Healthcare Delusion

June 22, 2011 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Budget, Business, Capitalism, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Ethics, Frank Hyland, Government, Government, Corruption, Health, Liberals, Nanny State, President, Taxes | Comments Off

-By Frank Hyland

The issue everywhere in the media, at the White House, on Capitol Hill, and around your supper table is healthcare, whether Medicaid, Medicare or the aptly labeled Obamacare. The burning part of the issue is whether “they” owe us healthcare; that is, are we “entitled” to it.

If I walk into a store expecting that I can have anything and everything on the shelves without paying for it, I’d be called a shoplifter, a thief. Gasoline pumps across the nation, including the ones you patronize, feature a photo of a State Trooper warning against filling up and driving off without paying. When the Plumber fixes your Bathroom leak and you pay him with a check that bounces, you have committed fraud and theft. In all these cases, you received something of value from a person (the Plumber) or a group of people (the gasoline station) and you took their product without paying for it.

Why in the world, then, would anyone think they can go to any other individual — a Doctor — or a group of people — a clinic or hospital — and believe that they can have their product without paying for it? Doctors, Nurses, and their staffs, in case some don’t realize it, have families, mortgages, car payments, tuition payments, and grocery bills just like everyone else, like all of us.
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Video Interview: Eric O’Keefe and Getting Rid Of Obamacare With The Health Care Compact

June 21, 2011 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Budget, Business, Communism, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Government, Government, Corruption, Health, Liberals, Nanny State, President, Regulation, Sam Adams Alliance, Socialism, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | 4 Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

Obamacare will sink this country if it is ever allowed to come into full operation. So says Eric O’Keefe, Chairman of Sam Adams Alliance, a Chicago-based, free market organization, and chief advocate for the Health Care Compact, an effort that can replace Obamacare and give us a truly American way to address our healthcare problems.

I met up with Mr. O’Keefe at the RightOnLine conference in beautiful downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota this year and in the following video we talk about a great new way to get rid of Obamacare and solve our healthcare problems at the same time.

Mr. O’Keefe is a principle advocate of the Health Care Compact (healthcarecompact.org), a great 10th Amendment effort to return the problems and solutions of healthcare to the states.

From the Compact’s website:
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No Short Term Middle East Solutions

June 21, 2011 | Filed Under Afghanistan, Alan Caruba, Barack Obama, Democrats/Leftists, Egypt, Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy, Government, Corruption, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Liberals, Libya, Pakistan, Palestinians, President, Saudi Arabia | Comments Off

-By Alan Caruba

A problem with which American administrations have grappled since the days of Thomas Jefferson’s presidency has been Arabs and the Middle East. The Marine anthem mentions “the shores of Tripoli” because, in 1801, Jefferson sent them to there to put down the Barbary pirates.

One of the best books on this subject is “Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present” by Michael B. Oren who, with exquisite irony, is currently serving as the Israeli ambassador to the United States, the nation of his birth.

Regarding the Middle East, if you have had the feeling that the Obama administration has been spectacularly inept as it takes its turn at bat, you’re right. Barely six months into his first year, on June 4, 2009, the newly-minted President gave a speech in Cairo.
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John Bolton, Ambassador… No, Wait, Maybe President?

June 20, 2011 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Conservatives, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Foreign Policy, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, John Bolton, Liberals, President, Republicans, Society/Culture, Warner Todd Huston, Western Civilization | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

When John Bolton was the Interim U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations during the Bush years, the UN hated him, the Democrats wouldn’t confirm him, and Republicans and conservatives loved him. He was one of the toughest talking U.S. Ambassadors since Jean Kirkpatrick though he outdid her sternness, to be sure.

At least since last winter, Bolton has been exploring a run for the White House, still he has yet to make a final decision. Bolton, though, insists that the current filed has seen no “coalescing around a particular candidate.” Apparently he still feels there is plenty of time to make a final decision…

See the rest at RightPundits.com.

VIDEO: Herman Cain Raises Voice at Blogger, Holds His Ground

June 20, 2011 | Filed Under Abortion, al Qaeda, Americans For Prosperity, Budget, Business, Capitalism, Economy/Finances, Elections, Foreign Policy, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, Herman Cain, Islam, Islamofascism, Jobs, Judaism, Minnesota, President, Regulation, Republicans, Taxes, Terrorism, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment

-By 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 was held in Minneapolis, Minnesota but Cain has spoken at this conference several times in the past.

