After repeated scandals, the IRS is looking to hire a new “Diversity and Inclusion Specialist” and is offering a generous $123,758 annual salary plus benefits. The opening was announced on June 11 and will be advertised until June 24. According to the description this “diversity” officer will “serve as a change agent to provide strategies, [...]
Mary Margaret McCord, the dull witted “beauty queen” from Alabama, said during the 2013 Miss USA contest that she’d trade freedom and liberty for safety. This empty-headed twit proves that the liberals have won. We have lost our freedom if people care so little about it that they would trade liberty and freedom for government-sponsored [...]
This week’s Weekend Caption Contest™ was another smashing success. The assignment this week was to caption the following picture: Here are the winning entries: 1) (Rodney Dill) – “Close, but no cigar.” 2) (guido81_MA) – “Eva Longoria, may I introduce you to my best friend? I call him Even Longer-ia!” 3) (Paul Hooson) – “I [...]
Last week’s Weekend Caption Contest™ was another smash hit. The assignment last week was to caption the following picture: Here are the winning entries: 1) (alanstorm) – “Go to the next email. I already read that one.” 2) (Rodney Dill) – Kid: “Gee… I thought googling ‘Big Boobs’ would get me in trouble… but its [...]
(And happy Father’s Day, everyone….) You know the claim, right? Islamic terrorists don’t allow any sort of pork products to come near them. Well, one ammunition company is taking advantage of that religious tenet by making bullets dipped in pork-infused paint. They say that since radical Islamists don’t like pork, these bullets may deter terrorism. [...]
Sarah Palin is getting back on track as an outspoken commentator on the news and her first step back in the spotlight is to slam so-called comedian Bill Maher for calling her son, Trig, a “retard” in his “comedy” act. Palin has recently re-signed as a Fox News commentator after having let her contract lapse [...]
The Washington Post recently made waves with a story on the National Security Agency’s domestic data mining project “Prism,” but interestingly one of the co-authors of the article is a radical, left-wing filmmaker who has been a loud critic of U.S. counterterrorism policies. The article, “U.S., British intelligence mining data from nine U.S. Internet companies [...]
It’s Friday, which means it’s time for the Wizbang Weekend Caption Contest™. Enter your best caption for the following picture: Winners for last week’s contest and this week’s contest will be announced Monday morning.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against Texas in a unanimous ruling. The Lone Star State could have received some kind of consolation if just one SCOTUS justice had voted in favor of Texas, but none did. What Texas wanted from the Court was so wrong that even President Obama’s SCOTUS appointees knew it, despite [...]
During a recent fundraiser, President Obama told an audience that he and the Democrats don’t want to tax all business out of business. He also said he doesn’t believe in “top down” government. The President made these comments at a private residence in Palo Alto, California during a Democratic Senatorial campaign fundraiser in the first [...]
The new Ethan Hawke thriller The Purge was number one at the box office during its opening weekend, but critics are slamming the film for its thinly veiled commentary against the National Rifle Association, Sarah Palin, and Tea Party groups. The plot brings moviegoers to the near future where in 2022 a new regime has [...]
On 7 June 2013, New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan responded to the claim made by some parties that the newspaper changed one of its editorials about the Obama Administration in order to “soften” it. The original version of the editorial has a sentence that says, “The administration has now lost all credibility.” In an [...]
Liberal economist and leading modern Keynesian, Paul Krugman of The New York Times, has been one of Barack Obama’s biggest cheerleaders, but suddenly he is a bit down on the Obama administration saying that he is afraid that the country is becoming an “authoritarian surveillance state.” With a mounting list of scandals from government-sponsored intimidation [...]
Once again Democrats tried to get a bill passed in the House of Representatives to fund an expansion of U.S. prisons in order to house terror suspects in the U.S. heartland instead of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. As in years previous, however, the measure was defeated. On June 4 the House shot down an amendment introduced [...]
The National Security Agency (NSA) has been in the spotlight since news broke that the agency has been collecting massive amounts of data from everyday Americans and with some of the worst timing ever, the NSA is now advertising for new employees for positions as “Digital Exploitation Specialists.” According to the NSA job description, the [...]
Democrat State Senator Kevin De Leon has introduced a plan to hike cigarette taxes (SB 768 ) in order to pay for more state spending. But this idea is nothing new and has been defeated several times before. Even law enforcement has been against these tax hikes because such plans embolden dangerous criminals States with [...]
CNN is drawing criticism for a feature story on a Palestinian soccer player who is in the news for boycotting Israel. The cable network is being criticized because its glowing treatment of the Palestinian protester neglects to mention that he is a member of the terror group Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). In fact, the piece [...]
On the afternoon of June 6, Breitbart correspondent Ben Shapiro marveled at how harshly President Obama was treated in an editorial by The New York Times, but as the day wore on, the paper went back and altered its editorial to soften its own criticism of the President. As Shapiro noted, “Mr. Obama is proving [...]
Here’s a handy guide to refute the Gang of Eight’s talking points on immigration reform. At the bottom of the post is a list of telephone numbers and faxes for key US Senators, please call them once a day and speak to one talking point daily. If you can’t speak to a staffer, leave a [...]
The hand-in-hand nature of this White House and some of the nation’s biggest corporations is seen in yet another incident as Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign data team is now moving from team Obama to team Google. This week, Bloomberg reported that Obama’s data mining team, used to such great effect during his 2012 re-election for [...]
The New York Times editorial board has published an editorial that is anything but favorable toward the Obama Administration. Here is how the editorial begins: Within hours of the disclosure that federal authorities routinely collect data on phone calls Americans make, regardless of whether they have any bearing on a counterterrorism investigation, the Obama administration [...]
It’s Friday, which means it’s time for the Wizbang Weekend Caption Contest™. Enter your best caption for the following picture: Winners will be announced Monday morning. Update: Winners announced. Click the link to read the winning entries. The contest is now closed.
Now we get to the height of idiocy with a school “no tolerance” policy with a boy who was suspended just for saying the word gun. A 11-year-old boy from Northern Middle School in Owings, Maryland has told his mom and dad that he wants to be a Navy SEAL one day, but getting pout [...]
A new study of the most controversial entries on Wikipedia, the crowd sourced, online encyclopedia, shows that in the English language entry the most fought over is the biography of George W. Bush. The authors of The most controversial topics in Wikipedia, a study that looked at the most controversial pages by language group, finds [...]
A report to be released on Tuesday investigating expenditures by the Internal Revenue Service will reveal that $50 million was lavished on some 220 conferences for employees between 2010 and 2012. In one case alone, the report finds that the IRS spent $4 million on a conference for 2,600 IRS employees held in Anaheim, California [...]
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