Leftie Talker Claims Wall Street Protests Have ‘Spread to More Than a Thousand Countries’

By Brent Baker So enthused about promoting the far-left protests, ABC anchor Diane Sawyer on Monday night’s World News championed “the Occupy Wall Street movement” by ludicrously claiming that “as of tonight, it has spread to more than 250 American cities, more than a thousand countries — every continent but Antarctica.” Protests against the wealthy… (more)

Wisconsin Mayor Stands up to Union Bullies

Thomas Lifson Wisconsin continues to be the crucible of organized labor’s decline as a political force. The electorate endured a takeover of their state capitol building, fleeing legislators, and recall elections, only to learn that cutting out certain collective bargaining giveaways saved so much money that teachers didn’t have to be laid off in various… (more)

Warren ‘Raise My Taxes’ Buffett’s Company May Owe IRS $1 Billion

By Noel Sheppard As NewsBusters reported Monday, American media almost completely ignored a report that Warren “Raise My Taxes” Buffett’s company Berkshire Hathaway has been fighting with the IRS for almost a decade over taxes it owes. On Tuesday, the organization digging into Berkshire Hathaway’s numbers, Americans for Limited Government, estimated the total could be… (more)

Shocker! Dem Congresswoman Blames Black Unemployment on…Racism

(video at link) “When you look at African American males, 40% of them are unemployed, those under 30 years of age. I understand exactly the entire nation must be involved in this recovery but the black community is experiencing a great recession. That’s what we’re experiencing,” Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL) told MSNBC. “And all of… (more)

Freudian Slip? Leftie Talker Urges Obama ‘Go For Broke’ With New Stimulus

By Kyle Drennen In an interview with former press secretary and current Obama campaign advisor Robert Gibbs on Sunday’s Meet the Press, substitute host Savannah Guthrie pushed the President from the left: “If the President thinks more should be done, if he thinks there should be more stimulus, why doesn’t he just go for broke?… (more)

Whoops! China’s newly rich are flaunting wealth — and giving Communist rulers a headache

By Keith B. Richburg BEIJING — China’s new rich love luxury products — imported French handbags, Italian sports cars — and even more, they love to show off their bling. That seems to be creating headaches for China’s Communist rulers, who after three decades of exhorting their subjects to get rich are facing growing discontent… (more)

Millionaires Gone Missing

  After he gets back from yet another vacation, President Obama is going to renew his call for taxes on “millionaires and billionaires,” i.e. individuals making more than $200,000 annually and couples making more than $250,000. Besides the obvious fact that people with that type of income are not millionaires and billionaires, there’s another inconvenient… (more)

LIBERALS AREN’T FUNNY, THEY’RE A RIOT!

by Ann Coulter [...] When I decided to write about mobs, it was a relatively peaceful period. But as long as there is evil in the world, mobs will never be finally defeated. And as long as there are liberals, there will be some people stoking the mobs. [...] Mobs are always the same —… (more)

Obama’s Iowa speech lie

Steve McCann About a year and a half ago I reached my limit of being able to listen to or watch Barack Obama deliver a speech. I choose instead to read the transcripts. The ever-present obfuscations and lies, the constant demeaning of any opposing voices (per Saul Alinsky) as well as an inbred inability to… (more)

Guess What? Attacking “the Rich” Kills Revenue!

Congratulations, Class Warriors By Randall Hoven Class warriors got what they wished for in the first year of the Obama presidency. Now the 2009 tax return numbers are out, and I can update you on the class wars I wrote about last year. I wrote then, “Tax figures for 2009 are not yet available. I… (more)

ABC Talker: “The Problem We Have Here is The Constitution”

Cokie Roberts on Downgrade: ‘The Problem That We Have Here is the Constitution’ By Noel Sheppard ABC’s Cokie Roberts said something on national television Sunday that made her colleague George Will shake his head on camera. During a “This Week” discussion about the recent credit rating downgrade by Standard and Poor’s Roberts said, ‘The problem… (more)

Disgusting! Man with HIV raped 6-month-old son

By Ethan Goldsmith Police say Lenny Love, 29, raped the infant in March. Police also say that Love did so while knowingly carrying HIV. Police arrested Love Friday and charged him with 2 counts of rape, 1 count of felonious assault and 1 count of possession of marijuana. [...] link: http://www.fox19.com/story/15019549/police-father-with-hiv-raped-6-month-old-son More collateral damage from… (more)

Shocker! WI Union Curbs Benefit Schools!

Union curbs rescue a Wisconsin school district By: Byron York . “This is a disaster,” said Mark Miller, the Wisconsin Senate Democratic leader, in February after Republican Gov. Scott Walker proposed a budget bill that would curtail the collective bargaining powers of some public employees. Miller predicted catastrophe if the bill were to become law… (more)

Shocker! “Reason” magazine editor wants worldwide carbon tax!

