Category: Government Waste

Trans. Sec LaHood: Forget Your Car, Ride a Bike

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Apparently Sec. of Transportation Ray LaHood thinks he lives in France, or maybe Amsterdam, or some such tiny, closed-in country. That is the only conclusion I can come to with his idiotic statements recently given to CNSNews. On May 3, LaHood announced a snazzy, wondermous, neato and momentous “sea change” in American transportation, a great […]

 

Rep. Waxman Slips in ‘Bad Vitamin’ clause into Wall Street Reform Bill

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Nothing says Washington crookedness like a congressman slipping a clause into a bill that has absolutely nothing whatever to do with the main purpose of the legislation. Here we have just another cynical, corrupt bargain made in Washington D.C. with the effort of Henry Waxman (D, Ca) who slipped a little clause into the Wall […]

 

Tenn. Newspaper: Being Pro-US Constitution and Anti-Obamacare is Raaaaacist

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Did you know that if you cared about the U.S. Constitution you are a racist? Oh, and did you also know that being against big government and being against Obamacare also makes you a racist? Well if you didn’t know that the Nashville Tennessean wants you to realize that if you love the Constitution but […]

 

Unionists Threaten CA Business Owner Over His Letter to the Editor

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Apparently all one need do to cause Police and Firemen and their union supporters to violate their oath to protect the citizenry these days is to question their union. Union thugs in California proved that to be true in Napa Valley last week when a local business owner had the temerity to exercise his free […]

 

Michigan Firemen Setting Fires Over Union Anger

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Why was this story not national news? Outrageously, firemen in Flint, Mich. went about the city setting fires instead of putting them out last month and all because their union wasn’t happy with job layoffs. In a vain attempt to stop the layoffs, these union criminals went around setting fires to try and scare Flint’s […]

 

Racist D.C. Delegate Denies Justice’s Racial Make-Up

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Did you know that a black person could “propose” that they are or are not a black person? I suppose that this means we can all somehow deny reality if that is true. I mean, perhaps rainbows do have a pot of gold at the end and unicorns really do exist? At least this state […]

 

Washington to Give Unions More Power to Tell Corporations What to Do

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Senator Chris Dodd (D, Conn.) wants to give unions more power in the boardrooms of our nation’s businesses. In essence, Dodd wants to force corporate boards under the thumb of unions by federal fiat. Carefully hidden in Dodd’s new regulations are provisions that give new powers to board members, powers aimed at giving unions more […]

 

Obama Tough Guy On Illegal Immigration! That Was Then…

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Once again we see that anything that Obama says has an expiration date. In 2006, then Senator Obama was a tough guy on illegal aliens. Flash forward to 2010 when he wants desperately to find an issue with which he can beat up on Republicans, suddenly Barack Obama pretends to be every illegal alien’s buddy. […]

 

Abortionist’s Hypocrisy: Infant Survives Abortion, Found Alive 2 Days Later

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Recently a baby in Italy was put through horror for his two short days of life in an incident that puts paid to the hypocrisy of those that think that an in vitro human infant is not really a human at all. This child survived a botched abortion then was laid alone in a cold […]

 

Tea Party: Instantly Attacked by Old Media, Coffee Party: Immediate Respect from Old Media

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Nothing says “media bias” like coffee in the morning. If anyone ever wanted to see an example of the bias of the Old Media no better example can be found than the different ways that it has treated the tea party movement and the coffee party astroturf effort. The tea party movement was initially ignored, […]

 

Media Spinning Against New AZ Law for All It’s Worth

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The media has been trying its hardest to spin this Arizona immigration law to its agenda for all its worth. It’s such a swarm of media agenda journalism that even liberal reporters that write about the travel industry are trying to demonize Arizona over it all. We can see this in the facile reporting by […]

 

Behavioral Science, Behavioral Economics, Social Science, Psychology… How are these ‘Science’? Why Is Obama Using them to Ruin This Nation?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

OK, let me get this straight. The bulk of the “research” that the so-called sciences mentioned in the headline above are done in university labs. There they conduct these “experiments” mostly, not exclusively, but mostly, on grad students and other students willing to go to the lab and take surveys, answer questions, and participate in […]

 

I Want To Fire All Government Workers

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

We conservatives are fond of wanting to oust everyone in office and for wanting to “vote the scoundrels out.” But, I’d like to add one more level to the throw-them-out-of-government arena. Let’s fire every government worker from the smallest village receptionist or sewer worker to the staffers of the highest Senator and every menial clerk […]

 

Andy Stern: Union Chief Fleeing Ahead of Illinois Indictment?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Until recently, Andy Stern was the President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), a union that has served as one of President Obama’s biggest donors as well as filling the ranks of his ground troops. In a surprise move, Stern resigned his post this month and no one is really sure why at this […]

 

Does Obama Want to Destroy America? Yes, But…

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Rush Limbaugh and a few other radio hosts have made it a center piece of the attack against President Obama, the Tea Partiers have often put such sentiment on their protest signs, and the conservative chattering classes have been abuzz with the question: does Barack Obama want to destroy the United States? The only real […]

 

