Category: Government Waste

New GOP Video: Deficit of Hope

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

“The American people have seen who is benefiting from Obama’s economy and it isn’t them. Barack Obama’s looming tax hikes on small businesses, job-killing regulations, and big government takeovers have created an economic climate saturated with uncertainty that is keeping employers from hiring. As a result, unemployment remains near 10 percent, nearly one in five […]

 

‘Tax Extenders’ Bill: Another Democrat Bailout of Special Interests

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The so-called “tax extenders” bill that was initially part of the unemployment package that Congress passed last month is still on the table. It was separated from the unemployment bill because the GOP opposed its inclusion and for good reason. It is little else but a sop to special interests and big corporations. The Democrats […]

 

Ohio’s Dem. Gov. Gave Stimulus $$ to Co. That Exported Jobs to El Salvador

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

What was it that Democrat President Barack Obama told us about the stimulus? Oh, yeah that it would “save or create” American jobs. Seems like a good idea, right? So what happened in Ohio when Democrat Governor Ted Strickland got his mitts on some of Obama’s stimulus cash? Why he gave it to a company […]

 

Toilet Paper ‘Down Under’ To Cost More Thanks To Green Policies

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

First the greenies came to take away our lightbulbs in the U.S. and force us to buy more expensive ones. Now the greenies are on the march in Australia with the unkindest swipe of all: forcing Australians to pay 42 percent more for toilet paper. In a report recently put out by Tim Wilson of […]

 

As They Live off Us, Some Federal Workers Pocket Fraudulent SS Benefits

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

News has emerged today of an investigation by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) that has discovered hundreds of federal workers who are pocketing fraudulent Social Security disability payments. This is doubly galling, to say the least. Not only are these federal workers living off we the taxpayers, but now they are stealing from us outright. […]

 

Rosie O’Donnell Says Her Marriage was a Political Protest, Gays Treated Like Holocaust in America

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In yet one more example among thousands, we see why loud-mouth, extreme left-wing talker Rosie O’Donnell is wholly unworthy of a national forum. In a recent segment of her satellite radio show Rosie Radio, O’Donnell idiotically claimed that gays were being “rounded up” in America so that a “pink triangle” could be slapped on them […]

 

As Fellows Lose Jobs Union Fights For Stiffer Drug Benefits: Free Viagra

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Unions have for years been figuring out new ways to screw employers and in Madison, Wisconsin a teacher’s union is looking for yet another way to slam it to the taxpayers by insisting that they get a free Viagra drug benefit. In this bad economy, with states going bankrupt right and left, with teachers being […]

 

With Kagan, We Get a Lifetime Obama…

Posted on by Heather Bachman

: : : : :  The bottom line, however you want to look at it, to Obama’s selection for Supreme Court is the choice’s reasoning is for his power only.:  Not only is Kagan not a correct choice for the nation but for the court as well; especially in this time of war and fiscal challenge. : : : : :  No matter […]

 

Bloggericide: Ohio Officials Charge Blogger With Campaign Violations

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Well, folks, this is bound to happen more and more as time rolls onward in this New Media world of ours. A blogger is in trouble with local Ohio officials who are trying to Shut him down using a badly applied campaign finance law all because he has been critical of county officials on his […]

 

Democrat Lobbyist Charged With Campaign Contributions Violations

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Paul Magliocchetti, president of the lobbying firm PMA Group Inc. of Arlington, Virginia, was arrested on August 5 and charged with using friends and family to make illegal campaign contributions in order to skirt federal campaign finance laws. His firm has been under investigation since 2009. In a statement the Justice Department alleged, “Magliocchetti orchestrated […]

 

Democrats: Say, Let’s Exempt Rich People in Blue States From Tax Hike!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

If this doesn’t exemplify the left’s propensity to act in the mode of for-thee-but-not-me, nothing does. The Wall Street Journal (by way of the Wash. Examiner’s Mark Hemingway) reports that at least one Democrat has suddenly realized that when the Bush tax cuts fade away his state will be hit by a massive tax hike […]

 

AFL-CIO Chief Pleading for Union Support of Dems in Nov.

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The AFL-CIO plans to spend another $50 million coming to the aid of Democrats during this campaign season for the 2010 midterms. But all is not well in uniondom as many unions are very, very unhappy with various and sundry Democrat candidates across the country. Still, AFL-CIO chief Richard Trumka has issued a call to […]

 

WaPost’s Kurtz Cries About ‘Nasty’ Media

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In an August 2 editorial the Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz cried a river over the rancor he saw in today’s media calling it a “nastiness index” that continues to rise. But his lament is not only off base in many ways, it is also historically illiterate and is built on only one real complaint: the […]

 

Bitter Half Spends Fortune in Formerly Racist Spain

Posted on by Dave Blount

Gulf states have been crippled economically by the oil leak Obama’s bumbling and intrusive regime made so hard to defend the coast against, and still more by his malevolent ban on off-shore drilling. Although liberal elite types will curl their lips insufferably at the “Redneck Riviera,” there is no shortage of fine hotels on the […]

 

The Era of Obama: Clorox Co. Loses Net Income to Taxes?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In a harbinger of profit statements to come, Clorox Co. — maker of numerous household cleaning products — reports that it’s net income was nearly flat despite a one percent rise in revenue. The reason? Taxes. Clorox Co. says its fourth-quarter net income was nearly flat, even though its revenue rose one percent, because it […]