With libertarians like this, who needs statists Randall Hoven Reason Magazine describes itself as libertarian. Its slogan is “free minds and free markets.” It claims to provide “a refreshing alternative to right-wing and left-wing opinion magazines by making a principled case for liberty and individual choice in all areas of human activity.” Ronald Bailey is… (more)

The Muslim Brotherhood and Weiner

By Eileen F. Toplansky Far more disturbing than the salacious details of Weiner’s dalliances is the fact that apparently his mother-in-law is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. Furthermore, Huma Abedin’s brother, Hassan, “is listed as a fellow and partner with a number of Muslim Brotherhood members.” Hassan works at the Oxford Centre for Islamic… (more)

The Five Stages of Islam

By Richard Butrick Forget the Five Pillars of Islam. It is the Five Stages of Islam that threaten the fundamental freedoms of Western Democracy. Freedoms which include freedom of thought, expression, and association and the crucial derived right of freedom of the press. We should never forget that “Islam” means submission — the opposite of… (more)

Anti-Palin Books Proving to Be Commercial Flops

By Steve Flesher Sarah Palin is back in the news! She has announced an east-coast bus tour, has reportedly purchased a new $1.7M crib in Scottsdale, AZ., and her $1M self-authorized and approved documentary titled The Undefeated is set to hit Iowa next month followed by New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada before being released… (more)

Let’s Blame the Right for Everything: NY Times Ludicrously Labels 9-11 Truthers ‘Right-Wing’

By Clay Waters | May 27, 2011 | 15:26 1Share Change font size: A | A Is the right to blame for everything, even 9-11 Truthers? New York Times Metro reporter Colin Moynihan botched some basic politics in his Friday metro section tribute to a leftist journalist and radio host, “At an On-Air Haven for… (more)

Let’s Blame the Right for Everything: NY Times Ludicrously Labels 9-11 Truthers ‘Right-Wing’ By Clay Waters Is the right to blame for everything, even 9-11 Truthers? New York Times Metro reporter Colin Moynihan botched some basic politics in his Friday metro section tribute to a leftist journalist and radio host, “At an On-Air Haven for… (more)

The Politics of Envy

By Lloyd Brown During the next 18 months, we can look for liberals to pull out all the stops on their hate campaign. The target is “the rich.” To generate hate, liberals will use an old device: envy. Those who have not been as successful will be urged to hate the people who have worked… (more)

obama’s “WTF” proves to be a scam in China

The Chinese Role Model Collapses on the Progressives By Ed Lasky For years, China’s high-speed rail and green energy programs have been portrayed as miracles that America must follow to remain “in the game.” During the last two years and counting, American taxpayers have been put on the hook for tens of billions of dollars… (more)

Palestinian Baby Killers

Jerold S. Auerbach For demented cruelty there are no precedents, even among Palestinian terrorists, for the recent slaughter of three Israeli children (and their parents) in Itamar. Their targets, 11 and 4 year old brothers and their 3-month-old baby sister, were stabbed and slashed while asleep in their beds. Just before Passover, the identity of… (more)

Woman Stabbed in the Head by Angry Smoker

Woman Stabbed With Pencil on Subway A man stabbed a woman in the head with a pencil on the subway during morning rush hour Tuesday after she complained that he lit a cigarette inside the car. The incident happened at about 9:15 a.m. on the downtown 3 express train as it pulled into the Chambers… (more)

Obama’s $2 trillion stealth tax hike

James Pethokoukis Talk about fuzzy math. President Obama claims higher taxes will account for a mere third — $1 trillion — of his proposed $3 trillion debt reduction over 12 years, not counting less interest expense. Wrong. The actual number is probably around 50 percent of $4 trillion in savings — some $2 trillion —… (more)

A $500 Million Dollar Car?

By Isaac Martin Cars and numbers, like dimensions, mpg, and prices, naturally intersect. Then there’s a number like $529 million tax dollars that jumps out and therein lies our story. It begins with Fisker Automotive’s Karma previewed at the Auto Club Speedway in Ontario, CA. in the March 21 print issue of AutoWeek. With a… (more)

Chevy Volt Catches Fire…Again!

General Motors Scheduled To Investigate Chevrolet Volt’s Role in Fire At Barkhamsted Home By JANICE PODSADA, jpodsada@courant.com The Hartford Courant A fire apparently reignited inside the battery of a new Chevrolet Volt car early Monday, less than five days after the Volt, an electric hybrid, was involved in a blaze that destroyed a Barkhamsted garage… (more)

Walker plan holds down property taxes, delivers lowest structural deficit in 15 years

by Ed Morrissey The unions went all in against Scott Walker and the Republicans in Wisconsin in the past two months. First they paralyzed state government while Democrats fled the Senate, and when that failed to derail public-employee union reform, they spent a fortune trying to unseat a conservative justice on the Supreme Court in… (more)

The Deep Historical Roots of the Tea Party Movement

Ask George III if Demonizing the Tea Party Works By Lee Cary Future historians will describe the Democratic Party’s demonization of the Tea Party movement as a major political blunder that put them squarely on the wrong side of America’s 21st Century financial crisis. When Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said on a conference call that… (more)

Taxes and Politics

Thomas Sowell Someone once said that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. That may have been true when he said it, but today taxes are mostly the price we pay so that politicians can play Santa Claus and get reelected. That’s not the worst of it. We may think of taxes as just… (more)

What Wisconsin’s Judicial Election Means

By Bruce Walker The ballots in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race show a relatively small difference between Justice David Prosser, the “conservative” incumbent, and JoAnne Kloppenburg, the leftist challenger. Yesterday, previously uncounted votes in Waukesha County swung the victory to Prosser by over 7,000 votes (out of almost a million and a half cast), though… (more)