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Budget - Chicago - Cook County - Democrats/Leftists - Economy/Finances - Government - Illinois - Liberals - Taxes - Tea Party - Warner Todd Huston

Chicago Tea Party: Repeal the Tax Hike

January 31, 2011 by

From the Chicago Tea Party…

If you’re outraged over the 67% income tax increase and the 46% corporate income tax increase in Illinois, then please join us at our next monthly meeting. Our featured speaker will be John Tillman, CEO of the Illinois Policy Institute. We will discuss our efforts to repeal the tax hike and reform out of control government spending. Find out what you can do to help make a difference.

Click here to register for the Chicago Tea Party February Meeting. You can also RSVP through Facebook.
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Chicago Tea Party: Repeal the Tax Hike”

Budget - Congress - Democrats/Leftists - Ethics - GOP - Government - House of Representatives - Liberals - Michele Bachmann - President - Republicans - Taxes - Tea Party - Warner Todd Huston

The Left’s Lying Liars Trying to Smear Michelle Bachmann’s Tea Party Response

January 30, 2011 by 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

The left’s latest unfair, false, and downright scurrilous attack on Michelle Bachmann focuses on her Tea Party response video aired after President Obama’s State of the Union speech last week. I am a bit late to this story, I realize, but I wanted to get it aired here regardless.

The left’s claim is that Michelle is too stupid to understand how TV works because she was not looking into the camera as she delivered her comments. Further, the left (and some uninformed conservatives, too) are saying that Bachmann is dividing the Republican Party by delivering the speech at all.

Both claims are flat out false.
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The Left’s Lying Liars Trying to Smear Michelle Bachmann’s Tea Party Response”

Anti-Americanism - Budget - Democrats/Leftists - George W. Bush - GOP - Government - Iraq - Liberals - Policy - President - Republicans - Social Security - Taxes - Warner Todd Huston

Amazing: NPRs Out Of Context Use of Renew America Quote

January 30, 2011 by 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

Russ J. Alan is a writer whose work often appears on the website RenewAmerica.com, a news/opinion site started several years ago by Alan Keyes. Alan’s latest column is about the mess that is Social Security and a quote from his piece was posted on National Public Radio’s website under the rubric of quotes on Iraq. But NPR takes the quote so badly out of context that one would think that Alan was saying just the opposite of what he actually said.

Remember our tax money goes for this NPR “service” to the nation.

Under NPR’s topic page one can search for quotes on any particular subject and the Alan quote is under Topics/Iraq/Quote. There you will find this:
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Amazing: NPRs Out Of Context Use of Renew America Quote”

Budget - Congress - Democrats/Leftists - Economy/Finances - GOP - Government - House of Representatives - Illinois - Liberals - Peter Roskam - President - Republicans - Taxes - Warner Todd Huston

Roskam to Deliver Economic Speech At City Club of Chicago Tuesday

January 30, 2011 by

From the office of Congressman Peter Roskam (Ill., 6th District)..

BLOOMINGDALE – Majority Chief Deputy Whip Peter Roskam (IL-6) will deliver an economic speech at the City Club of Chicago this coming Tuesday, February 1st, at 12:30 pm CT. Roskam, a member of the influential Ways & Means Committee, will outline what House Republicans are doing to ensure the 112th Congress is a “cut-and-grow” Congress that eliminates wasteful spending and cuts harmful regulations, enabling private sector job growth. Roskam will offer a clear alternative to the job-destroying policies that Democrats are implementing both in Washington and in Illinois – on taxes, healthcare, trade and more.
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Roskam to Deliver Economic Speech At City Club of Chicago Tuesday”

Alan Caruba - Democracy - Democrats/Leftists - Egypt - Liberals - President

Losing Egypt

January 30, 2011 by 1 Comment

-By Alan Caruba

Those of us around at the time of the 1979 Iranian student revolution that deposed the shah are having strong feelings of déjà vu because that uprising was swiftly co-opted by Ayatollah Khomeini who hated the Great Satan, America, as much as he hated the Little Satan, Israel.

The U.S. lost a major ally in the Middle East. The Shah may have been a bastard, but he was our bastard. The CIA had put him on the Peacock Throne.

The uprising in Egypt, if taken over by the Muslim Brotherhood, will severely endanger American interests that have largely been coasting along in the belief that Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak would engineer a smooth transition of power to his son. This was the scenario in Syria when its dictator, Hafiz al-Assad, passed away.

