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-By Warner Todd Huston As the Land of Lincoln continues to circle the drain, a new report shows that Illinois has nudged over 10% unemployment. According to the Associated Press Illinois clocks in at 10.1% unemployment as of October putting the state above the national average of 9%. We are the highest. Yaaaa, us. Meanwhile, […]
With the U.S. debt now officially over $15 trillion, to pay it off each working American would now owe more to the federal debt than they make in a year according to a new report by the U.S. Treasury Department. The debt has now reached $15,033,607,255,920.32 and Terence Jeffery did a few calculations to see […]
–Posted with Permission — By Matthew Cunningham Think you came up a bit short trick-or-treating this year? It’s nothing compared to California, whose revenues in October came in $800 million below projections. Overall, California is about $1.5 billion in the red for the current fiscal year, which may trigger some nasty cuts to schools and […]
Politico offers a headline calculated and designed to make you hate Newt Gingrich more than you already do: Newt: Fire the janitors, hire kids to clean schools. And when you click it open and actually read it from top to bottom, you find the former House Speaker is making all kinds of sense, no wonder […]
Hey, remember when the media and liberals excoriated the Bush administration for pressing the EPA to soften its climate change (hoax) reports? The resulting freakout? What happens when the guy who proclaimed that he would change the way business was done in Washington does something similar? Well, pretty much only Fox News bothers to cover […]
Sheesh, what is it about Lefties that brings out the inner beast as soon as they are camping in a park? (KMOV) A 20-year-old woman participating in the OccupySTL protest reported to police that a man sexually assaulted her while she was in her tent on November 8, three days before tents were removed by […]
“What’s interesting is there are a handful of these Wall Street so-called one-percenters who: started their lives in either impoverished or very humble conditions: before they made their journey to the top of the financial world.”
More and more people are getting CAT scans. In my experience, doctors seem less concerned about radiation than they should be.: Suggestions here include quercetin, EGCG, and curcumin.
By Wednesday, Nov. 23, the Deficit Reduction Panel has to report on ways to cut the federal deficit by at least $1.2 trillion over 10 years. Democrats refuse to support spending cuts unless Republicans agree to tax increases. And there is an increasing chance that the Republican members of the commission — or at least […]
Now that Newt Gingrich’s candidacy is rising to the top, expect the brickbats to be aimed at his head. The first to fly is the charge that he was paid off by Freddie Mac to do its bidding while the company, in concert with Fannie Mae, flooded the world with funny money mortgages and brought […]
Per The Hill online: Friday, November 18, 2011 “In a closed-door briefing Tuesday, Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas), the Republican co-chairman of the panel, said divisions among Democrats are standing in the way of an agreement. He told his colleagues the GOP had put multiple offers on the table that Democrats had yet to accept. Boehner […]
General Motors was too big to fail. This is why President Obama had to ride in on his white steed with billions of taxpayers dollars in hand to bailout GM rechristening it Government Motors. Besides, we were told it would be a great deal, a money maker, right? Well, not so much. The Administration has […]
William “Bill” Randall is running for Congress out of the North Carolina 13th. Randall, an African American, experienced what must be called a hate crime in the left’s vernacular. His campaign sign had racist graffiti spray painted on it including the letters “KKK.” Now, usually this is the sort of story that the Old Media […]
Mark Ruffalo — you know, the millionaire actor that claims to be part of the 99% — may not be a scientist. But he plays one on mass emailings from left-wing advocacy groups. And with that activism Ruffalo is urging President Obama to turn the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from a science-based service to […]
Question: If the Supreme Court overturns the constitutionality of the individual health insurance mandate next spring, how will that effect the 2012 elections? — President Friedman Answer: It would be wonderful news for Obama because not only is the bill very unpopular, it’s 2014 full implementation date is going to be a major factor in […]
Question: Should conservatives consider it acceptable to get rid of subsidies and tax breaks for special interests (and lets be honest, we are mostly talking about wealthy special interests), even though it is effectively a tax increase on those groups? — President Friedman Answer: Here’s the thing: We’ve spent way too much for way too […]
Question: America is a simmering cauldron of social unrest; some justified, some not. Should things boil over and become violent do you think it more likely the USA would break up like the USSR or would remain intact? Should Mr. Obama be re-elected he may jump the shark and this may cause freedom loving peoples […]
“Sexual harassment” is an amorphous word that can be manipulated to infer guilt onto anyone. At some point society has to say enough is enough, this is overkill. Most men are friendly in the workplace and when their friendliness rises to the level of flirting it is all too frequently welcomed and encouraged. The rare […]
Well, the tortoise analogy I’ve been using regarding Newt Gingrich seems to be coming true. One thing that hadn’t changed over these many weeks was Romney being solidly ahead in New Hampshire. He has consistently had double-digit leads over the next closest contender. No more. Gingrich is now just two points behind Romney there. Now […]
The only rule of open thread is that there are no rules. Go for it
In the past, it used to simply be called weather. Now, every tornado is due to Donald Douglas using electricity to tell us Britney Spears wore a hot green bikini. Every weather event, or lack thereof (3rd straight year with no hurricane strikes on the US mainland. Irene was not a hurricane when it came […]
Thursday’s two month anniversary of liberals squatting in squalor, avoiding showers, banging on drums, doing drugs, raping other Occupiers, exposing themselves to children, and ruining the local businesses profits, among others, was a perfect show of liberalism. For some reason, they think the best way to achieve their objectives is to use vinegar instead of […]
You can’t spell “accountability” without “A,” “C” and “T.” But in Washington, government officials routinely get away with “taking personal responsibility” by mouthing empty words devoid of action. Heads nod in collective agreement that mistakes were made. But heads never roll. The Obama administration has raised this accountability charade to an art form. At a […]
Congratulations, average American! It’s your turn to be blamed for President Obama’s — and America’s — problems. This is the biggest honor you’ve won since Time magazine named “you” the Person of the Year. Being the root cause of our dire national predicament puts you in some very august company indeed. You are joining the […]
It is open season for the liberal media on any GOP presidential candidate who displays the audacity to surge in the polls, the latest targets being Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich. A reasonable case can be made for some of these criticisms, and conservatives often concede the weaknesses, but there is no justification for this […]
Since the congressional super committee appears unable, or unwilling, to take a lesson from Indiana or Virginia — where Republican governors have made spending cuts and delivered budget surpluses without damaging the social safety net — members might wish to consider Puerto Rico and what its governor, Luis Fortuno is doing. Fortuno is Puerto Rico’s […]
Today is Q&A Friday #110 at Right Wing News. So, if there’s a subject you’ve been wanting me to tackle or an issue you want to hear my opinion on, just ask your question in the comments section. Your question can be on just about anything: politics, ideology, history, blogging, RWN, movies, music, literature, or […]
Apparently Politico does not like the new concealed-carry reciprocity law recently passed in Congress. They must not like it. After all, aside from covering it in a negative light, the newser so badly misstated the law that it could easily turn its readers against the whole idea. But perhaps that’s the idea? The law, the […]
On Wednesday I attended a “government day” event at Patten Industries, a 78-year-old Illinois Caterpillar dealer situated in Elmhurst, a northwest suburb of Chicago. The event, led by current General Manager Garrett Patten, featured a discussion on the severely unfavorable business climate in Illinois and why the state is lagging so horribly behind the leading […]
The media feeding frenzy over allegations of sexual harassment by Herman Cain is going to cause a shift in how we view sexual harassment. According to a University of Michigan: research study: last year, 90 percent of women report being sexually harassed in the workplace. This number sounds absurd. If acted upon, it would turn workplaces into […]