Media

Anti-Americanism - Barack Obama - Budget - Business - Democrats/Leftists - Economy/Finances - Ethics - Government - Liberals - Media Bias - President - Regulation - Taxes - Warner Todd Huston

Warren Buffet Tax Shirker and Hypocrite

August 30, 2011 by 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

Why is it that every time we meet yet another socialist-loving, left-winger he ends up being an utter hypocrite? This time it’s tax-whiner — and now known tax shirker — Warren Buffet, the investment giant that has been telling anyone that will listen that “the rich” don’t pay enough in taxes.

Well, apparently, he’s right, the rich don’t pay enough in taxes. Well, not in general, just in his specific case, anyway. The New York Post has discovered that his famous company, Berkshire Hathaway, has unpaid back taxes going back to 2002 and have even more recent taxes left unpaid.

This cretin has been going around in his Obama-infused stupor insisting that “the rich” need to be destroyed because they don’t pay enough taxes, and he, himself hasn’t even paid what he owes?

That takes a lot of gall, doesn’t it? Whining for more of Obama’s onerous tax schemes when he hasn’t even paid what he owes in the first place!
Continue reading “

Warren Buffet Tax Shirker and Hypocrite”

Budget - Business - Democrats/Leftists - Economy/Finances - Government - Jobs - Liberals - NLRB - President - Regulation - RightPundits.com - Taxes - Unions - Warner Todd Huston

A Way to Temporarily Stop Obama’s Union-Helping Regulations

August 29, 2011 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

The folks at LaborUnionReport.com have an interesting proposal on a way to stop the destructive power of Obama’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). This is the regulatory agency best known for attacking Boeing for trying to open a manufacturing line in North Carolina, the agency trying to stop it so that Big Labor can get a win in Washington State.

The idea is to convince one of the remaining board members of the NLRB to resign so that the board won’t have enough members to conduct business. This would make the NLRB’s destructive powers lie fallow at least until next year.

Any abeyance of Obama’s ability to pay off his patrons in Big Labor and his desire to destroy the U.S. business sector is a good thing…

Read the rest at RightPundits.com.

Barack Obama - Crime - Democrats/Leftists - Government - Immigration/Immigrants - Journalism - Liberals - Media - Media Bias - President - Regulation - Warner Todd Huston

Obama’s Illegal Alien Uncle Busted for Drunk Driving, Hits Police Car, Media Silent

August 29, 2011 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

Kerry Picket had an interesting report in the Washington Times on the 28th. Apparently President Obama’s uncle Omar, an illegal alien living in Massachusetts, was arrested for drunk driving after smashing into a police car in Framingham.

Picket also reports that the 67-year-old uncle Omar tried to, or at least wanted to, call the White House to get Barack’s help with the charges after he was arrested.

Picket writes, “I spoke to Framingham Public Information Officer Lieutenant Delaney who told me that when Onyango Obama was asked at booking if he wanted to make a telephone call to arrange for bail, the Kenyan immigrant replied: ‘I think I will call the White House.'”

The president’s uncle, O. Onyango Obama, was mentioned in his book “Dreams From My Father” where Barack says that uncle Omar moved to the USA “25 years ago and never came back.” He’s been here for decades, living illegally the whole time.

It seems that uncle Omar’s time has run out, though. He’s now being held on an ICE warrant. Let’s see if he gets deported.
Continue reading “

Obama’s Illegal Alien Uncle Busted for Drunk Driving, Hits Police Car, Media Silent”

ABC - Anti-Americanism - Barack Obama - CBS - Democrats/Leftists - Ethics - Government - Journalism - Liberals - Media - Media Bias - MSNBC - NBC - News - President - Warner Todd Huston

CBS’ Norah O’Donnell: Dan Rather Was One of ‘The Very Best Journalists in American History’

August 29, 2011 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

The latest issue of Capitol File magazine has a glowing feature on CBS News Chief White House Correspondent Norah O’Donnell. In it she claims that past journalists that have filled the role of chief White House correspondent for a major network have been “legendary” and “the very best” in the field. Of this “very best” she laughably elevates discredited CBS News anchor Dan Rather into that pantheon.