That scenario just went out the window. Given the depth of opposition to Mubarak, it is unlikely power would pass to his son, Jamal who, with his wife and daughter have fled to Great Britain. Moreover, since Mubarak has no vice president, there is a major power vacuum.
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9/11 - Alan Caruba - Anti-Americanism - Christianity - Constitution - Democrats/Leftists - Government - Islam - Islamofascism - Journalism - Liberals - Media Bias - Nanny State - President - Regulation - Religion - Terrorism

Hating Infidels

January 30, 2011 by

-By Alan Caruba

The Holocaust of the last century is remembered for the mass murder of Europe’s Jewish population, an estimated six million who perished. In total, an estimated eleven to seventeen million Europeans, Jews and Christians, died in the Nazi concentration and death camps or were murdered outright in their homelands.

Records were lost or didn’t list religion, but the lesser known story of the Holocaust was the death of millions of Christians, three million of whom were Poles, predominantly Catholics, killed by the Nazis for being Poles. They have a special place in Jewish history because many Poles, risking immediate execution if caught, were among the “righteous Gentiles” who were rescuers of Jews.

I cite this because there is a new Holocaust abroad in the world and it is directed at Christians, particularly in the Middle East and throughout Africa, wherever Islam is the dominant religion. Nor is this is a new phenomenon; Christians were widely persecuted under the Ottomans (Turks) when their empire encompassed much of the Middle East.
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Hating Infidels”

9/11 - Anti-Americanism - Barack Obama - Democrats/Leftists - Frank Salvato - Government - Islam - Islamofascism - Liberals - Military - President - Society/Culture - Terrorism - Western Civilization

About the ‘Muslim Problem’

January 29, 2011 by 1 Comment

-By Frank Salvato

Five years ago when my organization BasicsProject.org partnered in producing the first national symposium series on the threat of radical Islam, the issue was not in the mainstream. In fact, our publication, NewMediaJournal.us was banned from Google News for what they called “hate speech,” simply because several of our writers dared to broach the subject of jihad and the violent tenets of Islamist fundamentalism. To be sure, we have come a very long way from those days. Today, Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity both talk regularly about the issue with Mr. O’Reilly calling it “the Muslim problem.” This is a good thing, but it isn’t nearly enough.

As President Obama does everything in his power, using every resource and every propaganda ploy to diminish the “Muslim problem” that exists, not only in the United States, but around the world, the truth remains, fundamentalist Islam is a problem that is growing, not diminishing. Many on the Left and in the Progressive camp insist that the number of people within the Islamic religion who practice fundamentalist Islam – radical Islam; those who, when asked, champion the violent element within their religion, are but a scant ten percent. But when we put that percentage in realistic terms, realizing that nearly one-fourth of the world’s population is Muslim (1.57 billion adherents) and that the number of those following the Islamic religion grows by 1.84% annually, we can divine that ten percent of the Muslim population – those who subscribe to fundamentalist Islam and violent jihad – amounts to 157,000,000 people and growing. That number, to equate it to something tangible, is over one-third of the population of the United States of America.
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Budget - Chicago - Cook County - Democrats/Leftists - Economy/Finances - Elections - Gery Chico - Government - Illinois - Liberals - Taxes - Warner Todd Huston

Chico Blasts Rahm Tax at Local Barbershop

January 29, 2011 by

From the Gery Chico for Chicago Mayor campaign…

(CHICAGO) Visiting a Hyde Park barbershop that could potentially be hit by Rahm Emanuel’s haphazard plan to raise taxes, mayoral candidate Gery Chico again criticized the Rahm Tax as one of the largest expansions of the sales tax in city history at the absolute worst time.

“Need a plumber? Pay the Rahm Tax. Need a taxi? Pay the Rahm Tax. Need to park your car? Pay the Rahm Tax,” Gery Chico said. “If Rahm Emanuel gets his way, we will all pay the Rahm Tax.”
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Budget - California - Democrats/Leftists - Government - Liberals - Public Employees Unions - Taxes - Teachers Unions - Unions - Warner Todd Huston

As We Lose Our Jobs, Unionized CA College Profs Want More

January 28, 2011 by 3 Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

Without question we are living through the worst economic times in generations and Barack Obama’s policies aren’t helping alleviate the pain. Pain is, indeed, the watchword, too. Nearly everyone knows someone that has lost his job. Nearly everyone has lost money for their retirement. Everyone is feeling the pain. And no one is very sanguine that it’s getting any better. Well, no one but unionized university professors in California, anyway. They are so sure that things are better than ever that they expect constantly growing pay and even richer benefits to be borne on the backs of the taxpayers.

