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Liberal Fascism: The Font

Posted on May 10, 2010May 10, 2010 by Ed Driscoll

In a way, Helvetica is the font of liberal fascism; itâ€™s certainly the font of corporatism. To borrow from one of the concluding memes of Jonah Goldbergâ€™s Liberal Fascism, itâ€™s the softer authoritarian nanny state of Brave New World, not the oppressiveness militarism of 1984.

ObamaCare Byproduct: Usage Of 1099’s Will Skyrocket

Posted on May 6, 2010 by William Teach

Nancy Pelosi said we would have to pass the bill to find out what was in it, and, unshockingly, easter eggs are still showing up. Not the cool kind which gives you a secret level or a historical slugger, but the kind that takes away all your weapons or wipes out all your game stats […]

VIDEO: Orwell Has Nothing On The Pennsylvania Department Of Revenue

Posted on May 3, 2010 by Melissa Clouthier

Watch this and be creeped out. Good grief! Can you imagine the 16K extra IRS workers who also will have access to your health records?

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

Posted on April 28, 2010 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, […]

Obama Tax Pledge Officially Expired 4/27/10

Posted on April 28, 2010April 28, 2010 by William Teach

Remember this? “I can make a firm pledge,” he said in Dover, N.H., on Sept. 12. “Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.” He repeatedly vowed […]

Does Obama Want to Destroy America? Yes, But…

Posted on April 26, 2010 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 […]

AFSCME Official’s Threats

Posted on April 23, 2010April 23, 2010 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 […]

How Unions Are Destroying California

Posted on April 21, 2010May 2, 2010 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 […]

Grotesquely Overpaid Illinois Teachers Demand Tax Hikes

Posted on April 20, 2010April 20, 2010 by Dave Blount

The staggeringly greedy criminal racket known as public education has gotten so far out of control in the state that gave us Comrade Obama that taxpayers are on the hook for $1 BILLION in pension liability for just the top 100 educrats. But at least the teachers unions have figured out how to pay for […]

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

Posted on April 19, 2010April 19, 2010 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 April 19, 2010 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 […]

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

Posted on April 17, 2010April 17, 2010 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 […]

Thank You, Mr. President

Posted on April 17, 2010 by Brian Garst

President Obama is apparently feeling unappreciated.: “You would think they’d be saying thank you,” he said about the Tea Party protests at a recent Democratic fundraiser. In his mind, he’s worked hard his first year adjusting taxes for our benefit. And for what? Nary a Tea Party thank you has been offered.: Instead he’s faced […]

Unions Killing U.S. Post Office

Posted on April 16, 2010April 16, 2010 by Warner Todd Huston

Union contracts are killing the U.S. Post Office, making it uncompetitive and driving costs through the roof according to the Government Accountability Office. The U.S. Post Office lost $12 billion between 2007 and 2009 and has reached its borrowing limit of $15 billion already. On top of that the union pension fund is underfunded. Even […]

Race Baiting at Philly Tea-Party: Anti-Tea Party Democrats No Better than Fred Phelps?

Posted on April 15, 2010April 15, 2010 by Warner Todd Huston

On March 6, former George H. W. Bush speechwriter Michael Johns was speaking before a tea party gathering in Philadelphia when someone from the audience took exception to the fact that during his address he did not say “President Obama” but merely called him Mr. Obama. The heckler screamed a racial slur at Mr. Johns […]

ObamaCare to Hike Taxes on Middle Class by $3.9 Billion

Posted on April 14, 2010 by Dave Blount

Remember the incessant pledges from Comrade Obama that the Middle Class would see absolutely no tax increases if he took power? Remember how 95% of Americans were going to get a tax cut? Keep remembering those lies next time you can get at a voting both. Also remember this — ObamaCare includes a $3.9 BILLION […]

Washington Post Ombudsman Misses Point

Posted on April 12, 2010 by Warner Todd Huston

Today, in his guise as the Washington Post’s ombudsman, Andrew Alexander posted a discussion about the recent misreporting by the Old Media about the various “incidents” that supposedly occurred between the admittedly raucous tea party protesters and members of Congress in Washington, D.C., during the healthcare fight. But while Alexander finally makes some admissions on […]

Teachers Union Prays for the Death of NJ Gov. Christie

Posted on April 10, 2010 by Warner Todd Huston

Sadly, wishing for the death of a political opponent is so typical of the left. Pol Pot, Stalin, the Democrat sponsored KKK, the chief tool used by such folks has been terror and violence. While obviously not as murderous as the aforementioned, unions have also been a violent force in history. And in New Jersey, […]

