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Teachers Union Head Seeks to Become Tin Pot Dictator
2008-07-20 07:52:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Randi Weingarten has delusions of grandeur. She thinks she should be given the power of a dictator instead of those of a teachers union president. Instead of just teaching kids, Weingarten imagines that she should become doctor, nanny, nutritionist, psychologist, and mother to every kid in America. She imagines that she ... More About: Union , Head , Teachers , Dictator
PC, B.C., Racism, Whatever: I Will Go No Further!
2008-07-20 07:52:00 - By Don Boys, Ph.D. I am an easy going, laid-back, go-along person but I have my limits and they have been reached. I?ll go so far but no further. I have reached my limits in adjusting to what people with dark skin want to be called. John Rolfe, Virginia?s first tobacco ... More About: Racism
New PETA Ad Not Controversial At All
2008-07-18 19:51:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Apparently the newest big-deal-ad that everyone is supposed to get all upset over is an advertisement by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) that came out this week. Unfortunately for them, I can’t see how anyone would get too exercised over it. In fact, to my mind the message and ... More About: Controversial , Peta
San Diego Paper: ?Migrant? Deaths at Border Grows, Report Lacks Perspective
2008-07-18 13:50:00 -By Warner Todd Huston The San Diego Union-Tribune published a story last week that typifies the lack of perspective and a refusal to give a more full account of the facts in the illegal immigration debate common from too many media outlets. The Union-Trib was all worried that “22 migrants have died in S.D. sector” but ... More About: Report , Deaths , Paper
Democrat Lies About ?Rights?
2008-07-18 13:50:00 -By Warner Todd Huston It’s amazing to see how a Democrat so warps the word “right” these days. Last week California Democrat Rep. Brad Sherman was only the latest Democrat to take the word “right” and misuse it for his disgusting, partisan ends when he decided that it was a “right” to unionize, but NOT a ... More About: Rights , Lies
Academic Freedom
2008-07-18 12:50:00 -By Nancy Salvato An article published in the Chronicle of Higher Education reflects the notion that academic freedom means being allowed to advocate a personal point of view in the classroom. Outspoken scholars fared much better than one would have expected in the aftermath of September 11, 2001. Richard Berthold, at the University of New Mexico, incurred ... More About: Freedom , Academic
NOW You are Working for YOU! Freedom From Taxes Day Has Arrived
2008-07-17 18:49:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Yesterday was finally the end of the days this year when you were working to pay the government its exorbitant fees. That’s right, July 16 was Cost of Government Day for the average American. Grover Norquist , author of the recent book “Leave Us Alone,” has once again crunched the numbers and ... More About: Freedom , Taxes , Working
?Lifelong Conservative? Throwing all Principles to The Winds and Voting for
2008-07-17 18:49:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Larry Hunter claims he is a “lifelong conservative.” Yet, in his recent New York Daily News article, he also says he is voting for Barack Obama for president. The two simply cannot coexist. One has to be obliterated in favor of the other. And, regardless of the facile reasoning Hunter gives ... More About: Conservative , Voting , Winds , Principles
Welcome to My Blog, Please See My Lawyer to Post Here
2008-07-17 18:49:00 -By Warner Todd Huston What is the ages old misconstruction of Shakespeare? “First kill all the lawyers.” Well, one might excuse bloggers if they might wish to add the officers of the courts to that death sentence, at least if the experience of the bloggers at New York’s “Room 8″ blog are concerned. For Ben Smith ... More About: Lawyer , Post , Blog
It?s Official?James Baker Has Lost His Mind
2008-07-17 18:49:00 -By Frank Salvato Anyone familiar with the threat posed by the advancing American Fifth Column understands all too clearly that our Constitution is under attack. Whether it is the insistence that the Constitution is a living document meant to conform to the will of the times or the institution of political correctness ? a shadow set ... More About: Lost , Mind , James Baker , James , Official
Flight 93 Memorial Update?
