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See me Today at 4:30PM Eastern on the B Cast Show

May 12, 2009 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

Scott Baker of the B Cast show on Breitbart TV gave me a ring this morning and asked me to join him for a segment this afternoon. We’ll be taking on the new environmental extremist video “The Story of Stuff” that is being surreptitiously sneaked into our schools all across the country. I posted about it today here as well as on NewsBusters.org on Monday. I’ll be on at about 4:30PM Eastern.

You can catch The B Cast at at http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=1&live=1. The show starts at 4PM Eastern.

As my co-host on the BlogTalkRadio show “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Conservatism,” Babe Huggett, always says: Stay Tuned.

Business - Children - Communism - Congress - Constitution - Democrats/Leftists - Education - Entertainment - Environment - Jobs - Liberals - Media Bias - Science - Socialism - Society/Culture - Warner Todd Huston

The America Hating Kids Enviro Video Coming Soon to Your School

May 12, 2009 by 4 Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

A new propaganda video created by an extreme environmental activist is making its way into America’s classrooms and The New York Times loves the whole idea. Enviro obsessive Annie Leonard, Greenpeace member and activist, has created a 20 minute video filled with anti-capitalist, anti-American propaganda to encourage kids to eschew “stuff,” calling the presentation “The Story of Stuff.”

Leonard’s propaganda piece is so anti-American she even begins her video by saying that her “friends” say she should describe the United States by using the symbol of a military tank because “it’s true in many countries and increasingly in our own.” And why is a tank “increasingly” the symbol of the USA? Because “more than 50% of our federal tax money is going for our military.” Naturally, this misleading propaganda doesn’t mention that a large portion of that federal military spending ends up going to the weekly pay and health care of our soldiers, something apparently Ms. Leonard is against. She goes on to say that a government’s job is to “take care of us, that’s their job.” Here she is trying to promote dependency and proves that she has no clue what a government is really for — especially in the U.S. system.

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Barack Obama - Budget - Congress - Democrats/Leftists - Economy/Finances - Liberals - Media Bias - President - Security/Safety - Society/Culture - State Government - Taxes - The Law - Unions - Warner Todd Huston

Obama Gives Union Veto Power on State Funds

May 12, 2009 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

When does an unelected union without legal governing powers get a say in what the federal government does with its dealings with a state? When a president that is more beholding to unions than he is to the Constitution and the people of the United States comes to office, that’s when. And now we have that in Barack Obama.

The L.A. Times is reporting that Obama allowed the Service Employee International Union to interfere in the relationship between the state of California and the federal government over the issuance of the “stimulus” funds coming out of Congress. Apparently, Obama gave the SEIU veto power over the “stimulus” funds that was supposed to go to the Golden State because Sacramento had voted for a wage cut for state workers that belong to the union.

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Barack Obama - Budget - Business - Communism - Congress - Dan Scott - Democrats/Leftists - Economy/Finances - Jobs - Liberals - Media Bias - President - Security/Safety - Socialism - Society/Culture

Happy Talk

May 12, 2009 by

-By Dan Scott

Recently a number of overly rosy pronouncements have been coming out of the Whitehouse in an attempt to talk up the economy and consumer confidence. In the corporate world, putting a brave face on a bad situation is called Happy Talk. The CEO comes out with the pep talk to boost flagging employee morale to keep up productivity and key employees from jumping ship. The positive spin can be come from true concern for the drag on team spirit that would make the difference between success and failure through vision and teamwork. The overly positive spin is done cynically in the knowledge the company leadership has made some bad decisions which are about to have very negative consequences and is done to prevent employees from taking any action to protect themselves. Many things can sink a company, poor attitude, low morale, bad decisions, natural disasters and fraud among the many, but how you characterize the situation speaks volumes as to your intent. In the corporate world, the dividing line between Happy Talk and vision is denial, ignorance and deception.

