Nancy Pelosi — Cretin
September 30, 2008 | Filed Under Budget, Business, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Media Bias, News, Publius Contributor, Society/Culture, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments
Audio of Karl Rove revealing Nancy Pelosi’s underhanded, lying, lack of leadership in the bailout.
Obama the Hypocrite
September 30, 2008 | Filed Under Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Elections, Media Bias, News, President, Publius Contributor, Society/Culture, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments
How The Democrats Love Their Corporate Welfare Policy
September 30, 2008 | Filed Under Business, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Government, Corruption, Media Bias, News, Publius Contributor, Socialism, Society/Culture, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments
-By Warner Todd Huston
What is it we hear echoing in the left-o-sphere? Don’t we hear all the time that the left is chock-full-o-nuts on how those eeeevil capitalists are so in love with what they call “corporate welfare”? Aren’t the nutrooters always railing about how the right is so in bed with business, giving them oh so many tax breaks? Of course, the left loves their corporate welfare, too. So much so that they’ve gone back to slipping it into play even when it was defeated not only by the right, but deplored and castigated by the left’s pals in Europe and the international community.
I am talking, of course, about the infamous (and infamy is the proper word) Byrd Amendment. This little bit of poison was repealed by Congress in 2005, but the decrepit Byrd and his shifty friends snuck it back into law by camouflaging it in a recent spending bill. So now it’s back as law even though many countries in the world are upset about it, even though it harmed our trading reputation the last time this dose of hemlock was forced on our trading partners world wide, even though all it really ends up being is corporate welfare.
So, what is it? It’s a nasty piece of protectionist policy — the Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act — that makes it quite lucrative for American businesses to claim that they are put at an unfair advantage by foreign products. How it works is a U.S. company will file paperwork with the federal government claiming that they are being harmed by unfair business practices from a foreign product. The government then slaps a high, punitive tariff on that foreign product and pays the American business the amount of the increased tariff. That’s it. The business doesn’t have to prove anything. There is no inspection agency, accounting agency or compliance agency to check the claims. They just get paid.
Obama Campaign Stifles Free Speech At University Rally
September 30, 2008 | Filed Under Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Media Bias, News, Publius Contributor, Security/Safety, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments
-By Warner Todd Huston
The candidate of change, the shining proponent of a “new way” in national politics, says that you aren’t allowed to bring a sign to his rally. So much for the right of free political speech. To add insult to injury, this rally was held at the publicly funded University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia. So, now the government is lending the weight of its authority to squelch free speech. So, where is the hue and cry about this unAmerican activity? Did the media even note this heavy-handed policy?
But, it is all true nonetheless. The rally was held and weak-spined school officials bent over and meekly accepted the rules derived from the fascistic penchant of the Obama campaign with its anti-first amendment proclivities. Some few small voices questioned this oppression of American rights, but for the most part no one seems to have noticed that Virginians had their Constitutional rights quashed that day. Shockingly, some even thought it was a good idea.
The Obama campaign, falling back on the oldest dodge in the book, claimed that campaign signs were not allowed because of “security concerns.” Who can doubt, though, that it was instead because of “camera concerns”? The Obama campaign was far more interested in photo ops clear of McCain signs or other unwanted reminders that there are other opinions out there among the unwashed masses than that of sycophancy for The One.
Even Old Time Socialist Says SEIU is Corrupt
September 30, 2008 | Filed Under Business, Communism, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Elections, Media Bias, News, Publius Contributor, Security/Safety, Socialism, Society/Culture, Unions, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments
-By Warner Todd Huston
Bill Fletcher is all about the wringing of hands over the corruption scandal of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and is afraid that it will get in the way of the upcoming presidential campaign. Fletcher, a long time union activist, pseudo “Africanist,” anti-American, and anti-Jew agitator, who is also a self described “socialist,”, and Barack Obama volunteer, was interviewed recently on the website of the extremist organization Democracy Now.
Little of what he had to say is of much surprise or interest nor is there any truth to it. It is filled with your run-of-the-mill psychotic hate for business and the U.S.A. like the content of all of his interviews. But, his lament about the troubled SEIU is interesting… maybe even heartening for those who wish to see the union curtailed.
All’s Foul in Love and Politics
September 30, 2008 | Filed Under Business, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, GOP, Government, Corruption, John Armor, Media Bias, News, Publius Contributor, Socialism, Society/Culture, Taxes | No Comments
-By John Armor
Alexander Pope’s original quote was, of course, “all’s fair in love and war,” meaning you can get away with anything in those two areas. Now, as we all know, the entire economy of the United States is threatened with collapse because of supposed “errors and outright fraud on Wall Street.”
Let’s step back a bit. The crisis began with the financial collapse and federal take-over of the two “private” organizations which insured and/or bundled and marketed a major part of all home mortgages in the US. These two organizations had gone along for decades, serving the public one mortgage at a time. What brought Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to “suddenly” collapse?
A decade ago, Congress changed the rules of operation of both institutions. It ordered banks to broaden their lending into areas where the risks were greater, and to make loans to borrowers they previously thought would not pay those mortgages when they came due. The two institutions would then buy those loans.
Then, those loans were bundled into pools and sold on national and international markets. They were attractive, because they paid high interest rates, because they were, after all, high risk loans. The mortgages had low or no down payments. So all it took was a downturn in the housing markets and many of these loans went below zero in value. The home owners walked away. The banks were left with piles of bad paper.
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Emergent Church: Wacko Environmentalism Not Evangelism!
September 30, 2008 | Filed Under Democrats/Leftists, Don Boys, Family, News, Publius Contributor, Religion, Society/Culture | No Comments
-By Don Boys, Ph.D.
There can be no argument the Emergent Church leaders emphasize the environment over eternity. Brian McLaren wrote that a Christian’s goal is not simply to reach people for Christ but to save the plane