Category: Taxes

Washington State’s SEIU Bought Republican

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

On February 24, Moe Lane posted a short piece alerting one and all to the fact that one of the Republican candidates for Washington State’s 3rd Congressional District is a favorite of the hard-core lefties in the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) — one of Obama’s favorite Big Labors cohorts. Mr. Lane, though, was sure […]

 

Fiscal Responsibility Lasted Two Weeks In Senate

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Two weeks ago the U.S. Senate passed new rules that would require new spending to be offset somewhere else in the budget, the so-called paygo rule. They did this because Democrats and Obama got tired of being called big spending socialists and wanted the veneer of fiscal responsibility with which to cloak themselves. It lasted […]

 

The Mount Vernon Statement, A Poor Man’s Manifesto… VERY Poor

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A group made up of some of the biggest names in contemporary conservatism got together a few days ago and crafted what they are calling the “Mount Vernon Statement,” a manifesto of sorts meant to give direction to today’s conservative movement. Put succinctly, it fails to fill the bill. Taken as a whole this statement […]

 

IRS Plane Attacker Part of ‘Right Wing,’ Christmas Bomber Just a ‘Lone Wolf’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

No clearer difference can be seen in how the Old Media and its left-wing compatriots treat mass killers, terrorists and nutjobs than the way Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab and Joe Stack have been portrayed by the Old Media and the left. Abdulmutallab, the jihadi Christmas Bomber, was treated as an aberration unconnected with any larger group […]

 

$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 […]

 

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 […]

 

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 […]

 

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, […]

 

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 […]

 

Restrained No More’s — Jackie in Women and Politics…What a Mix

Posted on by Sharise Parviz

Sarah Palin continues to expose how woman in politics are held to a much higher standard unless they have a “D” in front of their name. In this 3rd episode of Jackie at the RNC the conversations continue and the games are afoot! For other episodes of the show or more info check out- http://www.restrainednomore.com/

 

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 […]

 

IRS Acquiring Short-Barrel Shotguns

Posted on by Dave Blount

Already our economy is staggering under the weight of taxation. But if we are to make even a dent in the bills Comrade Obama is running up with his ongoing looting spree, tax rates will have to shoot through the stratosphere. Eventually confiscatory taxation will become so outrageous that people will begin to remember that […]

 

Which Ill. Candidates Have Signed Taxpayer Protection Pledge?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

With the Illinois primary coming up in only a few short days (Feb. 2, Groundhog’s Day) Americans for Tax Reform (atr.org) has a post up today reminding us all just which Illinois candidates have signed ATR’s no tax pledge. It’s called the Taxpayer Protection Pledge and you can see the pledge HERE. Happily, almost every […]

 

Chgo Trib: Who Will Smack Down the Unions?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Dennis Byrne, a columnist with the Chicago Tribune, has a great piece asking the seminal question: what politician will take on the public employees unions? This is, of course, the question we’ve been asking here for years! Who will stop these union thugs that have bought for themselves a bevy of compliant politicians at the […]

 

What Lesson Did Brown Teach Obama/Democrats? Apparently Pass Bad Stuff Faster

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Once Scott Brown took away the Democrat super majority in the Senate by becoming the Republican’s 41st vote based in large part on the fact that Massachusetts voters were unhappy with Obamacare, one would think that President Obama and the Democrat Party would learn a vital lesson. A look at a dozen or so stories […]

 

Union Membership Down Another 10%

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

With some ups and downs, unions have been steadily losing members for quite a while and 2009 is no exception. According to the Labor Dept., private-sector unions lost 834,000 members last year. On Friday, the Labor Department reported private-sector unions lost 834,000 members, bringing membership down to 7.2% of the private-sector work force, from 7.6% […]

 

Restrained No More’s – Rhonda on her soap box.

Posted on by Sharise Parviz

As we think about the plight of the people in Haiti – the question of what does it mean to be Compassionate and Conservative comes to mind. RestrainedNoMore’s – Rhonda gets on her soap box about the term ‘Compassionate Conservative’ – because who really cares anyway? For other episodes of the show or more info […]

 

Public Employees Unions Are Sinking California

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Steven Greenhut has a great piece in the Wall Street Journal about how the evils of public employees unions are destroying California. Greenhut begins by noting that with one of the highest unemployment rates in the country California is losing its “productive citizens” to other states but is still saddled with an economy killing surfeit […]

 

CATO on Brown: This is like Ted Kennedy being elected in Utah

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

-By Warner Todd Huston There’s a lot of analysis out there on why Scott Brown defeated nearly 50 years of Democratic rule of the Massachusetts Senate seat, but the CATO Institute has some cogent, logical points that we should all carefully consider. But before I give you the CATO video, remember this…. it’s time to […]

 

NBC’s Viera Scolding Scott Brown on Today Show

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Meridith Viera seemed a bit annoyed that she was interviewing the newly elected Republican Scott Brown instead of Democrat Martha Coakley now that Massachusetts voters made their choice in the Tuesday special election for the open Senate seat there. Viera did her level best to phrase the results of the election in an agenda driven […]

 

Louisiana Legislature Floating Bill Making Obamacare Illegal in State

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Louisiana State Senator A.G. Crowe (R, Slidell) is introducing a bill for the 2010 legislative session in Baton Rouge that would make Obamacare illegal if it violates state laws, effectively making Obamacare null and void in the Pelican State. Senator Crowe states that his bill “provides that no law or rule shall compel, directly or […]

 

Krugman Says Obama Doesn’t Blame Bush Enough?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

One of the worst writers in political punditry, a man with a little deserved reputation as a thinker and analyst, is New York Times columnist Paul Krugman. Sometimes the things he says are so absurd that it is hard to believe that even he believes what he is writing. Aside from his discreditable insistence that […]

 

Old GOP Doesn’t ‘Get’ Tea Parties

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Neil Cavuto of Fox News had a visit with former Vice President Dan Qualyle on Jan 13. Ostensibly the interview was about the earthquake in Haiti and the efforts that Quayle was saying needed to be made for the victims there, but Cavuto also asked the former veep about his feelings about the Tea Party […]

 

Corrupt Politics in Cook County Illinois, Some History

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Everyone is always talking about how corrupt Illinois politics is. Well, it’s been that way since day one. Since I live here (I’ll take your condolences) I thought I’d give a brief history of Cook County, the home of the City of Chicago. There is a saying about Chicago’s weather: if you don’t like the […]