Category: Government Waste

Obama Using Regulatory Power to Force Card Check

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Congress has failed to pass Big Labor’s long sought after card check bill, the Orwellian named Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). The reason congress has not passed this destructive law is because the voters have repeatedly spoken by urging their representatives and senators to stand against it. The voice of the American people, though, does […]

 

(Video) Proof That British Students are Morons

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Last week thousands of coddled British students rioted because the British government decided that its children would have to… gasp… earn their own way through college. No longer would these petulant brats be given a free ride through higher education says the government. And these punks are not very happy about it. Well, one dimwitted […]

 

(Video) Townhall Meeting With Mark Kirk and Randy Hultgren, Saint Charles, Illinois

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

On Dec. 11, 2010, I attended a townhall meeting held in the 14th Congressional District featuring Congressman-elect Randy Hultgren and newly minted Senator Mark Kirk. The event was held in the theater of a local high school in Saint Charles, Illinois. The afternoon started out with an address by Senator Mark Kirk who already was […]

 

Obama Claims Power to Decide if Your Medicine is Too Expensive to be Allowed

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It’s very easy for Obamacare supporters to scoff at the whole idea that there are “death panels” ensconced in Obama’s health care power grab. But the fact of the matter is that they exist in a defacto form. One of those defacto death panels is the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), an agency invented under […]

 

Gun-Toting Woman Accosted in Own Home is Arrested in Kansas

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Most Americans would imagine that if a homeowner is accosted in her own home by an outsider, the homeowner would be justified in arming herself. In fact, most Americans would think it a right… seeing as how there’s that whole Second Amendment and all. Well apparently there are neither any Americans nor any supporters of […]

 

Illinois School Uses ‘Stimulus’ $$ For Raises and Bonuses While Raising Property Taxes

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Arrogance is an ugly thing. But it seems that Grayslake School Board Superintendent Ellen Correll has it in spades. Not only did she and four other board members vote to increase its tax levy on the community, but she also announced that she used federal “stimulus” money to dole out raises and bonuses to teachers […]

 

Democrats: Say, Let’s Change Rules to Push Our Agenda FASTER in Lame Duck Session

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

There is nothing more dangerous than a party that is about to lose power but still has temporary control of the reins of government. That is, of course, what we call the lame duck session of congress — more like a zombie congress; dead men walking… or sitting as the case may be. It has […]

 

Another Big Labor Union Payoff: Obama Adds $3.3 Million to Construction Project

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The government is over spent. This single fact is beyond dispute. Even Democrats say so. We have but to recall that Democrat after Democrat attempted to run for office this last election by claiming fealty to small government, cost cutting, and lower spending. So with all this small government/low spending fever sweeping the political classes, […]

 

DREAM Act Passes House: The Eight Republicans that Voted for it

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Want to dispense some bile? Well here are the names of the eight Republicans that just voted “yes” on the DREAM Act (HR 6497). Even worse are the eleven that didn’t vote at all. Ahn “Joseph” Cao, Louisiana Mike Castle, Delaware Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Florida Mario Diaz-Balart, Florida Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Florida Charles Djou, Hawaii Vern Ehlers, […]

 

Big Government Still Hiring

Posted on by Dave Blount

If the government doesn’t stop spending, it will literally cause the economy to collapse. You don’t need a degree in economics to realize that you can’t keep spending far more money than you make indefinitely. When the reckoning comes, we will be competing with rats to find something edible in dumpsters. But for now the […]

 

FDA Set To Cut Off 17,000 Women Annually From Lifesaving Drug

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Obama’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is due to take up the case of Avastin, a cancer drug that successfully treats some 17,000 women annually. With a coming December 17 decision, the FDA seems poised to take this drug away from these patients quite despite the fact that their doctors find the drug effective. The […]

 

Pensions Troubles Getting Some Attention

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Michael Corkery of the Wall Street Journal reports that congressional Republicans are finally paying a bit of attention to the coming pension bomb that is about to explode in nearly every state in the union, causing further damage to our economy and our state budgets. House Republicans are making moves to prevent bailouts of state […]

