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Uh Sorry! Treasury Dept. Axes 20,000 Pensions For Non-Union Auto Workers

The Daily Caller’s Matt Boyle broke a story on August 7th that detailed how Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner was instrumental in axing the pensions of 20,000: retired auto workers at Delphi. : Boyle wrote that the elimination of these workers pensions was due to their non-union status. :  The internal government emails contradict sworn testimony, in federal […]

Environmental Views: What Really Triggers a Resource Crisis

Churchville, VA–During a symposium held recently at the Holocaust Memorial Museum, Yale historian, Tim Snyder told the attendees: “Climate change acts as a “multiplier of other resource crises leading to “the ecological panic that I’m afraid will lead to mass killings in the decades come.” In his attempt to predict the future, he is relying […]

The Tea Party’s Work Has Just Begun

Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney attacked occupy Oval Office, aka Barrack Obama, for waiving portions of the welfare-to-work law.:  At a Chicago campaign stop, Romney pledged to reverse the July order that disembowels welfare reform.:  “We will end a culture of dependency and restore a culture of good, hard work,” Romney said. Naturally, White House […]

Jon Huntsman and Daughter Denounce GOP, Abby Joins Dems In Charlotte

**UPDATE: : Abby Huntsman emailed the Daily Caller earlier this afternoon and said the acceptance to attend the DNC convention was a joke. “That was just fun back and forth banter with Governor Granholm,” she told TheDC on Wednesday. “I’ve always been a Republican, but like many Americans right now, I feel without a home this […]

ABC’s Brian Ross: Sikh-Killer is Right-Wing

ABC News is at it again, misidentifying a mass murder as part of the “right” in America today. And, naturally, it was Brian Ross who did the dirty deed claiming the man responsible for killing several Sikh temple goers in Wisconsin is a member of the “right-wing.” Ross appeared on ABC on the morning of […]

Shocker! New Study Shows Liberal Profs Willingly Discriminate Against Conservative Peers

Christine Rousselle, writer for The College Conservative, posted today on CampuReform.org that liberal professors willingly discriminate against openly conservative peers in terms of employment and advancement. : The study conducted by Yoel Inbar and Joris Lammers, two Dutch psychologists, were: …Surprised by the candid responses provided by the professors.:  Inbar (a former Obama campaign volunteer) stated […]

Obama Deputy Campaign Manager Refuses to Condemn Obama ‘Death’ Ad

Obama’s Deputy Campaign Manager,Stephanie Cutter, refused to condemn the slanderous Priorities USA ad that insinuated that Mitt Romney killed a steel-worker’s wife. : Instead, she reiterated a pre-written legal statement about how the Obama campaign can’t coordinate with Priorities… blah blah blah. She also said that she didn’t know the facts surrounding when Joe Soptic’s wife […]

Maureen Dowd: You Know, That Obama Guy Is Pretty Ungrateful

Oh, come on, Mo, don’t you appreciate the 3-5 emails sent to you which seem so personal, asking for $3? Hey, you had a chance to hobnob with Obama at his 51st birthday party, all for $3! (Interestingly, I still can’t find any news on who actually won, including on Obama’s reelection website. One would […]

White House Told GSA Not To Have Occupiers Arrested

The Obama administration continues to pick and choose which laws to follow and which to ignore (The Blaze) Documents obtained by Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, indicate that General Services Administration (GSA) officials, with approval from the Obama administration, ordered local law enforcement officers to stand down and not arrest Occupy Portland protesters after […]

The 50 Best Quotes From Ann Coulter’s 2011 Columns

All of these are from Ann Coulter’s 2011 columns. Enjoy! Just as Americans ought to be able to learn the perils of a welfare state by looking at Greece, we ought to be able to learn the perils of illegal immigration by looking at California. Employers like hiring non-Americans because they can pay illegal aliens […]

The Obama Administration Encouraged Law Enforcement To Let The Occupy Movement Break The Law

What do you think the chances are the Obama Administration would have: done this for Tea Partiers? On Nov. 6, 2011, DHS/National Protection and Programs Directorate Chief of Staff Caitlin Durkovich and GSA Public Buildings Service Commissioner Robert Peck, who has since been fired, communicated via email and specifically discussed Occupy Portland protests that were occurring […]