2008-07-17 12:49:00 ?I hope I?ll see your face again baby?? Thanks to Muslims Against Sharia for putting together a short video on the re-hijacking of Flight 93: The voice at the beginning is flight attendant CeeCee Lyles. CeeCee’s family has really struggled without her. One of the many stories that clearly illustrate how much one life matters. (Serious tear-jerker warning.) Tags: ... More About: Update , Memorial , Flight 93 Memorial , Flight 93
Jib Jab? Time for some Campaignin?
2008-07-16 18:48:00 Ah, here it is. The show you’ve all been waitin’ fer… Happy Voting! Tags: Publius Forum, Warner Todd Huston, 2008, Election, Jib Jab, HumorBookmark this story to your favorite service: More About: Time
New BBC TV Series Has ?Extremist? Christian Beheading ?Moderate? Muslim
2008-07-16 18:48:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Last week, the BBC aired a new TV series titled “Bonekickers” touted as a “groundbreaking” show where “history comes alive,” and a series that is “Based in fact.” The premier episode, though features an odd thing if “fact” is the aim of the Beeb’s new TV series: a Christian beheading a Muslim . ... More About: Series , Extremist , Tv Series
Andrew Breitbart: ?Something?s Desperately Wrong? in Hollywood
2008-07-16 18:48:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Andrew Breitbart, CEO of Breitbart.com, had a great op ed in the Washington Times yesterday about how Hollywood oppresses Republicans and conservatives in La La Land. Detailing the travails of Republicans in Hollywood — including destruction by Hollywood’s liberals of personal property owned by identified Republicans — Breitbart laments the “bullying” the ... More About: Wrong
Obama Stands Against Lobbyists? Well, not to Fund His Big Party he Ain?t
2008-07-16 18:48:00 -By Warner Todd Huston The leftists of the nutroots went gaga when Barack Obama claimed that he’d stand against taking money from lobbyists with his campaign for president. It was because, of course, he was for a “new era” in politics. He is for “change.” Isn’t he special, the nutrooters sigh contentedly. Well, apparently Obama’s standard ... More About: Party , Fund , Lobbyists
Barack Obama and Equal Pay for Women
2008-07-16 12:48:00 By Selwyn Duke What do you call a man who sermonizes about the evils of paying women less than men but allows that very practice in his own office? While a certain unflattering noun would leap to the minds of most, we can now apply a proper one: Barack Obama . Although the Illinois senator ... More About: Women , For Women
Unions Underfunding Their Own Members? Pensions, Study Says
2008-07-15 18:47:00 -By Warner Todd Huston A few days ago I posted a story on a recent article in the New York Sun by Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Senior Fellow at The Hudson Institute, that focused on how the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) had not fully funded the pension plan of their rank and file members while they had ... More About: Study , Unions , Members
Big Government: Now Better Than Mother Nature
2008-07-15 12:46:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Teddy Roosevelt impressed the nation with his focus on conservation and while he was president was responsible for pushing to conserve our nation’s wilderness in the form of sundry national parks, mostly in the western U.S. This was a worthy enterprise, few can deny. But what is the true purpose of these ... More About: Government , Nature , Mother Nature , Mother , Big Government
AP?s New Muckraking Style, From Just-The-Facts to In-Your-Face
2008-07-15 12:46:00 -By Warner Todd Huston For those unfamiliar, since May of this year the Associated Press has had a new Washington Bureau Chief, a past AP reporter named Ron Fournier. According to Politico, the previous chief was pushed out to make room for Fournier in a “hard-feelings shake-up” with the old chief left worried that Fournier might ... More About: Facts , Style , Face , In Your Face
Binding Arbitration = Financial Collapse of Business Sector
2008-07-15 12:46:00 -By Warner Todd Huston We are reminded here on the blog that there is one aspect of the lie that is the Employee Free Choice Act bill that isn’t much discussed. That is the binding arbitration feature of this business/economy killing legislation. Besides the card check aspect where a union can dispense with the ages old ... More About: Business , Collapse , Financial , Arbitration
Obama?s Supreme puzzlement
2008-07-15 12:46:00 -By Michael M. Bates Tracking Barack Obama ?s position on many issues is akin to watching the weather. Stick around a little while and it?ll change. He can make a U-turn faster than a speeding fist bump. The senator claims he?s still actively working on refining his views, a rather peculiar exercise for a man whose ... More About: Supreme
Who do the ?No Values? Voters Want?