There’s a lesson in this somewhere.

California’s university professor union, the California Faculty Association, has looked upon the crumbling state of California in the economic disaster that is the United States and instead of seeing a goad toward austerity, the CA sees greater spending as an answer to what ails them.

The gal these unionistas have.
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As We Lose Our Jobs, Unionized CA College Profs Want More”

Anti-Americanism - Budget - Children - Democrats/Leftists - Economy/Finances - Education - Government - Larry Sand - Liberals - Public Employees Unions - Taxes - Teachers Unions - Unions

Tribute, Turf Tax and the Teachers Unions

January 28, 2011 by 1 Comment

-By Larry Sand

Before the Reformation, it was common for Europeans to pay Tribute to the Church. People across Europe would have to give something to Rome as a way of submitting to, or showing allegiance to, the church.

Tribute in another form came about in the U.S. the 1920s when organized crime carved up cities and claimed certain areas as their turf. Any legitimate person who wanted to start a business in a gang’s territory would have to pay a street or turf tax to the thugs just to do business.

While these concepts may seem alien to many of us in the West today, people here in our own country that toil away in non-right-to-work states must pay Tribute — in the form of union dues — if they want to be employed in certain professions.

Teachers in 28 states and Washington D.C. fall into this pay-to-play category. While this type of Tribute goes pretty much unchallenged, every now and then something comes up that you’d think would enrage those who are being victimized.
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Tribute, Turf Tax and the Teachers Unions”

Budget - Chicago - Cook County - Democrats/Leftists - Elections - Gery Chico - Illinois - Liberals - Police - Taxes - Warner Todd Huston

Chico pledges 2,000 new police officers by end of first term

January 28, 2011 by

From the Gery Chico for Chicago Mayor campaign..

(CHICAGO) Mayoral candidate Gery Chico rolled out a five-point plan to crack down on crime today that would strengthen police presence in Chicago neighborhoods, expand community policing and tackle gang violence. At a press conference in Marquette Park, within Chicago’s 8th Police District where the city’s index crime rate is the highest, Chico vowed to put 2,000 more officers on the street by the end of his first term in office.

Noting the increase in violence against police officers as an indication of a dangerous indifference to the law, Chico said protecting the citizens is the mayor’s most important job.
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Chico pledges 2,000 new police officers by end of first term”

Budget - Democrats/Leftists - Florida - Government - Liberals - Taxes - Truth in Accounting - Warner Todd Huston

Truth in Accounting Issues: Florida’s ‘Financial State of the State’ – True Tax Burden $23. Billion

January 28, 2011 by

From the Institute for Truth in Accounting…

Chicago (November 29, 2010) Today, the Institute for Truth in Accounting released Florida’s “Financial State of the State.” After an intensive review of the State’s 2009 audited financial report the Institute determined the State is in a precarious financial position because it does not have the funds available to pay more than $23.4 billion of the State’s commitments as they come due. Each taxpayer’s share of this financial burden equals $4,100.

Florida state law requires a balanced budget. “If governors and legislatures had truly balanced the state’s budget, no taxpayer’s financial burden would exist,” said Sheila Weinberg, founder and CEO of the Institute for Truth in Accounting (IFTA). She continued, “A state budget is not balanced if past costs, including those for employees’ retirement benefits, are pushed into the future.”
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Truth in Accounting Issues: Florida’s ‘Financial State of the State’ – True Tax Burden $23. Billion”

Carol Moseley Braun - Chicago - Cook County - Democrats/Leftists - Elections - Gery Chico - Government - Illinois - Liberals - Warner Todd Huston

Rahmin’ It Home, Emanuel Stays on the Chicago Mayor Ballot

January 27, 2011 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

At last, the question of whether Rahm Emanuel should stay on the ballot has been settled once and for all. The Illinois Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that the Appellate Court’s decision to throw Rahm off the ballot was a “novel standard” without “any foundation in Illinois Law.” Therefore, Rahm Emanuel is eligible to run for election in the Chicago Mayor’s race.

The question arose when attorney Burt Odelson charged that Rahm Emanuel did not satisfy the residency requirement for a candidate. Chicago election law requires that a candidate for office must have lived in Chicago for a year before appearing on an election ballot.

