• Chicago Mayor Promises Action Against City Employees Ftealing From Taxpayers

    Today it was revealed that trash collectors (City of Chicago employees) are cheating taxpayers. An inspector’s report of an investigation revealed that about 25% of trash collectors’ time is spent doing absolutely nothing. Ten weeks of surveillance showed:

  • Either Soledad O’Brien can’t count or she’s a liar

    You gotta love it every time “liberal media bias” plays itself out right in front of your eyes. On debate night, CNN’s Soledad O’Brien had a group of voters that were supposedly evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats, plus a […]

  • Debunking Sarah Palin rumors and lies

    Someone has put together a list of the lies and rumors being promoted by the left about soon-to-be Vice President Sarah Palin. It’s quite remarkable when you read the whole list… All these rumors in one place really show how […]

  • Check out the pork in the bailout bill

    Oh, I know we’re not supposed to call it “pork.” It’s now “sweeteners.” And it’s not a “bailout.” It’s now a “recovery” bill. I get it. It’s all about marketing, and to properly market it to Americans (i.e. Get them […]

  • Milwaukee school board member Charlene Hardin screwing taxpayers again

    As if it wasn’t bad enough to go on a trip to Philadelphia paid for by taxpayers, but not attend the conference and instead make it a vacation…. Milwaukee Public Schools board member Charlene Hardin is now caught wasting more […]

  • The $700 billion bailout should fail on its own merits

    ..not be passed through because of other legislation that the taxpayers deserve to have regardless of whether it’s attached to to bailout. This $700 billion (probably more like $1 trillion or $2 trillion) bailout that was passed by the Senate […]

  • Cookies and Coffee Now Mean “Come Join Our Church.”

    From the “how many ways can we waste taxpayer dollars” file… Daniel B. Kapustin has filed a complaint with the state’s Government Accountability board about the September 9 elections held at Christ the King Lutheran Church in Delafield. City buildings […]

  • Mark Cuban’s Idea On a Private Bailout of the Financial Sector

    Mark Cuban has an idea: Let’s scrap this government bailout of the financial sector and instead make it private. Create an Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) that buys the distressed securities these companies want to get rid of, as well as […]

  • The problem is not the funding formula!

    Tonight the Milwaukee Public Schools board met to discuss the possibility of dissolving the district. The consensus is that they can’t do it. But the sheer ignorance is stunning. The sound bytes from board members went like this: “The problem […]

  • Somebody please check Henry Paulson

    This whole “bailout” of the financial sector bothers me. It bothers me that as a taxpayer, I will be on the hook for a nice chunk of the $500 billion to $1 trillion that this will cost. (And the way […]