Big Government News4294976806 stories between 11/10/2009 at 19:18:06 and 02/08/2012 08:14:55
Feds Debunk Food Pyramid They Pushed for Two Decades
President Obama says we should allow the federal government to take charge of our healthcare; as usual, the ?experts? are best positioned to instruct us how to live our lives.
Except they?re not. Today, according to the AP, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention told Americans that they eat too much bread and rolls, and [...]
08:54 AM Big Government Rick Rolled
Rick Santorum’s stunning sweep of the Missouri primary and the Minnesota and Colorado caucuses is a sign that Republican voters are rejecting Mitt Romney and declaring their desire for a strong ideological contrast with President Barack Obama–”a choice, not an echo.”
It is also a sign that the 2012 presidential election is about more than fiscal [...]
08:54 AM Big Government Washington Post: Breitbart Editor's Book Uncovered Nancy Pelosi's $50 Million Self-Enriching Earmarks
The Washington Post has completed an extensive study of earmarks–the process of slipping pet spending projects into bills–for all 535 members of Congress and has concluded that Rep. Nancy Pelosi added $50 million in earmarks for a light-rail project that runs near a four-story commercial building she and her husband own.
The Post says the revelation [...]
08:14 AM Big Government Ohio Dem Gives Occupiers Tickets to Disrupt Kasich Speech
State Rep. Bob Hagan (D - Youngstown), a Progressive kook's Progressive kook, bused in 35 protestors for the event. Worse, Hagan handed out several tickets for Kasich's speech to Occupy protestors ranting outside.
07:34 AM Big Government Wednesday Open Thread: Not Mitt Edition
With wins in MN and MO, Rick Santorum takes another turn at the “Not Mitt” candidate. Perhaps Willard will realize he has a real problem.
03:29 AM Big Government Santorum Leads Early Minnesota Returns, Wins Missouri
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Sen. Rick Santorum jumped ahead Tuesday night in Minnesota’s Republican caucuses, hoping to extinguish front-runner Mitt Romney’s modest campaign winning streak and launch a comeback of his own in the race for the party’s presidential nomination.
Colorado Republicans held caucuses as well, and [...]
10:35 PM on 02/07/2012 Big Government Jim DeMint: Why Republicans Must Become More Libertarian
“The new debate in the Republican party needs to be between conservatives and libertarians,” says Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.). “A lot of the libertarian ideas that Ron Paul is talking about…should not be alien to any Republican.”
Yet right after the 2010 midterm elections, the influential Tea Party favorite proclaimed that “you can’t be [...]
10:35 PM on 02/07/2012 Big Government Caucus Open Thread
GOP voters in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri vote today. Colorado and Minnesota are caucuses. Missouri is a non-binding primary.
08:24 PM on 02/07/2012 Big Government Will 2012 Be About Social Conservatism After All?
Rick Santorum may be about to do what was unimaginable to most people just a few weeks ago: take 2 of 3 states from Mitt Romney. Yet Santorum is still considered a long shot for the Republican nomination, and the presidency. That is because his campaign has lacked money and organization; he is still failing [...]
07:53 PM on 02/07/2012 Big Government Teachers Unions, Staring Into Financial Abyss, Channel Saul Alinsky
Fresh on the heels of an exclusive report detailing a 7-day Caribbean cruise that National Education Association staffers are currently enjoying, Education Action Group has learned that dozens of teachers unions around the country are running out of money.
According to reports published by the National Staff Organization ? a group made up of NEA and [...]
07:22 PM on 02/07/2012 Big Government Obama Flops on Citizen's United, Embraces Super PAC
Russ Feingold is already criticizing Barack Obama for his reversal on the use of Super PACs. Obama has consistently been on record condemning the process whereby individuals and corporations can donate to a PAC anonymously to support a related campaign.
So much for priorities. Obama’s Super PAC is Priorities USA.
Liberal ex-Sen. Russ Feingold (Wis.) is ripping [...]