This time, though, Cain is running for president and questions were a tad less fawning in the blogger access session. Several questions about his refusal to sign the abortion pledge, how his foreign policy ideas are perceived as weak, and his statements on Muslims in his administration got Cain passion flowing and his eyes flashing.

I was at this meeting and was able to get a full video of the session.
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South Carolina Worker Sues Federal Gov’t Over Possible Loss of His Job

June 20, 2011 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Budget, Business, Capitalism, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Ethics, Free Trade, Freedom, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, House of Representatives, Jobs, Labor Law, Liberals, Nanny State, NLRB, North Carolina, President, Regulation, Republicans, Right To Work, South Carolina, States Rights, Taxes, Unions, Warner Todd Huston, Washington, Washington D.C. | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Barack Obama’s interference in the business operations of Boeing new Dreamliner manufacturing project will likely cause thousands of workers in South Carolina to lose their jobs. Because of this, one Palmetto State worker is suing the federal government for its part in his probable future job loss.

This is a story about Obama’s status as the top bought-and-paid-for union hack in the country and how he is attempting to use his powers to wield regulations as a tool to punish an American business for wanting to open a new manufacturing plant in South Carolina all because the president feels that a union will be hurt in the process of the creation of thousands of new jobs.

As it happens, airplane manufacturer Boeing wants to open a new manufacturing plant in South Carolina for its new Dreamliner plane because the manufacturer had been having so many union-caused troubles in its Washington State plant.
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NBC Sports Removes ‘Under God’ From Kids Saying Pledge of Allegiance

June 20, 2011 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Censorship, Children, Christianity, Democrats/Leftists, Entertainment, Liberals, Liberty, Media, MSNBC, NBC, Patriotism, Religion, Sports, TV, TV News, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

In its intro to the 2011 U.S. Open golf tournament, NBC Sports had a heart stirring montage of Old Glory, school kids reciting the pledge of allegiance, all intercut with some of golf’s biggest contemporary stars. It had everything: resounding music, patriotism, and golf. But one thing it didn’t have… the whole pledge. It seems NBC sort of forgot the “under God” part of the pledge.

That’s right, NBC cut out the part where the kids say “under God,” as in “one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”

This was obviously done on purpose. The video of the kids saying the allegiance goes from “one nation” and skips ahead to “with liberty and justice for all.”
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Food Fascism Lays Groundwork For Additional Control

June 20, 2011 | Filed Under Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, FDA, Frederick Meekins, Government, Government, Corruption, Health, Liberals, Nanny State | Comments Off

-By Frederick Meekins

Wonder what the food fascists advocating dietary asceticism scarfed down as children. As anyone that has sat through an evangelistic missionary testimonial knows, those griping the loudest about your errant ways are usually the ones that could make a sailor blush before they came to religion.

A Chicago school’s policy of controlling what students eat is an example of the threat posed to human liberty by public education. Sad thing is many private educators are just as eager to usurp parental authority. Compounding that, if schools are religious, they’ll then compile lengthy theological justifications why you are not a “good Christian” if you don’t have a smile plastered across your face regarding the handed-down decree.

If babykillers insist that the government should keep its laws off the body of women wanting abortions, who in the name of Hades are these civil servants to tell anyone what they can or cannot eat for lunch? Students forced to eat food they don’t want should toss it in the trash in defiance or preferably hold mass puke rallies and refuse to clean up their own regurgitation.
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Dalai Lama: ‘I am a Marxist’

June 19, 2011 | Filed Under Capitalism, Communism, Economy/Finances, Government, Liberals, Religion, Selwyn Duke, Socialism | Comments Off

-By Selwyn Duke

There is no better way to proclaim your lack of spiritual and philosophical depth than by, two decades after the fall of communism, disclosing that you’re Marxist. Yet this is precisely what Buddhist spiritual leader the Dalai Lama did during a speech before 150 Chinese students at the University of Minnesota this month. Journalist Tsering Namgyal reports on the story at Religion Dispatches, writing, “‘as far as socio-political beliefs are concerned, I consider myself a Marxist.’ ‘But not a Leninist,’ he [the Lama] clarified.”

Well, that’s a relief. Those Leninists can really kill ya’. Marxists will just murder you.

