Category: Government Waste

The Coming Staples Mausoleum/Stadium

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Even as supporters claim they won’t need subsidies, it is more likely that L.A. is about to plunge itself forever into debt with a new stadium, the Staples Center. A look at just about any other convention center, or stadium in the country easily shows that these projects seldom pay for themselves as builders insist […]

 

WOW, Democrat Jokes That Seniors Should Be Denied End-Of-Life Healthcare

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Democrat Gary McDowell is running to replace Bart Stupak (D, MI) in Michigan’s First District and while he may be hoping he might get the votes of seniors coming to the end of their time here on this mortal coil, he sure seems reticent to give them the medical care they’ll need to be around […]

 

When a Journalist Hasn’t a Clue About the Constitution

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Constitution of the United States of America. Journalist Mary Dejevsky wrote about it, but she sure hasn’t the first clue about what it does, what it means, or why American politics seem to have gone awry. She did get some things correct in her article in Britain’s Independent newspaper but over all she proved […]

 

Vadum: A Reminder, ACORN Funding NOT Permanently Cut Off

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Matthew Vadum, ever vigilant on the evils perpetrated by ACORN, reminds us that the criminal community organizer has not had its federal funding cut off permanently. The temporary cut off is soon to expire and Vadum reports that there doesn’t seem to be anyone in Congress taking up a reinstatement of the ban. In his […]

 

Newest House Net Neutrality Bill Cuts FCC Out of Internet Authority

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It looks like House Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry Waxman, (D-Calif) is so desperate to get a Net Neutrality bill out of the House before the recess that he was willing to strip the FCC authority from it this week. For months he Federal Communications Commission has been angling to take power over the Internet […]

 

Shuttering New Jersey Abortion Mills: Another Reason Why Christie is a Hero

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Aside from New Jersey Governor Chris Christie taking the fight to the state’s greedy, education-killing teachers union the Gov has also struck a blow against rampant abortion in the Garden State by taking away state funding to abortion mills. Steven Ertelt reports that at least one Planned Parenthood office is closing down and others are […]

 

Rep. Roskam on The ‘Pledge To America’ (Answers to Earmarks Question)

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Last week the House Republicans issued their update of the 1994 “Contract With America.” They have labeled it the “Pledge To America,” and it was launched to a standing ovation from House Republicans. On Friday I spoke to Representative Peter Roskam (R, Ill.) and asked a few questions about this new effort. Roskam said that […]

 

Net Neutrality Update

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

If you are as worried as I am about the left’s effort to force ever larger amounts of big government onto our lives, then you should be looking into the issue of Net Neutrality. To that end a few times a week I’ll be posting some links and info about Net Neutrality to help you […]

 

Pot Smoking Gov’t Motors Car Builders Actually Fired

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Monday Government Motors (GM) took a hard line against the drunken, pot smoking union members that became the unwitting star of a news expose in Detroit last week firing the partiers. All 13 employees were fired after being shown on WJBK, Fox 2 News Detroit drinking and smoking pot in a local park on their […]

 

Unions: Democrat’s Own Extremists Taking The Local Parties Over?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Michael Barone, one of media’s sharpest observers of America’s political scene, has noted an interesting trend in Democrat politics: unions are knocking out regular liberal Democrats in America’s big cities. Barone calls it a civil war raging in the Democrat Party. He points to several big city campaigns in which unions rose up to defeat […]

 

Great Patriotic Music Video: I’m An American by John Schwarzman

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

For your over night entertainment… John Schwarzman is a conservative from Reston, Virginia and has written and produced a music video that everyone should see. Is there any other country where folks feel this way of their home? I don’t think there is. There’s a reason for that!

 

Charlie Crist VIDEO: ‘I’m Not Gonna Change My Stripes’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Despite some fool with his car alarm blaring in the background, in this video it is quite clear that Charlie “Fliparoo” Crist is claiming that the voters can trust him because he’s not going to “change my stripes.” Of course, he said this not long before he “changed” his Senate run from Republican to a […]

 

Domestic Terrorist Denied University Accolade of Emeritus Status

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Leave it to University liberals to suddenly take strong stands just when it makes absolutely no difference at all. Domestic terrorist William Ayers, close personal friend to Barack Hussein Obama, has finally been denied something by a publicly funded university and at this late date it is a meaningless gesture. For decades and decades this […]

 

Mentally Retarded Now Have ‘Intellectual Disability’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Along with implementing a socialist takeover of healthcare making it more expensive and less attentive, aside from taking over America’s car industry and creating a new brand of auto — Government Motors — and right along side efforts to give Big Labor millions of our tax dollars in payoffs and bailouts, not to mention attempting […]

 