06:51 PM on 02/07/2012 Big Government Ninth Circuit's Prop 8 Ruling Obama's Worst Nightmare
Today, the 9th Circuit upheld the absurd ruling of Judge Vaughn Walker of the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California, striking down Proposition 8, the voter-approved constitutional amendment that would uphold traditional marriage in the state. The ruling itself was highly political and in no way legally [...]
05:40 PM on 02/07/2012 Big Government Even with Good Showings in Missouri and Minnesota, Santorum Surge Still Unlikely
Santorum: Not Much of an Opening for the Former Senator
Several sources are predicting a Santorum surge in Missouri and Minnesota tonight, but there’s reason for pause before we order out the “Rick 2012″ bumper stickers. Caucuses depend on two things: money and organization. Santorum has neither. Despite an impressive win in Iowa, it is getting [...]
05:09 PM on 02/07/2012 Big Government Will Healthcare Reform Hurt Obama Among Catholics?
In the wake of the news that Obamacare will mandate all employers to provide for birth control, including Catholic employers, many have wondered whether President Obama will damage his standing with the Catholic vote. In 2008, the Catholic vote split for Obama by a large margin, 54-45. Much of this was driven by [...]
03:57 PM on 02/07/2012 Big Government The Real Story on Workforce Numbers: No Change?
There’s been a great deal made of whether the unemployment rate dropped, or if the number of individuals in the job market dropped by some 1.2 million. If the American Spectator is to believed, this has all been much ado about nothing. Owing to a once-in-a-decade adjustment based upon census data, they make the case [...]
03:57 PM on 02/07/2012 Big Government #Occupiers Are Targeting Andrew Breitbart at CPAC-Threaten Physical Violence
#Occupy goons riot in Oakland. (NY Post)
Obama’s #Occupy army threatened to disrupt and physically assault conservative speakers at the CPAC convention this week in Washington DC. Andrew Breitbart and Newt Gingrich are two conservatives who they will be targeting at the event.
Lachlan Markay at The Foundry reported:
The ?Occupy DC? protest group is planning to disrupt [...]
03:17 PM on 02/07/2012 Big Government Recall Follies: Wisconsin Election Watchdog to Ignore Independently-Provided Evidence of Fraud
Imagine the police ignoring evidence of a crime because the right person didn’t call 911. Welcome to the the latest episode of Wisconsin Recall Election Follies.
The latest:
[Madison, Wisc...] Citizens not affiliated with either the recall organizations or the office holders targeted for recall this spring have found scores of problems with the petitions, but Wisconsin’s [...]
02:37 PM on 02/07/2012 Big Government Court: CA Same-Sex Marriage Ban Unconstitutional
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – A federal appeals court on Tuesday declared California’s same-sex marriage ban to be unconstitutional, putting the bitterly contested, voter-approved law on track for likely consideration by the U.S. Supreme Court.
A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that a lower court judge correctly interpreted [...]
01:56 PM on 02/07/2012 Big Government OECD Threatens Global Economy With Push for Higher Taxes in Latin America
Is it April Fool’s Day? Has somebody in Paris hacked the website at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development? Have we been transported to a parallel dimension where up is down and black is white?
Please forgive all these questions. I’m trying to figure out why any organization – even a leftist bureaucracy such as [...]
01:15 PM on 02/07/2012 Big Government Rep. Dennis Ross Discusses Obamacare and Fast and Furious
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On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Congressman Dennis Ross to discuss Obamacare, Eric Holder’s involvement in Fast and Furious and the end to insider trading in Congress.
We’re brought to you as always by BigGovernment and Stephen Clouse and Associates. If [...]
12:08 PM on 02/07/2012 Big Government Occupy DC Plans Chaos At CPAC
A quick note to people attending CPAC, Occupy DC is planning for mayhem.
Open meetings were held to discuss how the Occupy crowd could do their best to wreck the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) being held at the Marriott Wardman hotel in Washington, D.C from February 9-11.
The meetings began last Thursday and lasted until Saturday. During these [...]
