Category: Government Waste

Unions Struggling to Get Members to Rally Behind Dems

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

When voters are not enthused even unions find it harder to get their supporters to rally to an election and this is one of the worst years for Democrats on record. Unions are finding their efforts hard slogging just like the rest of the Democrat Party is. It’s so bad even The New York Times […]

 

Alaska Senator Launches Ill Advised write-in Campaign

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Talk about sore losers. We are starting to see the GOP country club set getting petulant, aren’t we? First was pouter Mike Castle who lost his incumbency to Tea Party insurgent Christine O’Donnell in Delaware. Castle is refusing to back the voter’s choice and he’s gone off whining about the tough campaign that O’Donnell waged. […]

 

Democrat Rep. Halvorson (Illinois) Sponsors Protest Rally Calling Opponent a Nazi

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

First time Representative Democrat Debbie Halvorson of Illinois’ 11th District is struggling in the polls against Republican Adam Kinzinger. Her desperation is starting to show, too, because her office just got caught supplying Democrat staffers to a protest rally holding signs that call Kinzinger a Nazi. Kinzinger is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force […]

 

Elite Favors: Congressmen Payoff Staffer’s College Loans

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

They call it a “recruitment tool,” but it is little else but yet another way for Congressional elites to give each other favors on the taxpayer’s dime. As Americans are increasingly losing jobs, even their homes, congressmen are using taxpayer’s dollars to pay off the student loans of their staffers. Worse, this has been going […]

 

Politico Cries Over Lost Jobs of Hill Staffers in November

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

“I think people underestimate how disastrous this could be,” says a Democrat Congressional staffer who worries over losing his job once all the new Republicans sweep into Congress after the November elections. Politico’s Erika Lovley seems also to worry about the “massive layoffs” that will come to staffers in November. But to me this is […]

 

Michigan Home Healthcare Workers Sue State Over Forced Unionization

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

So imagine that you are working out of your home or the home of a friend. Say you are helping care for your own developmentally disabled relative or that of another. You are working for a family, not a company, and you are not employed by the state. Then one day you get a letter […]

 

Movie Review: Newt Gingrich’s America At Risk

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In Washington D.C. on Sept. 12 I attended the star studded premiere of the new film America at Risk: The War With No Name, featuring Newt and Callista Gingrich and a dozen well respected experts on the subject of the War on Terror. The event was held at the Newseum, a block or so from […]

 

What is Wrong With Net Neutrality?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

-By Dave McClure, President and CEO of the US Internet Industry Association Net neutrality. It sounds harmless enough, right? Wrong. Net neutrality is the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) misguided and misunderstood attempt to regulate the Internet. Net neutrality has taken many chameleon-like shades in the evolution to its current state, but its inherent dangers to […]

 

Video: $20 Mil Wasted on Obama Propaganda Signs

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

All hail the Obammessiah, the savior of our jobs… well, at least $20 million went to a few sign makers so that Obama could pretend that he saved folk’s jobs, anyway. You can help shine a light on this wasteful federal spending by taking a photo of an Obama propaganda sign on the side of […]

 

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 […]

 

When You Don’t Vote Well, Liberals Assume You’ve Lost Your Minds

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Ben Smith of Politico noticed that two “influential writers broadly in sympathy with Obama” recently floated the notion that as the nation turns rightward and isn’t voting with the extreme left, why we’ve all become “irrational.” In the New Yorker, George Packer wrote that we’ve become a mob of unreason. “Nine years later,” he writes, […]

 

Stimulus Loot Spent on Teaching Africans to Wash Their Privates

Posted on by Dave Blount

Not all of the hundreds and hundreds of $billions our rulers have been looting from future generations and flushing away in the name of “stimulus” has been as flagrantly wasted as the $30 million spent to enhance the living conditions of rodents in Nancy Pelosi’s district. For example, $800,000 was spent teaching Africans how to […]

 

Why is L.A. Mayor Villaraigosa Trying to Kill Jobs?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa recently admonished oil companies Valero and Tesoro for their support of Proposition 23. Prop. 23 is a measure on the ballot in November that would suspend AB 32, the economy killing global warming bill. Villaraigosa encouraged the companies to “go home” back to Texas. But maybe the Mayor needs a […]

 

(Video) Bob Parks: In Search of People of Color

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Where are the people of color at the 9/12 March in Washington D.C.? Well, the media always says that there are no African Americans, no Hispanics, no Asians that frequent the Tea Party-styled protests anywhere in America. So, Bob Parks took the occasion to do a little hunting for some at the Freedom Works 9/12 […]

 

Conservative to Seek Daley’s Emptying Chair? R. Emmett Tyrell, Jr. Thinking of running for Chicago Mayor?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Our friend Pat Hickey has caught wind of some potentially interesting news on Chicago’s soon to be roiling Mayoral election now that Richard “King” Daley has decided he no longer wants the big seat. Conservative publisher R. Emmett Tyrell, Jr. has reportedly said he might be interested in taking a run at City Hall. Pat […]