Outrageous: FBI Uses Non-Violent Conservative Group as Bait to Catch Stalker

Posted on April 8, 2010 by Warner Todd Huston

Senator Patty Murray (D, Wa) doesn’t want to hear from her constituents if they are upset at her vote for Obama’s take over of our nation’s healthcare. One voter in particular has earned Murray’s ire. He has almost daily called Murray’s offices and in no uncertain terms informed the Senator that he hates her healthcare […]

The Welfare state, the American Revolution, and the end of the Ancien Regime

Posted on March 28, 2010 by Bookworm

A few days ago, Danny Lemieux, in a comment to this blog, asked a very important question: If more than 50% of wage earners pay no income tax and can vote themselves (i.e. parasitize) the labor and assets of the 20% of the population that pays the large majority of income tax, are we still […]

Government Is Not Our Friend

Posted on March 26, 2010 by Warner Todd Huston

Small-government conservatives have always been suspicious of government. Whether city, county, state or federal all government is looked on as a troublesome but necessary evil that must be tightly controlled and oft times opposed. This anti-government attitude, of course, is a complete mystery to socialist Democrats. They just don’t understand why conservatives mistrust government and […]

Fox News Chicago Digging Deeper on Illinois Pension Mess

Posted on March 26, 2010 by Warner Todd Huston

My friend Lennie Jarratt was featured on Fox News Chicago last night. The subject was the $85 billion dollar deficit that the Illinois finds its public employee pensions confronted with. Fox News reports that every Illinois citizen would have to fork over $6,600 to instantly solve the problem. And what has caused this problem? Unions. […]

May We Call President Obama A Socialist Now?

Posted on March 24, 2010March 24, 2010 by Melissa Clouthier

I don’t know why Democrats are so touchy about the description. Well, some, like Al Sharpton isn’t. Their motivation is “fairness” which means to take from one person and give to another who hasn’t earned it. From the New York Times: A big chunk of the money to pay for the bill comes from lifting […]

Obama Forcing Gov’t Costs to Rise With Union Sop

Posted on March 22, 2010 by Warner Todd Huston

Here we are in an economic downturn and Barack Obama is forcing government costs to rise. The Detroit News has noticed it, too, with a recent editorial on Obama’s absurd “responsible contractor” rule on vendors that contract with the federal government. This new rule would force all vendors that contract with the government to exist […]

Obama Set to Create More Joe Stacks

Posted on March 19, 2010 by Warner Todd Huston

The Republican members of the House Ways and Means committee today alerted the country to the appalling fact that Obama and his Democrat cohorts will be creating 17,000 new IRS agents with the President’s signing of Obamacare. With animosity against the Internal Revenue Service growing, it seems clear that Obama is creating more Joe Stack […]

California’s Brown Tells Unions to ‘Attack’ His GOP Opponent

Posted on March 19, 2010 by Warner Todd Huston

You couldn’t get any better proof that unions are little else but hatchet men for the Democrat Party than Jerry Brown’s recent visit to a labor group meeting in California this week. At a meeting of the Laborers’ International Union of North America in Sacramento, Brown gave marching orders to the unions in his race […]

First They Came For My Soda, Then They Came For My Pizza

Posted on March 10, 2010 by William Teach

We all remember that members of both State governments and the Federal government have suggested taxes on soda. Now, a group of busy bodies have recommended a tax on pizza U.S. researchers estimate that an 18 percent tax on pizza and soda can push down U.S. adults’ calorie intake enough to lower their average weight […]

The Coming Union Pension Plan Collapse

Posted on March 8, 2010March 7, 2010 by Warner Todd Huston

At the blog YidWithLid.blogspot.com Sammy Benoit has posted an interesting piece about the mess befalling so many failing union pension funds across the nation. The post includes a very useful chart that shows the trouble in which some of the largest union pension funds find themselves. The upshot is that these pensions are on the […]

Tea Party ‘Extremists’ Take Center Stage

Posted on March 3, 2010 by Warner Todd Huston

The liberal media’s newest meme is to claim that the tea party movement is made up exclusively of John Birchers, militia types, racists, and “birthers.” Politico, for instance, had an extensive story about how legitimate conservatives are coming to realize that they’ll have to conduct a Buckley styled purge of the extremists if they expect […]

AP: Unions Stymied Under Obama?

Posted on March 1, 2010 by Warner Todd Huston

The Associated Press posted a story lamenting that Big Labor has failed so far to get Obama to heel by their commands. Big Labor has said “jump” and Obama has but skipped. The article is correct, though, that Big Labor has failed in its two biggest goals: socialist healthcare and card check. At least, they’ve […]