11:27 AM on 02/07/2012 Big Government President Obama Overlooks Another Famous Scriptural Passage, Thou Shall Not Steal'
On Thursday, February 2nd, President Obama attended a National Prayer Breakfast for one of the few times during his presidency. And as he stood before those gathered there, he said ?we can all benefit from turning to our Creator? and ?avoiding phony religiosity.? Not only that, but he added that our economy can benefit from [...]
10:46 AM on 02/07/2012 Big Government Working Families Party Operatives Testify in Voter Fraud Case
The ballot fraud case in Troy, New York, shifted from a long parade of defrauded voter testimony, and focused on two operatives in the Working Families Party (WFP) Monday - Thomas Aldrich and James Welch. The trial involves two Democrats – former City Councilman Michael LoPorto, and Rensselaer County Board of Elections Commissioner Edward McDonough. [...]
10:06 AM on 02/07/2012 Big Government Romney Campaign Now Targets Santorum
After celebrating what it apparently believes to be the end of Newt Gingrich?s presidential nomination run, Mitt Romney?s campaign machine is now targeting Rick Santorum, as the former Pennsylvania senator is expected to be a threat to Gov. Romney in caucuses in Minnesota and Colorado on Tuesday.
What is somewhat amusing about the new strategy against [...]
09:26 AM on 02/07/2012 Big Government WaPo: 33 Members of Congress Earmarked $300 Million For Projects That Benefited Their Own Private Property
Borrowing a page from Breitbart editor Peter Schweizer’s investigation of how elected officials funnel taxpayer dollars to projects that increase the value of properties they own, the Washington Post has conducted a study revealing that 33 members of Congress earmarked more than $300 million for projects within two miles of land they own.
After analyzing the [...]
09:26 AM on 02/07/2012 Big Government Fast and Furious: Josephine Terry to Holder, What a Joke You Are'
At one point during the hearings before the House Oversight Committee on February 2nd, Attorney General Eric Holder said he hadn?t learned of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry?s death until 24 hours after it happened. However, this timeline seems questionable at best when you consider that at 2:31 a.m. on very night of Terry?s death [...]
08:46 AM on 02/07/2012 Big Government Chrysler Is Back? Great. Then Why Hasn't It Repaid Taxpayers the $1.3 Billion It Still Owes Them?
Amid the controversy over Chrysler’s “It’s Halftime In America” Super Bowl commercial, a glaring question remains: if Chrysler is back on top and so strong, then why hasn’t it repaid taxpayers the $1.3 billion it still owes them?
?I was, frankly, offended by it,? said Republican strategist Karl Rove. ?I’m a huge fan of Clint Eastwood, [...]
08:06 AM on 02/07/2012 Big Government Tuesday Open Thread: EU Edition
Today, in 1992, the Maastricht Treaty was signed, creating the European Union. This year may well see the end of that utopian vision.
03:19 AM on 02/07/2012 Big Government EAG Exclusive: Teachers Union Staffers Set Sail on Seven-Day Caribbean Cruise
Imagine your organization is facing attacks from all sides. Imagine it?s losing members and revenue. Imagine governors and mayors ? of both political parties ? publicly denouncing your industry as ?broken? and move swiftly to stifle your power and influence, while you flail away helplessly.
What to do? What else to do [...]
11:27 PM on 02/06/2012 Big Government LA Forces Condoms onto Porn Actors! (Nanny of the Month, Jan 2012)
This month’s killjoys are bent on making the Big Apple dry (or not?), and banning electronic (a.k.a. “fake”) cigarettes from public places (wait, isn’t the anti-smoking movement supposed to help addicts kick the habit?).
But the new year’s top slot goes to the City of Angels mayor who’s cracking down on those naughty devils in the adult film industry by mandating [...]
07:22 PM on 02/06/2012 Big Government Romney: On to Maine, Minnesota, and Colorado
Mitt Romney has now decisively won (or statically tied) in four states that went for Obama in 2008: Iowa, New Hampshire, Florida, and Nevada. He will assuredly win in Colorado and Arizona–two other parts of the Mormon corridor–and in Michigan, where he is a favored son.
