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Union Thuggery: More Criminality in Verizon Strike
13 Aug 2011 12:00 pm Warner Todd Huston

In Pennsylvania union thuggery, violations of the law, and criminality is abundant in the strike by the Communications Workers of America against Verizon. It’s expected that unionistas don’t respect businesses, of course, but not to respect the safety of children? That’s beyond the pale.
Sadly, theft, property destruction, and otherwise breaking the law is no hurdle union thugs won’t jump. In fact, it is threats of and use of violence and thuggery that unions have always relied on to extort money from the business community. The situation in Pennsylvania is no …

Rick Perry’s NAFTA Superhighway Problem
12 Aug 2011 3:01 pm Rachel Alexander

Move over Mitt Romney. Rick Perry has a bigger problem to defend from his tenure as governor. Remember the NAFTA Superhighway project? It was to consist of a two-mile wide $184 billion transit system of toll roads, rail lines and utilities from the Texas-Mexico border all the way up to the Minnesota-Canadian border, to make it easier to ship foreign goods from China and other countries into North America. It became so unpopular in Texas that the Texas portion of it, called the Trans-Texas Corridor, was renamed and mostly disbanded a couple …

Unions Lose BIG In Wisconsin Recall Efforts
10 Aug 2011 12:45 pm Warner Todd Huston

Oh, the union thugs in Wisconsin will certainly try to act as if winning a mere two of the six recall elections of the Republican State Senators in the Cheese State was a big win… but it wasn’t. In fact, this recall nonsense shows that the union issues were a huge failure. After all, they even shied from using the union issues to push the recall efforts after they got going because they were looking like a losing issue.
In fact, the two Republicans that lost their effort to beat the …

Huffington Post Blasts Obama with New Video on “Jobs,Jobs, Jobs”
7 Aug 2011 11:00 am Jane Jamison

Oh, my! Arianna Huffington has left the reservation!

Obama’s New CAFE Standards Will Cost Us All More Money
5 Aug 2011 12:22 pm Warner Todd Huston

The Obama administration has been touting new Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards to be imposed on America’s automobile manufacturers saying that it will save all Americans money at the pumps. Unfortunately, there are all sorts of hidden costs of which the administration isn’t noting, costs that will drive up the price of driving in multiple ways for all of us.
The new standards are supposed to raise the miles per gallon requirements from the 2016 mandate of 35.5 mpg to 56 mpg by the year 2025. The administration claims that …

The Union Job Security Act Equals Endless Road Construction
1 Aug 2011 2:35 pm Rachel Alexander

Have you noticed how there is more road construction than usual lately, which never seems to end? In some states it has gotten so bad their departments of transportation have set up road closure email alerts on each highway. This is a direct result of President Obama’s stimulus spending. Last summer, Obama proposed spending $50 billion on highways, bridges, transit, high-speed rail and airports. During his State of the Union speech in January, he declared, “we will aim to put more Americans to work repairing crumbling roads and bridges.”
The federal …

Awarded $20,000 of Other People’s Money for Being Muslim
27 Jul 2011 2:30 pm Dave Blount

September 11, 2001 sure turned America into a great place to be Muslim. The latest outrage:
A federal jury awarded $20,000 in compensatory damages Wednesday to a Tulsa woman who was not hired to work at a local Abercrombie Kids store because she wears a headscarf, but jurors opted not to award her any punitive damages.
Good thing this happened in relatively sane Tulsa. In San Francisco, she might have walked off with $millions.
The payoff was for “emotional distress.” Every time I read about the leftist screwballs who run our legal system …

Chart: The Few, The Proud, The Employed Americans (It’s Actually Worse Than You Think)
12 Jul 2011 3:18 am John Hawkins

From The Atlantic.
Even though the unemployment rate is technically 9.2%, the employment-population ratio fell to 58.2%, matching its recession low. But it might help to put this number into perspective: just how bad is it?
…Prior to this recession, the unemployment-population ratio hasn’t been this low since 1983. At that time, it actually dropped all the way down to around 57%. But it didn’t have as far to fall, having maxed out at just 60% in the years prior. Prior to the recent recession, the ratio was above 63%.
What this is …

Deconstructing the Latest White House Report on GDP and Job Creation
2 Jul 2011 5:00 pm Jane Jamison

You are no doubt going to hear the weekend talk panels discussing the “bullish” new White House report on the economy and jobs creation which was released late Friday. You can decide where to file the “report.” Here are the FACTS:

For Every Awful Gov’t Action There is An Equally Awful Reaction, Horses Worst Hit!
26 Jun 2011 12:13 pm Warner Todd Huston

There is a jester of a Chicago Alderman named Ed Burke who back in the early 1990s made local radio audiences laugh by his plaintive plea of “what about the horses” on the floor of Chicago’s City Hall. He was worried that horses in downtown Chicago’s carriage trade were somehow being mistreated and so he tried to pass all sorts of absurd new regulations in Chicago to help his equine buddies. His plea rings in my ears as I read this new story of the “unintended consequences” of federal regulations …

VIDEO: Herman Cain Raises Voice at Blogger, Holds His Ground
20 Jun 2011 11:17 am Warner Todd Huston

