Category: Government Waste

Vir. Rep. Moran’s Fake Endorsements

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Democrat Representative Jim Moran of Virginia’s 8th District is seeking reelection and like all politicians he proudly displays those groups and individuals that have endorsed him on his campaign literature. But Moran has a bit of a problem with at least two of his claimed endorsements. They didn’t endorse him. As it happens Rep. Moran […]

 

Hard to Believe That Alexi Giannoulias ‘Didn’t Know’ Of Mobster’s Crimes

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Alexi Giannoulias is well known as the “Mob Banker” for the fact that his family bank lent $20 million to two mobsters while Alexi was an officer of the bank. The Illinois Democrat’s Senate candidate has finally answered to this loan a bit more directly than he has in the past and his answer is […]

 

Video: Media…. TELL THE TRUTH!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Remember that lie the media tried to foist upon us that Tea Party folks “hurled racial epithets” on members of Congress during the healthcare debate? Well here is just a reminder that there never has been any proof to substantiate the claim that the Old Media and the black Congressional Caucus threw out at the […]

 

Obama’s Healthcare Rules Will Shut Down Catholic Hospitals Nationwide

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Some of Obamacare’s most destructive forces are quickly becoming common knowledge. We have, for instance, become painfully aware that Obama’s claim that we all could keep our plans and doctors “if you like them” is an outright falsehood as some people are already losing their coverage. It is also becoming clear that companies will be […]

 

Dems Drop Complaint Against Fox for Donating to GOP, Media Mum

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Old Media went into a feeding frenzy when it was revealed that News Corp., the owner of Fox News, had donated $1 million to the Republican Governor’s Association to help GOP candidates this election cycle. The left immediately used this fact as a fundraising meme and the media was thrilled to play the news […]

 

Reid Says Greatest Living Americans Are Senators Byrd and Kennedy?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Harry Reid (D, Nev.) isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed, apparently. In an interview with CBN’s David Brody, Senator Reid replied that the greatest living American was Ted Kennedy. Reid then added West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd to the short list. Oddly enough, both of these “greatest living” Senators died earlier this year. In […]

 

Video: What We Tea Party Conservatives Believe

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Bill Whittle has a great, great video here helping to explain our conservative views in an intelligent, even soft-spoken, style. This is part one of two, the second to come soon. Progressive ideas have always failed and our ideas are successful every time they are tried. Bill Whittle is the host of PJTVs Afterburner.

 

Oops. Obama’s ‘Saved Job’ Was Just Lost

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Oh, it was a thing to be celebrated when Obama’s payoff to the teachers unions back in August “saved” the job of Ohio school teacher Amanda VanNess. It was such a thing of wonder that the big guy flew the elementary school teacher all the way to D.C. for an Oval Office signing ceremony. (Pictured: […]

 

A Hollywood-Like Casting Call for Obama’s Oct. ‘Townhall’ in D.C.?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

What is this? Obama is sponsoring a Hollywood-like casting call for a “diverse” audience for his upcoming October 14 townhall to be held in D.C? But, I thought everyone loved The One and would fall all over themselves to turn out in droves for an Obammessiah “townhall”? Why do they have to resort to a […]

 

The Lies States Peddle on Pension ‘Savings’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Pensions are fast becoming the time bomb that will destroy the financial well being of our state budgets. Because public employee unions have been allowed to outrageously grow their retirement benefits by supplying billions in campaign donations to compliant politicians, most state pension plans are deeply in the hole. Many states have at last begun […]

 

Illinois Budget Mess Deepens: Using 2011 Funds to Pay 2010 Bills

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

From The Bond Buyer, a website that tracks news on the bond market we see that the president’s home state is in an ever deeper budget hole every day. In a stark illustration of Illinois’ deteriorating balance sheet, the state ended the first quarter of fiscal 2011 with $5.5 billion in overdue bills and faces […]

 

Vice President Biden Wants to Strangle Opponents

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

On the tail of the Enviro-Nazis making a film depicting children being murdered because they refused to agree to the globaloney religion — showing the left’s inability to brook opposition without resorting to violence or threats of same — Vice President Joe Biden has announced that he’d like to “strangle” any Republican that opposes his […]

 

California Welfare Money Wasted Outside the State

Posted on by Dave Blount

“We have to sacrifice property rights to a massive government that confiscates and redistributes wealth,” liberals bleat, as if completely unaware of churches, private charities, families, and friends, “because otherwise there will be no safety net.” Nearly bankrupt California shows us the government safety net in action: Thousands of documents show tens of millions of […]

 

Welfare Queens: Who Should We Really Be Outraged At?