 

Opposing ‘Net Neutrality’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

While attending RightOnLine in Las Vegas last week we had the opportunity to attend several discussions of the ill advised plans that the Obama administration’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has for regulating and controlling the Internet. I listened to a panel discussion and a stand alone speech on Net Neutrality and the plans the Obama […]

 

Is The Tea Party Like A Starfish, Like the Apache… Like al Qaeda?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Politico’s Kenneth Vogel has an interesting piece on a book that Tea Party activists are starting to glom onto as an administrative guidebook of sorts. The book, “The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations,” is a book that explains how leaderless organizations work and can be effective. Of late tea partiers […]

 

(Video) Jamal Greene: Why I Am a Conservative?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Jamal Greene took to his video camera to tell us why he is a conservative. His effort is a serious and worthy explication of conservatism and his words should be listened to. Jamal Greene: “In this video I speak about the ideas and beliefs that hold true. As a young educated black male I wanted […]

 

Virginia Challenge of Obamacare Wins One in Court

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson refused to dismiss Virginia’s lawsuit against Obamacare, today, allowing the suit against the federal government to continue on to the next stage. The federal government sought a dismissal of the suit that challenges the Constitutionality of the part of Obamacare that requires every citizen to buy healthcare insurance. In his […]

 

Good News: Big Money to be Made in Illinois. Bad news: it’s in Government

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

(Just like in nearly every state, the only people getting rich are those working for government…) With recent revelations that the city manager of the small, mostly low-income Hispanic community of Bell, California makes nearly $800,000 a year and that its police chief makes almost $500,000 yearly, the spotlight might be leveled at city employees […]

 

After a Year in Office, Biden Says Afghan War Policy Still Developing

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Vice President Joe Biden wants everyone to just calm down. He says that it’s “much too premature” to judge the Obama administration’s efforts in Afghanistan. Apparently, after a year of focusing on “the right war,” America is still waiting for the Obama administration to “develop” its policies there. But one thing seems sure, the Obama […]

 

Sometimes Technology Isn’t Benign

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

For proof that man can take any great idea and turn it to evil comes a story from Saudi Arabia, our “ally” in the Mideast. This story also shows that advanced electronic technology isn’t always the panacea to life’s troubles that we always imagine it to be. In fact, to women in the oppressive Kingdom […]

 

Schwarzenegger Again Orders Furloughs for State Workers

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

California has been ground zero in the war between over paid state employees unions and government budgetary concerns and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has leveled yet another salvo in that battle by again ordering more furloughs for state workers. After ending the previous program to furlough 200,000 state workers the Governor has introduced a scaled back […]

 

Daily Kos Editor Says Global Warming Skeptics Should Commit Suicide

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

This is how the left treats those with whom they disagree, folks. Daily Kos contributing editor and Examiner.com writer Steven Andrew has suggested that anyone that disagrees with the globaloney of global warming should commit suicide in a “Soylent Green world.” In his examiner column headlined, “Studies Show Dramatic Decrease in Plankton,” Andrew made what […]

 

SEIU Attacking Fellow Union for Concessions

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Engineers and Architects Association, a 48,000 member public employees union in L.A., has come under attack from the politically active Service Employees International Union (SEIU) for having the civic sense to realize that the high times of ever rising pay at the taxpayer’s expense is coming to an end. In a deal about to […]

 

Americans Are Delusional: Do They Really Want An Efficient Government?

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

So polling shows this: A May survey of 2,523 participants conducted by Hart Research Associates found that 67 percent of respondents believed a major source of government waste was due to inefficient federal employees receiving generous benefits or high salaries. So far, so good. But this conclusion made me want to shake my fellow citizen: […]

 

ACORN Whistleblower Anita MonCrief’s New Venture: EmergingCorruption.com

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

ACORN whistleblower Anita MonCrief, the brave young woman whose conscience wouldn’t allow her to cover for ACORN’s criminal activity while she was in its employ, has started a new venture. A website dedicated to rooting out government corruption called www.EmergingCorruption.com was launched last weekend headed by Anita and a cadre of writers and researchers (myself […]

 

BREAKING: Sherrod Says She’ll Sue Andrew Breitbart

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

New Media mogul Andrew Breitbart faces a lawsuit from former USDA employee Shirley Sherrod over his posting of video of the woman in a seemingly racist outburst at an NAACP meeting. Sherrod made the announcement at the San Diego convention of the National Association of Black Journalists on Thursday, July 29. Isn’t it a bit […]

 

Now Congress Is Fighting Over Sports Teams

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In one of those “it’s gotten so bad that…” stories, McClatchy’s James Rosen reported today that Congress is so rife with partisan warfare that they can no longer even agree to sign onto each other’s harmless resolutions that celebrate sports teams for one success or another. “The once-routine resolutions honoring hometown squads or stars sailed […]

 

Fake Michigan Tea Party Acting Spoiler for Republicans?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Back in May I posted a report on what seemed to be a fake tea party group circulating petitions in the state of Michigan to get themselves recognized as an official political party. The group circulating the petition, Progressive Campaigns, Inc., had long-time connections to the Michigan Democrat Party and at that time no one […]