The Tim Geithner Stress Test for the Banks is an example of such Happy Talk. The results were positively optimistic and a number of banks were told to increase their reserves just in case there was an unexpected drop in the economy. What Geithner and the MSM didn’t say was there are other independent companies who regularly evaluate the health of banks beyond the FDIC conducting periodic evaluations of the banking industry. One such company is called Institutional Risk Analytics (IRA). IRA rates banks via an index based on the year 1995 being a rating of 1. The relative strength of the institution drops as the index number increases.
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Democrats/Leftists - Family - Liberals - Media Bias - Society/Culture - Warner Todd Huston

Palin Haters NOW Mad at Juneau Tourism, Outrage Over Little Piper’s Lemonade Stand

May 11, 2009 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

Palin hater with cocaine conviction goes after Piper Palin

Tourism has recently been up a little in Juneau, Alaska. More folks than ever have been interested in taking bus tours through Alaska’s capitol city with a major attraction being the Alaska State House where Governor Sarah Palin goes about her daily work. In fact, the tours have been gaining in popularity since before John McCain asked the governor along for his run for the White House. The bus tours are so popular that adorable little Piper has even set up a lemonade stand to sell tourists a glass of lemony goodness to quench their thirst for something wet as well as something cute.

And Palin haters in Alaska are livid. They want the bus tours stopped and little Piper’s stand razed to the ground. Palin Derangement Syndrome strikes again. It’s an ugly, ugly thing, this PDS.

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Censorship - Democrats/Leftists - Education - History - Liberals - Society/Culture - Warner Todd Huston

Library at Oxford Shows Its More Stoopider Side

May 11, 2009 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

Before we begin today’s lesson, let us review the purpose of a library, shall we? Are libraries not a compilation of knowledge in the form of books and visual aids brought together for the edification of students of humanity to be used a s a tool for their growth and enrichment? If it is, the earnest curators of the Oxford Library have somehow missed that definition.

Apparently, the librarians at Oxford, however, have been misled to believe that a library is more like a static piece of art. They must think that a “library” is a permanent arrangement of book-like objects, pleasingly arranged, yet immovable, set up to fill a particular space for the purpose of a sort of permanent exhibit. But, please, while you are staying reverently quiet as is traditional in a “library” setting, please remember not to actually touch anything, won’t you? After all, we have your safety to consider.

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Conservatives - Democrats/Leftists - Liberals - Media Bias - Security/Safety - Selwyn Duke - Society/Culture

Stopping Truth at the Border: Banning Michael Savage from Britain

May 11, 2009 by

-By Selwyn Duke

When I awoke Tuesday morning, I ambled over to the computer, as is my wont, and made my usual cyber rounds. I logged on to the Drudge Report and, lo and behold, saw the following headline, “RADIO HOST MICHAEL SAVAGE BANNED FROM UK FOR ‘EXTREME VIEWS’….” “Wow,” I thought, “Britain strikes again.”

The prohibition is the handiwork of England’s Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, who included Savage on a list of 16 unwelcome individuals whom she wanted to “name and shame.” According to Beverley Rouse writing in The Independent, Smith says this is “so others could better understand what sort of behaviour Britain was not prepared to tolerate.”

Yeah, such as telling the Truth, I suppose.
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Stopping Truth at the Border: Banning Michael Savage from Britain”

Congress - Democrats/Leftists - Islam - Islamofascism - Liberals - Media Bias - Security/Safety - Society/Culture - Warner Todd Huston

Does a Leftist’s Lies Matter? Pelosi-nocchio Says no Way!

May 10, 2009 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

There are classic lies. There’s “Mom, my invisible friend broke the window, not me.” Of course, we all have heard, “I didn’t see any cookies.” Then there’s that ever favorite, “No, officer, I didn’t know I was speeding.” And who can forget that time worn, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Monica.”

But these days the American left has puffed itself up as the keeper of truths, the sacred protectors of America’s soul. And, since we all know the fable of rocks and glass houses, we must then realize that all leftists imagine that they simply don’t violate truth. They are paragons of it, to be sure. Not a lie should cross our lips, they contend, for it if does the presence of that lie is enough to abrogate our very Americanness.