Odelson claimed that since Emanuel lived in Washington for the last two years he did not satisfy the one year residency requirement. Two courts disagreed with the charge but the third, the Appellate Court, agreed throwing the whole city into a tizzy for the last several days.
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Rahmin’ It Home, Emanuel Stays on the Chicago Mayor Ballot”

AFL-CIO - Budget - Business - Capitalism - Democrats/Leftists - Economy/Finances - Government - Jobs - Liberals - Public Employees Unions - SEIU - Taxes - Unions - Warner Todd Huston

Unions Realizing They Have Bad Reputation, Launch PR Campaign

January 27, 2011 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

So, what is the first thing that you do when you find out that everyone hates you? What do you do when you finally come to terms with the fact that you have the worst reputation possible? Do you sit yourself down and reassess your actions to try and pinpoint why everyone thinks you are a jerk? Well, that might be what a serious person or group might do. So, what has the AFL-CIO, the SEIU and other big unions done upon this realization? Why, hired a public relations firm, of course.

After all, the unions can’t possibly be at fault can they? Why, it can’t be the union’s fault that everyone hates them, could it? It simply must be that people out there are too stupid to understand that unions are wonderful, right?
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Unions Realizing They Have Bad Reputation, Launch PR Campaign”

2nd Amendment - Anti-Americanism - Congress - Constitution - Crime - Democrats/Leftists - Government - Guns - House of Representatives - Liberals - Nancy Morgan - President - Rights

A Delicious Orgy

January 27, 2011 by

-By Nancy Morgan

Game, set and match to the leftist media. Once again, they have defined the issue and set the terms of the debate on the horrific shootings in Arizona last weekend.

He who defines the issues wins. Period. And the liberal media has the right on the ropes – putting them, once again, in the lose-lose proposition of proving a negative.

Along the lines of “have you quit beating your wife?”, the new template fostered by the leftist media focuses on the riveting question of who caused a lone nut to express his inner self by blowing away a federal judge, a 9 year-old girl and an unfortunate Congresswoman. As the media has pretty much ignored the other fatalities killed by this loon, I’m left calling them incidental casualties.
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A Delicious Orgy”

Chicago - Cook County - Democrats/Leftists - Elections - Gery Chico - Government - Illinois - Illinois State Government - Liberals - Warner Todd Huston

Gery Chico for Chicago Mayor Ad: ‘Proven’

January 27, 2011 by

From the Gery Chico for Chicago Mayor campaign…

(CHICAGO) Mayoral candidate Gery Chico began airing a new TV ad today highlighting his plan to crack down on crime and fight gang violence in Chicago neighborhoods. The new ad – “Proven”- is Chico’s third to air as part of a robust television campaign. The ad features Chico’s recent endorsement by Chicago police officers and Chico’s pledge to put more police on the street and expand community policing.

In the past week, Chico was endorsed by Chicago Firefighters Union Local 2 in addition to the Fraternal Order of Police Chicago Lodge 7. Chico has also been backed by the Mexican American Police Organization, the Latin American Police Association, and the Chicago Police Sergeants Association.
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Gery Chico for Chicago Mayor Ad: ‘Proven’”

Budget - Economy/Finances - Illinois - Illinois State Government - Liberals - Pensions - Taxes - Warner Todd Huston

Quinn’s Pension Mess

January 27, 2011 by

From John Bambenek…

Last night the Governor’s office confirmed what many have suspected, that the Illinois pension systems are the subject of an SEC investigation. You can read the Wall Street Journal article on the subject.

With our pensions systems not only falling below 50% funding, but selling assets to keep the lights on, this is disturbing news. The best guess estimate I have is that the pension debt for the state alone is around $140 to $150 BILLION dollars. And despite the massive tax hike, no real work has been done to stabilize these funds. At this rate, they will be insolvent and unable to pay benefits by 2015.

Like many of you, I was appalled at the job-killing tax hikes that were passed in the final hours of the last legislative session. What was worse is that not only was spending not cut, they actually expanding state spending. The so-called “spending caps” are illusory at best for two reasons: it does not limit spending out of “special funds” and the spending caps are set higher than even the most optimistic estimates of the revenue that we will have.
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Chicago - Cook County - Dan Proft - Democrats/Leftists - Elections - Government - Illinois - Liberals

Poetic Justice for Rahm

January 27, 2011 by

-By Dan Proft

First Keith Olbermann was taken off the air and now Rahm Emanuel has been taken off the ballot. It has been like an infusion of vegetables into the diet of a body politic suffering from left-wing induced acidosis.