Meet the Real Workers Obama Screwed Over

Chutzpah overload in full effect: President Obama’s sleazy super-PAC, run by his former White House spokesman Bill Burton, just released an ad accusing GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney of causing the cancer death of a steelworker’s wife. It’s not just a slanderous and false attack. It’s a foolish attempt to camouflage the administration’s massive jobs […]

Liberals, Progressives and Socialists

In Europe, especially in Germany, hoisting a swastika-emblazoned Nazi flag is a crime. For decades after World War II, people have hunted down and sought punishment for Nazi murderers, who were responsible for the deaths of more than 20 million people. Here’s my question: Why are the horrors of Nazism so well-known and widely condemned […]

Harlem Then and Now

Books about the history of Harlem have long fascinated me — my favorite being “When Harlem Was in Vogue” by David Levering Lewis. However, a more recent book, titled simply “Harlem” by Jonathan Gill, presents a more comprehensive history — going all the way back to the time when the Dutch were the first settlers […]

Wars To End War

On his recent trip abroad, Mitt Romney observed an American taboo by not criticizing President Obama’s military policy. But before his trip, he made his position clear. Obama has “exposed the military to cuts that no one can justify,” Romney said. He meant that unless Congress intervenes, Pentagon spending will be cut by more than […]

How nations can use the Olympic athlete’s mentality to win

Watching the Olympic Games, I find one phenomenon particularly striking. After an event, athletes who literally seconds before had been attempting to trounce one another in competition suddenly start hugging each other. An outsider might wonder about this coexistence of competition and affection. As a former elite-level swimmer, I can tell you: While it’s every […]

On misunderstanding Chick-fil-A and Obamacare

Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day was about gay marriage as much as the battle against Obamacare was about healthcare. That is to say, it wasn’t. This will certainly stump some people, but I’m here to help. Obamacare was : passed: by: congress through bribery, reducing the quality of American healthcare and raising costs. It expands the size of our government […]

One singular sensation

Marvin Hamlisch, 68, the composer-conductor who died Monday in Los Angeles after a brief illness was a certified genius. From the age of seven, when he became the youngest student ever admitted to New York’s Juilliard School of Music, Marvin grew up to win both the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for his 1975 musical […]

White House: Talk About Anything But Our Record

Ever since the 2009 GM bailout by “progressive” big government ended the pensions of 20,000 retirees at Delphi auto parts manufacturing, the White House and the Department of Treasury have laid the blame on the steps of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. Internal government emails have been obtained that show the U.S. Treasury Department, run […]

No more boring white guys for the GOP

“A friend of mine, a Hispanic entrepreneur, asked me a question some time ago. He said, ‘When is the last time you saw a Hispanic panhandler?’ I think it’s a great question. I’ll tell you, in my life I never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community it would be viewed as […]

Even The Army Can Use Digital Media

The Israel Defense Forces has been releasing some great videos on YouTube — which do a wonderful job of humanizing the soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).: : Today a video was released of the IDF’s only co-ed combat unit — and a well spoken young woman detailing the final exercise after months of hard training.: : This […]

The Not So Super Hero

The past week provided clear lessons not just in how central bankers have a limited ability to positively influence the economy but also how they are limited in their capacity to deliver the shortsighted policy actions that investors currently crave. The developments should provide new reasons for investors and economy watchers to abandon their faith […]

New Obama App Rats Out Neighbors’ Political Affiliation

The Internet is abuzz with news of a new Obama campaign smart phone app that identifies all the Democrats in your neighborhood. Released last week, the app works through Google maps. Upon entering an address, the app reveals the registered Democrats nearby, names them, and notes their sex and age. Consequently, it will also inform […]

NBC and Its Monkey Commercials and Edited Videos

NBC was forced to apologize as cries of racism were leveled against the network after airing an ad featuring a monkey seconds after African American Olympian Gabby Douglas won the gold for gymnastics. This is amusing seeing as how the same network selectively edited a recording in order to make Floridian George Zimmerman appear to […]

LA Times Touts Reid’s Lies as Winning Issue

Politifact has set Harry Reid’s pants on fire with the lie that Romney hasn’t paid taxes in ten years.:  Even the Washington Post called out Harry Reid’s paranoid rants about Romney, labeling his statements as baseless drivel. However, the L.A. Times seems to think this whole sordid episode is scoring points for Obama. In an […]