Warner Todd Huston

Obama’s Budget Would Use Tax $$ to Fund Lobbyists Pushing Tax Hikes

Remember when Obama took office and one of his biggest promises was that lobbyists would never gain a foothold in his Administration? Well, now that he doesn’t have to stand for election again he's doing his level best to give lobbyists one of their biggest perks yet. He's trying to make it legal to give them your tax dollars so they can lobby to increase your taxes. And in fact he’s already broken laws governing lobbyists several times since 2009.

The CA Bill That Would Shut Down Every Small Restaurant

The State of California has one of the worst proposals of any legislature in the country this year with a new bill that would force every restaurant and food service business in the state to commission an expensive “risk assessment” test for every menu item, a test that could cost thousands of dollars for every food item sold. This outrageous and cost prohibitive testing would certainly cause all but the biggest chain restaurants to go out of business almost instantly.

Supernanny Cass Sunstein’s Friendly Paternalism: It is For Your Own Good, America

Cass Sunsetein, one of President Obama’s leading left-wing, university eggheads, has penned an interesting piece in New Republic explaining how the nanny state is really a very important and useful aspect of today’s modern Democrat scheme. It’s for your own good, don’t you know?

America’s Sheriff, Joe Arpaio, Stands Alone Against Unions And Outsiders in Recall Effort

Only three weeks after re-election in 2012, Sheriff Joe Arpaio was hit with a recall effort. Now, with anti-Arpaio petitions in circulation in Maricopa County, Arizona, "America's Sheriff" is organizing his forces to oppose a recall backed by the deep pockets of the unions, millions in outside money, and a flood of non-Arizonans arriving to act as the left-winger's ground troops. (See www.savesheriffjoe.org)

Obama’s Political Action Group Loses Complaint Against Website Address Owner

Last year, President Obama’s re-election campaign reworked its operations renaming it Organizing for Action in an effort to leverage the President’s monumental email address list to urge supporters to back the President’s policies. But OFA made a tiny mistake: it didn’t register all the various website addresses for its new effort. Worse, when others jumped to register the names, Obama’s political group filed a complaint to get the web addresses back. Now Obama has lost that battle.

Ohio State Student Stomps Pro-Life Signs in Race-Tinged Rant

The left claims to be the “tolerant” ones, we all know, but only when you agree with them and a student at Ohio State proved this to be a truism once again by destroying a pro-life student group’s signs right on the school’s campus and on video, yet. Worse, this student employed what the left calls “racist code words” to denounce the pro-lifers.

CNN Opinion ‘You are a Bigot if You Oppose Gay Marriage’

CNN recently launched a new podcast project headed by Dean Obeidallah and in its second episode the trio of hosts pondered whether or not one is a bigot for opposing gay marriage.

Colt Firearms Threatens to Leave Connecticut Over Strict Gun Laws

Continuing the trend of firearms related companies that have been contemplating moving their businesses out of states instituting strict gun control laws, Colt Manufacturing is now considering a move out of Connecticut after 175 years in business. This is due to the new gun bans being mulled by the state legislature and Democrat Governor Dannel Malloy.

VIDEO: Rep. Rick Santorum Talks About Pope Francis and The Media Bias

On March 15 the good folks of the National Bloggers Club hosted a private visit by Senator Rick Santorum at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).

Media Attack Fox for Airing Teenage Rape Victim’s Name, Ignores That CNN, MSNBC, Others Did To

Always looking to find some reason to smear Fox News, the website Raw Story slammed the network for airing the name of a 16-year-old rape victim in a March 18 broadcast of America's Newsroom. But in its zeal to slap Fox, the website neglected to note that other news outlets did the same thing.

IRS Wastes Your Taxes on Faux Star Trek Parody ‘Training Film’

You may have caught wind of this story last week, the story that unveiled that millions a year that the IRS wastes on faux training films and its own TV studios. But now the video of its schlocky, badly acted Star Trek parody is finally out.

Columbia Journalism School Tuition Costs a Whopping $83,884 A Year

The median income for a journalist these days is around $34,000 annually and starting pay is often in the $25,000 range. But if a budding journalist takes his education at the Columbia School of Journalism, he'll pay a whopping $84,884 for his one-year Master of Science j-school degree, far more than he'll make in his first few decades as a working journalist.

ABC’s Latest Misleading Gun Poll

ABC has released the results of another gun poll claiming that support for background checks at gun shows has "vast public support." But neither the poll nor ABC's report notes that background checks already routinely occur at gun shows.

Piers Morgan: We All ‘Need The Nanny State Occasionally’

CNN’s Piers Morgan sees no reason why America shouldn’t turn into a nanny state. During his March 11 broadcast, Morgan insisted that, “people need the nanny state occasionally.”

Obama Trying to Deport Homeschooling Family

In 2010 a federal immigration judge awarded political asylum to a family whose German government was persecuting for having the temerity to homeschool their children. Now, three years later, the Obama administration seems poised to reverse that decision and deport the family back to Germany.

NH Dem. Says Gov’t Employees are Like ‘Our Children’

The rap on Democrats is that they fully misunderstand what the relationship should be between citizen and government. Many claim Democrats think government should be mommy and daddy to us all. Well, one New Hampshire Democrat revealed that this is exactly what she thinks.

Obamacare and a Seven-Foot Tall Stack of New Regulations

The office of Senator Mitch McConnell, the GOP minority leader in the Senate, has sent out a shocking photo.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein Lies in Senate Gun-Ban Hearing

Senator Dianne Feinstein (D, CA) lied outright in a recent hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee as she advocated for her anti-Constitutional gun-ban bill when she said that it is "legal to hunt humans" with large capacity ammunition magazines.

Illinois Middle Schooler Told Marines Themed T-Shirt is ‘Inappropriate’ at School

On Monday, an Illinois middle schooler was told that his U.S. Marines T-Shirt was “inappropriate” to wear in school and that if he didn’t take the shirt off, cover it up, or turn it inside out he’d be suspended.

MSNBC: Why Not Let Sonia Sotomayor Become The Next Pope?

On a February 17 broadcast of MSNBC Live, panelist Chris Smith thought it would be a great idea to have U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomayor replace retiring Pope Benedict as head of the Catholic Church.