In the Rahm case, it is up to the seven members of the Illinois State Supreme Court to maintain our newfound homeostasis.

The state’s high court should end Rahm’s fraudulent candidacy.
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Poetic Justice for Rahm”

Anti-Americanism - Budget - CATO Institute - Democrats/Leftists - Family - Government - Liberals - President - Taxes - Warner Todd Huston

CATO Responds to Obama’s State of the Union 2011

January 26, 2011 by 1 Comment

Cato experts Gene Healy, Ben Friedman, Michael F. Cannon, Dan Mitchell, Sallie James, John Samples, Justin Logan, Jagadeesh Gokhale, Neal McCluskey, and David Rittgers deconstruct the president’s speech and correct some of his errors—including the “American family” metaphor, calls for more federal education spending, zero-sum thinking in trade and globalization policy, ObamaCare fixes, TSA pat down jokes, soaking the rich, and much more. I’d like to encourage you to share these incisive analyses with your friends, colleagues, and readers.

For more, here is CATO’s blog coverage of the SOTU speech.

Abortion - Budget - Children - Congress - Democrats/Leftists - Government - House of Representatives - Liberals - Planned Parenthood - President - Senate - Taxes - Warner Todd Huston

Planned Parenthood Funding A Defacto Abortion Tax on America

January 26, 2011 by 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

With the anniversary of Roe v. Wade it is the perfect time to highlight the fact that the millions upon millions of federal tax dollars that have gone to fund the abortion mill organization Planned Parenthood is a defacto abortion tax levied on the American taxpayers.

In 2008 alone, Planned Parenthood received nearly $350 million in federal funding. By Planned Parenthood’s own reckoning, this funding went to eliminate babies for more than 324,000 women that year.

The organization DefundPlannedParenthood.org reports that Planned Parenthood has received some $3.9 billion in federal funds since 1987. Pro-life supporters should go to www. DefundPlannedParenthood.org and add their voice to eliminating federal funding for abortions.
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Planned Parenthood Funding A Defacto Abortion Tax on America”

Barack Obama - Budget - Business - Capitalism - Coal - Democrats/Leftists - Economy/Finances - Elections - Energy - Gays - GOP - Government - Jobs - Liberals - Nuclear Power - Oil - President - Regulation - Republicans - Taxes - Warner Todd Huston

Jaw, Jaw and Bromides: Obama’s State of His Next Campaign for President Address

January 26, 2011 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

I sat through President Obama’s 2011 State of the Union Address last night. During the event I live Tweeted the whole thing (You can read that all at http://twitter.com/#!/warnerthuston) and ended up with an empty feeling and a headache. Obama’s address was long on calls for spending, filled with bromides, and weighted with jaw, jaw but pretty short on substance. In fact, it seemed like his 12 new spending ideas and his patriotic vagaries was simply his first step onto the 2012 campaign trail as opposed to a serious address to the nation.

Obama fittingly began his address citing John Boehner, the new Speaker of the House, and memorializing the wounded Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. He then said that we had a “robust” debate in our politics and averred that it was one thing for the parties to sit together that night but it depended on what they all do “tomorrow” and he used that point to plead for moving forward with more bi-partisanship.

Tellingly, even as Obama has paid lip service to bipartisanship for three years, when he became president neither he nor his party made any moves to implement any bipartisanship. In fact, when Democrat Nancy Pelosi was Speaker of the House she never met with any Republicans on anything. This whole claim or bipartisanship is simply a farce on Obama’s part and Obama continued that farce in the SOTU speech.
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Jaw, Jaw and Bromides: Obama’s State of His Next Campaign for President Address”

Chicago - Cook County - Democrats/Leftists - Elections - Gery Chico - Government - Illinois - Illinois State Government - Liberals - Warner Todd Huston

Chicago Firefighters Endorse Chico for Mayor

January 26, 2011 by

From the Gery Chico for Chicago Mayor campaign…

(CHICAGO) Mayoral candidate Gery Chico was endorsed today by Chicago Firefighters Union Local 2. Standing with Chico at a union hall on the southwest side, Chicago Firefighters Union President Tom Ryan said Chico’s proven track record of delivering city services and balancing city budgets make him the best candidate to be the next mayor.

