Cook County Board President Charges Racism

November 20, 2009 | Filed Under Chicago, Cook County, Cook County Board, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Government, Corruption, Illinois, Liberals, President, State Government, Taxes, Uncategorized, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

Well, little Todd Stroger is at it again. With the Cook County Board now having been given more power by the State Legislature to overturn Stroger’s veto, the junior Stroger is now claiming it’s all about racism.

On an upcoming episode of “Connected to Chicago,” WLS radio’s Bill Cameron found Board President Stroger whining that it’s all about racism instead of his wild tax hikes. WLS is advertising its upcoming episode with this following Stroger quote:

If this was a Southern town it would be like an old fashioned lynching.

Stroger goes on to claim that he was told by the editorial board of the Chicago Tribune that they are “out to get me.” Cameron, though, reports that the Chicago Tribune denies that such a conversation ever took place and that they are not out to get him as the paranoid Stroger claims.
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Another of Obama’s Radical Appointees

October 12, 2009 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Business, Capitalism, Communism, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Education, Free Trade, Freedom, Gay Marriage, Gays, Government, Corruption, Health, Journalism, Liberals, Morals/Sex, President, Security/Safety, Socialism, Society/Culture, Taxes, Uncategorized, Warner Todd Huston, Welfare, Western Civilization | No Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

The Old Media wholly ignored the story, but one of the extremists that Barack Obama appointed as a so-called czar in his government had to step down when the full extent of his un-American radicalism was exposed on the Internet. Obama’s “green czar,” Van Jones, resigned when it was revealed how anti-American his rhetoric was not to mention his membership in a Marxist organization. But Van Jones isn’t the only far leftist that Obama has tried to foist on this country in places of influence.

We’ve been hearing lately about the radical homosexual agenda of Obama’s “safe schools czar,” Kevin Jennings. When he was a school teacher, Jennings once admittedly abetted a sexual relationship between a teenage male student of his and an adult man. He did not report this molestation, but smiled and advised the poor kid to “use a condom.”
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Democrat Sheriff Gets 5 Yrs, Media Ignores Party

August 30, 2009 | Filed Under Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Corruption, Journalism, Liberals, Media Bias, Name That Party, Security/Safety, Society/Culture, State Government, Uncategorized, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

Yes, it’s another episode of “Name That Party,” where our contestant is a criminal Democrat in the news that somehow, mysteriously finds the Old Media conveniently forgetting to mention that he is, indeed, a Democrat. This time it’s former Starr County, Texas Sheriff Reymundo Guerra who was handed a five-year sentence for drug trafficking this week. Guerra is the second Starr County Sheriff in a row to go to jail for corruption.

The Old Media dutifully reported this conviction, to be sure. It was reported that Guerra was up on harsher charges, how he had those reduced, it was also reported what criminal drug cartel figures from Mexico he was involved with and that Guerra was sorry for what he’d done.

Only one tiny, little part of the story was left out. Guerra was a Democrat official in a Texas county that has been controlled by Democrats for about 100 years. I guess the fact that a Democrat Law Official turned into a drug dealer isn’t news? Of course, if it should have been a Republican Sheriff turned drug dealer, why the Old Media would have led with that news.

As is always the case in these name-that-party stories, the AP had a short story on Guerra without mentioning he’s a Democrat. It made no stronger effort to set the record straight in its longer story, either.
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$15 Million Stimulus Spent for 1,095 Canadian Tourists in Montana

August 28, 2009 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Business, Capitalism, Communism, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Free Trade, Government, Corruption, Jobs, Journalism, Liberals, Media Bias, President, Socialism, Society/Culture, Taxes, Uncategorized, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

What is the cost of three Canadian visitors a day? Fifteen million dollars in Obamabucks, apparently. Worse, this waste of money wasn’t something the president of “transparency” seemed disposed to let us easily discover. Still, the Boston Globe reports that $15 mil is the amount of so-called stimulus money that Obama allowed to be spent by the state of Montana on a tiny border check-point facility that sees about three visitors a day — that’s $14,000,000 per tourist for the year.

Despite Obama’s promises that the stimulus plan would be transparent and free of politics, the government is handing out $720 million for border upgrades under a process that is both secretive and susceptible to political influence. This allowed low-priority projects such as the checkpoint in Whitetail, Mont., to skip ahead of more pressing concerns, according to documents revealed to the Associated Press.