The truth, you see, is of acclaimed importance to the self-anointed high priests of truth on the left these days. And they have their Messiah as a shining example of that sitting today in the White House. He is the one we’ve been waiting for. The light. The truth. The way.

At least, this is their delusional self-assessment, anyway.

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Does a Leftist’s Lies Matter? Pelosi-nocchio Says no Way!”

Anti-Americanism - Business - Crime - Democrats/Leftists - Economy/Finances - Jobs - Liberals - Society/Culture - Unions - Warner Todd Huston

Union Members Don’t Even Trust Union

May 10, 2009 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

The New York City carpenters union has been in trouble with the law for many decades. Organized crime has been endemic with the union for a long time and union chief after union chief has gone to jail over the ties and other corruption. Even shop stewards have gotten into the corruption game with four recently convicted on charges of fraud, conspiracy or bribetaking.

It’s so bad that even the rank-and-file member doesn’t trust the union to legally carry out union business. That distrust was seen again recently with a dispute arising between union members and union leadership over a plan to withhold quarterly benefit checks from members that refuse to sign away greater power to union officials who want to fine members that refuse to fall into line.

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Barack Obama - Budget - Democrats/Leftists - Economy/Finances - Liberals - Society/Culture - Vince Johnson

Open letter to President Obama:

May 10, 2009 by

-By Vince Johnson

Dear Mr. President,

As a parent and grandparent, I urgently suggest that you prepare a special address to the thousands of High School seniors in the graduating Class of 2009. The purpose of this address would be two-fold.

1. Review the following in a clear and straightforward manner: According to official statements made by the Government Accountability Office, U.S Budget Watch, U.S. Office of Budget and Management, each Student’s share of the National Debt is $36,667 and rising. Add in $56 trillion for the unfunded entitlements (Social Security, Medicare, etc.) and you get a total commitment of $67.2 trillion or $220,409 per each American citizen including around 33 million kids under the age of 18.
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Anti-Americanism - Barack Obama - Budget - Democrats/Leftists - Liberals - Media Bias - Police - President - Security/Safety - Society/Culture - Warner Todd Huston

Obama to Cut Slain Officer’s Benefits in Half

May 9, 2009 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

In a fit of hypocrisy sure to outrage, just as Attorney General Eric Holder makes ready to attend a ceremony to honor fallen police officers, the Obama administration is proposing to cut almost in half a program that provides benefits to the future families left behind.

So much for the more loving, more caring president “we’ve been waiting for.” So, wouldn’t you think the Old Media would be braying at the hypocrisy here? Wouldn’t you rather think that the Old Media would be up in arms about this one? Isn’t this typically the type of story that would get them motivated to get their high dudgeon on? Guess not because it is nearly invisible in the media today.

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A Little Article in a Little Paper that is One Big Hit!

May 9, 2009 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

Elizabeth Sauls is a writer for the Beaufort Observer of Beaufort, North Carolina. It’s a little paper in a little town — area population around 50,000 — so it’s just the sort of town that New Yorkers or Chicagoans like to scoff at. But, Elizabeth Sauls wrote a piece that everyone should read.

Headlined, “Presidential Sleight of Hand Keeps Reporter Befuddled,” Sauls lays out with just the right amount of sarcasm, the lies, contradictions, misdirections, and un-American policies that Obama has haplessly stumbled into these last 100 days.

Presented as a letter to her “boss” Sauls is devastating in her critical attitude against all the lies of this president.
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Anti-Americanism - Barack Obama - Democrats/Leftists - Freedom - Hollywood - Liberals - Media Bias - News - President - Society/Culture - Warner Todd Huston

Noblesse Oblige? The One Wants His OWN Star Trek Showing

May 9, 2009 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

I Know Spock, Mr. Obama. You are no Spock.

