Category: Government Waste

Rahm’s Operative and Union Each Trying to Buy Chicago City Council

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A political operative tied directly to Rahm Emanuel has raised $1 million to back Emanuel friendly candidates for City Council, reports The New York Times. The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is investing over $2 million also to buy candidates that favor their issues. Both are struggling to buy a City Council loyal to them […]

 

Socialism And Speaking Spanish In America Via FCC Decree

Posted on by John Hawkins

The federal government shouldn’t be allowed to put conditions like this on a merger, “Comcast will make available to approximately 2.5 million low income households: (i) high-speed Internet access service for less than $10 per month; (ii) personal computers, netbooks, or other computer equipment at a purchase price below $150? and “we require Comcast-NBCU to […]

 

Obama Now a Regulation Slayer? Hardly!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

On Tuesday, President Obama had an op ed published in the Wall Street Journal. In it Obama insisted that our economy has been hurt by “unreasonable burdens on business” and that the regulatory sector had “gotten out of balance.” He promised that he’d make efforts to trim away regulations costly to business. While the sentiment […]

 

Obama to Sue States to End Worker’s Right to Secret Ballot

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Barack Obama has given more payoffs, sweetheart deals, and new favorable regulations to Big Labor than any president in history. They should love him for his incredible largess. Next, in his never ending quest to harm the business community, defy the will of the voters, and give his pals in Big Labor paybacks, Obama’s National […]

 

Newspaper Ignores Facts in Teacher’s ‘Vagina Dance’ Song Controversy

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It isn’t just national issues that the Old Media misreports. As we focus on the “big” stories of the day, we often overlook the local scene and the left-wing excuse for “reporting,” therefrom. This is a perfect example of that. Imagine you are a sophomore in high school and your sex ed teacher forces you […]

 

Our Out Of Control Courts: Bankruptcy Courts Now Deciding Cases on Feelings?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

One of the issues that many conservatives have focused on is our out of control court system and the constant judicial overreach that occurs therein. Here we have yet another case of a court insinuating itself into an area in which it previously never had purview and if this decision stands it will open our […]

 

Obama’s Labor Dept: If You Let Girl Scouts Sell Cookies, You HAVE to Let Unions Come in Too

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Everyone loves Girl Scout cookies, right? What could be more American? It’s a right of passage for many young girls to set up a folding table in front of a local business and sell their little cookies and what American doesn’t get a warm feeling in their heart when they see those peppy little ones […]

 

‘Historian’ Douglas Brinkley: Obama ‘Like’ Martin Luther King

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Radio talker Rush Limbaugh got in dutch with Fox News commentator Charles Krauthammer for saying that Obama supporters were “slobbering” over his address at the pep rally/memorial sponsored by the University of Arizona for those fallen in the Arizona shooting. But “slobbering” is nothing compared to historian Douglas Brinkley’s hyperbolic praise. Brinkley absurdly said that […]

 

Ex-Black Panther, Current Politician Bobby Rush Uses MLK, Giffords to Call for Gun Control

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Bobby Rush always did have a lot of stones. He went from being an outlaw and criminal member of the Black Panthers in Chicago to being a legitimate, elected Congressman from the self-same city. Now Rush is hiding behind both the crime in Arizona and Martin Luther Kin, Jr. in order to push his anti-constitutional […]

 

Miss America 2011 Slams WikiLeaks as ‘Espionage’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The new Miss America Pageant winner, Cornhusker Teresa Scanlan, wowed judges with her black bikini, her piano playing, and her silky blond hair. She’s the youngest winner ever at 17, her theme this year was eating disorders, and she also criticized WikiLeaks as “espionage.” Scanlon said that she wanted to become a lawyer because she […]

 

New Chinese Bridge vs. Bridge Repair in San Francisco: Which Project is Well-Built, On Time and On Budget?

Posted on by Jane Jamison

Something ELSE the Chinese do better….. : The world’s longest over-water bridge has just been completed by the Chinese……IN FOUR YEARS….for $11.1 billion. Now let’s compare the Chinese bridge-building acumen to the very best that America has to offer in bridge-building right now:: :  The shameful, obscenely-expensive replacement of the east span of the San Francisco Bay […]

 

Petty RI Gov. Bans Talk Radio Appearances for State Workers

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Lincoln Chafee was the bane of conservative talk radio when he was the RINO Senator from Rhode Island. Now that he is a newly minted “independent” and has become the Governor of the Ocean State, Chafee is in a position to take his revenge on the medium. And boy has this petty man used his […]

 

NH Republican Establishment Working Against Tea Party Candidate?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

And so it begins. Now that the 2010 midterms are done and the Tea Party has shown itself to be a real political force, the GOP establishment is making plans to undermine Tea Party power and reassert its own RINO, country club control of the party. It’s happening in New Hampshire, anyway, as it seems […]

 

Slate Plays Loose With Facts Over Concealed Carrier’s Arizona Actions

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Contrary to Senator Moynihan’s proclamation, Slate’s William Saletan thinks he’s entitled to his own facts. If not his own facts, then his own version of history at any rate. Anti-Second Amendment Saletan dreamed up his own little set of incidents and actions in order to castigate pro-Second Amendment supporters by claiming that something that didn’t […]

 

Crook County Illinois: Fake State Rep Casts Deciding Vote to Raise Our Taxes

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

She didn’t know anything about the bill. She never read it. She hadn’t been given any cheat sheets, facts sheets, talking points, or mass emails on the bill. But in true, corrupt Chicago fashion, she voted “yes” on it just as she was told to do by her corrupt party bosses. Even worse, she was […]