Obama claimed he’d be “different,” though. Remember that he was supposed to be the serious president that only did the right thing? Yet, he’s turned his back on any sort of effort to hold stimulus spending to account. Projects all across the country are being given to less needy government facilities instead of going where need is greatest because of the influence brought to bear on distribution of funds by powerful politicians.
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You Say You Want a Real Solution

August 25, 2009 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Budget, Business, Capitalism, Communism, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Frank Salvato, Free Trade, Freedom, Government, Corruption, Health, Journalism, Liberals, Media Bias, President, Socialism, Society/Culture, Taxes, Uncategorized, Welfare | No Comments

-By Frank Salvato

As the debate over health care reform rages on – and despite the fact that the debate should be over how to provide true health care affordability to all, if in fact the goal of the “overhaul” is genuinely about the good of the downtrodden – we hear one retort from Progressives, Liberals and neo-Marxists, both in government and out: Where is your plan if you don’t like ours? Truth be told, there are several conservative and Republican crafted plans but Madam Pelosi and Mr. Reid won’t entertain them and the agenda-driven mainstream media won’t cover them. But one thing is evident, even to the intellectually challenged. If the goal is truly to provide health care affordability to every American citizen, there are ways to do it without the heavy hand of government.

Most honest Americans agree, our health care system – the system that provides medical service, i.e. doctors, hospitals, clinics, etc. – is the best in the world. It certainly does not need reform or government intervention. If you need proof it comes in the form of the richest and most powerful people in the world coming to the United States for treatment, especially when every other avenue of treatment has been exhausted. To fall prey to the notion that the “health care system is broken,” is to be gullible to a fault.

The cog that isn’t meshing correctly in the machine that includes patients, doctors, hospitals and insurance companies is the insurance company cog. Many in our country would like to see more affordable prices, inclusionary coverage for those of us with pre-existing conditions and security in knowing that if a catastrophic medical event happens to us we won’t be driven to the poor house by increased premiums of unfunded procedures. As our health care insurance system exists today, these desirable elements are not within reach of everyone. But by including a few simple provisions and/or pursuing a few sensible avenues, Americans can have affordable, functioning health care insurance for all without creating a government-run health care entity.
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A Small Outage…

August 10, 2009 | Filed Under Uncategorized | No Comments

Dear Publius Readers,

Between 5PM and 11PM our servers were down for some maintenance and other stuff. So, if you tuned in between those hours, that would be why we weren’t here.

Thanks for your patience.

Warner Todd Huston
Proprietor, PubliusForum.com

My money is on the Mama Grizzy

July 28, 2009 | Filed Under Uncategorized | No Comments

- By Josh Painter

Doctor Zero’s prognosis, ” Nobody knows the Left’s game plan better than Sarah Palin, and it seems like she plans to use what she has learned”:

Palin can do a lot of good by highlighting the thuggish tactics of the Left, which were all on nauseating display in the campaign to destroy her. Deranged conspiracy theories, in her case about the maternity of her son? Check. Blinding hypocrisy and manufactured “crises” pushed by political operatives masquerading as “journalists?” Absolutely. Vicious misogyny, passed along with nary a raised eyebrow from “feminists?” You betcha. Invasions of privacy and abuses of government to destroy a political target? Ten-four.

The good doctor is right. Using Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals as its strategic guide, the Left has smeared Sarah Palin with abandon, and it has not been held accountable so far:
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Parsing Monday’s Poll Results

July 21, 2009 | Filed Under Democrats/Leftists, Elections, GOP, Government, Corruption, Josh Painter, Journalism, Liberals, Media Bias, President, Republicans, Sarah Palin, Society/Culture, Uncategorized | No Comments

- By Josh Painter

A new Rasmussen poll released Monday showing President Obama tied with Mitt Romney and six points up on Sarah Palin in a hypothetical 2012 match up is already the buzz of the blogosphere.

Groups of political animals with different interests will be posturing all week long based on this poll. Romney backers, for example, will be crowing loudly over it, and no one should be raining on their parade. After all, their guy made a good showing, and they should have some fun with it. It may not warrant a ticker tape parade, but if they are looking for an excuse to party, this should qualify.