Capitol File is a magazine that focuses on D.C. elites, the movers and shakers, the bight lights in the City On The Hill. In it’s pages you will see all the beautiful people of Washington D.C. It is, we are told, “a place for power and politics, CAPITOL FILE chronicles and celebrates the most influential players, cultural connoisseurs, fashion sophisticates, and philanthropic leaders in the Washington, DC metropolitan region.”

Apparently Norah O’Donnell is an “influential player” now that she’s been raised up to the role of chief WH correspondent of a major network… even as those same networks have lost so much of their once all encompassing national influence.
Continue reading “

CBS’ Norah O’Donnell: Dan Rather Was One of ‘The Very Best Journalists in American History’”

Anti-Americanism - Barack Obama - Congress - Crime - Democrats/Leftists - GOP - Government - Liberals - Mexico - New Mexico - President - Republicans - RightPundits.com - Warner Todd Huston

New Mexico Officials Arrested, Likely Part of Obama’s Gun Running to Mexican Narco-Terrorists

August 28, 2011 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

Recently the town Mayor, the Police Chief and a Town Trustee of Columbus, New Mexico pleaded guilty to running guns to the Juarez drug cartel using city vehicles and police cars to do so. But now it looks like some of those guns illegally transferred to Mexico by these lawless city officials were connected to Obama’s gun running operation, Operation Fast and Furious.

In March, federal agents arrested former Columbus Mayor Eddie Espinoza, 51, for supplying guns to drug dealers in Mexico. In July he pleaded guilty to three counts of making false statements and three counts of smuggling firearms across the border…

Read the rest at RightPundits.com.

Alan Caruba - Entertainment - Journalism - Media - Media Bias - TV

A Weather Newsgasm

August 28, 2011 by

-By Alan Caruba

What major weather events and especially earthquakes tell us is that we live on planet Earth on its terms, not ours. Put another way, we don’t “control” the weather or climate and, despite decades of global warming lies, compared to the sun and oceans, we don’t even influence it.

The best definition of the weather is “chaos.” It will do whatever it wants to do.

By Friday on Fox News and other television news outlets, it was non-stop coverage of Hurricane Irene even though it was barely beginning to touch the North Carolina coast. If there is one thing the news media loves it is a really big potential disaster.

By Saturday afternoon as Irene passed over North Carolina, Anthony Watts, a veteran meteorologist and commentator on WattsUpWithThat.com, was reporting, “What we have here at this point appears to be a tropical storm. By the time it reaches New York, it may very well just be a tropical depression on par with a Nor’easter in intensity.” But not a hurricane.
Continue reading “

A Weather Newsgasm”

Barack Obama - Budget - Business - Capitalism - Democrats/Leftists - Economy/Finances - GOP - Government - Jobs - Journalism - Liberals - Media - Media Bias - President - RightPundits.com - Taxes - Warner Todd Huston

Media’s Obama Sell-Out is ‘Unexpectedly’ Pervasive

August 27, 2011 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

On Friday, Jim Geraghty voiced the “joke” that is the Old Media news coverage of the era of Obama, the joke that we conservatives have been guffawing over for about a year now. That is the employment of the word “unexpectedly” in news coverage of disaster after Obama disaster. Every new instance of Obama’s economic failure just amazes and perplexes these left-leaning media types.

Every time the purveyors of the “news” are forced to admit that we have yet another Obama downgrade, another spate of economic backsliding, or yet one more report of always rising unemployment numbers, the “news” media finds these facts “unexpectedly” shocking. Geraghty notes several instances of the shock that the media keeps finding in itself that it expresses day in and day out.

But, as Geraghty notes, there are hundreds of examples of the media finding it “unexpected” that the economy and jobs situation keep getting worse. It is no late phenomenon. Geraghty also notes that the same faux shock is evinced by all the so-called economic experts — leftist, Keynesians all — that the media turns to for analysis…

Read the rest at RightPundits.com.

Budget - Congress - Elections - GOP - Government - Jobs - Republicans - Rick Perry - RightPundits.com - Taxes - Warner Todd Huston

Kinky Friedman Goes Heavy for Perry for President

August 25, 2011 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

Kinky Friedman, the self-professed Governor of the Heart of Texas, is the wild man of Texas politics. In fact, he ran against current Governor Rick Perry for the Guv’s chair so when it comes to Perry’s bid for president, one might expect that the Kinkster has something to say about that. Well, he doesn’t disappoint.

