Category: Government Waste

Net Neutrality: Free Press Loses a Schtick Contest

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Recently Comm Daily (subscription required) reported that an FCC decision on net neutrality was unlikely before its January meeting. While uninteresting in itself the one remarkable line in the story had to be this quote from a senior FCC official: “While they are busy handing out waffles and making posters, we are focused on creating […]

 

VIDEO: Another Democrat Jumps Ship, Joins the GOP

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

We haven’t seen too many Democrats jumping ship and joining the GOP, but a few have. The most notable recent switch over was Alabama’s Democrat Congressman Parker Griffith, well known as a moderate, or Blue Dog Democrat, who finally had enough of the Democrats. He dropped his affiliation with the Democrats and joined the GOP. […]

 

ACORN’s Get-Out-The-Vote Operative Under State Felony Charges

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Contrary to popular perception, the criminal group ACORN (Association for Community Organizations for Reform Now) is not quite a’moulderin’ in the grave, folks. Many might recall that Congress turned off the spigot of federal funds flowing into the coffers of the organization responsible for federal election law crimes all across the country. Many might all […]

 

During Breast Cancer Month Obama’s FDA Ponders Delisting Cancer Drug

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

So you have Avastin, a drug used to treat breast cancer that has a record of extending the lives of sufferers for at least five and a half months, and it’s October, the month declared Breast Cancer Awareness Month. If you are the Obama Federal Drug Administration, what do you do? Apparently you look to […]

 

Net Neutrality Supporters Admit, They Want Property Rights Eliminated

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Oh, Net Neutrality sure sounds like a great idea. Why, Net Neutrality supporters only want what’s best for “the people,” right? They only want the Internet to be a playground for all, free of the influence of evil corporations, and they want fees to be reasonable for the lowly masses, right? Turns out, not so […]

 

Jimmy Carter: Liar Extraordinaire

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Every once in a while one must risk breaching decorum and call a spade a spade. In this case sentient people cannot avoid affirming the stark truth that former President Jimmy Carter is one of the world’s greatest liars. This melodious storyteller’s latest misconstruction of the truth comes from the Deseret News of Salt Lake […]

 

NJ Teachers Union Bragging They Can’t Be Fired

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Shock videographer James O’Keefe has released video of New Jersey teachers union members bragging that it is nearly impossible for them to be fired by the state. Daily Caller reports: In one video, Alissa Ploshnick, who is identified as a special educator at Passaic Public Schools, seems to verify the worst suspicions of education reformers. […]

 

Democrat Teacher Can’t Believe Kids Would Vote For Republican

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Last week I spied a short piece at Illinois Review about a post on My Suburban Life that detailed the story of a left-wing teacher that was shocked that a majority of her students in DuPage County, Illinois voted for Republican Representative Peter Roskam in the school’s mock election. Social studies teacher Lori Keough of […]

 

Chicago’s Ricky Hendon: Racebaiting Creep Du Jour

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

While introducing Democrat Gubernatorial candidate Pat Quinn at a West Side get-out-the-vote rally held at the New Tabernacle of Faith Baptist Church State Senator Ricky Hendon decided the pulpit was a good place from which to indulge his inner racist. The Chicago Trib notes that Hendon started calling Bill Brady all manner of names as […]

 

Restrained No More’s — Big $pender-Like a Kid in a Candy Store

Posted on by Sharise Parviz

We all know who the Big $$pender is … Here’s a little tune to sing on the way to the polls. Just make sure you take your billy clubs (oops! Sorry, wrong audience.) I mean your boas ;) For other episodes of the show, a “backstage pass” and to download songs go to – http://www.restrainednomore.com/

 

Former ACORN Worker Justifies Preventing Pledge of Allegiance at Illinois Candidate Debate

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Thanks to Jeff Dunetz at Yid With Lid we have found out that a former ACORN worker turned director of the League of Women Voters has been heard justifying actions of the debate moderator who tried to prevent the audience at an 8th District candidate debate from reciting the Pledge of Allegiance last week. As […]

 

A Break for ‘Mob Banker,’ Feds Releasing Report After Election

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It must be nice to be an Obama insider like Democrat Senate candidate Alexi “The Mob Banker” Giannoulias is. Obama’s FDIC is obviously in his corner, it seems. After all, the FDIC decided to wait until after the election is over to release its report on the failure of Giannoulias’s family bank. So, Giannoulias might […]

 

‘Call Me Madam’: Let This Video Be My Apology for Once Supporting Sen. Boxer

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

David Zucker has made a great video slamming Barbara “Senator Ma’am” Boxer. It is very funny. Call Me Madam Joe from RightChange on Vimeo. Zucker says on BigHollywood.com, “I was motivated to do something on this after I saw the video of Barbara Boxer interrogating the General.” I remember immediately feeling embarrassed that a member […]

 

Feds Deciding When Healthcare Science Costs Too Much To Save Lives

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

If anyone wants a current example of what is looming ahead for medical science at the hands of Obamacare, the Avastin controversy is a perfect one. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wants to de-list the cancer drug Avastin one reason being that it is a drug too expensive for government to fund. It is […]

