Category: Government Waste

Reminder: Obama’s Played More Golf in 2 Yrs. Than Bush Did Both Terms

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Between 2000 and 2008 one of the left’s most cherished ways to ridicule President Bush was to point out how often he went golfing. Bush’s golfing was a clear sign that he was ignoring the work he had to do in Washington and that he just didn’t care they claimed. He was a playboy, a […]

 

Unions Destroy Calif. Pension Reform Bill

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Like most bills, the legislation meant to reform California’s failing public pension system started out stronger than it ended up. But unlike most bills the final bill has been so gutted, so defanged, that it leaves the pension system in a worse mess than it was when the bill was introduced. Not surprisingly unions are […]

 

Now Democrats Want Another $34 Billion to Bailout Teamsters Pension

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

When will Obama’s gifts to unions (at the expense of the taxpayers) ever end? On the heels of a $26.1 billion teacher union bailout, now Democrats are attempting to get Congress to give $34 billion of the taxpayer’s money to the Teamsters because that union has mishandled its pension funds. Senators Robert Casey (D., Pa.) […]

 

What Say To $150,000 In Porkulus For A Bridge To Nowhere?

Posted on by William Teach

And I do mean a bridge to actually nowhere. Here’s the stetup A historic stone arch bridge that received more than $150,000 in federal stimulus funds this year has fallen short of some people’s expectations – mainly because it doesn’t go anywhere. The bridge, which dates back to the 1860s, ends in a sheer, 8-foot […]

 

Video: How Teachers Unions Abuse Non-Union Teacher Paychecks

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

From the Independent Teachers for Colorado blog… Check out this new Independent Teachers video about what happens when a non-union school employee who is forced to opt out of paying union fees every year misses the deadline because of family medical emergencies: Due to family medical hardships, non-union Pueblo school employee Becky Robertson missed an […]

 

Welfare Bureaucrats Swarm Like Locusts Upon The States

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Mark Tapscott has an odd idea of a fun time, but I’m glad he does. He was casually tooling through the info posted on the website of the U.S. Census Bureau and decided to see how many welfare bureaucrats there were working in the states. I know, I know, Tapscott needs to take up bowling […]

 

Happy Cost of Government Day, America!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Every year Americans for Ta Reform announces the day when the average American has finally finished paying his share of the cost of government and every year it seems to occur later in the year. This year the date has been pinpointed as today, August 19. (Download study HERE) Imagine that, folks. We now work […]

 

Using our Rights against Our Own: The 9-11 Mosque and Religious Rights

Posted on by Heather Bachman

: : : : : :  There is one consistent factor of our society which we are seeing more and more: Using our rights against ourselves in order to protect others.:  A great recent example is the 9-11 Mosque.:  Almost daily, people are debating the 9-11 Mosque and whether it should be placed two blocks where terrorists involved in the […]

 

Obama and FDR on Proposed American Dollar Re-Design?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A little contest called the Dollar ReDes$ign Project has been launched on the web and I have to say the dismal design offerings being foisted on the public are a wonder to behold. But the worst ones are by Dowling Duncan. The designs offered by Dowling Duncan envision a one dollar bill featuring a giant […]

 

For the Third Time Obama Gives Unions A Break From Transparency Rules

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Obama administration and the Democrat Party has yet again instituted new rules to allow unions to get out of having to report their financial doings to the federal government by again rolling back reporting requirements. Obviously as far as Obama is concerned “transparency” is one of those things that only enemies should be forced […]

 

Video: Who is ‘Extreme’ Again, Mr. Obama?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The National Republican Senatorial Committee put out a good one… It seems beyond question that President Obama and his Party are not in good stead with the American public these three months ahead of the election. A majority of Americans even feel that the Democrats are too extreme. Can the GOP make hay on this […]

 

Time Blames Obama AND The Media for Ground Zero Mosque Flip Flop

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Writing for Time Magazine, Michael Scherer has one of the most schizophrenic pieces of political analysis I’ve seen for quite a while. In his piece, Scherer can’t quite seem to figure out exactly whom he thinks is to blame for Obama’s failed message on the Ground Zero mosque. Is it Obama’s fault for poor messaging? […]

 

Sci Fi Giant Ray Bradbury Slams Obama’s Era of Big Government

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The L.A. Times has a heartwarming story of literary giant Ray Bradbury who at 90 is not afraid to tell everyone exactly what he thinks. A gathering of admirers got an earful of Bradburyisms on the verge of his Aug 22 90th birthday celebration in Los Angeles. Bradbury railed against the “too many machines” that […]

 

Proving That Those Recovery Signs Are Just Another Obama Propaganda Piece

Posted on by William Teach

CNS News does the work that the Old Media refuses to do Federal contractors receiving money for projects funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)–the $862 billion economic stimulus law President Barack Obama signed in February 2009–have been encouraged and, in some cases, required by the administration to post signs that say their […]

 