Posted on by John Hawkins

Over at Doubleplusundead, I ran across this story, Most families who are due to lose their child benefit are worrying about how they’ll make ends meet without it. But for Kelly Marshall, who has five children by four different fathers, the handout has never been about paying for nappies, food and other everyday expenses. She […]

 

Feds Build $1 Billion Virginia Office Complex Without Parking Or Roads to Get To It

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The federal government has built a one billion dollar office complex in Virginia to house some 6,400 Pentagon workers that are to be moved soon. It’s a beautiful new office complex that rises like a mountain next to Northern Virginia’s I-395. But there are a few little problems. There is no parking for one thing […]

 

New The Hill Poll: 12 Freshman Democrat Held Districts Show Major GOP Gains

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

On Wednesday The Hill reported on a new poll it has conducted of the 2010 midterms with initial focus on 12 districts held by freshmen Democrats and the news isn’t good for those incumbent Dems scrutinized. On the other hand, the poll seems to show that it isn’t pat that Republicans will necessarily run away […]

 

Colorado: Art Depicting Christ in Gay Sex Causes Christians to Riot, Many Killed… Or Not

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

An art exhibit sponsored by the City of Loveland, Colorado that depicts Jesus Christ engaging in gay sex is causing some heartburn among local Christians. The piece by a 10-artist group going under the title, “The Legend of Bud Shark and His Indelible Ink,” depicts Jesus receiving oral sex from a man. Christian groups have […]

 

Lefty Bloggers Eating Each Other, White House Not Amused

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Politico has a delicious story detailing how lefty bloggers seem to be on the outs with the Obama administration over their constant stream of complaints unleashed about the president’s lack of supplication to the most extreme left-wing policies. Politico found Peter Daou, another “progressive” blogger, who thinks he knows why Deputy White House Press Sec. […]

 

Daley Buddy Not Billed for Years of Water Use

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Apparently some of Daley’s buddies never paid for their water use being fortunate enough to have City Hall pick up the tab. As the era of Daley winds down these sort of stories will continue to eek out, but it shows the illicit nature of the Daley Democrat machine in the crooked city of Chicago. […]

 

Video: Leftist Pigs Make Democrat Dumpster of D.C.

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The extremists of the left-wing had their march yesterday and now look at the garbage they left on our National Mall in Washington D.C. This disgusting video shows what a few foreign tourists found on the Nation Mall in D.C. after the pigs and slobs of the left-winger’s “On Nation” rally left that public space. […]

 

Lefty Rally at Lincoln Memorial Gets Glad Handed By Old Media, But Event a Bust

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

**UPDATED WITH VIDEO of communist and socialist participants** **UPDATED 10/03/10 PHOTO of rally from Wash. Memorial** Naturally the Old Media is doing its level best to pump up the “One Nation” rally. The lefty protest is gathering in front of the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall in Washington D.C. today, Oct. 2. But despite […]

 

U of Chicago Prof Says His $400,000 Salary Is Taxed Too Much

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

University professors so often get the reputation of being ivory tower pinheads sheltered from real life and out of touch with reality. Professor Todd Henderson of the University of Chicago sure didn’t help change that perception when he posted a blog post detailing how Obama’s tax hikes will hurt and that his combined family income […]

 

Video: Eco-Fascists in England Want You Dead Unless You Agree With Them

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

There is an eco-nazi effort going on in England called the 10:10 Campaign and in a video meant to encourage people to join the green effort people that disagree with the eco-nazis are murdered for their skepticism. Apparently murdering those that disagree with you is supposed to be funny. In a Telegraph article, James Delingpole […]

 

Feds Making NYCity Spend $27M to Change Lettering on Street Signs

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

So you are a busy federal agency with lots and lots to do. You have roads to build, bridges to reinforce, and infrastructure to shore up, but there is something gnawing at your paper pushing soul. It’s those darn street signs in New York City and others. So, like a good, jackbooted government automaton, you […]

 

Tearful Emanuel Leaves WH Job, Says Obama Leads in ‘Toughest Times’ in History?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In the worst kept secret in D.C., White House Chief of Staff Rham Emanuel officially left his post in a tearful press conference on the morning of Oct. 1. Most of what Mr. Emanuel had to say was your normal, average, everyday puffery that a junior member of a team says when he is leaving […]

 

After Denial, Anti-American Faculty of UIC to Fight For Bill Ayers’s Emeritus Status

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The leaders of the faculty of the University of Illinois at Chicago are weighing whether they will wade into the fray and come to the aid of a terrorist. Last week the board of UIC denied domestic terrorist and close Obama confidant William Ayers the emeritus status he sought upon his retirement. The reason he […]

 

As Obama Pretends at Its Freedom, His Gov’t Plans Takeover of Internet

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In an address to the United Nations on Thursday, Sept. 23, President Obama pledged to preserve a “free and open Internet” and would call out nations that censored content. In a veiled reference to China and other nations that censor the Internet, Obama said that a civil society fosters open government. “Civil society is the […]