I suppose if I was the ruler of the free world, I’d want it too. I mean, if I controlled all I survey, if the nation bowed before me, if the illiterati gave an obedient chuckle at my every quip, yet paused thoughtfully at my pretensions at seriousness, if the world placed me on my rightful pedestal, I’d imagine that the producers of the hottest new movie premiering this month would be similarly overawed that I’d like to see their little film.

Certainly, were I the Übermensch-in-chief, I’d also imagine that these same film producers couldn’t possibly expect me to go to a public theater and be forced to sit with the “people” to see this flick, of course. I’d know that the film’s creators and stars would have the good sense not to expect me to have to sit among the sweaty, loud, unschooled masses, that great unwashed. These filmmakers are smart folks, after all I would know.

So, were I the king of the world, I too would give Paramount Pictures a call and demand that they set up a free, personal screening in my super cool movie house built especially for the president.

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It Was A Dark and Stormy Night

May 9, 2009 by

-By John Armor

Actually, it was a dark and stormy weekend.

On Friday, right after the computer office closed, our tower-broadcast Internet access failed. It remained out until Monday morning. Meanwhile, Michelle and I had two articles each that were on deadline. But that was the easy part.

We have a good friend who is an adopted grandmother, named Gibson Jefferson McConnaughey, almost 91 years old. A week ago, she was fine for her age. Thursday she was in the hospital with serious complications from a blood clot. Saturday morning she died. Until an hour before she died, she was conscious and talking with us.
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Take time enough for love

May 9, 2009 by

-By Marie Jon

God’s plan for marriage includes companionship and sexual enjoyment. It is undeniable that the Almighty created marriage as the place where both man and woman meet their sexual needs. Within Holy Matrimony, there is a deep abiding love that is naturally expressed in the act of intimacy. However, at times, life can become complicated and hurried. Many couples become distracted to the point where they spend less quality time together within the bedroom.

Today’s women often work and are tired after a long day. When they walk into the door, they immediately begin tending to the children, cleaning, helping with schoolwork, and preparing the evening dinner. Men frequently get up early to hit the freeways. They spend eight or more long hours at work before their tedious commute in heavy traffic to return home. All of this stress takes a toll on marriage. Too often, couples collapse into bed with hardly enough thought or energy to say good night.

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Barack Obama - Democrats/Leftists - Liberals - Media Bias - President - Society/Culture - Warner Todd Huston

Newsweek Compares Bush Era as Star Wars to Obama’s as Star Trek

May 8, 2009 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

Naturally all Bush’s folks are the Evil Characters

In a transparently unhinged and partisan hit job against several Bush administration officials, Newsweek thought it would be amusing to compare the Bush era and the Obama era by analogizing them with Star Wars and Star Trek respectively. Naturally Newsweek’s Bush Derangement Syndrome was given full throated expression — phasers set to kill not to stun — as the Bush administration officials were noted as representing one or the other of the evil Star Wars characters while all the Obama officials were compared to the good guys in Star Trek. What we get is the typical Old Media talking point: Bush evil/ Obama good.

Out of the 9 Star Wars characters used on the SW side to explain the Bush era, only 5 are conceivably a good guy. The rest are all the SW bad guys. But even that isn’t as it would seem on its face. It’s so bad that even when Newsweek uses any of the ostensible good guy characters from Star Wars, their caption tends to undercut the good nature of the character when coupled with a Bush official. For instance, we all know that the happy and fun character of C-3PO is a beloved Star Wars character, but in Newsweek’s hands the venerable, loyal robot becomes former Bush Spokesman Ari Fleischer. Why is C-3PO like Fleisher? Why because he’s “obsequious” and “glabrous,” of course. Hardly flattering.

It gets worse. On the Star Trek side only one of the 9 Star Trek characters used for Obama era figures is a Star Trek bad guy. Evil Klingon Commander Kor becomes… wait for it… Rush Limbaugh! That’s right, the only bad guy on Newsweek’s Obama side is Limbaugh. Every other Obama era official is compared to a Star Trek good guy and lionized in the caption.

