Category: Government Waste

Nanny State Update: New York District Bans Kids From Riding Bikes to School

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

America’s kids are too fat. Right? Don’t we hear that all the time? Isn’t it a steady mantra from the left that America is suffering from an “epidemic” of obesity? So, shouldn’t we want to encourage kids to get outdoors? Wouldn’t it be a good thing if kids rode a bicycle to school? Not to […]

 

A Democratic Philosophy Against Transparency

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

We can look at four of the amendments offered as additions to the healthcare bill that Democrats defeated and what we see gives us a glimpse into the Democratic Party’s true soul. And it is a dark look, indeed. At least it’s dark if you are one of those lowly citizens that thinks government transparency […]

 

Federal Recovery Tracking Website Hides $$ to ACORN

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

We are discovering that Obama’s promised transparency only goes so far in reporting where stimulus money ends up going. The new tracking website, Recovery.gov, is supposed to let us all know where the federal “stimulus” money is going but apparently will not track money that goes to groups like the Association for Community Organizations for […]

 

Only 16% Like The Job Congress Is Doing… Surprise!

Posted on by Alex Nobles

Surprise, Surprise! It does not matter which side of the isle you are on, or if you are right in the middle, you are disgusted with congress. When the American people pay attention to politics, congress tries its very best to put on more than a show than normal. What a sad thing to see. […]

 

Unions Threatened by New House Healthcare Provision?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Democrat leadership of the House of Representatives now wants to pay for H.R.3200 — the House healthcare bill — by charging a tax on the so-called Cadillac healthcare plans. This surtax is something that has been talked about in the Senate and forms an integral part of the Baucus bill, but this is the […]

 

What’s the Difference Between a Conservative and a Liberal?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

People often wonder what is the difference between a conservative and a liberal. The simple fact of the matter is that the major difference is that conservatives wonder first what it is they are responsible for while liberals wonder first what everyone else should be doing for them. Here are some brief rules of thumb: […]

 

Capital Hill Switchboard Illegally Being Used to Push Obamacare? (Question Solved)

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

**UPDATE** NUMBER IDENTIFIED** I have finally tracked down what this number is. Apparently it is a left-wing group that uses this 1-800 number as a re-direct to the Capitol Hill switchboard. You call the number, hear the message, and then it re-directs you to the real switchboard. The message is not being hosted on the […]

 

2009 Cook County GOP Convention

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

What are we going to do to clean up Obama’s corrupt Chicago Democrats? The Cook County GOP has some ideas… I just got back from attending the Saturday session of the Cook County Republican Party Convention (and before you ask, yes, there IS a Cook County Republican Party). It appeared that about 1,000 participants had […]

 

Joe Wilson: Petition to Put Bills On Line for 72 Hours Before House Vote

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

I was part of a small number of bloggers and Internet writers invited to speak with Representative Joe Wilson (R, SC) Friday afternoon. Rep. Wilson wanted to alert us all to a resolution that would provide that all bills that go through the House of Representatives would be posted on the Internet for 72 hours […]

 

Obamacare Mandates Will Cost Business $49 Billion a Year

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It has been estimated that employer mandates forced on businesses by H.R. 3200 and the other legislation barreling through Congress will cost America’s businesses $49 billion a year if passed. According to the Heritage Foundation the mandates in the bills now under consideration will force employers to buy healthcare insurance for their employees or pay […]

 

Union Rules: Teachers Paid Not to Teach

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Here is yet another story where union members undergoing disciplinary procedures can sometimes spend years being paid their full salary to sit home and watch TV, doing nothing, working not a minute of their day. In this case it is costing a local school system at least $2.25 million to pay teachers that aren’t teaching. […]

 

Obama to Waste More Growing Welfare in a Year Than Bush Spent on Entire Iraq War

Posted on by Dave Blount

When liberals whine that the war to liberate Iraq cost too much, they make an argument that would be reasonable — but only if someone else were making it. We now know that their Teleprompter Messiah will flush more money down welfare in the next year than Bush spent on the entire war. During the […]

 

Obama is ‘Concerned’ About Blogosphere

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Hill is reporting that Obama is now “open” to a newspaper bailout. Well, welcome to the state run media. Not long ago Senator Ben Cardin (D- Md.) introduced S. 673, the Newspaper Revitalization Act. It is supposed to give news media tax breaks if they restructure as a non-profit corporation. So far, though, the […]

 

School Pensions Making Millionaires out of Retiring Employees

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Bill Zettler recently submitted a Freedom of Information request on the pensions of 13 retiring public school employees from District 211 in Palatine, Illinois and he found that the people of Illinois are on the hook for over $50 million in pension benefits promised to people retiring at the average age of 58. Zettler found […]

 

Cash For Clunkers: The Debacle That Keeps On Giving

Posted on by John Hawkins

There were so many things wrong with the cash-for-clunkers program that it was hard to keep up with them all. The program quickly ran out of money, there were horrible paperwork snafus, a large percentage of the money was used for foreign cars, perfectly good cars were destroyed during the process, they’ve only handled about […]

 