And yet all but Arizona (which John McCain, a carpet bagger, [...]
06:40 PM on 02/06/2012 Big Government Conservative Group to Share Freedom Plaza with Occupy DC
Some DC-area conservatives plan to hold protests of their own right next Occupy DC’s encampment at Freedom Plaza. It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out since cops are finally enforcing the “no camping” rules on the Occupiers, but no one actually believes they’ll be going away any time soon. The crackdown is strictly on [...]
05:18 PM on 02/06/2012 Big Government WND's Birther' Case Against Rubio Relies on Repealed Slavery Law
World Net Daily is citing an outdated post-Revolutionary War act repealed by Congress that only recognized ?free white persons? as citizens to make its case that Miami born Marco Rubio is not a ?natural born citizen.?
WND?s argument comes in the wake of several 2011 articles, which make a birther argument that recently elected U.S. Senator [...]
04:37 PM on 02/06/2012 Big Government The Limits of Partisanship: Would You Support a Political Ally If They Were Doing Something Illegal?
What are the limits of partisan support?
Repeatedly during the February 2nd ”Fast and Furious” hearings led by the Chairman of the House Oversight committee, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) , Democrats were coming out in force praising Holder for his excellent work. Democratic Congresswoman Maloney from California commended Holder for his favorable accomplishments as the acting Attorney [...]
03:16 PM on 02/06/2012 Big Government Remembering Ronnie: Reagan At 101
Ronald Reagan was a classic. He broke the back of the Evil Empire and started deregulating an overburdened U.S. economy. It was Ronald Reagan in 1964 that told Americans we face a time for choosing — and if you haven’t watched the entire speech, you’re missing out.
Today marks the 101st anniversary of Reagan’s birth. If [...]
01:55 PM on 02/06/2012 Big Government Big Labor Bosses Demonstrate Why Right-to-Work Is Necessary
Shame on Big Labor Bosses! For years they have used the tactic of ?shame? in an effort to pressure, bully and demonize employers who might stand against their efforts. They have used ?shame? in their efforts to misinform the public ? to create a misperception that their target is guilty of [...]
01:14 PM on 02/06/2012 Big Government The Internet Bureau of Over-Regulation and Crony Socialism
We have just passed through the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) brouhaha.
A bill intended to stop theft – an important goal, and a necessary function of government. But SOPA was overly broad, and deserved in its most recent iteration to go away – which it did.
Because of a bipartisan oppositional uprising – but the two [...]
12:34 PM on 02/06/2012 Big Government The DOJ and IRS Have Declared War on Swiss Banks
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On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson is joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss Fiat’s Italian speaking Super Bowl ad, a new effort by the federal government to go after Americans with Swiss bank accounts and how this may be a precursor to wealth confiscation by Washington.
We’re [...]
12:05 PM on 02/06/2012 Big Government Facebook: The Aftermarket Economy
Facebook's IPO filing revealed some pretty impressive numbers. One of them was the $445 million in revenues that it received from Zynga, the most successful developer of FB apps. That relationship, and its history, contains some important lessons. Today?s tech sector is dominated by aftermarket players?software and hardware developers toiling on applications or add-ons dependent on someone else?s platform. Rules governing patents, copyrights, antitrust, unfair competition, encryption, and circumvention all come into play in curious ways. Strategic negotiations and contracting can all play critical roles. Welcome to life in the aftermarket economy.
11:25 AM on 02/06/2012 Big Government Minnesota Lawmakers Take on Teacher Seniority, Lefty Media Yawns
Here?s a headline from a Minnesota Public Radio news story that should cause some sleepless nights for leaders of the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers: ?Teacher seniority, NCLB top education in low-key legislative session.?
The story reports that Minnesota lawmakers want to end the practice of basing teacher layoffs on seniority [...]
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