This isn’t the first time the Lama indicated that his soul is as red as the robes he wears. During a lecture in NYC on May 19, the Tibetan leader credited “capitalism” with bringing new freedoms to China but then said, “Still I am a Marxist”; he then explained that Marxism has “moral ethics, whereas capitalism is only how to make profits.” That’s some deep thinking right there.
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Live Tweeting Michelle Bachmann and Others at RightOnLine Morning Session…

June 18, 2011 | Filed Under Americans For Prosperity, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

Join me as I live Tweet the morning session at RightOnLine going on RIGHT NOW… http://twitter.com/#!/warnerthuston!

This morning we’ll hear from Michelle Bachmann, Ed Morrissey, Michelle Malkin, and many more.

New Open Government and Spending Transparency Reforms Introduced

June 18, 2011 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Budget, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, House of Representatives, Liberals, President, Republicans, Taxes, Transparency, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

While the Obama administration plays its games with “czars,” more “boards,” and “committees” to implement government accountability policies, Representative Darrell Issa (R, Calif.) has introduced some measures that would do a far better job to meet those goals.

President Obama has touted a “Government Accountability and Transparency Board” (GATB) as well as the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board (RATB) meant to bring more accountability to federal actions. But what real power will these “boards” and “committees” have? What real good will they do? Worse, how can we expect boards appointed by the president to shine the light of transparency on the Executive branch?

So, what will these new presidential projects be doing? The GATB “shall work with the RATB to apply the approaches developed by the RATB across Government spending.” Absurdly, these new boards won’t even be making a report for six more months.
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Chicago Teachers Losing Their Raises

June 18, 2011 | Filed Under Budget, Business, Capitalism, Chicago, Children, Cities, Congress, Cook County, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Education, Government, Government, Corruption, Illinois, Illinois State Government, Jobs, Liberals, Public Employees Unions, Taxes, Teachers Unions, Unions, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

As the Daley years wound down, Chicago’s public schools teachers were handed an automatic 4 percent raise across the board that was supposed to take effect next year. However, that largess from the taxpayers has just been rescinded by a unanimous vote of the Chicago Public Schools board.

Citing the $712 million budget deficit, the CPS announced that the automatic, meritless raise was simply unjustifiable.

In a statement, schools chief Jean-Claude Brizard said, “I have the utmost respect and admiration for teachers and all that they do for our children. But today’s board action was taken in response to the massive financial crisis facing our system. My team is now tasked with developing a balanced budget and presenting it to the Board and the public in August and our promise remains to minimize any impacts on the classroom and our kids.”
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America’s Version of the Ouroboros — Deliver Us from Stupidity

June 18, 2011 | Filed Under Christianity, Democracy, Economy/Finances, Elections, Government, Government, Corruption, Liberals, Michael Bresciani‏, Religion | Comments Off

-By Rev Michael Bresciani‏

The most read article I have ever written is only made it to my own website after being circulated around the internet for over five years. It has been published to over fifty other sites and read by about 350,000 people. It is entitled “7 Sure Fire Ways To Overcome Stage Fright When Speaking Or Performing” it was written and published back in 2005. Within that article I advise my readers a bit on how to look at a crowd of people with the following advice.

“See the Crowd as Only One Person: No science is available to prove how or why this little tool works, but be assured it will never fail. Always speak to the audience as if you were talking to only one single person. It makes them feel that you are being very personal with each individual, they can feel the difference. It shrinks the crowd on a perceptional level for you. Remember that perception is often the better part of reality. It moves the entire matter to a, one on one. Who wouldn’t admit that they are more comfortable talking to their neighbor or some stranger but not a whole crowd? Approach your performance or address as if you were doing just that and you will succeed.”

When writing, this rule also applies but what are missing are the eye contact and the verbal and emotional responses of the crowd. Yet, even for that, the statistics of an article, the feedback and the demographics of the readership says a lot. So what exactly does it say?
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RightOnLine Hosts Andrew Breitbart Saturday Main Event Join my Live Tweeting

June 17, 2011 | Filed Under Americans For Prosperity, Andrew Breitbart, Media, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

Join me as I live Tweet Andrew Breitbart at the RightOnLine evening event going on RIGHT NOW… http://twitter.com/#!/warnerthuston!

RightOnLine Saturday Main Event…

June 17, 2011 | Filed Under Americans For Prosperity, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

Join me as I live Tweet the RightOnLine main event going on RIGHT NOW… http://twitter.com/#!/warnerthuston!

Did Rep. Weiner Really Thank His Parents for the ‘Values’ They ‘Instilled’ In Him?