 

Crossroads School, a K Through 12 School Sponsoring Left-Wing Rally?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences, a K-12 facility in Santa Monica, California, is tired of all the political insanity out there. To help ameliorate this state of affairs, the school has decided to use its campus assets, its school email system, and its teachers to sponsor a Jon Stewart-styled rally to “restore sanity” in […]

 

Inspirational Video: K. Carl Smith, the Conservative Messenger

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

With phrases like, “reigniting American’s passion for liberty,” and “saving our party will save our country,” what’s not to like? K Carl Smith, The Conservative Messenger from Wetumpka Tea Party on Vimeo. You can see Mr. Smith’s website at: http://www.conservativemessenger.org/. One of his interesting contentions is that the federal government is the modern day slave […]

 

Video: John Conyers Speaking at Democratic Socialists of America Meeting

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Should Democrats “pal around” with socialists? Whether it is a good idea or not here we have a sitting congressman actually going to a group of socialists and addressing them at one of their meetings. It wasn’t that many years ago that such a meeting would ring the death knell for a politician’s career. Today, […]

 

Two Examples Showing Liberals Don’t Know ANYTHING About U.S. History

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

This week we have two prominent examples proving that liberals are ignoramuses about the Constitution and U.S. history. One incident wholly misunderstood by the left was uttered by the redoubtable Sarah Palin and the other by Christine O’Donnell. First up Sarah. In Nevada Sarah Palin kicked off a new tour to spur conservatives and Republicans […]

 

Obama Rules That SEIUs Law Breaking is OK By Him

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

With a recent Federal Election Commission decision Obama’s government has ruled in favor of the SEIU’s illegal kickback scheme and decided that such law breaking it is A’OK as far as he is concerned. Ostensibly, FEC law states that unions cannot require member locals to pay a specific amount of money into a union’s political […]

 

Anti-American George Soros and Unions Attempting to Put Power of CA Redistricting in Their Own Hands

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Bloomberg News is reporting that Charles Munger, Jr., son of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s Charles Munger, has thrown his fortune behind an effort to defeat a campaign funded by unions and the anti-American billionaire George Soros to put redistricting powers back into the hands of politicians bought and paid for by union money. Munger and his […]

 

Anti-American George Soros and Unions Attempting to Put Power of CA Redistricting in Their Own Hands

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Bloomberg News is reporting that Charles Munger, Jr., son of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s Charles Munger, has thrown his fortune behind an effort to defeat a campaign funded by unions and the anti-American billionaire George Soros to put redistricting powers back into the hands of politicians bought and paid for by union money. Munger and his […]

 

Ignorance of Dems Now Going Too Far

Posted on by Heather Bachman

:  : : : : : : : : : : :  Ignorance. It is a factor of the liberal leadership and has been pretty much accepted by aspects of society such as the media.:  However, Massachusetts Representative Tierney has given another definition to the word as he consistently states he did not know anything regarding his own wife’s involvement in her brother’s illegal business. […]

 

Chile’s Miners Would Still Be Down There if They Were Democrats

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The world is rejoicing that the miners trapped for over a month in the bowels of a mountain in Chile are finally rescued. As the rescue was ongoing President Barack Obama said of the worried families, “the tears they shed after so much time apart expressed not only their own relief, not only their own […]

 

Union Killing Local Libraries?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In this era of severe budget cuts, layoffs, and job loss, people in the real world are making due with less. Businesses are cutting back and people are hurting everywhere in this era of Obama. Local governments are also starting to find this economic climate challenging. But even as local budgets are taking hits, unions […]

 

Alaska’s Sen. Murkowski a Coke Head?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Dan Riehl of Riehl World View has a bit of a bombshell to drop on the arrogant, self-reverential “Senator of the people,” Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski — she of the second hand Senate seat bequeathed to her by her father who held that seat himself. Riehl says that it is a commonly known, not-so-secret secret in […]

 

Democrats Stealing Elections: Illinois Dems Deny Military the Vote in 2010 Election

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Dept. of justice is investigating whether the Democrat Secretary of State for Illinois has somehow forgotten to send thousands of absentee ballots out to members of the military serving overseas and in this close election climate in Illinois, these ballots now not to be counted could be decisive. Federal election law, specifically the Overseas […]

 

Video: Old Media Shields Rahm Emmanuel From Conservative Reporter, Threaten Violence

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

This is really outrageous. William Kelly, who has a program on the weekends on Chicago’s WIND radio, went out with the rest of the media shadowing Rahm Emanuel as he walked around meeting and greeting Chicago voters yesterday. The outrageous part was that Kelly, a conservative, was pushed away by one self-professed “real” reporter and […]

 

Public Funds for Condoms and Lubricants at Gay Bar

Posted on by Dave Blount

Big Government can seize pretty much all the money it wants from us. So long as the economy has not yet been bled to death, the only problem is, what to do with so much loot? Bureauweenies in Arkansas came up with this idea: use some to facilitate homosexual depravity: A non-profit organization called “Brotha’s […]