Friedman has run for office several times — never won — and in debates was the straight talking “Jewish cowboy” that everyone loved to hear go off on a rant. He’s a singer and writer and entrepreneur (He even has his own line of cigars) for a living, but he really made an interesting name for himself in Texas politics…

Read the rest at RightPundits.com.

Barack Obama - Budget - Democrats/Leftists - Economy/Finances - Ethics - Government - History - Liberals - Michelle Obama - President - RightPundits.com - Taxes - Warner Todd Huston

Michelle O Has Spent more than $10 Million of Our Tax $$ On Vacations

August 24, 2011 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

A few days ago I wrote a post on my own site saying that the Obamas travel like South American dictators. Well, here is more evidence of this. Recent reports find that Michelle Obama alone has spent over $10 million of “Obama’s stash” — or rather $10 million of our tax dollars — just on vacations for herself and her kiddos.

Rush Limbaugh calls her “Moochele Obama” and that is starting to look like an apt handle for the wife of the biggest spender in Washington. With her trips around the world, her stays at luxurious 5-star resorts and hotels, her many shopping trips, she is looking more and more like the biggest mooch in presidential history.

Yet, where is the press to lambaste Moochelle Obama? Scolding first ladies for their spending of the people’s tax dollars on baubles and trips is a long tradition in the American press corp. As far back as Dolly Madison the press has attacked presidential wives for spending. Mary Lincoln was mercilessly slammed for buying china, housewares, and dresses during the Civil War. As recent as Ronald Reagan’s era the press slammed FLOTUS Nancy for her spending. Yet, Moochelle gets a pass? Imagine that, the sold-out press not criticizing The One OR his wifeypoo…

Read the rest at RightPundits.com.

Anti-Semitism - Democrats/Leftists - Entertainment - Islam - Islamofascism - Israel - Jews - Judaism - Liberals - Music - Palestinians - Religion - RightPundits.com - Terrorism - Warner Todd Huston

Terrorists, Leftists, and Muslims Attack… Singer Katy Perry?

August 23, 2011 by 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

First of all, I have to admit that I wouldn’t know a Katy Perry song from a hole in the wall. What’s more I couldn’t care less about her music. Far as I’m concerned they stopped making rock-n-roll in the late 1970s. But you do have to feel sorry for the pop singer with this latest Twit-troversy she is facing for having had the temerity to support Israel on her Twitter account after this latest round of Islamofascist terrorism that she has suffered.

One of Perry’s fans had tweeted to her about the suffering of Israel and asked Perry to pray for them. Perry responded saying, “I am! My prayers are for you guys tonight, SHALOM!!”

Well, you’d have thought that the singer had tweeted that she was hoping to kill a few puppies tonight because after her tweet one so-called Palestinian, Muslim, leftist, progressive, and terror supporter (but I repeat myself) after another took to their own Twitter accounts to attack Perry for offering prayers for those killed by terrorists in Israel…

Read the rest at RightPundits.com/

Anti-Americanism - Barack Obama - Budget - Democrats/Leftists - Economy/Finances - Government - Joe Biden - Liberals - President - RightPundits.com - Taxes - Tea Party - Warner Todd Huston

Uncouth and Unpatriotic: Obama/Biden Attacking America While Abroad

August 22, 2011 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

There used to be a saying that “politics ends at the water’s edge.” This meant that carping about the opposing party or engaging in political mud slinging ended when a politician entered in a foreign land. This policy was recommended because presenting a united front abroad was thought a good idea. Unfortunately, the uncouth Obama administration is more interested in low-born attacks than in national unity as is evidenced by both the president and the vice-president’s actions abroad.

They saying was made famous during the Cold War by Senator Arthur Vandenberg (R, Mich). Vandenberg had an epiphany in 1945 that carried him from the isolationist wing of the Republican Party to the internationalism of FDR and by 1947 Vandenberg had created the saying because he became a chief ally in the Senate of the Truman administration even though he was in the opposing party. He felt, and many came to agree with him, that members of an administration, the Senate or the House should leave their criticism and political maneuvering home when they visit other countries. To attack political opponents while abroad undermined our country in the face of foreigners.