2008-07-15 06:46:00 Very funny Onion take on the race for the White House. ‘No Values Voters ’ Looking To Support Most Evil Candidate All for comedy of course. After all, who doesn’t know that the true party of no values is the Democrats? Tags: Publius Forum, Warner Todd Huston, Comedy, The OnionBookmark this story to your favorite service:
News Blackout ? New York Times Ignores Momentous Pro-Jewish Court Case Win
2008-07-14 12:45:00 -By Warner Todd Huston French media loses big court case proving Palestinian propaganda false, New York Times ignores shocking story? Why? France TV 2 has lost a major court case in France that makes the lie to a major piece of Palestinian propaganda. In 2000 an incident occurred in the Palestinian areas that has since been used ... More About: News , Jewish , New York Times
SEIU Ripping Off It?s OWN Pensioners
2008-07-14 12:45:00 -By Warner Todd Huston It must be nice to be spending 85 million dollars on political campaigns yet refuse to fully fund your own member’s pension plan. That, among other things, is exactly the sort of hypocrisy that it was revealed that the SEIU has been caught indulging in this week. Diana Furchtgott-Roth did yeoman’s work ...
Baptist Blood Bought Liberty!
2008-07-14 12:45:00 -By Don Boys, Ph.D. Down through the ages Baptist s have been about the most hated and persecuted religious group because their distinctiveness made them a threat to religious tyrants. Baptists believe that salvation comes only through repenting of sin and placing faith in the sacrificial death of Christ. Works and godly living always follow salvation, but ... More About: Liberty , Blood
Media Celebrates Successful U.S. Military Recruitment Stats? Not Really!
2008-07-13 18:44:00 -By Warner Todd Huston The Armed Forces Press Service issued a press release on Thursday morning, July 10, in celebration of the fact that the U.S. military has had 13 consecutive months of meeting and/or exceeding recruitment goals. Sadly, the media stayed sullenly quite all day, taking no notice of the success of our military on ... More About: Media , Military , Stats , Recruitment
NJ Guv?s Girlfriend Removed From Union Job Over Theft of Union Funds
2008-07-13 18:44:00 -By Warner Todd Huston The ex-girlfried of Governor John Corzine (D- NJ), Carla Katz, found herself in a spot of bother this week. It seems she was removed from the presidency of the largest state-worker union in New Jersey because an internal investigation revealed she had “misappropriated” union funds and violated Federal labor laws. “An extensive internal ... More About: Girlfriend , Union , Theft , Funds
Once Again, It?s About Associations and Judgment
2008-07-13 12:44:00 -By Frank Salvato There has been much ado about Barack Obama?s associations and the judgment used in maintaining and entering into those associations. Obama?s associations with Jeremiah Wright, Williams Ayers, Frank Marshall Davis, the Progressive-Left activist group ACORN and his ideological association with Saul Alinsky are all perfect examples of his judgment, his willingness to associate ... More About: Judgment , Associations
Tony Snow Passes Into History
2008-07-12 18:43:00 -By Warner Todd Huston It was said of Abraham Lincoln upon his passing that “now he belongs to the ages,” and that is the same sentiment I find myself feeling upon learning that Tony Snow has died of colon cancer today at age 53. The Bush administration released a statement through current press secretary Dana Perino, she ... More About: History
NJ Guv?s Girlfriend Removed From Union Job Over Theft of Union Funds
More articles from this author:2008-07-12 18:43:00 -By Warner Todd Huston The ex-girlfried of Governor John Corzine (D- NJ), Carla Katz, found herself in a spot of bother this week. It seems she was removed from the presidency of the largest state-worker union in New Jersey because an internal investigation revealed she had “misappropriated” union funds and violated Federal labor laws. “An extensive internal ... More About: Girlfriend , Union , Theft , Funds 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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