Is it American to be Forced Into a Union? In Obama’s America it is!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Welcome to Obama’s America where you are forced to become a union member even if you had no idea you were being inducted into one. In fact, in Obama’s America you won’t even know you are IN a union until you notice union dues are being withheld from your checks. This is the case in […]

 

Breitbart: NEA Conference Call, Your Tax Dollars, And Artistic Coercion

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Here is the explosive tape from the NEA at Brietbart as well as a transcript in full. I’m listening now. Nick Gillespie, also of Breitbart’s Big Hollywood says: As Patrick Courrelieche, an L.A.-based arts organizer who participated in the call, reported at Big Hollywood, the people running the call, including the NEA’s director of communications […]

 

The Newest Thrill Ride Named Porkulus

Posted on by William Teach

Of course, this Washington Times story is less than shocking, but, hey, all you Democrat supporters might want to take notice of the rank partisanship After a two-week binge to meet President Obama’s 200-day goal, stimulus spending has plummeted once again – and the roller-coaster pace of spending has critics worried about how the money […]

 

Mandates Must be Unconstitutional

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Imagine a day when a president could tell you that you have to buy something or become a criminal via federal law if you don’t. Imagine a day when you are not allowed to choose not to buy a certain product. In a land of true freedom and liberty worrying about the arrival of such […]

 

Brit Hasn’t a Clue About U.S. Politics

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Many elitist American leftists like to go about claiming that it is only Americans that are dunces on foreign matters. There is some truth to the accusation that Americans are not knowledgeable about the rest of the world but if a column in the UK Telegraph is any indication it isn’t much better for Britain’s […]

 

Poizner Signs Anti-Tax Pledge Despite History of Supporting Tax Hikes

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

SoCal radio wags John and Ken got California GOP gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner to sign a no tax pledge this week. This is momentous news, indeed, since Poizner, the current State Insurance Commissioner and putative GOP frontrunner, has a long, long history of supporting massive property tax hikes that he has yet to directly disavow. […]

 

Obama’s Website Quietly Drops Support of Public Option

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It looks like President Obama’s campaign site cum community organizing website, Organizing for America (OFA), has quietly dropped its claim that the “public option” is a “must” in its healthcare policies open letter to Congress. Originally the open letter told Congress that it “must” vote for the public option. The second bullet point in the […]

 

Health Insurance is Not Like Auto Insurance

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

During his healthcare speech last week, President Obama tried to compare his idea of compulsory health insurance to the practice of mandatory auto insurance now in effect in most of the States of the Union. But as a recent Fox News piece by Judson Berger proves, car insurance is nothing like forced healthcare insurance. The […]

 

LATimes Finally Finds Graphics Like Commie Propaganda Art… And It’s Glenn Beck, NOT Obama

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

After the last three years of President Obama’s graphics and poster art that evokes the style of graphics used in communist propaganda someone in the Old Media has finally discovered the similarity between today’s political graphics and communist styled propaganda art. And on top of that another we see another member of the Media calling […]

 

Rep. Kirk Suddenly a “No” on Cap and Tax? (Update With Video)

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Rep. Mark Kirk (R, IL) has been getting hammered by conservatives and moderate Republicans alike for his “yes” vote on the Cap and Trade bill. But at a recent appearance Kirk suddenly said he now intends to vote against the disastrous bill. The Obama administration admits that the Cap and Trade legislation will cost every […]

 

Senators Stand By Prostitution, Tax Cheat Hiding ACORN

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Democratic Illinois Senators Durbin and Burris both voted to stand behind ACORN (the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) in a Senate vote to defund the criminal organization this week. A measure placed in the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development appropriations bill was overwhelmingly passed by the Senate to defund the group over the […]

 

House Tells Joe Wilson He’s A Bad Boy, No Biscuit!

Posted on by William Teach

Because they have absolutely nothing better to do The final vote tally was 240-179, with 7 Republicans siding with Democrats on the resolution to condemn Wilson, and 12 Democrats voting with Republicans against it. Five Democrats voted “present.” Here are the 7 Republicans that voted with the Democrats in favor the resolution: Rep. Anh Cao […]

 

CNN’s Poll Vaulting

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A short report on CNN’s Political Ticker is interesting for what it doesn’t mention in the story as well as its admittedly misleading trumpeted headline that Obama got “double-digit post-speech jump” after his Sept, 9 healthcare speech to a joint session of Congress. First the headline: “CNN Poll: Double-digit post-speech jump for Obama plan.” Reading […]

 

Nasty Tennis Player’s ‘Anger’… Just Like Joe Wilson?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It was bound to happen, but it might have been the Orlando Sentinel’s TV reviewer Hal Boedeker that was first out of the gate to compare the obscenity laden tirade disgorged at a tennis match by Serena Williams to the no more than annoyed outburst of “you lied” from Representative Joe Wilson during President Obama’s […]

 

Reid: Stop The Government, Specter Needs Cash Now!

Posted on by Dan Riehl

Seriously, whose interests do these people serve anymore? They write complex bills no one can understand. They don’t even read them themselves. Then they have a WH that goes out and scares the American people so they can rush it through overnight and bankrupt the Nation. It’s always there can be no delaywhen Obama, Reid, […]