It was good advice that most have followed since 1947. Until the brat in the White House and his grinning jackal of a VP got to Washington, that is.…

Read the rest at RightPundits.com.

Democrats/Leftists - Entertainment - George W. Bush - Hollywood - Journalism - Liberals - Media - Media Bias - Movies - Rick Perry - Time Magazine - Warner Todd Huston

Time Mag Movie Review: G.W.Bush and Rick Perry Just Like Blood Thirsty Conan The Barbarian

August 22, 2011 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

Did you know that Texas Governor Rick Perry and President George W. Bush are just like the fictional, prehistoric, sword-wielding, mass murderer, Conan the Barbarian? Well Time Magazine entertainment reporter Richard Corliss is here to inform you all about it in his review of the new action movie released this week based on the Robert E. Howard character. What is it with these people that they have to bring their hatred for Republicans into their reviews about films that have nothing whatever to do with politics?

It is clear that Corliss is not a fan of this flick, for sure. And he mixes metaphors and abuses sayings to beat the band to show his disdain. But it is his second, non-sequitur-filled paragraph that goes for Perry’s and W’s throats. Corliss features this attack prominently in the second paragraph of the review so that no one will miss it.

Corliss describes how at the beginning of the movie a young Conan watches his entire family slaughtered in front of him. To Corliss, this seems somehow “kind of like” the way Saddam Hussein plotted to kill George W. Bush’s father, H.W. Bush.
Continue reading “

Time Mag Movie Review: G.W.Bush and Rick Perry Just Like Blood Thirsty Conan The Barbarian”

Anti-Americanism - Barack Obama - Budget - Congress - Democrats/Leftists - Economy/Finances - Education - GOP - Government - House of Representatives - Jobs - Liberals - Nanny State - President - Regulation - Republicans - Rick Perry - RightPundits.com - Taxes - Tea Party - Warner Todd Huston

More Dem. New Tone: Of Obama Lies and Epithets At Tea Partiers

August 21, 2011 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

Yes it’s that vaunted new age of Obama, folks. You remember; the one where we were all going to walk into the sunset, hand-in-hand, being all nice to each other because politics had gotten “too divisive”? You know, that new tone that the Democrats insisted that the ascendancy of Obmaa meant for the country. Yeah, the one where Obama and his administration underlings simply lie outright about Republicans and where Democrat Congresscritters tell Tea Partiers that they can “go straight to hell.” Yeah… THAT new tone.

Let’s start with the always loquacious Maxine Waters. This queen of ignorance was pretending to act all bold and everything by saying she reused to be intimidated by the Tea Party movement. In her eloquent, lady-like manner she said, “This is a tough game. You can’t be intimidated. You can’t be frightened. And as far as I’m concerned, the ‘tea party’ can go straight to hell.”

Sadly, neither Maxine Water, Obama nor Arne Duncan care much about the truth. After all, they have a country to downgrade….

Read the rest at RightPundits.com.

1st Amendment - AFL-CIO - Anti-Americanism - Budget - Business - Capitalism - Congress - Conservatives - Democracy - Democrats/Leftists - Elections - GOP - Government - House of Representatives - Jobs - Journalism - Liberals - Media Bias - Nanny State - Newspapers - Public Employees Unions - Republicans - SEIU - Senate - Socialism - Taxes - Unions - Warner Todd Huston

Union Astroturf Pretends Like Tea Partiers to Attack GOP

August 21, 2011 by 2 Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

The Hill has an interesting, if not a bit slanted, report about the faux grassroots efforts of unions and left-wing advocates to pretend they are somehow just like the Tea Party by attacking the town hall meetings of various GOP congressman across the country this Summer.

The Hill dutifully reports without complaint the union’s claims that they are organizing just like the Tea Partiers and forcing GOP congressmen to face “angry protests at home” this month in a “replication” of the Tea Party backlash that “bit” Democrats in 2009.

“Liberal groups have been planning these protests for months,” trumpets The Hill, “One organizer told The Hill in February that the campaign would ‘build to a crescendo’ in August.”