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Anti-Americanism - Barack Obama - Congress - Democrats/Leftists - Economy/Finances - Liberals - Media Bias - President - Republicans - Security/Safety - Society/Culture - Taxes - Tea Party - Warner Todd Huston

Can We Talk of Liberal Hypocrisy?

May 8, 2009 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

Two examples that reveals the unprincipled left for what it is.

It is often useful to review the past to see how it affects the present and with the rise of The One, we can see revealed the basic hypocrisy of the left that is so blatant as to be nearly unbelievable. Well, unbelievable if anyone were to mistakenly imagine that liberals and leftists actually have any principles, that is. The hypocritical shift that attitudes on the left took between George W. Bush’s days in office and that of Barack “I won” Obama is stark, but revealing.

Let us start with the left’s unhinged reaction to the Tea Party movement.

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Can We Talk of Liberal Hypocrisy?”

Anti-Americanism - Barack Obama - Conservatives - Crime - Democrats/Leftists - Elections - Liberals - President - Society/Culture - State Government - Unions - Warner Todd Huston

Obama Group Still Racking Up Voter Fraud Indictments/Convictions

May 8, 2009 by 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

The Association of Community Activists for Reform Now (ACORN) is still racking up indictments and convictions for voter fraud across the nation. ACORN is closely tied to President Obama, he having worked for them when he lived in Chicago and they having heavily supported his candidacy. Additionally, former ACORN members have flocked to the Obama administration since his win in November last.

For instance, in Obama’s old home state of Illinois, a woman that works for an ACORN offshoot group has been charged by Lake County officials (the County just north of Chicago’s Cook County) with filing fake voter registration cards.

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Anti-Americanism - Barack Obama - Congress - Constitution - Democrats/Leftists - Elections - Frank Salvato - GOP - Liberals - Media Bias - Society/Culture - State Government

Celebrating the Exit of a RINO, Cheering as Rome Burns

May 8, 2009 by 1 Comment

-By Frank Salvato

With the defection of the traitor Specter from the Republican Party came cheers from the hard Right. “We are better off without him,” they said. “We’re flushing the RINOs from the party,” they asserted. “The Left can’t blame us anymore for what government does,” they exclaimed. While this may be so – and perhaps even what the Republican Party needs to motivate it to honestly look at re-evaluating its platform and philosophical strategy, which is being held hostage by an impossible acquiescence to unreasonable individualism – Specters defection will be horrific for the country in the immediate. Anyone cheering for that on the right side of the aisle is a fool, an idiot or both.

In response to the traitor Specter’s self-serving switch of parties, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told CNN’s Candy Crowley:

“Very exciting, very exciting for the American people, because now we can get things done without explaining process…Hopefully now [Republicans] will also extend the hand of friendship so they can work together in a bipartisan way.”

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Anti-Americanism - Barack Obama - Congress - Conservatives - Democrats/Leftists - GOP - Islam - Islamofascism - Liberals - Military - President - Republicans - Security/Safety - Society/Culture - The Law - Warner Todd Huston

McCain/Graham Are Right on THIS one, Anyway!

May 7, 2009 by

-By Warner Todd Huston


After several years of missteps and dunderheaded RINOist policy proscriptions, Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham got one right for a change. The unctuous pair published an Op Ed in the Wall Street Journal on May 6 that is spot on in its analysis of the dangerous road down which Barack Obama and the Democrats are taking us as far as the war on terror is concerned.

Because this issue is so important and so as not to waste time, we will take as a given here the poor standing that both Senators rightfully have with conservatives, set aside their RINOism, and move past their inability to “get it” on every other issue but this one. What McCain and Graham had to say in their WSJ piece is of supreme importance and it is an area where we can all agree upon in all the most important ways. So, let’s focus on the Guantanamo facility and the greater debate on the war on terror, shall we?

In the first paragraph of the piece McCain and Graham pinpoint one of the most injurious things that Obama’s possible upcoming “truth commissions” will have on future American administrations. Obama’s prosecutions of Bush officials for having given their honest council to the president will simply destroy the trust that future advisers will have to give their best council. If future advisers imagine that they can be hauled off to jail with ever new administration’s ascension to office, no adviser will ever feel safe. All will unduly hedge their advice for simple self preservation. This cannot help but hurt this country from this point forward.