Video: Those (Liberal) Voices Don’t Speak For The Rest of Us

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Republican Study Committee has unveiled a great ad contrasting what Republicans believe and what Democrats believe. Juxtaposing one of Reagan’s great speeches with the words of the Democrats of today, the ad shows how Republicans venerate freedom while Democrats venerate their own power and an ability to command and control all of us. As […]

 

Survey of Dem’s Most Loved Republicans: A Guide on Whom to Fire?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Hill conducted its annual survey of how congressmen feel about each other and the answers are instructive. The survey found that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D. Calif.) is the most partisan, unwelcoming, hard to work with politician in all of the House of Representatives. But the list of Republicans that congressional leftists […]

 

New Court Decision: Congress Can Withhold ACORN Funding

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Looks like ACORN lost another round in court last week. New York’s 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a lower court’s decision to re-instate Congressional funding of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) ruling that halting funding did not violate the group’s rights. Congress finally cut off federal funding to ACORN […]

 

Calif. Teachers Unions Endangering Kid’s Lives

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

-By Warner Todd Huston Reason Magazine explores the appalling situation in California where teachers unions were able to strongarm the legislature to deny teacher training for the use of Diastat, an anti-seizure drug meant to keep kids afflicted with epileptic conditions from dying in school. The drug has been approved by the federal government to […]

 

The Tax Left-Wing Professors Act

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

James Lileks of the Minneapolis Star Tribune recently had a brilliant idea. Let’s tax tenured professors at a higher rate than everyone else. And how could they complain? After all, these left-wing, communist sympathizers are always saying everyone should pay more taxes. How could they complain about being called to “pay their fair share”? Lileks […]

 

Did Turkey Bomb Kurds With Chemical Weapons in 2009?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

News is just beginning to eek out that Turkey might have used chemical weapons to kill some Kurdish activists a year ago in the Kurdish area of southeastern Turkey. If this is true it could severely complicate relations between the EU and Turkey, an applicant for EU membership. Germany’s largest magazine, Der Spiegel, is reporting […]

 

Breaking: Obama Defends Ground Zero Mosque as ‘The Writ of Our Founders’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

-By Warner Todd Huston We have finally heard the full and definitive take that President Obama has on the outrageous Ground Zero mosque project. He’s all for it. During Obama’s Ramadan celebration dinner (called an Iftar dinner) Obama addressed the Ground Zero mosque. Even as Obama claimed that he understood that Ground Zero was “hallowed […]

 

Obama Has No Policy on ‘Housing’ For Detainees Convicted by Military Tribunals

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

After the heming and hawing by the Obama administration over whether we should bring terror suspects to trial before military commissions, Obama’s DOJ and DOD finally decided that they could. But once again we see the half-way actions of the Obama administration shining through by the fact that, even as Obama seems to agree with […]

 

$26.1 Billion Union Bailout Went to States that Didn’t Need it

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

As I mentioned in a previous discussion on the Democrats $26.1 billion bailout for unions that Speaker Pelosi pushed through Congress at the last minute this summer, there was no need for the money for the stated purpose of “saving teachers” jobs. After all many states still had $30 billion of the previous stimulus that […]

 

Should Federal Clerks and Archivists Have Guns and Badges?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

To attest to the ever more authoritarian nature of our federal government, I give you the stormtroopers of the National Archives who, for some unfathomable reason, have guns, badges and the power to “raid homes.” The L.A. Times published a story recently detailing the poor state of security of our National Archives holdings. The piece […]

 

Pensions That Exceed Base Pay, Blame Unions

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

For the New York Daily News Eileen Norcross and Todd Zywicki penned a piece taking public employees pensions to task for being “too rich for America’s blood.” Of course, they rightly blame unions and compliant politicians for the disaster. The do, however, give the actual public employees a pass. On one hand you might think […]

 

Treasury Dept’s New Charge: Muslim Outreach??

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Is the U.S. Department of the Treasury undertaking a new role? Taking its newest press release as an example, one could be excused to imagine that our Treasury Department has decided that it is now our next Department of Muslim Outreach. Today, Treasury released this statement: Treasury Department Statement Marking the Beginning of Ramadan WASHINGTON […]

 

Congress Now Not Even Bothering to Name the Bills They Pass

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Thanks to CATO’s Jim Harper, we discover that the slovenly work of Obama’s Congress is so bad that they are now passing bills that they haven’t even bothered to name. It’s been bad enough that the Democrats have affixed to bills names that are entirely Orwellian in nature, but now they aren’t even bothering to […]

 

It’s Come to This: Democrat Bashes Obama/Pelosi In Campaign Ad

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Recently the L.A. Times reported that the White House warned Democrat incumbents to avoid talking about the Party’s “accomplishments” as they campaign for office this year. In an effort coordinated with the White House, congressional leaders are urging Democrats to focus less on bragging about what they have done – a landmark healthcare law, a […]

 

Win The Lottery, Work for the Government

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It’s settled. People that play the lottery should lay down their scratchoff coins and take up an employment application to work for the government. After all, winning the lottery is a one-in-a-million proposition but if you get a job with the government your hitting the lottery seems to be a sure thing. USA Today is […]