The Politico had a story about Big Labor penned by Jeanne Cummings, the reporter famed for going after Sarah Palin's Party purchased wardrobe during the 2008 presidential campaign, that was an object lesson in Old Media bias. Her piece headlined "Labor helps kill its own ...
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Score: 4Return to Top Warner Todd Huston | February 9, 2010, 5:40 pm |
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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 ...
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Score: 3Return to Top Warner Todd Huston | February 9, 2010, 2:05 pm |
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Image courtesy of weasel zippers
That's right; Obama can't even "create or save" the creepy shrine-like store specializing in merchandise with his likeness. It's a sure sign that the honeymoon is totally over when even the sheep-like and the "hipsters" (redundant?) are far too ashamed to ...
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Score: 10Return to Top Lori Ziganto | February 7, 2010, 8:11 am |
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During the question and answer period between Obama and Senate Democrats the other day, Barbara Boxer, Ma'am asked if Obama could, you know, sign stuff like Executive Orders, and force banks to lend money. No, really. She asked that.
Dear Ma’am: Who is John Galt? (Okay, ...
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Score: 7Return to Top Lori Ziganto | February 6, 2010, 3:16 pm |
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Obama can't seem to keep that "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas" thing straight. He keeps forgetting that you have to GO to Vegas first and, instead, he is constantly deterring people from visiting the sin-alicious city.
The Mayor of Las Vegas has had just about enough.
“He ...
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Score: 8Return to Top Lori Ziganto | February 6, 2010, 1:50 pm |
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Found via Tim Blair, England's Spectator has an article that should have broad appeal on both sides of the ocean. (The same ocean that almost a quarter of a century ago, Ted Danson ominously warned us that we only had ten years to save...)
The Spectator's ...
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Score: 9Return to Top Ed Driscoll | February 6, 2010, 4:23 am |
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Pia Varma, an American of Indian background… not not a redskin, an actual Indian… wants you to send her to Congress, Pennsylvania. And so she has announced her run for Pennsylvania's First District Congressional seat (Philadelphia).
She tells us that her grandfathers were fighters in the ...
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Score: 7Return to Top Warner Todd Huston | February 5, 2010, 3:24 pm |
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Yesterday our Republican minority leader in the House of Representatives proved that he still isn't seeing the problem with the GOP. He’s living in denial, at least he is if we can take his words at face value.
On the Mike Gallagher radio show yesterday, leader ...
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Score: 11Return to Top Warner Todd Huston | February 5, 2010, 1:26 pm |
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The Atlantic's Megan McArdle had a great piece pinpointing exactly why unions don't work, especially for education. Her piece headlined "How Unions Work," really brings it home why unions can't agree to merit pay for teachers.
McArdle's post was prompted by a piece by left-winger Matthew ...
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Score: 11Return to Top Warner Todd Huston | February 5, 2010, 1:33 pm |
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When bad things happen during the Obama administration it's always so "unexpected". The latest round of unexpectedly unexpected news was in the jobs arena. The AP reports:
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The number of newly laid-off workers filing initial claims for jobless benefits rose unexpectedly last week, ...
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Score: 13Return to Top Melissa Clouthier | February 4, 2010, 9:38 am |
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Service Employees International Union President Andy Stern said that Senators that vote against his ideas are "terrorists." That's right, folks, this union chief is saying that any politician that votes against the politically motivated ideas of Big Labor should be branded a "terrorist."
This is the ...
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Score: 12Return to Top Warner Todd Huston | February 1, 2010, 1:39 pm |
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Just a few short days ago, during both the State Of The Union and the GOP Retreat, President Obama told us he was concerned with the growing deficit - and, as usual, blamed it mostly on Bush - and that he would address it and ...
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Score: 5Return to Top William Teach | February 1, 2010, 10:46 am |
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David Ratowitz is presenting himself to voters as the business oriented, conservative candidate for their 5th District Congressional seat. Ratowitz says he represents "hard-fought professional achievement" and "personal resilience," and says his "genuine free market outlook" makes him the perfect candidate for conservatives. Also, many ...
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Score: 3Return to Top Warner Todd Huston | January 31, 2010, 3:26 pm |
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James Sherk has a very good post over at the Heritage Foundation's The Foundry blog about how unions have hurt us all by fighting for tax increases.
Unions almost never go on strike anymore. Instead, they fight to get more for their members by lobbying for ...
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Score: 7Return to Top Warner Todd Huston | January 31, 2010, 3:52 pm |
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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 ...
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Score: 6Return to Top Warner Todd Huston | January 29, 2010, 7:39 pm |
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In his State of the Union speech, the president puffed up his chest, fixed his Mr. scornful face, and once again pulled out the populist's handbook to bash those evil, monstrous lobbyists.
Obama mentioned lobbyists seven times in his address and in every case they were ...
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Score: 12Return to Top Warner Todd Huston | January 29, 2010, 2:23 pm |
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Being a good conservative, I am torn on this story! It seems that the teachers union in New York State refused to comply with some simple requirements in cooperation with the state government so that New York could qualify for $700 million in federal stimulus ...
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Score: 15Return to Top Warner Todd Huston | January 29, 2010, 2:56 pm |
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The Wall Street Journal, known for having quite a bit more knowledge on financial issues than a community agitator, weighs in
The problem with fires is that they can blow in any direction. Consider the White House, which is seeing a backdraft from the anti-Wall-Street flame ...
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Score: 13Return to Top William Teach | January 29, 2010, 10:39 am |
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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 ...
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Score: 15Return to Top Warner Todd Huston | January 27, 2010, 1:16 pm |
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As we wait for our 2010 state of the union address. It seemed fitting to take a look back just 1 year and 1 week to see where Obama started.
For other episodes of the show or more info check out- http://www.restrainednomore.com/ ...
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Score: 1Return to Top Sharise Parviz | January 27, 2010, 3:06 am |
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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 ...
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Score: 17Return to Top Warner Todd Huston | January 26, 2010, 2:15 pm |
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So, apparently, Obama is also going to throw out that he will freeze some small portion of federal spending during Wednesday's SOTU, as directed by Secretary Teleprompter
President Obama will call for a three-year freeze in spending on many domestic programs, and for increases no greater ...
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Score: 8Return to Top William Teach | January 26, 2010, 10:35 am |
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As noted earlier, it's only a matter of time until our insatiably greedy socialist rulers seize our retirement accounts. Another ominous warning:
Washington is in a desperate search for more revenue and a solution to the future financing of the trillions in national debt obligations currently ...
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Score: 17Return to Top Van Helsing | January 25, 2010, 8:09 pm |
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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 ...
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Score: 14Return to Top Warner Todd Huston | January 25, 2010, 2:33 pm |
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The latest edition of our Silicon Graffiti video blog is coming to you in glorious black & white this week, as a reminder that despite the hip, sleek high tech Internet campaign that Senator Barack Obama ran in 2008, President Obama has governed very much ...
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Score: 0Return to Top Ed Driscoll | January 25, 2010, 1:02 am |
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