Herman Cain appeared at last weekend’s RightOnLine conference (June 18) to two standing ovations. His rousing campaign speech apparently hit all the right notes with the conservative audience in attendance. But afterward, in the blogger access room, there were a few sour notes, in one case Cain even angrily yelled at a blogger over a question hard pressed.
The RightOnLine conference is a get together held annually by Americans For Prosperity and aimed at helping citizens become more involved in their government both on and off the Internet. This year’s event …

Illinois Congressmen Help Tip in Big Labor Amendment
15 Jun 2011 10:31 am Warner Todd Huston

On Monday I alerted you all to a jobs-killing, union-favoring amendment being considered in the House of Representatives in Washington, one that needed to be defeated. Unfortunately, the amendment was successful and now, in this dour economy, unions will be able to make matters worse just when we need a shot in the arm. (See

Senator Seeking Answers on NLRB’s Attack on Boeing
9 Jun 2011 11:47 am Warner Todd Huston

Senator Jim DeMint (R, SC) wants some answers as to why Obama’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) thinks it has the power to tell American businesses where they are allowed to build their newest manufacturing facilities.
On June 6 Senator DeMint’s office filed a freedom of information request demanding documents connected to the NLRBs decisions to try to force Boeing not to open a new manufacturing plant it planned to open in South Carolina.
DeMint is concerned about the outside influence of unions in this case. On his website he notes that …

Bailouts for Big Business, Bankruptcies for the Middle Class
4 Jun 2011 1:07 am Rachel Alexander

While the Obama administration has been busy bailing out irresponsible financial institutions and big business, individual homeowners have been left with little relief, with many forced to file for bankruptcy. About the only relief Obama has doled out for the rest of us is the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP). Launched in early 2009, it has been a complete failure. The program was meant to lower mortgage payments by decreasing interest rates and extending loan repayment terms for mortgagors undergoing financial difficulties. A GAO study released in May found serious …

Green Policies a Substitute For Anti-Capitalist, Anti-American Ideas
28 May 2011 12:49 pm Warner Todd Huston

Those anti-capitalist college professor types that used to sneer at America and supported the murderous antics of the Soviets had for a short time after the fall of the U.S.S.R. no place in which to invest their anti-American ideals. However, it is clear that they have found a new home: greenism. And so, the old left is the new left again, re-born and hiding behind climate change, mythic green energy, and environmental extremism all acting the surrogate for their failed communist-styled ideas.
One of the latest examples of this surrogacy …

Cash Strapped States Cut Back, Spain Socialists Lose Big
23 May 2011 8:22 am William Teach

Obama zombies tell us we should be more positive about the economy, ones such as Robert Samuelson at the Washington Post
It may be time to move beyond pessimism. Ever since the financial crisis, Americans have wallowed in fear and anxiety. Understandably. Although a recovery — as defined by academic economists — started about two years ago, it hasn’t felt like one. Of the 8.7 million payroll jobs lost in the recession, only 1.8 million have returned. The recovery rivals the slowest since World War II …

Rep. Peter Roskam on the Ryan Budget Plan: Obama’s Lack of Leadership Gives GOP a Leading Issue
22 Apr 2011 1:04 pm Warner Todd Huston

No one but the worst sycophant thinks that President Obama’s latest stab at a federal budget is a serious plan. In fact, that he’s come before the American people again with a second budget plan itself bespeaks of a president badly floundering on the issue. This has left the Republican Party, and more specifically the GOP led House of Representatives, as the only real game in town on the budget, the debt, and in correcting the Bacchanalia of spending that Congress has indulged for nigh on the last 100 years.
Sadly …

Judge Prosser Declared Winner, Left Loses BIG In Wisconsin Union Fight
18 Apr 2011 6:25 pm Warner Todd Huston

A county canvas of votes for Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice is finished and the result shows that Judge David Prosser, a 12-year veteran of the courts, won reelection over his union-backed opponent.
Judge David Prosser’s total now officially stands at 752,323 votes to challenger Joanne F. Kloppenburg’s 745,007. This spread represents a 0.488% margin and at less than .5% state law provides for a recount effort that does not require a filing fee.
Prosser’s campaign issued a press release saying they were all “very excited” over the results. His challenger said that …

Rep. Jackson, Jr. Blames iPad for Fob Losses � After Promoting on House Floor Last Month
16 Apr 2011 11:22 am Sister Toldjah

To say that this guy is stupid on an epic scale would be an understatement. Real Clear Politics has the video of Jackson’s impassioned speech on the House floor, and notes the irony of the comments considering just a month prior he was promoting mandatory iPads for public school students on the House floor:
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) said he stood-by a proposal he made last week that could result in the federal government providing an Ipad for every student in the nation, despite a barrage of criticism he has …

Change: America Reaches A Historic New Employment Low
14 Apr 2011 5:17 am John Hawkins

The more illegal aliens we have in this country, the less jobs we have for Americans. The more we punish people for success, the less jobs those successful people create. The more regulations we put in place, the more it strangles whole industries and they create less jobs as a result. The more tax dollars the government takes from the public, the less money there is to invest and create jobs. It’s an insidious process, one that slowly, but surely saps the life out of an economy over time and …

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