Category: Liberals

Roe at 40: A Discussion with Live Action’s Lila Rose

Posted on by Matt Vespa

On January 22, the United States celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case, which legalized abortion in all fifty states. : In doing so, the Court usurped a developing consensus amongst the state legislatures on the issue, and violated the principle of federalism that should guide how we enact policy in […]

 

Food Stamps Recipients Increased 11,133 Per Day In Obama’s First Term

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

One way to mark the legacy of a presidency is to tally statistics and at least one stat is not very flattering for this president: Americans on food stamps have grown by 11,133 every day during his first term. In 2009, when Obama took office, recipients of SNAP, the Supplemental Assistance Nutrition Program, stood at […]

 

Did VP Biden Lie About Hearing 2006 Gun Shots?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Last week as Vice President Joe Biden talked publicly about his efforts to assist President Obama with his various gun-banning schemes, he made a startling new claim. He said that while golfing in Pennsylvania in 2006 he personally heard the gunfire from a mass shooting being committed at a nearby school. But did he really? […]

 

Danny Glover’s Revisionist History: 2nd Amendment Was for Protecting Slavery

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Actor and hardcore progressive Danny Glover should add revisionist historian to his growing resume of left-wing activism after a recent visit to Texas A&M University where he told students that the Second Amendment was mainly meant to keep African Americans in slavery and to kill Native American peoples. During his January 17 appearance at the […]

 

Left Says Gov’t Won’t Abuse Powers? What of Civil Rights Movement, 60s Riots?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The left is scoffing at the belief held by Second Amendment supporters that their right to bear arms is in part meant to act as a check on tyrannical government. Government turning tyrannical is ridiculous, many leftists say. But isn’t this the most absurd hypocrisy because didn’t they build their entire lefty edifice on the […]

 

New York Fires Auditor Who Found Abuse of Federal Hurricane Sandy Funds

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

No good deed goes unpunished in New York as the state has abruptly cut off a contract with the independent auditor who found that the city and state had been wasting federal money meant to be spent on Hurricane Sandy recovery efforts. Thomas Sadowski, the fired consultant, told the Times Union that he was escorted […]

 

Cost of Obama’s 2012 Regulations: $236 Billion

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Despite Obama’s promise to cut unnecessary regulations, his administration issued $236.7 billion in new regulations in 2012. According to a report by the American Action Forum, headed by former Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Holtz-Eakin, the direct costs of the regulations force America’s businesses to waste 87 million man-hours to fill out regulatory paperwork. Adding […]

 

Whoops! New NY Gun Law Forgot To Exempt Cops On High-Capacity Mags

Posted on by Matt Vespa

There’s a reason why moving slow on legislation is good. : If it’s too big, or you do it too fast, you often complicate the problem. : New York has just passed the most stringent anti-gun laws on the books. : Yes, government did something! However, as progressives crack open the champagne, they forgot to exempt law enforcement […]

 

Americans Dissatisfied With Current Gun Laws But Still Supportive of Second Amendment

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In the aftermath of the murders at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newton, Connecticut, Gallup has found that the number of Americans open to greater restrictions on guns has taken an upswing going from 25 percent in support of tighter restrictions to 38 percent. Despite this, Americans are not keen on ending their Second Amendment rights. […]

 

In People’s Republik Of California, Teacher Who Appeared In Adult Videos Denied Her Job Back

Posted on by William Teach

Liberals are on the forefront of the “if it feels good, do it” attitude. Liberals have created an attitude where pornography is just an expression of sexuality, and should not be condemned, and that “there’s nothing wrong with it”. Yet, there are consequences for expressing that sexuality (The Blaze) A middle-school science teacher fired after […]

 

VP Gaffemaster: ‘No Silver Bullet’ to Stop Gun Violence

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

This month’s busy work for Vice President “Sheriff” Joe Biden is his great gun control task force assigned him by his boss, Barack. Now that it is close to wrapping up, Biden has told us a bit about his progress and in his gaffetastic way he’s told us that there is “no silver bullet” to […]

 

Typical: Hardcore Leftists Support Iran And Their Nuclear Ambitions

Posted on by William Teach

Of course, these far left progressive dupes, otherwise known as “useful idiots“, believe that Iran is simply trying to develop nuclear for peaceful energy production (yet these same types of useful idiots block any and all attempts to expand nuclear energy elsewhere). So, of course their missive in the Iran controlled Fars News Agency In […]

 

Obama Signs Law Giving Himself Armed Guards for Life

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

President Obama has signed a law that will give himself and all presidents Secret Service protection for life, reversing a law passed during the Clinton administration that gave former presidents a security detail for only 10 years after leaving office. The new law signed on Wednesday also gives former first ladies lifetime security details (unless […]

