Category: Government Waste

Union Admits Buying Politician, Wants $ Back

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

When an average citizen donates money to a politician it is usually because that citizen believes in the politician and wants to help him have the war chest to conduct a campaign. Unions like to pretend that they donate to politicians out of the goodness of their hearts, just like common citizens do. Everyone knows, […]

 

I Agree With…..Bob Herbert? America’s Infrastructure Problems

Posted on by John Hawkins

Seldom does this happen, but I do have to say, Bob Herbert is right about this: These kinds of problems are not peculiar to Pennsylvania. New Orleans was lost for want of an adequate system of levees and floodwalls. Lawrence Summers, President Obama’s chief economic adviser, tells us that 75 percent of America’s public schools […]

 

$135 Million of Your Money Wasted on ‘Green Wall’ In Oregon

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

About $135 million of our tax dollars in federal stimulus is being wasted on an upgrade for the Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt Federal Building in Portland, Oregon, one aspect of which is the so-called “green wall.” Why wasted? Because no one even knows if this “green wall” will even work and no engineering solutions have been […]

 

All Administrators and Teachers at Rhode Island School Fired

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

I don’t expect this to stick. I fully expect some left-wing, paid off judge to come to the aid of these union thugs. But… in Central Falls, Rhode Island School Superintendent Frances Gallo has fired an entire high school’s worth of teachers and administrators over a labor dispute. Central Falls High School is situated in […]

 

Where Have you Gone George Washington?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

I don’t celebrate “President’s Day.” I celebrate the presidents individually, not the whole gaggle of them at once. But I most certainly don’t celebrate George Washington, the father of our country, as just another president. These days, George Washington has been relegated to that “truth telling guy” to be seen on the one dollar bill […]

 

Obama The Pro-Gun President?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Is President Obama a surprising gun rights supporter? He might be if the Chicago Tribune’s Steve Chapman is correct. And Chapman isn’t the only one. It seems to be shaping up to be the lefty complaint du jour this week. Reality, however, might say something different. Chapman makes a classic mistake that many people make […]

 

Democrats Don’t Trust Americans

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

My headline is a statement of fact. Democrats don’t trust Americans because they are always looking for ways to cut them out of the process. Here we have another example of that axiom proven out. Illinois State Senator James Meeks, the Reverend Meeks, parades around as a man of the community, a man of the […]

 

How To Become a Millionaire Easy: Become a Gov’t Worker

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Having trouble making ends meet? Eating your meals from a dog food can? Lost your job, seen your retirement accounts dwindle or disappear, having a hard time getting work? Millions of Americans are facing these problems. Some, however, aren’t. And those some are government workers, apparently. Unionized government workers at that. Doug Ross has a […]

 

Bada Bing, NJ Governor Christie: Fiscally Responsible AND a Backbone!

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

I was born and raised in New Jersey; moved down to South Carolina 5 years ago. Prior to that, I lived in New Jersey my entire life. I left because it became impossible to make ends meet there, primarily due to an insanely high cost of living. That can be blamed, in part, on the […]

 

Michelle Obama Warns of Donut-Made Disasters

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

AP Photo So,: Michelle Obama seems to be as delusional as: her husband. Earlier this week, she said that: childhood obesity (a Crisis!) is a threat to national security. No, really. She actually said that: (CNSNews.com) — At a ceremony at the White House on Tuesday, First Lady Michelle Obama announced the launch of the ‘Let’s Move’ campaign […]

 

Food Stamps Are Not Welfare

Posted on by Dave Blount

With the help of the statist media, Big Government is making progress in its drive to corrode our culture to the point that dependence on coercively funded handouts is both socially acceptable and ubiquitous: A decade ago, New York City officials were so reluctant to give out food stamps, they made people register one day […]

 

CNBC Slams Obama’s ‘Unholy Alliance’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Well, CNBC’s Media and Technology Editor, Dennis Kneale, is only the latest to jump my little “Unions are Antithetical to Good Government” bandwagon. Kneale slams Obama’s “unholy alliance” with Big Labor and proclaims it a danger to the country. He couldn’t be more right. Here is the article: “Obama’s Unholy Union-With Unions” Here are a […]

 

So Wait, If We Know The Jobs Bill Isn’t Going To Create Many Jobs……

Posted on by John Hawkins

Want to know why the American people have zero trust in the competence of politicians in DC? This certainly seems to sum it up in a nutshell: It’s a bipartisan jobs bill that would hand President Barack Obama a badly needed political victory and placate Republicans with tax cuts at the same time. But it […]

 

Maryland’s Toxic Teachers Union

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

We all know the drill, right? Unions curry favor with compliant politicians, the unions then donate campaign cash to them hoping for political favors later down the line. Yes, that’s the drill… unless you are the Montgomery County, Maryland teachers union. See, in that case candidates are expected to pay the union for its favors, […]

 

Obama: Vending Machine Operator in Chief

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Wanna know the next stop for the Big Government juggernaut? School vending machines. That’s right, now that Obama has taken control of the auto manufacturers next he wants to control what sort of vending machine your schools have. Right after that he’ll likely decide that he…. You know, right there I was going to try […]

 