Senate Dems Pushing Another Big Union Payoff

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Senate Democrats, Harry Ried in the lead, are once again attempting to bestow a big payoff to unions by attempting to defeat Senate Resolution 30. This resolution would turn back a union payoff that Democrats slipped by the nation last May. A rules change made by Obama’s National Mediation Board, a federal agency that regulates […]

 

Sec. of Education Duncan Pledges to Turn Kids Into ‘Good Environmental Citizens’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Obama’s Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, pledged to turn America’s school children into good enviro zombies at an appearance at a Virginia high school earlier in the month and he intends to use federal funds to do it. CNSNews reports: “Right now, in the second decade of the 21st century, preparing our children to be […]

 

Remember That Business About Healthcare Being Cheaper and You Could Keep You Coverage…

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

… well, we are finding out now that millions of seniors will have to change their Medicare prescription plans because of “double-digit hikes” in costs. Premiums will go up an average of 10 percent among the top 10 drug plans that have signed up about 70 percent of seniors, according to an analysis of Medicare […]

 

At Bargain Ticket Prices Obama Can’t Even Fill a 650 Seat Room!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Over at the left-wing Daily Beast, Gail Sheehy has a story that should make every Obamaite tremble in fear of November 2. As Sheehy reports it, in New York President Obama couldn’t even fill a room that holds 650 even though they slashed the ticket prices from $500 to $100 a person to get in. […]

 

County Sues Man for Growing Veggies?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Where’s Michelle “the Green Witch” Obama when you need her? She might have been able to save a man in Dekalb County, Georgia from being sued by his own county for growing too many vegetables in his garden. That’s right, you heard me: sued by the government for growing too many veggies. Steve Miller plants […]

 

Obama to Dumb Down Car Ratings Stickers

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Earlier this month the Obama administration floated a trial balloon about changing the way vehicle information stickers on new cars would be structured. The administration floated the idea of letter grades instead of the more full information that vehicle stickers now contain. The most fuel-efficient would get and “A” rating with less green cars having […]

 

Obama Says U.S. Can ‘Absorb Terror Attacks’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Eh, don’t worry, America. If there is another 9/11-like terror attack, The One says that we can “absorb it” and just become “stronger” because of it. It’s as if he wants it to happen, or something! In his latest book, Bob Woodward encountered a President Obama that seemed to casually blow off worry of another […]

 

Unions Retreat on Criticism of Dems That Didn’t Support Obamacare

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Earlier in this election cycle unions were pumped up with an assumed sense of supreme power, they had spent millions to elect their guy to the White House and they were ready to flex their muscles. Unions began to direct that assumed power against Democrats that were reticent to support Obama’s takeover of our healthcare […]

 

Net Neutrality Update

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

If you are as worried as I am about the left’s effort to force ever larger amounts of big government onto our lives, then you should be looking into the issue of Net Neutrality. To that end a few times a week I’ll be posting some links and info about Net Neutrality to help you […]

 

Newt Gingrich: Winning in ’10 Means Utilizing the Power of 10

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Joe Biden has been telling everyone that will listen to him that the summer of 2010 was “recovery summer.” In a way he was right, but only if we take up the banner and drive the socialists out of office in November. If we can get as many good conservatives and Republicans in office in […]

 

Obama Challenges TEA Party To Identify Actual Spending Cuts

Posted on by William Teach

Obama was in typical form Monday, doing what he does best: attacking, and not answering questions “The problem that I’ve seen in the debate that’s been taking place and in some of these Tea Party events is, I think they’re misidentifying sort of who the culprits are here,” said Obama. “As I said before, we […]

 

Two more Right Nation 2010 Videos: Andrew Breibart Confronts Lefty Protesters and Anita MonCrief Speaks

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

These are the last two videos I will have for Right Nation 2010. The first one is a compilation of lefty protesters that Andrew Breitbart confronted before the night began. The amusing thing about this video is that the protesters had no idea why they were there and could not explain the signs they were […]

 

Right Nation 2010: Video of Glenn Beck and Rep. Aaron Schock

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

I am working on some video form the Right Nation 2010 event. So far I have a few minutes of Glenn Beck and Illinois Representative Aaron Schock already finished. I’ll start with the beginning of Glenn Beck’s more than hour long address to the gathered. His talk was well received, chock full of humor and […]

 

Right Nation 2010 — Anita MonCrief, John Fund, Dick Armey Speak

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

I am here today at the Right Nation 2010 conference in the western suburbs of Chicago (straight west of O’Hare Airport). This afternoon began with three speakers remarks, ACORN whistleblower Anita MonCrief, Wall Street Journal writer John Fund, and former Majority Leader Dick Armey. Anita was up first and she told us of her early […]