These protests have been organized by Obama’s supporters in government unions like the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the AFL-CIO as well as far left NGOs such as MoveOn.org, Campaign for America’s Future and others.
Continue reading “

Union Astroturf Pretends Like Tea Partiers to Attack GOP”

Anti-Americanism - Barack Obama - Budget - Communism - Congress - Democrats/Leftists - Economy/Finances - Government - Health - Liberals - Nanny State - Obamacare - Republicans - RightPundits.com - Socialism - Taxes - Warner Todd Huston

Obama STILL Giving Obamacare Waivers out to Pals and Unions

August 20, 2011 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

We just had to have Obamacare, we were told. It was the best way to keep all Americans healthy, they claimed. Without Obamacare, we are not a fit place to live. In fact, if you stand against Obamacre you are a hatemonger that wants everyone to die. Yep, that’s what we were told. So if Obamacre is so great, why has Obama given 1,472 of his best friends’ companies a waiver so that they can be excused from suffering under some aspects of Obamacare like the rest of us?

Obama and his cohorts have told us that the best thing for the country is to eliminate private insurance, make doctors all government employees, and take away our choices in healthcare with a single payer system. Yet, even as he’s is telling us we don’t deserve to be allowed to choose our own type of helathcare services and should be forced under Obamacare, he’s giving his buddies in the unions and other donors a free ticket out of Obamacare…

Read the rest at RightPundits.com.

Anti-Americanism - Democrats/Leftists - Elections - Ethics - Government - Liberals - Military - Navy - President - RightPundits.com - Vietnam - Vietnam War - Warner Todd Huston

John Kerry’s Swift Boat Supporter Has Silver Star Revoked

August 19, 2011 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

Remember all the hub bub of the Swift Boat story during the 2004 presidential run of Democrat John F’n Kerry? Well with all that in mind, you might vaguely recall a certain Captain Wade R. Sanders, Kerry’s military colleague and heavy supporter of the would be president from Massachusetts. Well, in a very unusual move, this “hero” of Viet Nam has just had his Silver Star award revoked by the Navy.

Captain Sanders was the most outspoken member of Kerry’s “band of brothers” coterie of veterans that came to his support during his run for the White House. Sanders even introduced Kerry at the Democrat Convention that put Kerry’s name before the American people as a candidate for president. Sanders trained with Kerry at Naval Base Coronado when the pair were sent to Viet Nam as Navy Swift Boat officers…

Read the rest at RightPundits.com.

Anti-Americanism - Budget - Business - Climate Change - Congress - Democrats/Leftists - Environment - Government - Liberals - PCism - RightPundits.com - Science - Society/Culture - Taxes - Warner Todd Huston - Western Civilization

Lefties So Far Behind They Are Praying for Space Alien Intervention

August 18, 2011 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

Apparently, it’s “ET phone home” for the lefties these days. We now have two instances of leftists wishing for alien intervention, and, no, I am not talking about folks from another country but things from another galaxy!

First there is pseudo-economics expert Paul Krugman. Last week on Fareed Zakaria’s CNN program, Krugman seriously floated the idea that a space alien invasion could act as a great “economic stimulus” for our flagging economy. No, really. He did….

Read the rest at RightPundits.comn.

2nd Amendment - Barack Obama - Crime - Democrats/Leftists - Ethics - Government - Guns - Liberals - President - RightPundits.com - The Law - Warner Todd Huston

Gun Walker Guns Linked to 11 US Crime Scenes, BATF Officers PROMOTED!

August 17, 2011 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

Another update on the ever worsening scandal of Obama’s program to arm Mexican narco-terrorists is at hand. I know, it seems to be all I am writing about lately, but so much is happening with this deepening scandal. Now we’ve found out that not only have these gun walker guns ended up at 11 U.S. crime scenes, but the BATF officials responsible for the program have been given raises and promotions, not fired or even jailed as they should be!

First of all, the guns. The L.A. Times reports that at least 11 guns linked to the Obama program to arm Mexican narco-terrorists have been found at violent crime scenes right here in our own country. This is in addition to the murder of a U.S. border agent as previously reported…

Read the rest at RightPundits.com.

Anti-Americanism - Barack Obama - Budget - Business - Democrats/Leftists - Ethics - Government - Joe Biden - Journalism - Liberals - Media Bias - President - Rick Perry - Taxes - The New York Times - Warner Todd Huston

New York Times Columnist Attacks Perry With Twitter, Gives Biden/ Demos A Pass

August 17, 2011 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

As if we needed another example of the utter hypocrisy of the Old Media, we get New York Times screed-maker Binyamin Appelbaum who used his Twitter feed to smear Gov. Rick Perry over his Bernanke comments while giving V.P. Joe “Tea Partiers are Terrorists” Biden a complete pass.