June 17, 2011 | Filed Under Congress, Democrats/Leftists, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, House of Representatives, Liberals, New York, New York City, Sex Offenders/Rape, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

OK, someone really needs to have a nice long sit down with troubled New York Democrat Anthony Weiner. In his resignation speech he actually thanked his parents for the “values they instilled in me,” the ones that got him “this far”… which apparently is thrown out of Congress on his ear. Does he not understand that the entire mess he is currently wallowing in was because of the lack of values he displayed?

Here is the absurd line in question in his resignation speech:
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Freedomist at RightOnLine 2011

June 17, 2011 | Filed Under Americans For Prosperity, Minnesota, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

The Collier brothers, William and Paul, have a great booth set up at RightOnLine 2011 to begin to build a network of interested citizens to affect conservative change.

The Colliers have a great site, too, called The Freedomist. Their tag line couldn’t be more true: “Government Costs Too Much, Let’s Stop the Progressive War on Freedom.”

The Freedomist is a great site of news, commentary, and political action items we should all pay attention to. Bookmark The Freedomist, won’t you?

Bill will be blogging about RightOnLine HERE
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RightOnLine 2011

June 17, 2011 | Filed Under Americans For Prosperity, Minnesota, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

This weekend I’ll be writing a few posts about the always great RightOnLine event, of which I am a part, here in beautiful downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota at the Hilton Hotel. At this fourth annual RightOnLine conference, local citizens can come out to learn how to become involved in elections, to become citizen journalists, and to use the tool found on the Internet to affect change.

RightOnLine 2011 is sponsored by Americans for Prosperity, the premier grassroots conservative activist organization in the country.

Many great speakers and breakout sessions are going on as I write. Some of the speakers that will be in attendance will include former Minn. Governor Tim Pawlenty, Rep. Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Andrew Breitbart, Michelle Malkin, Rep. Thad McCotter and others.

Also, tonight we will be screening the new documentary about Sarah Palin, The Undefeated.

So, as things occur, I’ll be posting about it all right here.
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What Economic Turnaround?

June 17, 2011 | Filed Under Barbara Boxer, Budget, Business, Capitalism, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, DNC, Economy/Finances, Elections, Ethics, Government, Government, Corruption, Liberals, President, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment

Obama and his cohorts want to sell the American people a bill of goods. DNC head Debbie Wasserman Schultz is telling the country that Democrats “own” the “recovery.” Only one problem. There ain’t one.

Don’t buy the lies, folks. Don’t do it.

Illinois So Broke They Want to Sell Ads on License Plates

June 17, 2011 | Filed Under Budget, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Government, Corruption, Illinois, Illinois State Government, Liberals, Michael Madigan, Pat Quinn, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

You know things are bad when governments start selling things they “own.” The latest is the state of Illinois so over spent and in a budgetary hole that authorities are floating the idea of selling advertising space on its auto license plates.

The Democrat led general assembly has given the Secretary of State’s office a directive to begin researching the pros and cons of “corporate plates,” or sponsors for license plates (SB1360). The hope is that more money will be brought into the treasury and, perhaps, the state won’t have to raise taxes… as much.
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It’s About Personal Responsibility

June 17, 2011 | Filed Under Congress, Constitution, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Frank Salvato, Government, Government, Corruption, House of Representatives, Liberals | Comments Off

-By Frank Salvato

Weiner-mania: if the story weren’t so infuriating and sad – and such a damning commentary on our society – it would be laughable. Alas, here we stand at a moment in time when a sitting US congressman – a newly married, sitting US congressman – felt it was “okay” to take pictures of his erect penis and send them – unsolicited – to much younger females. And if that weren’t bad enough, we are led to believe that it is appropriate to have a “discussion” as to whether this idiot should resign or not. Of course he should resign! To believe otherwise is to engage in moral relativism and – contrary to what the Progressive Movement believes – that is a bad thing.

All one has to do to divine whether Congressman Weiner’s actions were as unacceptable as I feel they were, is to consider this singular point. If your daughter was to receive an unsolicited photograph of an erect penis from a man more than twice her age, a photo accompanied by salacious and suggestive comments, would that be acceptable to you? If you say yes then you have some terribly troubling issues that you should seek help with immediately.
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Right Nation 2011 Chosen as Location for Black Conservative Summit

June 17, 2011 | Filed Under Conservatives, Illinois, Republicans, United Republican Fund, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

WINFIELD, IL – URF announced today that Right Nation 2011, taking place November 3-5, will be the location for the first annual Black Conservative Summit (BCS) hosted by Freedom’s Journal Magazine.