 

Wed in the Senate: Reid to Try and Force Cloture Votes on DREAM Act and Forced Unionization Act

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

-By Warner Todd Huston Call Your Senator Tell Them to Vote NO on DREAM Act and Forced Nationalized Unionization of Police/Firemen From contacts in the Senate we’ve learned that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D, Nev.) will likely on Wednesday (Dec. 8) try and bring a cloture vote on The DREAM Act and the Public […]

 

Waste: Feds Gave ACORN Half a Million for ‘Fire Prevention’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Jonathan Strong of the Daily Caller has another sad tale of massive government waste involving the criminal group ACORN. Everybody knows about ACORN, the dead, but not really dead activist group charged with all sorts of improprieties and illegalities, the most significant of which is voter fraud, including registering Mickey Mouse to vote. But how […]

 

UN Climate Summit, Cancun, Mexico: Climate Conmen Sending You Back 100 Years

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

As most of you know last week I was down in Cancun, Mexico reporting on the U.N. Climate Change Summit (officially called COP16/CMP6). It was several days of sun, surf, and U.N. conmen. I am back in the saddle here at home but Friday I went from the warm white sands of Cancun back to […]

 

Lame Duck Threat to Bailout Union Pensions

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Connie Hair has an informative piece at Human Events about what Democrats are hoping to do in the next few weeks in this lame duck session by pushing another big union bailout. In October, Sen. Tom Harkin (D, Iowa) heard witnesses advancing the “Guaranteed Retirement Account” (GRA) idea authored by left-wing activist and purported “labor […]

 

The Con in Cancun: UN Climate Change Summit Update

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

I am here in Cancun, Mexico investigating the U.N. Climate Change Conference to see what sort of wonderful solutions to save our very planet are being planned for all of us here in sunny Mexico. It’s always nice that we can come to save the planet… at a nice resort hotel complex… on a beach… […]

 

GOP Looks To Change Spending Process – Obviously, Some Have A Problem With This

Posted on by William Teach

A very interesting notion is coming from the Republicans, especially the new guard House Republicans seem intent on blowing up the staid appropriations process when they take power in January – potentially upending the old bulls in both parties who have spent decades building their power over the federal budget. The plans include slicing and […]

 

Why has Media Not Played up Republicans Taking Obama’s Senate Seat?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Wouldn’t you think it would be a big deal if a Republican president lost his senate seat to a Democrat only 2 short years after he was elected to the highest office in the land? I mean, don’t you think the media would think that a Republican president losing his own former office to the […]

 

Expensive, Stupid Public Transit Tricks: San Francisco’s “MUNI”

Posted on by Jane Jamison

San Francisco city government is totally, utterly out of control.:  Shame on California voters for rewarding the dippity-do mayor Gavin Newsom with the Peter Principle promotion to lieutenant governor.:  Newsom’s absentee leadership while campaigning continuously leaves behind a city mired in half a billion in red ink.:  The failure to deal effectively with the city’s […]

 

UN Climate Summit: The Con in Cancun

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In but a few hours I’ll be headed to Chicago’s O’Hare airport to wing my way to sunny Cancun to do a few days reporting on the U.N. Climate Change Summit. As is my luck in life, sunny Cancun will be rainy Cancun if the weatherman is to be believed. Of course, weather reports aren’t […]

 

New Hawaii Government Transparency Website Debuts

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Grassroot Institute of Hawaii is starting a new effort to spotlight wasteful government spending in the Aloha State and one of the central parts of this program is a new website that the group promises will, “revolutionize government accountability in Hawaii by revealing waste, fraud, and abuse of taxpayer dollars at the state and […]

 

Now That He’s Won, Reid’s Paying Back Unions

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Harry Reid survived his brush with electoral death winning yet another term as Nevada’s Senator. Reid knows what side of his bread is buttered, too. Big Labor gave him millions in campaign donations and Reid knows who he owes — or rather who owns him. Now that he’s fairly won he’s promising his patrons in […]