Once again, Twitter catches the unhinged left revealing itself as the hypocrites they are. On Aug. 16, Appelbaum was all a twitter on Twitter over Rick Perry’s slap at Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Benrnanke.

If you missed the story that caused Appelbaum’s heart to skip a beat, on Aug. 15 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa Texas Governor Rick Perry said that in Texas Chairman Bernanke wouldn’t be given the wide latitude to muck up the economy as Obama has allowed him to do in Washington D.C.
Continue reading “

New York Times Columnist Attacks Perry With Twitter, Gives Biden/ Demos A Pass”

Barack Obama - CIA - Crime - Democrats/Leftists - Liberals - Mexico - President - RightPundits.com - War On Drugs - Warner Todd Huston

Was Obama’s CIA Behind Guns for Mexican Narco-Terrorists?

August 16, 2011 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

There was an interesting article in the Washington Times on August 11 that speculated that the CIA was an important participant in Obama’s gun walker/Operation Fast and Furious program that put free guns in the hands of Mexican narco-terrorists. The reason the CIA was so interested in doing this was to lend its support to one violent Mexican drug cartel in hopes it could defeat an even more violent Mexican drug cartel.

Of course, the CIA wasn’t the only conspirator in Obama’s arming of Mexican narco-terrorists. We know that the FBI, the DEA, and the BATF were in this mess up to each of their elbows and all have blood on their hands. But the Times notes that the CIA is one agency that has been left out of the blame game in this mounting scandal…

Read the rest at Rightundits.com.

Barack Obama - Budget - Business - Capitalism - Democrats/Leftists - Economy/Finances - Ethics - Government - Jobs - Journalism - Keynesian - Liberals - Media - Media Bias - President - Stimulus - Taxes - The New York Times - Warner Todd Huston

Another Example of How the NYTimes Warps Truth

August 16, 2011 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

This weekend The New York Times, the fishwrap of record, had yet another one of its left-wing excuses for political analysis, this one about rumors of how Team Obama intends to carry on its continuing re-election campaign on matters economic. The piece is so chock full of bias that you don’t even have to get past the first paragraph to see it.

Apparently it took two writers to stuff this thing full of left-wing bias and falsehoods as it is given the by-line of Binyamin Appelbaum and Helene Cooper.

Check out this first paragraph:

As the economy worsens, President Obama and his senior aides are considering whether to adopt a more combative approach on economic issues, seeking to highlight substantive differences with Republicans in Congress and on the campaign trail rather than continuing to pursue elusive compromises, advisers to the president say.

Now just look at the tenor of this paragraph. It is presented as if the President is not responsible for the economic downturn because he hasn’t done enough left-wing interfering with the economy. And it ends with the blatantly false claim that Obama is the one has been seeking “compromises” with the Republicans.

None of these contentions are true.
Continue reading “

Another Example of How the NYTimes Warps Truth”

Budget - Democrats/Leftists - Ethics - Government - Liberals - RightPundits.com - Taxes - Warner Todd Huston

Some Dr. Seussian Fun: I Do Not Like This Uncle Sam

August 15, 2011 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

I have a big Facebook list of followers. I have almost 5,000 “friends.” Naturally, I don’t really know all those people. They come to me because of the writing. In any case, sometimes in the “Home” page section I find a funny or interesting post that I like to share. Here is one of them…

On Patricia Mansfield’s Facebook page I found a very cute poem written in the style of Dr. Seuss, he of the famed Green Eggs and Ham poem.

Patricia posts this…

Read the rest at RightPundits.com.

Barack Obama - Budget - Business - Capitalism - CNN - Congress - Democrats/Leftists - Government - Jobs - Journalism - Liberals - Media Bias - Newspapers - President - Regulation - Stimulus - Taxes - The New York Times - Warner Todd Huston

CNN/Krugman: A Space Alien Attack Will Save Us (Disses FDR, Wants a Fake War?)

August 15, 2011 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

CNNs Fareed Zakaria and The New York Times’ Paul Krugman have solved our economic problems. They’ve decided that a space alien attack will save us. Aside from the guffaw factor of space aliens, there was so much wrong with this CNN segment that we must lay them out for discussion.