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Barack Obama - Budget - Democrats/Leftists - Economy/Finances - Liberals - Media Bias - President - Socialism - Society/Culture - Warner Todd Huston

An Example of Obama’s ‘Stimulus’ That Isn’t

May 7, 2009 by 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

If we need no other example of why government can’t “stimulate” an economy, we have but to look at the use to which the city of Akron, Ohio wants to put some of its “stimulus” money. Akron, it seems, wants to spend some of that money for suicide prevention. Oh, not a general suicide prevention program that might at least employ people. No, Akron wants to build a fence on a bridge that seems to emit a siren call for jumpers to prevent them from killing themselves.

Akron’s All-American Bridge, a “Y” shaped structure that serves as a main artery into the city, has been a platform for suicide jumpers for so long now that area residents have nicknamed it the suicide bridge. Consequently, city officials have proposed using more than one million dollars of the city’s “stimulus” money to erect a fence that will help prevent people from being able to use the span as a means to an end.

Sure it might be a good idea. Who the heck wants citizens constantly plummeting to their deaths from the thing? But, is this something that will “stimulate” the local economy? The only possible answer is a resounding “no.”

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An Example of Obama’s ‘Stimulus’ That Isn’t”

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Did Sessions Say Abortion is Not a Problem for Judicial Candidates?

May 7, 2009 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

Michael O’Brien over at The Hill reports that Senator Jeff Sessions (R, Ala.) told Fox News recently that he had no litmus test on abortion for judicial candidates and that a judge that had pro-abortion views could get his vote for confirmation.

This might alarm anyone that is vehemently anti-abortion. It should also alarm all those conservatives that pushed for Senator Sessions to be made the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

…but hold your outrage for just a minute. Let’s more closely look at what he said.

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Did Sessions Say Abortion is Not a Problem for Judicial Candidates?”

Anti-Americanism - Barack Obama - Democrats/Leftists - Free Speech - Liberals - Media Bias - President - Society/Culture - The Law - Warner Todd Huston

Detroit Free Press: Obama Ushers in Era of Oppression of Free Speech?

May 7, 2009 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

Looks like it is just starting to dawn on some lefties that Obama is ushering in an era of oppression of free speech. So it seems for Laura Varon Brown of the Detroit Free Press, at least. Oh, she isn’t saying that Obama himself is trampling on free speech, but she is starting to understand that the left’s penchant for political correctness is serving the function as a sort of self-imposed oppression no matter what Obama says. It’s getting so bad, according to Brown, that any criticism of Obama is treated as akin to treason… at least it is in the “circles” she runs in, anyway.

Brown can count herself in the same boat as the late-night comedy shows that are finding that any criticism of The One is verboten to their left-wing audiences. Even the supposedly unshakable Bill Maher, who congratulates himself on his bravery for taking on the establishment, has found that he’s had to shy from criticizing Obama. These people are seeing that attacking “The Man” is not so funny when it is their man in the crosshairs. Suddenly such folks have a new-found respect for the office and a more circumspect behavior toward the president is now du jour.

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Ann "Babe" Huggett - Anti-Americanism - Censorship - Democrats/Leftists - Islam - Islamofascism - Liberals - Media Bias - Patriotism - Security/Safety - Society/Culture

Hey Jacqui, You May Already Be A Weiner

May 7, 2009 by

-By Ann “Babe” Huggett

Just imagine one morning you rise up bright and early, go get your usual cup o’ joe from the kitchen then plunk yourself down in front of your computer to pull up the Drudge Report only to find out that you’ve made headline news by being banned from a country that you never even intended to visit. Snap, crackle and ka-pow is not the best way to start the day but that is exactly how conservative and controversial national talk show host, Michael Savage, started his day earlier this week.