How Media Chooses Words Adds to Bias

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Politico had a story about Big Labor penned by Jeanne Cummings, the reporter famed for going after Sarah Palin’s Party purchased wardrobe during the 2008 presidential campaign, that was an object lesson in Old Media bias. Her piece headlined “Labor helps kill its own top priority” is a great example of using language to […]

 

The Intellectuals What Ain’t

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

There is no better example of how low intellectuals have fallen than the case of Bernard-Henri Lévy, intellectual, provocateur, member of the well-regarded French nouveaux philosophes and, it seems, all around gullible fool. Bernard-Henri Lévy, better known to those in the know as BHL, has become a laughing stock of modern inteleckshoouls everywhere with the […]

 

Some Letters Beating Me Up Over My Tea Party Articles

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Well I’ve now written six — this makes seven — articles criticizing certain failures of the Tea Party movement thus far. They are all meant to be constructive criticisms, though, not dismissive nor derogatory of them. It’s measured introspection I employ in each of these articles. No name calling, no laughing, no hate. There is […]

 

Sustainable Development: An Example Of Good Governance…From Canada

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

UPDATED: The whole Sustainable Development, eco-police Audi advertisement thing. Michelle Malkin covers it. The old saying “all politics is local” is absolutely true. A local politician affects the quality of life on each and every citizen, often in personal ways. When the left poo-poos Sarah Palin’s experience as mayor, they reveal themselves in a couple […]

 

Marvel Comics: Captain America Says Tea Parties Are Dangerous and Racist

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

** UPDATE ** BELOW Marvel Apologizes Marvel Comic’s Captain America is the mightiest soldier with the super powerful secret soldier formula that makes him a super man. Sadly, this muscle bound hero that took on the whole Nazi army during WWII seems to be afraid of those American people who’ve joined the Tea Party movement. […]

 

Why Unions Are Dangerous in Education

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

One would think that a teacher that had 30 some years ago allegedly impregnated a 16-year-old student, a few years later sexually accosted two 12-year-old students, and was accused of molesting yet another student four years after that, would be out on his ear never to teach or be allowed around children again. But the […]

 

Scott Lee Cohen: Case in Point How Chicago Media Covers for Criminal Democrats

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Well, the Chicago controlled Illinois media has done it again. It’s allowed another unsavory Democrat candidate with criminal propensities to slide by unnoticed and to be placed before the voters un-exposed as the low-end sort of fellow he is. And, just like clockwork, this drug addled nut has been elevated to nominee by the Democrat […]

 

John Boehner is Kidding Himself

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Yesterday our Republican minority leader in the House of Representatives proved that he still isn’t seeing the problem with the GOP. He’s living in denial, at least he is if we can take his words at face value. On the Mike Gallagher radio show yesterday, leader Boehner insisted that there is no substantive ideological differences […]

 

Who Wins When Moonbats Write the Rules: Alan Rosenfeld

Posted on by Dave Blount

As our liberal rulers drive the economy toward total collapse with their extravagant spending, you have to wonder where all the money goes. It’s not easy to waste trillions of dollars without producing any tangible benefit. Alan Rosenfeld provides an example of how it’s done: A Queens teacher who collects a $100,000 salary for doing […]

 

It Has Begun: The Big Social Security Meltdown

Posted on by John Hawkins

For years, conservatives have been saying that we need to get a handle on Social Security. Even George Bush, who wasn’t a fiscal conservative, understood the risks and he tried desperately to reform the program — but, not: :  to avail. Well now, a few years earlier than most people predicted, the program is going into […]

 

Dem Senate Hurries To Push Liars and Symps into Power Before Brown Comes to Town

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It’s Katie bar the door as the Democrats in the Senate try to push as many liars and Big Labor crooks into positions of power in the Obama Administration as they can before they lose their super majority once Scott Brown of Massachusetts is seated on the 4th of February. On Monday, the Democrats pushed […]

 

Another Chicago Alderman Goes to Jail — THIS is Heartening Progress

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Alderman Ike Carothers is going to jail over his corruption. The wormy apple didn’t fall too far from the diseased tree, either, because Ike’s daddy, himself a former Alderman, went to jail for corruption in 1983. Ike joins a dozen other Chicago politicians in the Big House. But I am here to say that I […]

 

Illinois Shows Limitations of Tea Party Movement

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Tea Party folks keep getting mad at me for saying that in the end they might prove ineffective in races at levels higher than local because they aren’t organized enough. They puff up their chests proudly proclaiming that they intend to resist being organized and they claim that being organized is precisely what they […]

 

Where’s the Outrage: 1 Year Later, Gitmo Not Closed

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

One of the first things that Barack Obama did after being swept into office on the wings of “hopenchange” was to sign an executive order that would close the terrorist detainee facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. President Obama gave a one-year deadline after which he triumphantly informed us the facility would be closed. Well, we […]

 

Obama’s Aide David Axelrod, Portrait of a Demagogue

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

This weekend Obama adviser David Axelrod gave us a perfect example of the art of empty demagoguery. Comments made by Axelrod concerning Obama’s state of the union speech shows an over statement meant to mask the truth in order to evoke sympathy for his boss, the President. Sadly, the truth is the victim here. The […]