First on the clip is some pinhead from Harvard claiming that “infrastructure spending, that’s great.” He says he’d even borrow money for such programs. This guy thinks that if we had another giant stimulus (like a WWII Works program), why we’d be doing just “great.”

He is, of course, a Keynesian fool. Stimulus does not work. Stimulus has never worked. Further, “stimulus” itself is a misnomer. Take Illinois, for instance. It got millions upon millions of dollars in so-called stimulus money from Obama. Do you know what Illinois did with that money? It paid existing debt, it paid current bills. It “stimulated” nothing with all those millions. This happened all across the country in every state. The “stimulus” did not stimulate anything but instead went to pay exiting bills and created nothing new, supported no new projects. It was a sham.

Amusingly, this guy tried to qualify his support of infrastructure spending saying “as long as it isn’t Big Dig” sort of over spending. The “Big Dig” is a reference to the underground Central Artery/Tunnel Project undertaken by the Boston Metro Highway System that is famous for being a total boondoggle that has gone billions over budget, not to mention having so many structural and engineering failures that the whole thing is a death trap waiting to happen.

Problem is, every state project becomes a version of the Big Dig at some level. At the very least they always, always, always go over budget, at worst they become a pit of political failure and corruption. So, while this Harvard pinhead tried to qualify his position, he did so on a bed of quicksand.
Continue reading “

CNN/Krugman: A Space Alien Attack Will Save Us (Disses FDR, Wants a Fake War?)”

Conservatives - Elections - GOP - Radio - Republicans - Ron Paul - Tea Party - Warner Todd Huston

Mark Levin: Ron Paul Not A Conservative, Not The Tea Party Founder

August 15, 2011 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

From our friend, Pat Dollard: Mark Levin tells us that Ron Paul is neither a conservative nor is he a founder of the Tea Party movement. (Mark Levin can be heard here in Chicago evenings, 6PM to 9 PM on WLS AM 890).

Back on May 14 I also said that Ron Paul is not the father of the Tea Party.

Continue reading “

Mark Levin: Ron Paul Not A Conservative, Not The Tea Party Founder”

Allen West - Cold War - Congress - Conservatives - Elections - GOP - Government - History - House of Representatives - Iran - President - Republicans - RightPundits.com - Ron Paul - Warner Todd Huston - Washington D.C.

Allen West Slams Ron Paul Over Debate Comments

August 14, 2011 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

Ron Paul certainly distanced himself from the other GOP candidates at the debate on the issue of foreign policy, didn’t he? He made himself seem like a head-in-the-sand, isolationist and his historical ignorance was amazing. Not only that but his simpleton approach to foreign policy was nothing short of breath taking. Well, Rep. Allen West similarly thought that Paul’s gabled ideas were dangerous and stated directly that Pau is “not the kind of guy you need to be sitting at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.”

Florida Representative Allen West, a former Lt. Colonel in the U.S. Army who served in Iraq, was attending a Tea Party event in Fort Lauderdale, Florida late last week and made a few comments about Paul’s rambling at the Ames debate.

West told attendees that the threats to the USA are far more dangerous than Ron Paul’s simple minded claims tended to make them seem…

Read the rest at RightPundits.com.

Budget - Business - Capitalism - Crime - Democrats/Leftists - Jobs - Labor Law - Liberals - New Jersey - Pennsylvania - RightPundits.com - Teamsters - Unions - Warner Todd Huston

Union Thug Puts Own Teen Daughter In Front of Moving Truck as Protest

August 12, 2011 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

With the current strike against Verizon we once again find that union thugs see no reason to obey the law. But it gets even worse. One union thug has even placed his unionism above fatherhood by placing his own teenaged daughter in front of a moving truck in order to protest Verizon.

This Verizon strike has been going on for a little while and has already resulted in lawbreaking, intimidation, and now endangering a minor. Check out this video of a foul-mouthed union thug putting his own teenaged daughter in danger just so he can pay fealty to his unionism…

Read the rest at RightPundits.com.