“After examining the entire roster of candidates and their respective track records, we determined that nobody in this race has the relevant experience of delivering essential city services that Gery Chico possesses,” said Tom Ryan, president of Chicago Firefighters Local 2. “Gery is a strong, capable leader who understands the critical work that Chicago’s firefighters perform. We are confident he will be a fair mayor and he will be a mayor who puts the safety of Chicagoans first.”

Chico has made public safety a top priority as a candidate for mayor. As mayoral chief of staff, Chico worked to ensure Chicago’s firefighters had a strong voice at City Hall. Chico is the only candidate with executive leadership experience in various municipal governments, having balanced more than 15 budgets during his public service career.

“Chicago has the best fire department in the United States of America. I am humbled to receive the support of the heroes who put their lives on the line to protect Chicagoans every single day. Our firefighters personify what public service should be about – hard work and helping people,” Gery Chico said. “As mayor, I will work with our firefighters to ensure Chicago is safe and our citizens are protected.”

Firefighters Union Local 2 represents more than 5,000 active members. Chico has also been endorsed by several other public safety groups such as the Fraternal Order of Police Chicago Lodge 7, the Latin American Police Association, the Mexican American Police Organization, and the Chicago Police Sergeants Association.

http://mmm.gerychico.com/

Budget - Democrats/Leftists - Economy/Finances - Government - Liberals - New Mexico - Taxes - Truth in Accounting - Warner Todd Huston

Truth in Accounting Issues: New Mexico’s ‘Financial State of the State’ – True Tax Burden $7.1 Billion

January 26, 2011 by

From the Institute for Truth in Accounting…

Chicago (November 29, 2010) Today, the Institute for Truth in Accounting released New Mexico’s “Financial State of the State.” After an intensive review of the State’s 2009 audited financial report the Institute determined the State is in a precarious financial position because it does not have the funds available to pay more than $7.1 billion of the State’s commitments as they come due. Each taxpayer’s share of this financial burden equals $12,500.

New Mexico state law requires a balanced budget. “If governors and legislatures had truly balanced the state’s budget, no taxpayer’s financial burden would exist,” said Sheila Weinberg, founder and CEO of the Institute for Truth in Accounting (IFTA). She continued, “A state budget is not balanced if past costs, including those for employees’ retirement benefits, are pushed into the future.”
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Chicago - Cook County - Democrats/Leftists - Elections - Government - Illinois - Illinois State Government - Liberals - Warner Todd Huston

Latest on Emanuel’s Quest to be Chicago’s Mayor

January 25, 2011 by 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

Two pieces of news in the storied quest by Rahm Emanuel to get on the ballot to run for mayor of the City of Chicago.

First of all the courts have stopped the City of Chicago Board of Elections from printing the election ballots. The City said that it had no choice but to go forward and print ballots without Rahm Emanuel’s name on them. But the courts have said that they cannot print any ballots at all until Emanuel’s case is settled.

Secondly, the Illinois Supreme Court has announced that it will, indeed, hear Rahm’s case.

Emanuel has appealed the Appellate Court’s decision that he is ineligible to run for mayor because he did not satisfy the residency requirement by living in the city over the last year.

So this story is still ongoing. We have yet to learn if Rahm will actually be on the election ballot on February 22.
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Latest on Emanuel’s Quest to be Chicago’s Mayor”

Barack Obama - Budget - Congress - Democrats/Leftists - Economy/Finances - Elections - Government - Liberals - President - Senate - Taxes - Warner Todd Huston

Shameful Behavior: U.S. Senate Continues Spending Money in Secret

January 25, 2011 by 4 Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

Apparently for at least ten years our U.S. Senators have been creating operating rules that allow them to get out of doing one of their most important jobs: actually voting on legislation. As it happens ninety three percent of the approved measures that have come out of the Senate never got a roll call vote.

This means that the massive spending that the Senate has approved for the last ten years has simply sailed through the so-called most deliberative body in the world without all that annoying deliberating stuff being forced on our busy, busy Senators.

In the Washington Examiner Tina Korbe highlights the Senate’s use of the “unanimous consent” rule that allows bills to flow quickly through the Senate by dispensing with Senators having to actually sit down and hit the “yea” or “nay” button before a bill is passed on to the reconciliation phase of the lawmaking process.
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Barack Obama - Budget - Business - Capitalism - Democrats/Leftists - Economy/Finances - Elections - Government - Jobs - Liberals - President - Taxes - Warner Todd Huston

One of Obama’s Biggest Donors Now His ‘Economics Adviser’

January 25, 2011 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

Last week President Obama appointed the CEO of General Electric, Jeffery Immelt, to head up his Economic Advisory Board. This is, as Freedomworks’ Tabitha Hale wrote, “an obvious rent seeking arrangement between Big Government and Big Business.”