 

Video: Saving Social Security with Personal Retirement Accounts

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A new mini-documentary By Dan Mitchell of the CATO Institute explaining why personal accounts are the only way of dealing with Social Security’s huge, long-run, unfunded liability while also giving workers a chance to enjoy a safer and more secure retirement. The take away: You’ll have to live to over 100-years-old to make your contributions […]

 

Union Boss With History of Violence Decries Vitriolic Rhetoric of Right

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Well, it’s the old “glass houses” story, isn’t it? AFL-CIO boss Richard Trumka weighed in on the criminal shooting in Arizona and naturally he blamed the whole incident on “too much vitriolic, hate-filled rhetoric that we hear on radio and television.” This from a guy who has many times used worse rhetoric to incite violence […]

 

Emanuel Pushing Anti-Teachers Union Line in Race for Chicago Mayor?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Rahm Emanuel is not the union’s favorite man. He has had union detractors since his days pushing the North American Free Trade Act (NAFTA) during the Clinton administration. Since then there have been other clashes between Emanuel and unions even as he served President Obama as his Chief of Staff. Now, as he takes after […]

 

Want to See Some Hate From America’s Left-Democrats?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The left is filled with vitriol and hate. The American left despises anyone that disagrees with them. The American left hates the Constitution because it stands in its way to remake America in its own image. The American left practices the politics of personal destruction. The American left has called for rioting, murder, and has […]

 

Note to Jerry Brown: You Want to Cut the Budget? Here’s Where to Start!

Posted on by Jane Jamison

Incoming governor California Jerry Brown is now considering how to plug the $28 billion hole in the California budget.:  There is talk that he is “seriously considering” what to do about Proposition 13 (which he opposed in the 1970s when it was passed) and putting a tax increase before voters in June.: 

 

Rep. Blackburn Introduces Bill to Preempt FCC Internet Takeover

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Representative Marsha Blackburn (R, TN) has introduced a bill to preempt the December power grab by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski and she has made the bill bipartisan with the support of Democrat Dan Boren (Oklahoma). Blackburn’s bill would place all rules governing the Internet in the purview of Congress and would take the […]

 

In 2011 Public Employees Unions Must Be Targeted for Elimination

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

-By Warner Todd Huston One of the biggest recurring themes in union reporting these days is music to the ears of any fiscally responsible American. It seems almost weekly that we are seeing stories that recount the ire being directed at public employee unions. Let us hope that this reporting is the first ripples of […]

 

While Teachers Are Laid Off, Fortunes Spent on School Butterfly Gardens

Posted on by Dave Blount

Teachers have been getting laid off right and left in Florida’s Broward School District. Despite all the taxes, the money just isn’t there to pay them. This gives an idea of where it went: For years, Weston developer Roy Rogers planted gardens designed to lure butterflies to Broward schools, using volunteer labor and donated supplies. […]

 

GOP’s Speaker-To-Be Boehner Already Bowing to Democrats in House?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Think of this scenario: Your party has been swept into office with the biggest majority in generations. The majority of Americans think the country is on the verge of emergency and want things fixed pronto. And you are poised to become the next Speaker of the House. So what do you do? A). Steel your […]

 

Another Losing Republican Scolds the Nation For Firing Him

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Outgoing Republican Representative from South Carolina Bob Inglis is not going off into forced retirement quietly. No, Ol’ Bobby wants us all to know that the nation has failed him. He and his soft-spinned, middle of the road, week-kneed sort of Republican has been roughly handled by real conservatives and its just not fair, apparently. […]

 

Fox News’ Kirsten Powers Falsely Claims Bush Supported Earlier End-Of-Life Law

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

On the Sean Hannity Show on Fox News this week, Democrat Kirsten Powers offered some misinformed political analysis. Naturally, her analysis heavily favored the Obama administration’s goals. On the Dec. 27 show Powers insisted that inflamed talk about Obama’s “death panels” was nothing but a cynical spin meant to attack Obama because, she asserted, back […]

 

As Japan Abandons Emissions Caps, Obama Rushes Headlong Toward It

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Even as the Japanese have abandoned its national emissions trading scheme because they’ve realized how many jobs would be lost as a result of the draconian regulations involved, President Obama continues to claim that he wants to impose similar jobs-killing regulations on America. Japan initially announced that its national carbon trading scheme was to have […]

 

Video: Constitution Hard for Lefties Because It’s So Darn Old

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Well, it’s no wonder that leftists in America — you know, those folks that pretend to be Americans — have such a problem understanding the Constitution. It’s hard for them, you see, because… well… it’s old. This stark revelation was disgorged from the mouth of famed lefty blogger, and TV Wunderkind Ezra Klein of the […]

 

Obamacare: When Obama LIKES Imposing Higher Costs on ‘The Poor’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

My friend George Scoville, who works for the CATO Institute, asked a question that really does go to show the left’s hypocrisy. This time the question reveals a “feature” of Obamacare that tends to expose hypocrisy so large that an ambulance could drive through it. (See how I said “ambulance” there to keep with the […]

 

90-Year-Old Post Office Workers Still Getting Workers Comp?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Years after most Americans retire, in fact years after the federal retirement age of 68, more than 100 U.S. Postal Workers in their 90s are still getting 75 percent of their salaries (tax free, yet) of federal workers compensation payments instead of having been graduated to the cheaper retirement payments at 60 percent of their […]