 

Larry King: That Piers Morgan is Awfully Self-Absorbed, Isn’t He?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

For years Larry King hosted the CNN show that is now helmed by British import Piers Morgan. Now King has opened up about his replacement and his pronouncement is not very flattering. King thinks Morgan makes the show too much about Morgan. For those who remember, Larry King was more about being a conduit for […]

 

“Seven Tenets of Liberalism”

Posted on by Craig Newmark

Left as an exercise for the reader: Conservatives in politics and in the media and on the web are generally nuanced and back their positions with serious arguments.:  Liberals in politics and in the media seem to settle for emotional appeals and namecalling.:  The liberals I know aren’t like that, but the public voices of […]

 

Cincy TV News Calls Out PIers Morgan’s False Anti-Gun Stats

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

During his raucous interview with rabble rouser Alex Jones, CNN’s Piers Morgan unleashed several false gun statistics to show how wonderful his British homeland is for its gun banning ways. But Cincinnati’s Fox affiliate WXIX didn’t let Morgan get away with it thoroughly debunking the CNNer’s false stats. With his January 8 “Reality Check” segment, […]

 

Hooray! Goverment Wastes $100k On Video Game About Hotcoldwetdry And Gender

Posted on by William Teach

When conservatives talk about responsible spending and limited government, this is an example of what we’re talking about. It’s also a good example of Government being in the business of propaganda (Daily Caller) A taxpayer-funded computer game produced by Spelman College features a black female protagonist battling the evil forces of climate change and gender […]

 

Stephens: ‘ [Hagel] Confirmation Process Should Be Illuminating’

Posted on by Matt Vespa

Chuck Hagel, former Senator of Nebraska, has been tapped to head the Department of Defense. : He’s a Republican, who vociferously criticized the Bush administration during the Iraq War — and equated ‘The Surge’ as the biggest foreign policy blunder since Vietnam. : I also think Iraq was more of a distraction, than brilliant strategic thinking — […]

 

Gore’s TV Staffers Not Happy About Being Sold to Al Jazeera

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Al Gore may have gotten a multi-million dollar payday from his new friends in Jihadland, but his Current TV employees don’t seem so all fired up about being sold to Al Jazeera. Current TV employees were called to an early staff meeting in San Francisco and via teleconference to the New York and Los Angeles […]

 

NY Dem. Calls Supporter of Opponent ‘N’ Word

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A Democrat candidate for a seat on New York’s Uptown City Council is turning to race baiting as his primary campaign strategy and recently went all in using the “N” word repeatedly to attack a supporter of his opponent. Thomas Lopez-Pierre is running for the Uptown City Council seat being vacated by the term-limited Robert […]

 

Dems Gain Voter ID Edge, Again

Posted on by Matt Vespa

The pendulum in the war between liberals and conservatives continues to swing with Democrats regaining the voter ID edge in the aftermath of the 2012 election. : According to Mike Flynn of Breitbart, he wrote today that this shouldn’t be a surprise. A: new survey by Gallup: shows Democrats regaining their edge in party identification over the GOP. […]

 

Fake News: L.A. Cops/Media Tout Rocket Launcher Seizure That Wasn’t

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Chief Charlie Beck and L.A. Mayor Villaraigosa, Dec. 27, 2012 The L.A. Police Department had big news on December 27. They had seized a pair of rocket launchers! This, of course, would have been shocking news if only they really had found “rocket launchers” in the City of Angels. As the L.A. Police Department’s “gun […]

 

Obama’s Lawless Presidency

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

President Obama’s supporters love to call him the “cool” President, a “no drama” guy, and generally like to claim he is unflappable in office. Whatever the truth of that claim, there is one thing for sure: he doesn’t sweat the small stuff. Like following the law. During his four years in office this president has […]

 

UK Guardian: Pedophiles Need Support

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The paper the Guardian has become Britain’s newest champion for a minority of sorts. In a January 3 article, the UK paper has taken up the cause of pedophiles who claim they are just “ordinary members of society” that only need a little understanding. The paper seriously presented pedophiles as but a misunderstood minority that […]

 

Nancy Pelosi Defends Doctored ‘Diversity’ Photo of House Democrats

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Nancy Pelosi, the Democrat leader of the House of Representatives and former Speaker of the House, is defending a faked photograph released on Thursday showing the “diversity” of the Female members of the Democrat delegation to Congress. The photo featuring “all” the Democrat women of the House standing on the steps outside the Capital building […]