Mickey Kaus, Union Fighter?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

For the Washington Post’s Post Partisan Blog Charles Lane’s somewhat irreverent, perhaps even dismissive treatment of the admittedly quixotic Senate campaign of journalist Mickey Kaus painted the would-be candidate as a union fighter. Interestingly, he isn’t far off the mark, which is odd for the fact that Kaus is a pretty straight down the line […]

 

$338.3 Billion Paid to Service America’s Illegal Aliens

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

My friend Gary Karlin over at the Evanston Conservative blog has spent the last year or so collecting a series of stories detailing the costs of illegal aliens to the United States. With just the 14 news stories he highlights, the cost rings in at a staggering $338.3 Billion in money wasted by government giving […]

 

AFSCME Official’s Threats

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees chief Henry Bayer addressed a rally of Illinois unions members on April 21. During his harangue this man revealed the exact sort of logical disconnect in which union thugs everywhere wallow. Bayer noted that 10% of the workforce in Illinois is out of work. OK, then what […]

 

$crew You: Senior SEC Employees Spent “Hours a Day” Surfing Internet Porn

Posted on by Sister Toldjah

ABC News’ Jonathan Karl reports: On a day when President Obama argued for more government regulation over the financial industry, a new government report reveals that some high-level regulators have spent more time looking at porn than policing Wall Street. The Securities and Exchange Commission is supposed to be the sheriff of the financial industry, […]

 

Union Thugs at Capitol Demand Illinois Gov’t ‘Raise Our Taxes’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In the late morning hours of April 21 dozens of rented buses streamed into Springfield, the Illinois capitol, and began spewing out hundreds of tax-gorged union thugs. It was as if the Illinois Hog Producers association had pulled up to the capitol and thrown wide the doors to their livestock carriers. Some estimates say the […]

 

Policing for Profit – The Abuse of Civil Asset Forfeiture

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A group called the Institute for Justice (http://www.ij.org/) is doing yeoman’s work alerting everyone to the simply un-American powers that police agencies across the country have been afforded by an out-of-control government. Police agencies have been given ever increasing stormtrooper-like powers to steal your property and assets because they merely suspect you might have gotten […]

 

Unsafe Sharia Healthcare Coming Your Way, America

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Recently the British health services ruled that Muslim nurses and doctors didn’t have to wash their hands before handling patients. Why did they reverse a hundred years of sanitary medical practices? Why, because the Brits didn’t want to upset their Muslim citizens who think that washing themselves is some sort of crime against their religion. […]

 

How Unions Are Destroying California

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Steve Malanga of City journal has a great piece detailing how California’s public employee unions are destroying that once great state. Malanga starts by repeating the ominous warning to the politicos at the state capitol in Sacramento made by a Service Employees International Union chief. “We helped to get you into office and we got […]

 

Those Delusional ‘Coffee Party’ Lefties

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The self-delusional world in which liberals wallow truly is amazing. It takes an Olympic gymnast’s level of agility to warp your logic enough to think like one of them and a recent report on the left-wing blather site Newsvine is yet one more example of the backbreaking contortions that liberals must indulge to make themselves […]

 

Baskin-Robberts New Ice Cream Flavor Honors Obama

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In honor of the 44th President of the United States , Baskin-Robberts Ice Cream has introduced Barocky Road, its new flavor. Barocky Road is a blend of half vanilla, half chocolate, and surrounded by nuts and flakes. The vanilla portion of the mix is not openly advertised and usually denied as an ingredient. The nuts […]

 

Video: After Saying They’re Angry Mobs, Sen. Boxer Now Wants Her Supporters to be Like Tea Partiers

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Kerry Picket of the Washington Times found two amusing videos of California Senator Barbara Boxer, one in 2009 and one from this month, that shows the sad state of affairs in which Democrats find themselves politically these days. In 2009, Boxer was warning about those dangerous “well dressed” angry mobs that make up the tea […]

 

Mitt Romney Wrote the Obamacare Book

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It looks like Mitt Romney is trying to be the GOP front runner for 2012. But he is one of the main influences for Obama’s socialist takeover of America’s healthcare system. Watch this video and remind yourself why we need to eliminate Mitt Romney from any possibility for being the GOP nominee for President in […]

 

DTG: Don’t Trust The Government

Posted on by John Hawkins

“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” — Ronald Reagan If the Gipper were alive today, I’m sure he’d at least be pleased to see that a staggering percentage of the American public agrees with the sentiment expressed in that quote: Public confidence […]

 

Can You Make A Video Explaining Why Government Regulation Rocks?

Posted on by William Teach

If you can, the EPA wants to hear from you President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency is encouraging the public to create video advertisements that explain why federal regulations are “important to everyone.” The contest, which ends May 17, will award $2,500 to the makers of the video that best explains why federal regulations are good […]

 

Sam Adams, Andrew Breitbart, and Me: The Third Annual Sammies Awards, a Report

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Sam Adams Alliance, a free-market think tank that specializes in encouraging new media, held its third annual Sammies awards in beautiful downtown Chicago last Friday, April 16. This year the event hosted a visit by the Wall Street Journal’s John Fund and featured a keynote address by media maven Andrew Breitbart. And somewhere in […]