“We’re honored the BCS has chosen Right Nation 2011 as a location to showcase the diversity of conservatism throughout the Midwest. We’re delighted that Dr. Eric Wallace and a team of highly-respected black conservative leaders, along with Freedom’s Journal Magazine, have agreed to be an integral part of this year’s event,” said Dennis LaComb, URF Executive Director. “Their participation will add depth and breadth to this year’s gathering, and will showcase the richness of the conservative movement.”

Freedom’s Journal Magazine is the sponsor of the Black Conservative Summit (BCS). The purpose of the summit is to aggregate and engender Black conservative voices on issues facing America and the Black community, and to proffer solutions that positively impact the country’s future.

Several Black conservative leaders have already confirmed their participation, including national columnist Star Parker, radio show host Armstrong Williams, Rev. Wayne Perryman, and Raynard Jackson.
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McConnell Wants Terror Suspects Held in Kentucky to be Sent to Gitmo

June 16, 2011 | Filed Under Air Force, al Qaeda, Anti-Americanism, Anti-Semitism, Army, Barack Obama, Coast Guard, Congress, Crime, Cuba, Democrats/Leftists, Foreign Policy, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, Islam, Islamofascism, Liberals, Marines, Military, Mitch McConnell, National Guard, Navy, President, Religion, Republicans, Security/Safety, Senate, Terrorism, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Why are a pair of foreign terrorists sitting in a jail in Kentucky? That’s what Senate GOP Minority Leader Mitch McConnell wants to know. He wants them sent to the facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where they belong.

Why is the Justice Department doing this? Why expose our heartland to these monsters?
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Herman Cain: Obama’s NLRB ‘A Direct Assault on the Free Market System’

June 16, 2011 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Budget, Business, Capitalism, Conservatives, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Fox Business Network, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, Health, Herman Cain, Jobs, Liberals, President, Republicans, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Presidential candidate Herman Cain (R) recently spoke with FOX Business Network’s (FBN) Neil Cavuto about the dispute between the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and Boeing and its impact on the United States economy. Cain said what the NLRB is trying to do keeping Boeing out of Charleston is “a direct assault on the free market system” and he hopes Boeing will “fight it all the way to the Supreme Court if that’s what they have to do.” Cain went on to say it is “uncertainty” that is preventing the U.S. economy from adding jobs in the “private sector” which must be “the engine” for economic growth and it is issues like the NLRB/Boeing dispute that are “killing the engine.”

Cain says that the reason business aren’t hiring is because of the uncertainty that Obama’s policies have visited upon the nation. The “uncertainty about the impact of Obamacare” chief among them.

“We don’t know what the tax rates are going to be at the end of 2013. This economy is stalled. This economy is like a train stuck on the tracks. You have a boxcar full of 15 million people who don’t have jobs, you have a boxcar of businesses that are hanging on. You have a caboose and no engine. They keep feeding the caboose. The caboose can’t pull the train. The private sector has to be the engine. Everything that they are doing, including this National Labor Relations Board issue, is killing the engine.”
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Against The Odds, Right Leads Online

June 16, 2011 | Filed Under Americans For Prosperity, Budget, Business, Capitalism, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Government, Government, Corruption, Liberals, President, Regulation, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment

(Ed’s note – I will be flying to Minneapolis to attend the RightOnline.com conference this year. If you have the time or are in the Minneapolis area, do come on out)

-By Erik Telford

Arianna Huffington’s recent mega-payday from AOL was powerful evidence of the tight connection between the hard-left netroots and the online establishment. And AOL isn’t the only web giant to provide apparently favorable treatment to the left. Google has been accused of blocking certain right-wing websites or lowering their standing in search results, and its YouTube subsidiary seems to remove files uploaded by conservatives far more often than offensive content posted by liberals.

The love affair between the tech giants and the big-government left can be traced not only to Silicon Valley’s geographical proximity to San Francisco but also to the two groups’ shared agenda. President Obama’s stated goal of having the FCC regulate the Internet will ensure that bandwidth-heavy websites will not have to pay for the billions of dollars in investments that private broadband companies made. Of course, money from the technology industry flows freely into Democratic coffers.