This could not have been a more clear product of a crony corporatist relationship, and it is one that has no place in government that professes to value the free market. So now, we fight it.

Matt Kibbe of FreedomWorks sums it up well:

“It’s time to break up the unethical romance between government and big business. For too long, corporate elites have lobbied to profit from the size and growth of government at the expense of hard-working Americans. We’re here to let President Obama and Jeffrey Immelt know that the days of easy money through backroom deals are over.”

Let’s have a small reminder of who and/what Jeffery Immelt is, shall we?

Now, some of you out there may be confused about my post, here. “Aren’t you a conservative,” you might ask? “Aren’t you usually FOR the business community?”
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One of Obama’s Biggest Donors Now His ‘Economics Adviser’”

Anti-Americanism - Entertainment - Hollywood - Liberals - Magazines - Media - Media Bias - Patriotism - Warner Todd Huston

Movie: For Overseas Distribution ‘Captain America’ Won’t Be Captain America

January 25, 2011 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

The venerable Marvel comic book character Captain America has been, well, “Captain America” since 1941. But as of the 2011 release of the new movie “Captain America: The First Avenger,” he won’t be Captain American anymore. At least as far as the film’s title overseas goes, anyway.

Apparently, Hollywood thinks a character called “Captain America” is too gauche for foreigners to handle. And so he’s to go nameless in such places as Russia, Ukraine, and South Korea. Once again, Hollywood shows that it is ashamed of America, it’s traditions, and culture. Thanks alot, Hollywood.

This film already caused raised eyebrows for patriots when the film’s director said last year that his Captain America wouldn’t be that into America.
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Movie: For Overseas Distribution ‘Captain America’ Won’t Be Captain America”

1st Amendment - 2nd Amendment - Arizona - Constitution - Crime - Democrats/Leftists - Government - Guns - Liberals - Mark Mattingly

Targets in Arizona? Freedom Of Speech and Right To Bear Arms

January 25, 2011 by 1 Comment

-By Mark Mattingly

When Barack H. Obama was a candidate for President I researched his background and saw that he was a committed Marxist. At the time I wrote that if he became President that we would see unprecedented removal of personal liberty and freedom and growth of the central government along with increased control by that central government over our lives. I received a lot of scorn from people on The Right. I got email along the lines of “you make me ashamed to be a conservative”.

Now, barely two years after the election of Barack H. Obama to the Presidency of the United States, we see that both the 1st and 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution are under all-out attack from forces on The Left who are no doubt emboldened by the election of this Marxist-at-heart President and the success that he has had in imposing his will on the US. The “Stimulus”, OBamaCare, and “Quantitative Easing” are but three examples of the fundamental change that Barack H. Obama promised to deliver. While the full cost of this fundamental change is yet to be paid, rest assured that the United States is on a collision course with the yet unrealized consequences of blindly accepting the imposition of Marxist ideology from within our own government.
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Targets in Arizona? Freedom Of Speech and Right To Bear Arms”

Budget - Chicago - Democrats/Leftists - Economy/Finances - Government - Illinois - Illinois State Government - Liberals - Taxes - Transparency - Warner Todd Huston

Sunshine Review Launches Premier Online Government Transparency Wiki

January 25, 2011 by

From sunshinereview.org…

Website gives the State of Illinois an “B” transparency grade, counties get “D”

ALEXANDRIA, VA – State and local government transparency champion Sunshine Review has announced a relaunch of its award winning transparency website, sunshinereview.org. The bold, innovative design provides users easy access to a database just under 60,000 articles while simultaneously building a social media platform for citizen researchers, activists, journalists, and anyone interested in government transparency and accountability. Attracting over fourteen million total page views and boasting nearly 1,200 members, Sunshine Review allows thousands of online users to build data and grade their local and state governments on transparency. According to the President of Sunshine Review, Michael Barnhart, “Sunshine Review is a community of citizens who have worked tirelessly to open up their governments. From exposing state checkbooks to ensuring that school board and county board minutes are posted publicly online, our community is advocating for transparency – the simplest function of government.”
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Sunshine Review Launches Premier Online Government Transparency Wiki”