Sarah Palin’s backers can also find some encouragement in the latest Rasmussen numbers. Being just six points back of the president is nothing to sneeze at, especially after another poll — one conducted by Democrat polling firm Public Policy Polling in mid-March — showed Obama with a 20-point lead over Palin in the same hypothetical circumstances. If one were to say the PPP poll is as accurate as the Rasmussen survey (which Democrats always do; Republicans will argue the point in Scott Rasmussen’s favor), then Governor Palin has made a 14-point improvement against Obama in just four months. An April PPP poll had Obama ahead of Palin 53 percent to 41 percent — a twelve-point spread. Today’s Rasmussen results indicate that Gov. Palin has cut that lead in half in less than three months. But the 2012 elections are still years away, and Sarah Palin has not even started to campaign actively for 2012, if indeed she intends to do so.
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Happy Father’s Day

June 21, 2009 | Filed Under Uncategorized | No Comments

ACORN Foreclosure Counseling Funding Source

June 10, 2009 | Filed Under ACORN, Anti-Americanism, Budget, Business, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Government, Corruption, Liberals, Media Bias, Nancy Armstrong, Society/Culture, Taxes, Uncategorized | No Comments

-By Nancy Armstrong

ACORN has become directly involved in stopping foreclosures by doing foreclosure counseling with “housing experts.” Recently I spoke with the ACORN Delaware office purposely representing myself as a person who is in foreclosure in the State of Delaware to elicit details of the counseling. The polite and knowledgeable representative in the ACORN Delaware office answered my questions in full.

I told her that I needed to forestall a foreclosure. She informed me there were documents that I need to provide to the ACORN office to go “through the foreclosure counseling process.”

Here is a list of those items I needed to provide at “my appointment”:
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The ACORN-8 Has 31 Questions For ACORN

June 9, 2009 | Filed Under ACORN, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Nancy Armstrong, Taxes, Uncategorized | No Comments

The ACORN-8 want answers to thirty-one questions.

Marcel Reid, president of the ACORN 8 asked these questions at an ACORN-CCI national board meeting in July 2008 but didn’t get answers. CCI is Citizens Consulting Inc., the “accounting” arm of ACORN web of corruption. Millions of dollars run through CCI annually.

Reid and I spoke recently. She said if these questions had been answered then ACORN ’s financial and internal problems could be fixed. Instead ACORN is on the run and under increased scrutiny by MSM, Capital Research Center, and bloggers.

Marcel Reid and the ACORN-8 are asking bloggers to assist with research, accessing various records and databases, and following leads to fill in missing information.

Here are the 31 questions, two of the questions are in boldface because they have a significant importance.
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New Documents Expose ACORN’s Lies to the American People

June 9, 2009 | Filed Under ACORN, Anita MonCrief, Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Budget, Business, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Government, Corruption, Liberals, Media Bias, Socialism, Society/Culture, Uncategorized, Unions | No Comments

-By Anita MonCrief

ACORN’s chief organizer and CEO Bertha Lewis appeared on Bill O’Reilly’s ‘The O’Reilly Factor’ on May 29, 2009 to combat the growing criticism that ACORN is a criminal enterprise that is operating as an arm of the Democrats. Well, a watered down version of Bertha Lewis appeared, for those who are not familiar with her colorful character see Youtube. ACORN spokespersons have never had a problem lying on camera, but under oath is a different story (as witnessed by Karyn Gillette’s swift departure from a courtroom in Pennsylvania back in October of 2008). ACORN National spokesman Scott Levenson and other ACORN spokespersons have defended their actions and blamed rogue employees. During ‘The O’Reilly Factor’, Lewis asserted that she is in charge and that no criminal activity will be tolerated on her watch. Really.

For background, Lewis assumed control over the organization, that is, became Chief Organizer after it was revealed that ACORN’s founder Wade Rathke had covered up the embezzlement of almost $1 million dollars by his brother Dale, ACORN’s longtime chief financial organizer. The embezzlement occurred around December of 2000 and was reported by the New York Times
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ACORN, Soros and the Census

May 27, 2009 | Filed Under Anita MonCrief, Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Elections, Government, Corruption, Liberals, Media Bias, President, Society/Culture, Uncategorized, Unions | 3 Comments

By Anita MonCrief

Just as ACORN happily accepted millions of dollars from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in its campaign to attain general acceptability and political power as well as to use all that money, ACORN hopes to participate in the upcoming census to promote interests beyond helping to conduct the next census: obtaining general acceptability, power AND confidential information.

A full five years before I was recruited for ACORN in Washington, DC, I worked for the Census Bureau in Alabama. In 2000, a red Dodge Neon with a number of dints and dings carried me down the back roads of Tuscaloosa County, AL as a Census taker. At 21, this was a great job that worked around my classes, and I spoke to dozens of families as I completed the forms. Operating without a political agenda or propaganda, the interviewees answered questions honestly and let me into their homes and lives. Recent reports indicated that the 2010 Census will not inspire nostalgia of past times or a trust in your fellow community members. As ACORN (the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) gears up to partner with the Census; it brings a distinctly partisan agenda. Funded by the likes of the Democracy Alliance and The Open Society Institute (both George Soros backed outfits), ACORN and its affiliates have a storied history of behavior that would not seem out of place on an episode of the ‘Sopranos’. Though Tony Soprano, has a greater likability factor, but I digress.

