By: Warner Todd Huston (Diary)  |  May 14th at 06:02 AM  | 

In keeping with the America denigrating tone set by president Obama, the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., Susan Rice, told participants of the United Nations Human Rights Council that the U.S. has “not been perfect ourselves” on human rights issues. Rice was discussing the pending membership of the United States on the U.N. Human Rights Council which has such human rights loving states as China, | Read More »

By: Warner Todd Huston (Diary)  |  May 14th at 06:01 AM  | 

Did you know that former vice president Dick Cheney is speaking out only because he is trying to protect his legacy? Well just in case you wondered about it Steven Hurst for the Associated Press wants to assure that he has read Cheney’s mind and it’s all settled. This is what passes for “analysis” at the AP. The AP has also decided that Cheney speaking | Read More »

By: Warner Todd Huston (Diary)  |  May 14th at 05:55 AM  | 

Ever wonder how political “facts” become facts? How does a story go from a mere unsubstantiated report to universal truth? Often, it happens with a catchy headline in a report that states as “fact” a claim made by one person even though no one else has been seen backing up the claim. Such may be the case with a recent story on actor Gary Sinise | Read More »

By: Warner Todd Huston (Diary)  |  May 14th at 05:51 AM  | 

Larry Seale of First Transit Employee Rights Blog found an odd expenditure for Los Angeles based Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 1277 early this month. The vexing question here is why would a Local union office need to spend $93,755 on “computer services”? What are they doing, rebuilding flight control for NASA? On the Local’s LM-2 form, a financial disclosure form required by the federal | Read More »

By: Warner Todd Huston (Diary)  |  May 13th at 05:12 AM  | 

Some may look at Obama’s defense funding request coming in at about $144.6 billion as a welcome reduction over the 2008 budget of $186 billion. Some may also be tempted to claim that Obama is ramping down America’s war efforts. But that would be a hasty conclusion because the numbers are a bit deceiving. On top of that some of the areas that Obama wants | Read More »

By: Warner Todd Huston (Diary)  |  May 13th at 05:09 AM  | 

Obama’s Long-time Chicago flunkie Valerie Jarrett is patting herself on the back for the wonderful “change” that she has brought to the White House. What is so wonderful? They’ve changed the name of one of the offices that works under the president’s authority. I guess changing the name of an office equals substantive change in Obama’s Washington. See? Change is wonderful. Unfortunately, it’s all style | Read More »

By: Warner Todd Huston (Diary)  |  May 13th at 05:08 AM  | 

Chinese hookers have a drinking problem. Obama has the answer: U.S. Tax money. So it appears that the President of “change” seems to be The One that drunken Chinese prostitutes “have been waiting for.” Our informative friends at CNSNews.com discovered that the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse (NIAA) has been awarded $2.6 million U.S. tax dollars to help train Chinese prostitutes to “drink responsibly on | Read More »

By: Warner Todd Huston (Diary)  |  May 12th at 12:32 PM  | 

Scott Baker of the B Cast show on Breitbart TV gave me a ring this morning and asked me to join him for a segment this afternoon. We’ll be taking on the new environmental extremist video “The Story of Stuff” that is being surreptitiously sneaked into our schools all across the country. I posted about it today here as well as on NewsBusters.org on Monday. | Read More »

By: Warner Todd Huston (Diary)  |  May 12th at 06:01 AM  | 

A new propaganda video created by an extreme environmental activist is making its way into America’s classrooms and The New York Times loves the whole idea. Enviro obsessive Annie Leonard, Greenpeace member and activist, has created a 20 minute video filled with anti-capitalist, anti-American propaganda to encourage kids to eschew “stuff,” calling the presentation “The Story of Stuff.” Leonard’s propaganda piece is so anti-American she | Read More »

By: Warner Todd Huston (Diary)  |  May 12th at 04:49 AM  | 

When does an unelected union without legal governing powers get a say in what the federal government does with its dealings with a state? When a president that is more beholding to unions than he is to the Constitution and the people of the United States comes to office, that’s when. And now we have that in Barack Obama. The L.A. Times is reporting that | Read More »