 

Report: 9/12 Rally At D.C.’s Capitol Hill

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

(I am finally back home where I can get to my photo editing software, so this report is a few hours late, but…) Over 50,000 patriotic Americans attended the 2010 edition of Freedom Works’s 9/12 March on the Capitol. Americans from all over the country attended and I below have a few particularly interesting stories […]

 

Report Sheds Light on Incestuous Taxpayer-Funded Lobbying

Posted on by Brian Garst

Illinois, like many states, is broke. Its credit is even worse than that of California and its highly publicized financial quagmire.:  In such a fiscal environment, taxpayers are rightfully demanding that governments tighten up and are increasingly zealous about ensuring that money is spent productively. One way in which they may be surprised to find […]

 

SEIUs Anna Burger to Retire

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The New York Times gave a glowing review of Ana Burger’s career as a most divisive member of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). But how could one be less arrogant and pushy than would seem natural for a union that set out to fashion itself an “international” union? Burger, 59, was supposed to be […]

 

Obama’s Favors to Unions

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Washington Examiner asks a few substantive questions about unions this Labor Day weekend. Why do they seem to have such an outsized power when their dues paying members are fewer than ever, when they work in fewer industries than ever, and when they have such money troubles? Ah, but the answer is what we […]

 

Hartford City Council to Start Meeting With Islamic Prayer

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In a move sure to see some controversy, the city council of Hartford, Connecticut has decided to start off its city council meetings with a Muslim prayer. An email from the city says they are doing this as “an act of solidarity with our Muslim brothers and sisters.” The email from the city invokes the […]

 

Majority of Union Members Now Work for Government

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It is the most important hill that folks interested in good government have yet to conquer and that is the elimination of government employee unions. The Heritage Foundation reports the sad and disgusting news that the majority of union members now work for government, an intolerable situation to say the least. The BLS’s annual report […]

 

What Liberals Say vs What they Mean

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Many of us have been raised to think that words mean things. Then there’s Democrats. From those infamous phrases like “It depends on what the definition of what ‘is’ is” of yore to the newfangled “man-caused disasters” of today, Democrats have so abused the English language as to make it completely unrecognizable to Mr. Johnson. […]

 

U.S. College Pushes Anti-American, Pro-Islam Book

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

We send our students to college to learn what they need to know to become good American citizens. From this knowledge we hope that they will realize useful, maybe even successful, lives. Perhaps they’ll even gain personal improvement through introspection from it all. At least that’s what we used to think. Apparently, these days we […]

 

A Reminder of What Union Leaders Feel About Our Political System

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Back in 2007 Andy Stern, the now former President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), attended a forum sponsored by the NDN Globalization Initiative and during the question and answer period after his remarks he said that he was “totally involved in distorting the political system.” Here the president of one of America’s most […]

 

Stadium Deal in LA a Moneypit

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Whenever I think of this new Staples sports stadium deal going down in Los Angeles I can’t help but think of the “bread and circuses” that contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire. Here is the City of L.A. sinking millions into this entertainment project leaving the people destitute and all for what? After […]

 

SEIU’s Illegal Fund-Raising Scheme

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Mark Mix, president of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, has an interesting expose in the Washington Examiner revealing how the U.S. government has decided to allow an obviously illegal fund-raising scheme that the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) invented to fuel its spending on political causes and campaigns. The SEIU has decided […]

 

Jimmy Breslin: Tea Partiers Are Like Kennedy’s Killer Sirhan Sirhan, Are Racists Filled With ‘Madness’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

For those that thought faded journo Jimmy Breslin had passed on to his great reward, fear not for ol’ Jimmy is back and this time he wants you all to know that you Tea Partiers are wild-eyed racists filled with madness. Heck you are all as crazy as Bobby Kennedy’s killer Sirhan-Sirhan, you Tea Partiers […]

 

Credit Card ‘Reform’ Will Force All Credit Purchases to Exceed $10

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Previous to the current meddling by Congress, stores were technically not allowed to require a minimum purchase for credit cards. If you wanted to charge ten cents or ten dollars merchants were supposed to accept the charge. But the Durbin Amendment (Sen. Dick Durbin, D of Ill.) to the credit card “reform” bill passed by […]

 

Michigan Democrats Told Their Fake Tea Party Is Illegal

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Michigan Supreme Court has made the final decision eliminating the fraudulent “Tea Party” Party from the 2010 elections. Two of Michigan’s Democrat appointed justices joined its small three Republican appointed contingent to declare the so-called “Tea Party” Party ineligible for the ballot. For months various Democrats and union members have been trying to create […]

 

Called on the Carpet: Obama’s New WH Rug Muffs History

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

He grew up in Indonesia, his father was a Kenyan, and he’s been fighting the perception that he isn’t much of an American since he became a nationally known entity. Unfortunately for President Obama, his redecoration of the Oval Office is not helping by making him seem just as ignorant about America as his critics […]