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Happy Memorial Day

May 25, 2009 | Filed Under Uncategorized | No Comments

Remember to thank a vet today.

Happy Mother’s Day 2009

May 10, 2009 | Filed Under Uncategorized | No Comments

A message to my faithful Townhall readers

April 20, 2009 | Filed Under Uncategorized | 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

As of today, I will cease updating my Townhall mirror blog

Well, folks, this is the end of my Townhall version of Publius’ Forum. I have been updating my Townhall blog with my content now for several years, but it just is no longer worth my time. So, I am not going to update it any more. April 20th will be the last new entries.

I dearly hope that the dozen or so people that followed me on the Townhall mirror migrate to my home blog and continue to follow me. Now that you’ve clicked through to this blog, I hope you’ll stick around.

WHY no more Townhall blog? Read on…
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Live Blogging the Sammies

April 18, 2009 | Filed Under Sam Adams Alliance, Uncategorized | No Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

Jonathan Hoening “The Capitalist Pig” was next up to give the award for Tea Party activism.

James Bell has been a tireless activist in the State of Georgia helping Douglas County hold the line against rising taxes.

The room erupted for the next presenter, a man that has become ubiquitous as the champion of the common man, Joe Wurzelebacher, better known as Joe the Plumber.

Joe spoke on term limits, fair taxes and smaller government. Joe said that he doesn’t talk of Democrats or Republicans because his interest in the American people.

Joe presented the award for Blogivist of the Year, Elizabeth Crum. Elizabeth blogs onher own blog, of course, but also for so many other sources such as Citizens Outreach and Instapundit.

Visit Sam Adam’s Alliance

Yes We’ve Been Down

April 17, 2009 | Filed Under Uncategorized | No Comments

We have had a two day outage here at PubliusForum.com. We are back and running now, though.

We hope you haven’t gone away while we’ve worked on the tech glitches. Thanks for your patience.

Warner Todd Huston

Time For Tough Love

March 17, 2009 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Budget, Business, Dan Scott, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Foreign Policy, Government, Corruption, Jobs, Liberals, Media Bias, Security/Safety, Socialism, Society/Culture, Taxes, Uncategorized, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments

-By Dan Scott

Recently China’s Premier Wen Jiabao said out loud as a foreign leader what most of us have been thinking and saying for months now. The government headed by Barrack Obama needs to get its financial house in order and the policy chosen by him to borrow his way to prosperity is not what China is going to subsidize. Other Chinese government leaders have characterized President Obama’s current behavior as “reckless policies.” We, who are conservatives, wholly agree with this assessment. It’s ironic that US conservatives and the leaders of China who were formerly ideological enemies are in complete agreement in seeing Obama and the Democrats policies as reckless. This is not to say we agree on other issues like China’s one child policy for population control or their attitudes toward private property both indicating the Chinese government’s right to micromanage the affairs of individuals. To further underline the irony of this agreement both US conservatives and the leaders of China see nothing wrong in wealth disparity and furthermore it is beneficial to the uplifting of society as a whole. This is in complete contradiction to the President Obama’s stated enmity toward the top 1% of wealth producers in this country. Obama’s budget, a federal document, actually identifies the wealthy as the cause of the country’s woes!
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CNN Claims Obama The New Ronald Reagan, Reassigns ‘Morning in America’ to The One

February 25, 2009 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Liberals, Media Bias, News, Publius Contributor, Society/Culture, Uncategorized, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

Once again CNN goes over the top in its gobsmacked praise of its Obammessiah. This time appropriating Ronald Reagan’s famous “morning in America” theme and assigning it to President Obama as a result of his not-the-state-of-the-union speech last night. In reality, Obama’s speech was more like a moaning in America as opposed to that bright new morning that Reagan invoked.

Worse, Reagan’s main theme for his “morning in America” ideal was to provoke Americans into a renewal of the American way of self-reliance, one removed from sucking at the teat of government. On the other hand, Barack Obama’s main point was that without government, without The One and all his fixes, we are all doomed.

It was obvious to anyone’s ears that Obama’s theme was as far removed as Reagan’s as can be.

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