Category: Government Waste

America Deserves the Apology…Not BP

Posted on by Heather Bachman

BP is deserving of no apology; the real apology, should be to the American people. What is the real “shakedown” are the actions taken by the Obama Administration in order to milk whatever they can get from the BP spill aftermath. While they are happily having speeches cloaked in actions toward BP when in reality […]

 

AP Bias: Name That Party Blasts Repubs, Leaves Dems Unnamed in Stories

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

One of the many ways that the Associated Press lends its support to Democrats and leftists in its political reporting is often evident in its stories on political scandals. The most common assist the AP gives to Democrats is to somehow forget to mention that a politician in the news because of criminal activity or […]

 

Obama’s Healthcare Give Away to Union Special Interests

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

One of Obamacare’s new rules states that if your employer finds it necessary to change healthcare providers to a more cost effective plan they will lose their federal health plan exemptions. This will cause employers to drop employees from health plans forcing workers onto government sponsored plans. So much for Obama’s hoary idea that you […]

 

In 2009 Video Blago Said Prosecutors Wanted ‘Sh*t on Obama’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Back in 2009 a video compilation of clips of impeached Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich was posted on YouTube. Today folks are realizing that this video features Blago claiming that the reason prosecutors went after him was to get information on President Obama. On the video made at a book signing party at Columbia College, Blago […]

 

Bureauweenies Blow $800,000 on Defining Three Words

Posted on by Dave Blount

The reason the standard of living invariably goes down as the size of government goes up is that bureaucrats do not spend other people’s money as wisely as we spend our own. For yet another example, refer to the moonbat dystopia of the San Francisco area: Believe it or not, BART [Bay Area Rapid Transit] […]

 

New York Teachers Union Has Branch in Florida?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The outrage of union activities never ceases to amaze. From the Education Week blog we find that the United Federation of Teachers (UFT), the teachers union of New York, spends almost $200,000 a year of its member’s dues money on an office in Boca Raton, Florida! As Ed Week drolly says, “That’s not peanuts for […]

 

Government Is The Same Everywhere: Slow, Stupid, And Incompetent

Posted on by John Hawkins

Most people who read this story probably finished it thinking, “What a decent and:  : courageous fellow!” While I’d agree with that sentiment, I took something else away from the story entirely: In nearly 50 years Don Ritchie, 84, has saved at least 160 people at The Gap, a rocky cliff at the entrance to Sydney […]

 

McConnell for Colorado: He Loves Guns and The U.S.A…. not so big on the U.N. (Video)

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

I have to say, I find it somewhat amazing to see the sort of campaign videos we’ve been seeing of late. They are hard-nosed, straight-forward, REAL American styled campaign spots. I can’t imagine any time in our past when such hard-core American sentiment would have been evident in campaign commercials like this. Here is one […]

 

Unions Preventing a Timely Cleanup of Oil in the Gulf?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Joseph Carafano of the Heritage Foundation has made an interesting observation and wonders if President Obama is allowing unions to make it harder to effect a timely and effective cleanup of the BP oil spill in the Gulf? The offer of aid from foreign companies has been refused by the Obama administration and the Jones […]

 

Obamacare: Eliminating the Poor and Elderly’s Last Resort to Life and Health

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Many left-wingers complain that our healthcare system as it stands leaves out the poor, elderly, and those least able to care for themselves. They say that because of this inequity private medical care should be eliminated and government should take over that role in society. That way, they claim, all will be treated equally and […]

 

Chicago Alderman Solis Calls Americans ‘Nazis’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

If you are interested in the rule of law, if you are someone who upholds the Constitution, or someone that believes in the sovereignty of America’s borders, Chicago Alderman Danny Solis wants you to know that you are a Nazi. That’s right Moreno thinks you are “wrong,” and you are “evil” if you want to […]

 

Video: Why Do Fannie And Freddie Execs Make More Than our Generals?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Representative Peter Roskam tries to offer an amendment that makes sure that the executives of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac don’t make more money than the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Naturally the Democrats would rather pay millions to the executives that are still running Freddie and Fannie into the ground than accept […]

 

Just One More Freedom Crushed: Feds Destroying Exotic Pet Industry

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Congress has suddenly realized something. Animals could be dangerous! Gosh. One wonders what magick faierie dust was sprinkled on these stalwart protectors of the public weal that made them realize that animals are dangerous? Whatever fantastic episode befell Congress they have acted and hence these high mukety-mucks last year introduced an ominous sounding bill called […]

 

Teachers Union Extorts Parents for Campaign Cash

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The indispensable Mark Hemingway of the Washington Examiner recently caught another union outrage. This time it’s the teachers union in New Jersey trying to extort cash from parents directly, as opposed to merely extorting cash from parents through their taxes. Hemingway alerts us to a New Jersey parent that was aghast that the NJ teachers […]

 