By: Warner Todd Huston (Diary)  |  May 11th at 06:01 AM  | 

Tourism has recently been up a little in Juneau, Alaska. More folks than ever have been interested in taking bus tours through Alaska’s capitol city with a major attraction being the Alaska State House where Governor Sarah Palin goes about her daily work. In fact, the tours have been gaining in popularity since before John McCain asked the governor along for his run for the | Read More »

By: Warner Todd Huston (Diary)  |  May 11th at 05:12 AM  | 

Before we begin today’s lesson, let us review the purpose of a library, shall we? Are libraries not a compilation of knowledge in the form of books and visual aids brought together for the edification of students of humanity to be used a s a tool for their growth and enrichment? If it is, the earnest curators of the Oxford Library have somehow missed that | Read More »

By: Warner Todd Huston (Diary)  |  May 10th at 10:36 PM  | 

Press Release The American Psychologist Association (APA) has identified a new, debilitative mental disorder today in hopes that patients will seek help. The new syndrome, Iconographic Desire Influenced by Obama’s Terrificness Syndrome (or IDIOT Syndrome), has been identified in at least one case in Cincinnati, Ohio. This mental disease manifests itself in an acute desire to collect photos, bobble head figures, coffee cups, T-Shirts and | Read More »

By: Warner Todd Huston (Diary)  |  May 10th at 08:16 AM  | 

There are classic lies. There’s “Mom, my invisible friend broke the window, not me.” Of course, we all have heard, “I didn’t see any cookies.” Then there’s that ever favorite, “No, officer, I didn’t know I was speeding.” And who can forget that time worn, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Monica.” But these days the American left has puffed itself up | Read More »

By: Warner Todd Huston (Diary)  |  May 10th at 08:15 AM  | 

The New York City carpenters union has been in trouble with the law for many decades. Organized crime has been endemic with the union for a long time and union chief after union chief has gone to jail over the ties and other corruption. Even shop stewards have gotten into the corruption game with four recently convicted on charges of fraud, conspiracy or bribetaking. It’s | Read More »

By: Warner Todd Huston (Diary)  |  May 10th at 01:37 AM  | 

Don’t tell me about how Barack Obama is a “hero.” Watch this and see heroes.

By: Warner Todd Huston (Diary)  |  May 10th at 01:20 AM  | 

This year comedian Wanda Sykes was given the spotlight for the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. This made everyone wonder if she’d throw a barb or two Obama’s way as is customary. All past hosts have spared no opportunity to skewer the current commander in chief and his administration. That is what the thing is for, after all. But with the kid gloves that the Old | Read More »

By: Warner Todd Huston (Diary)  |  May 9th at 06:16 AM  | 

In a fit of hypocrisy sure to outrage, just as Attorney General Eric Holder makes ready to attend a ceremony to honor fallen police officers, the Obama administration is proposing to cut almost in half a program that provides benefits to the future families left behind. So much for the more loving, more caring president “we’ve been waiting for.” So, wouldn’t you think the Old | Read More »

By: Warner Todd Huston (Diary)  |  May 9th at 04:58 AM  | 

I suppose if I was the ruler of the free world, I’d want it too. I mean, if I controlled all I survey, if the nation bowed before me, if the illiterati gave an obedient chuckle at my every quip, yet paused thoughtfully at my pretensions at seriousness, if the world placed me on my rightful pedestal, I’d imagine that the producers of the hottest | Read More »

By: Warner Todd Huston (Diary)  |  May 9th at 02:52 AM  | 

Elizabeth Sauls is a writer for the Beaufort Observer of Beaufort, North Carolina. It’s a little paper in a little town — area population around 50,000 — so it’s just the sort of town that New Yorkers or Chicagoans like to scoff at. But, Elizabeth Sauls wrote a piece that everyone should read. Headlined, “Presidential Sleight of Hand Keeps Reporter Befuddled,” Sauls lays out with | Read More »