Savage, star of the talk radio show, The Savage Nation, and whose real name is Michael Weiner, read with growing outrage that he had been arbitrarily placed on a banned-from- UK traveling list by Labor’s Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, for no other discernible reason than she thought he was, “…someone who has fallen into the category of fomenting hatred, of such extreme views and expressing them in such a way that it is actually likely to cause inter-community tension or even violence if that person were allowed into the country”.

Smith went on to say, “We’ve got standards in this country, of the sorts of values that we expect from those who have the privilege of coming here. I think it’s right that we uphold those standards, that’s the basis on which we make decisions about unacceptable behavior. That’s the basis on which Michael Savage is on the list.”
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Anti-Americanism - Congress - Constitution - Crime - Democrats/Leftists - Free Speech - Liberals - Police - Race - Religion - Security/Safety - Socialism - Society/Culture - Warner Todd Huston

Alcee Hastings: Blind to the Ultimate Logic of His Own Policies

May 6, 2009 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

Alcee Hastings is a congressman from Florida. He was also once a federal judge that was impeached for corruption. It’s an indictment of America that a criminal such as he can become a prominent national politician after being convicted of crimes and thrown off the bench.

Be that as it may, for all his crimes Hastings is also a bit of a showman… as such ner-do-wells usually are. Last Thursday on the floor of the House of Representatives the nation got a slice of that showmanship when Hastings took center stage to decry some “spurious” language hidden by another representative in the so-called hate crimes legislation then up for debate.

Hastings felt that the hate crimes legislation was “serious business” but the addition of some outrageous sexual practices in the bill made a mockery of it all. So, Rep. Hastings decided to read aloud some of this crazy terminology in order to show one and all how someone was “trivializing” what he considers important legislation.

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New Study: America’s Most Liberal States Rank Least Free

May 6, 2009 by 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

According to a new study released by the Mercatus Center of George Mason University, some of our most liberal states rank at the bottom in a measure of personal freedom. “Freedom in the 50 States, an index of personal and economic freedom,” finds the most free states to be first New Hampshire, then Colorado, followed by S. Dakota, Idaho, Texas, Missouri, Tennessee, Arizona, Virginia and N. Dakota.The bottom ten least free states in the U.S. are (in descending order) Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, Washington, Hawaii, Maryland, California, Rhode Island, New Jersey, and bringing up the bottom is New York.

It is striking that some of the most Republican states are the most free and all the least free are Democrat states, isn’t it? (2008 Election Map)

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New Study: America’s Most Liberal States Rank Least Free”

Business - Communism - Congress - Democrats/Leftists - Economy/Finances - Jobs - Liberals - Media Bias - Socialism - Society/Culture - Warner Todd Huston

Labor Shying from Supporting New Dem Specter?

May 6, 2009 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) appears to be warning his membership that there is no lock on allegiance for Arlen Specter even though he has recently jumped the GOP ship for the Democrat Party.

On May 3, Stern used his twitter account to praise Congressman Joe Sestak, a possible 2010 opponent for Specter for the Democratic Party nomination for Penn. Senator.

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Labor Shying from Supporting New Dem Specter?”

Anti-Americanism - Barack Obama - Budget - Business - Communism - Congress - Constitution - Dan Scott - Democrats/Leftists - Economy/Finances - Liberals - Socialism - Society/Culture - Taxes - Unions

Chryslergate

May 6, 2009 by

-By Dan Scott

Last week on WJR radio Frank Beckmann conducted an interview of Tom Lauria, a bankruptcy lawyer who represents some of the bondholders who loaned money Chrysler. During the course of that interview Mr. Lauria dropped a bombshell that implicated the Whitehouse in an extortion plot against a bondholder potentially involving almost a billion dollars amounting to fraud.

The threat that amounts to extortion:
“I can tell you for sure that I represent one less investor today than I represented yesterday. One of my clients was directly threatened by the White House, and in essence compelled to withdraw its opposition to the deal under threat that the full force of the White House press corps would destroy its reputation if it continued to fight. That’s how hard it is to stand on this side of the fence.”
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