Ill. Congressman Hare: Puffing Military Record and Intimidating Voters

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Congressman Phil Hare (IL, 17th District) is the perfect example of the sort of congressman no one should want. He’s arrogant. He’s dismissive. He’s self-important. He’s easy to anger. And worst of all he has disdain for his own voters. The man is simply a creep. In April we had video of this arrogant cuss […]

 

‘Party of the People’ Hides from Them

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Remember those hoary days of yesteryear, those days when Democrats puffed themselves up as “the party of the people,” of that “party of the common man”? Flash forward to 2010 and we find that those stalwart homespun congressmen, born of the people have set a policy to avoid those “people,” the voters, at all costs. […]

 

Matthew Yglesias: The Problem With The Economy? Too Much Fiscal Conservatism

Posted on by John Hawkins

Yes, really. That’s what he’s arguing, If fiscal stimulus is so great, then why hasn’t the Obama administration’s massive stimulus program helped improve the economy? Well, via Mark Thoma, the answer is that there hasn’t been any net fiscal stimulus, all the Obama administration’s efforts plus the automatic stabilizers have done is mitigate the contractionary […]

 

Rahm Emanuel: Another Tax Avoiding Obama Appointee

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

I am beginning to think that our tax collecting agencies across the country send out a form letter to everyone that is in arrears with their taxes to immediately apply for a job in Barack “Most Ethical Administration in Decades” Obama’s administration. Here we have another Obama lieutenant that didn’t pay his taxes until someone […]

 

Video: Gov. Christie Knows Teachers Unions are the Schoolyard Bullies

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has decided that to protect our children’s futures beating the schoolyard bully is the way to go. But who is the bully? Is it the sign carrying, whiney teachers? No, it’s their powermongering, kid unfriendly unions pushing teachers to act like bullies. The unions are the bullies and THAT is […]

 

National Healthcare Saves $$ By Letting Some Patients Suffer

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Governor Sarah Palin once complained of those “death panels” in the President’s healthcare policy, a scoff that infuriated Obamacare’s supporters. But the fact is, by its very nature a nationalized healthcare system like the one that Obama wants acts as a “death panel” by denying care to save money. We don’t have to guess at […]

 

Harry Reid’s Push To Nationalize ALL Cop/Firemen Unions

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Senate Democrat Majority Leader Harry Reid is quietly trying to nationalize rules governing every police, fire and first responder union in the nation. Through the benignly named Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act (H.R.413) Reid wants all first responders represented by collective bargaining rules emanating from Washington D.C. Naturally he thinks that it is necessary as […]

 

New Website: Mr. President, Stop Playing Golf

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

An amusing new site has debuted that asks the president to please, Mr. President, stop playing golf and be a leader! http://stopplayinggolf.com Catch this “partial list” of the things Obama missed as he wandered the golf course. As oil spill spreads and approaches Louisiana coast, President plays golf (5/22/2010) Skips visit to Polish Embassy in […]

 

Free Web Broadcast of Ann Coulter LIVE, Tonight at 5:30 Central

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

TeaPartyHD.com has now gone live and to celebrate its inauguration on the Web as THE place to go for conservative information and content, TeaPartyHD.com is presenting “An Evening With Ann Coulter” streaming live from Nashville this evening, May 29 at 5:30 PM central time. The broadcast will begin with interviews and news about primary candidates […]

 

Michigan To License Journalists?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

This is the face of tyranny. A Michigan State Senator has introduced an Orwellian bill that would provide for the licensing of journalists. There is no doubt that this thing is aimed squarely at delegitimizing the New Media, silencing bloggers, and creating a protected class of state approved “journalists.” State Senator Bruce Patterson is the […]

 

IRS Asked to Review Unions’ Political Donations

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Washington Times is reporting that the Landmark Legal Foundation is requesting that the Internal Revenue Service review all the millions being spent by Big Labor on Democrat political campaigns during the 2010 midterm elections. As we discussed earlier this week, Big Labor is spending at least $100 million on the upcoming elections — actually […]

 

New Jersey Teachers Threw Away Decades of Goodwill

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The New Jersey Star-Ledger has a wonderful little editorial excoriating New Jersey’s teachers for having destroyed their own reputation with the public because of their petulant behavior towards Governor Chris Christie’s attempts to balance New Jersey’s over spent budget. Take a gander at this… Once the patient darlings who nurtured our kids, teachers now look […]

 

Shame: Nine GOP Reps Supporting Union Bailout

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

For decades unions have mishandled their pension funds. These funds have been embezzled into the pockets of union chiefs, they have been wasted on needless expenses, and have been spent away on left-wing political causes not to mention simple mismanagement and bad investing. It has gotten so bad that few union pension funds for the […]

 

The End of Our Legal System: Judges Joining Unions?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Unions are meant for one thing and one thing only: to “get” for its members. They have one purpose and that is to take as much from an employer as they can take, to get as much money and benefits as they can get away with. Unions are not interested in assuring quality workmanship, they […]