guest: Solyndra is Bush’s Fault! (Despite Truth)

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In a recurrence of its bout with Bush Derangement Syndrome, MSNBC recently relied on a left-wing, green activist to assert that the whole Solyndra scandal was really started by George W. Bush. Yep, it’s Boosh’s fault once again. Of course, the facts speak otherwise, but let’s not let truth get in the way of a […]

 

NYTimes Sunday Review Again Pushes Lie that Billionaires Run Tea Party

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It is a lie that serves as the left’s basic narrative for the birth of the Tea Party movement and this weekend it was The New York Times’s turn to push that lie claiming that the Tea Party is “led by veteran conservative activists and bankrolled by billionaires.” This bull hockey (yes, I said bull […]

 

Federal Government Pays Out Hundreds of $Millions to Dead Bureaucrats

Posted on by Dave Blount

Two of the most loyal constituencies of the Democrats running Washington are bureaucrats and dead people. This story helps us understand why: In the past five years, the Office of Personnel Management has made more than $601 million in benefits payments to deceased federal annuitants, according to the agency’s inspector general. Total annual payouts range […]

 

EPA Regulations May Require 230,000 New Employees

Posted on by William Teach

All in the name of the climate change hoax* (Daily Caller) The Environmental Protection Agency has said new greenhouse gas regulations, as proposed, may be “absurd” in application and “impossible to administer” by its self-imposed 2016 deadline. But the agency is still asking for taxpayers to shoulder the burden of up to 230,000 new bureaucrats […]

 

Ron Paul: NOT a Serious Candidate

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Ron Paul is not serious about running for president nor is he a serious candidate even were he to be so inclined. But serious or no, he is a horrible candidate regardless. Now, there may have been a time a decade or so ago when Ron Paul really thought he had a shot at being […]

 

Calif., Illinois, New York at Bottom of Favorable Business Climate List

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Thanks to Illinois Democrats and Governor Pat Quinn, Illinois now sits among the worst states in the country for jobs and business. Texas and North and South Carolina rank as the best. Illinois is the state with the third worst business climates in the country. Only New York and last rated California are worse in […]

 

Obama’s Mounting Scandals

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Heritage Foundation has a post giving a run down of some of the scandals mounting in the Obama administration… you know, the most ethical administration ever? Yeah. That one. Most of them have to do with Obama’s penchant for crony capitalism. Like the good socialist he is, Obama wants to pick the winners and […]

 

President Obama’s NLRB & Their Summer Assault On American Jobs

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Obama pretends that he wants to cut regulations and make it easier for businesses to make jobs. Unfortunately, what he says and what he does with his powers to regulate are two very, very different things. From the Workforce Fairness Institute: The Workforce Fairness Institute today unveiled a new web video spotlighting President Obama’s National […]

 

Chicago: Union Members Collect Millions in Tax $$ With Sweetheart Pension Deal

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Now this is the sort of corruption we are used to seeing in Illinois, eh? This week the Chicago Tribune and WGN TV has found up to 23 retired union operatives that are collecting millions in taxpayer dollars because they had pals in government tweak the state’s pensions laws to favor them. These former government […]

 

Did 85 Democrats Vote In Favor of Government Shutdown?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Back on August first the whole country was waiting for the House of Representatives to raise the debt ceiling and offer a continuing resolution to prevent a feared government shutdown. That was done with the support of 95 Democrats who claimed they were desperate to prevent that shut down. (Relevant amendment) However, in a follow […]

 

Even After Solyndra, Obama Continues to Shovel Our Money Down Green Energy Rat Holes

Posted on by Dave Blount

At least after the Solyndra, SolarCity, and Solexel debacles, Comrade President will be shamed out of laundering mountains of our money through green energy boondoggles for awhile — or maybe not: The Obama administration, defying congressional Republicans after the failure of solar-panel maker Solyndra LLC, is working to award as much as $9.2 billion in […]

 

Obama Donor, Now Medical Records Czar Gets Little Gov’t Job BIG Gov’t Contracts

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Must be nice to be a member of the “in” crowd, the crowd of crony capitalists to whom President Obama has given so much of the taxpayer’s money. And not just money but positions of power in the government. Take, for instance, Obama’s newest czar, Judith Faulkner, recently named Obama medical records czar. She was […]

 

Narcissist in Chief: Obama’s ‘Look At Me’ Photo

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Back on Sept. 20, President Obama stood with the folks from the Open Government Partnership to get a group photo taken. But, even in a photo of over a dozen folks, as far as Obama was concerned it was all about Obama. There he is, calling attention to himself like a ten-year-old on the carousel […]