Yet somehow the right is more than holding its own in the online activism arena.
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The Consequences of Making your Privates Public

June 16, 2011 | Filed Under Children, Christianity, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Government, Liberals, Morals/Sex, Nancy Salvato, PCism, Religion, Society/Culture, Western Civilization | Comments Off

-By Nancy Salvato

Sexting: When someone sends someone else a naked/nude pictures – Urban Dictionary #14

An individual who hasn’t heard the news reports on Anthony Weiner by now would have to be living under a rock. However, there may be large numbers of people unaware of what may be considered an epidemic in what has become known as sexting.

According to an article in Safety Web, Sexting 101 – Guide for Parents, “39% of teens and 59% of young adults have sent or posted sexually suggestive emails or text messages, and 20% of teens and 33% of young adults have sent/posted nude or semi-nude images of themselves.” It doesn’t stop there, “38% teens and 46% of young adults say it is common for nude or semi-nude photos to get shared with people other than the intended recipient.”
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EPA’s Promise of Economic Growth a Sham

June 15, 2011 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Budget, Business, Capitalism, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, EPA, Government, Government, Corruption, Liberals, President, Regulation, RightPundits.com, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Lisa Jackson, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), is headed to The Hill to testify about the Obama Administration’s newest proposed environmental regulations. Obama’s EPA is claiming that the new rules will bring all sorts of economic growth, but a new report by the National Taxpayers Union puts the administration’s claims in question and shows that the EPA’s “benefits” have no basis in reality.

The new report features economist David Montgomery who reveals the very large net regulatory benefits touted by EPA rely on apples to orange comparisons, where the vast majority of the benefits have none of the financial reality that the costs do. (Click here for a .pdf of the report)…

Read the rest at RightPundit.com.

Illinois Congressmen Help Tip in Big Labor Amendment

June 15, 2011 | Filed Under Aaron Schock, Bobby Schilling, Budget, Business, Capitalism, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Free Trade, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, House of Representatives, Illinois, Jobs, Liberals, Peter Roskam, PLA, President, Randy Hultgren, Republicans, Right To Work, Taxes, Unions, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By 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 previous post for particulars of the bill.)

Sadly, we lost this battle by one stinking vote and this example shows that even though we may have a GOP controlled House of Reps. they still don’t always support conservative measures — and they need to be carefully watched! Those supporting this jobs-killing amendment numbered 204 and those voting in favor of economic success only numbered 203. (25 representatives did not vote at all)

Now, seeing as how I am from Illinois — the most corrupt state in the union — I focused in my previous post on those of the Illinois Republican delegation that had in the past supported Big Labor bills similar to the one in question. So, this is a follow up to that report.
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Obama Puts Unions Ahead of a Healthy Economy, Free Trade

June 15, 2011 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Budget, Business, Capitalism, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Free Trade, Government, Government, Corruption, Jobs, Liberals, Mitch McConnell, President, Taxes, Unions, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

President Obama claims that he wants to “create jobs,” and is happily touting several policies that he claims will create jobs in this jobless, non-recovery. Unfortunately, all his polices really do is shore up the high cost unions that kill job growth. As GOP Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConell says, Obama has “relentlessly pursued an agenda that is radically opposed” to job growth.

Speaking on the floor last Tuesday, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said, “For two and a half years, Democrats in Washington have paid lip service to the idea of job creation — even as they’ve relentlessly pursued an agenda that is radically opposed to it… Democrats don’t want to admit that the government-driven policies of the past two and a half years are part of the problem. And until they do, nothing will change. Unless Democrats change their priorities and their policies, the threats of a downgrade won’t go away. The debt won’t get any smaller. Businesses won’t create the kind of jobs we need to build prosperity.
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You Don’t Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Union Wind Blows

June 15, 2011 | Filed Under Budget, California, Democrats/Leftists, Education, Government, Government, Corruption, Larry Sand, Liberals, Nanny State, Taxes | Comments Off

-By Larry Sand

Twenty years of schooling in Los Angeles and you’re lucky if you can get any job, let alone one on the dayshift.

Bob Dylan penned the words in the headline (sans the union part) almost a half century ago but having been quoted by many, they live on. The latest example of the lyrics’ relevance can be applied to a new 58 page report commissioned by United Way and several civil rights’ groups, produced by the National Council on Teacher Quality and funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation…and the reactions of a teachers union boss.

Teacher Quality Roadmap: Improving Policies and Practices in LAUSD was published last week, and there were no major surprises in it. Education reformers have been aggressively campaigning for similar changes for many years, and various recommendations from this report are already in force in other states. (While dealing specifically with Los Angeles, its findings could be readily applied to the rest of California. Local school districts do have some power, but education policy decisions are typically made at the state level.)
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