Barack Obama - Budget - Business - Capitalism - Conservatives - Economy/Finances - Elections - Fox News - GOP - Government - Herman Cain - Jobs - Liberals - Michele Bachmann - Mitt Romney - Newt Gingrich - President - Republicans - Rick Santorum - Taxes - Tim Pawlenty - Warner Todd Huston

My Live Tweets of the August Fox GOP Debate

August 12, 2011 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

I usually live Tweet many events like this at my Twitter account: http://twitter.com/#!/warnerthuston. The Fox GOP debate is no exception.

As to the debate, who won and who lost?

I’d say Tim Pawlenty ended his run last night. His bickering with Michele Bachmann rattled him and made him look a bit silly. Tim lost but so did Rick Santorum who kept attacking Ron Paul for some crazy reason. Rick seemed like the queen of rage last night, not Bachmann.

As to Bachmann, she did not damage herself in the room, but a few of the things she said about Pawlenty’s past positions were a bit of a misrepresentation. Still, she could think on her feet and seemed in command of herself whereas Pawlenty was getting mad.
Continue reading “

My Live Tweets of the August Fox GOP Debate”

Business - Capitalism - Conservatives - DREAM Act - Education - Elections - Government - Jobs - President - Republicans - Rick Perry - RightPundits.com - Texas - Warner Todd Huston

Rick Perry: A Major Squish on Immigration?

August 11, 2011 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

Many conservatives across the nation are panting in anticipation of the entry of Texas Governor Rick Perry in the race for the 2012 GOP nomination for president. With his jobs creation record and his undeniable conservative fiscal record, many can’t wait to see this tall Texan join the race. But former Congressman and one-time presidential candidate Tom Tancredo of Colorado begs to differ. He says Perry is no conservative, at least on matters of immigration.

Tancredo penned an op ed at Politico slamming Perry as an amnesty supporter and a major squish on immigration. In truth there is no way to explain away Tancredo’s criticism, either. It’s all pretty undeniable….

Read the rest at RightPundits.com.

Democrats/Leftists - Dick Durbin - Ethics - Government - Illinois - Journalism - Liberals - Media - Media Bias - Warner Todd Huston

Once Again Reporters Try to Decide Who is Allowed to be ‘The Press’

August 11, 2011 by 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

In yet another example of collusion between “the press” and the Democrats, Bill Kelly of Chicago tried to ask a question of Democrat Senator Dick Durbin at a press availability at Chicago’s City Club and met, shall we say, some resistance? As Kelly tried to ask his question, the reporters standing next to Kelly tried to interrupt and shut Kelly down claiming he wasn’t “allowed” to ask a question because he wasn’t “with the press.”

To further prove the hard left bent of the press and to show their contempt for all of us, one of these reporters offered that Kelly was just a Tea Party organizer — “he runs Tea Party rallies,” she said. You can just hear the dripping contempt for the Tea Party that these leftists have.

Even more ridiculous, the Illinois Radio Network’s Jim Anderson himself turned to Kelly and imagined HE had the right to threaten Kelly with removal by “the cops.”

“If you’re not quiet, we’re gonna have you thrown out of the room by the cops, OK? Because you’re trespassing. You have no right to be here,” Anderson blurted out.

Who’s this “we” Anderson was talking about? And, the “right”? Kelly has no “right” to ask his elected official a question?
Continue reading “

Once Again Reporters Try to Decide Who is Allowed to be ‘The Press’”

Congress - Conservatives - Cook County - Democrats/Leftists - Dick Durbin - Ethics - Government - Illinois - Journalism - Liberals - Media - Media Bias - Republicans - RightPundits.com - Senate - Warner Todd Huston

Perry Parries Iowan’s Ire

August 10, 2011 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

Texas Governor Rick Perry has made it known that he’s going to announce his candidacy for the GOP nomination for president at the Red State Conference in South Carolina on August 13, the same weekend as the Ames, Iowa straw poll. This didn’t sit well with the Iowa Republican blog. The paper called Perry’s timing a “slap in the face to Iowa Republicans.”

The Iowa GOP uses the well-publicized straw poll as a fundraiser for the party and it is also has a sort of pride of place being one of the early, notable primary time events. So, it is easy to see how the Iowans would be a tad upset that Perry decided to use another state on the same weekend to make his announcement. Iowa Republicans would naturally feel he should have used their own stomping grounds for his announcement…

Read the rest at RightPundits.com.