American Elephants

Obama's Latest Whopper: Bush to blame for budget he didnt sign that Obama did, and Bush responsible for Obama's failed stimulus. [Digg]

Digg — Fri, 25 May 2012 14:24:31 PDT

“Since I’ve been President, federal spending has risen at the lowest pace in nearly sixty years. Think about that. This other side, I don’t know how they’ve been bamboozling...

Obama Really Did Go On A Spending Binge, He Just Doesn’t Want You To Know.

The Elephant's Child — Fri, 25 May 2012 13:54:13 +0000

“Since I’ve been President, federal spending has risen at the lowest pace in nearly sixty years. Think about that. This other side, I don’t know how they’ve been bamboozling folks into thinking that they’re the responsible fiscally disciplined party. They run up these wild debts , and then when we take over we’ve gotta clean [...]

Scott Walker Has Saved Wisconsin Voters $1 Billion [Digg]

Digg — Thu, 24 May 2012 23:43:00 PDT

The recall vote in Wisconsin is just days away. A new study shows that the reforms passed by Governor Scott Walker and Republican lawmakers has saved the state one billion dollars. Act 10, which ...

Scott Walker Has Saved Wisconsin Voters $1 Billion

The Elephant's Child — Fri, 25 May 2012 03:00:58 +0000

The recall vote in Wisconsin is just days away. A new study shows that the reforms passed by Governor Scott Walker and Republican lawmakers has saved the state one billion dollars. Act 10, which curbed (not eliminated) collective bargaining for most unionized public employees has reduced the state’s $3.6 billion budget shortfall. Unions are furious. [...]

The American West in the 1860s and 1870s [Digg]

Digg — Thu, 24 May 2012 17:40:47 PDT

Pah-Ute (Paiute) Indian group, near Cedar, Utah in 1872 The Atlantic has done another of their wonderful photo essays: in the 1860s and 70s, photographer Timothy O’Sullivan created some of th...

The American West in the 1860s and 1870s

The Elephant's Child — Thu, 24 May 2012 22:08:25 +0000

Pah-Ute (Paiute) Indian group, near Cedar, Utah in 1872 The Atlantic has done another of their wonderful photo essays: in the 1860s and 70s, photographer Timothy O’Sullivan created some of the best-known images in American History. He covered the U.S. Civil War, and afterwards joined a number of expeditions organized by the federal government to [...]

Pay No Attention to This, Look Over There—Under the Tree!

The Elephant's Child — Thu, 24 May 2012 21:19:21 +0000

About the “War on Women” — “A group of Democratic female senators on Wednesday declared war on the so-called ‘gender pay gap’”, and urged their colleagues to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act when Congress returns from recess next month. But it turns out that there is a substantial gender pay gap in their own offices [...]

World WIldlife Fund: The Problem is Humanity. Get Rid of Them! [Digg]

Digg — Thu, 24 May 2012 12:49:01 PDT

Basketball

The Elephant's Child — Thu, 24 May 2012 14:12:08 +0000

The Problem is Humanity. Get Rid of Them!

The Elephant's Child — Thu, 24 May 2012 13:47:06 +0000

Are you familiar with the World Wildlife Fund? Huge, wealthy worldwide organization, preserving wildlife, caring for the environment, doing good environmental works. If you visit their website and look at their board of directors, it’s an impressive list of the prominent and very well-to-do. The other face of the World Wildlife Fund is as an [...]

A Joke in Search of a Punchline…

American Elephant — Thu, 24 May 2012 03:02:17 +0000

I decided it’d be brilliant to mock Obama’s incessant use of straw men in the form of a campaign ad; unfortunately the brilliant punchline escapes me. So, I turn to our brilliant readers. Ideally, I’d love to mock an actual Obama quote, campaign slogan, or soundbite — like this one — but it doesn’t have [...]

Are There ANY Clean Energy Successes? Just One? [Digg]

Digg — Wed, 23 May 2012 13:07:11 PDT

Obama hasn’t a lot to brag about in the way of economic recovery, so he’s trying his best to distract from the economy and turn your attention elsewhere. There is the War on Women, elev...

The Left is Threatening The Supreme Court!

The Elephant's Child — Wed, 23 May 2012 14:22:36 +0000

The Obama administration has just signed a deal with Public Relations firm Porter Novelli to promote ObamaCare. The Democrats were just sure that everybody would love it once it passed and they “found out what’s in it.” The people did find out what’s in it, and want no part of it. So naturally we must [...]

Are There ANY Clean Energy Successes? Just One?

The Elephant's Child — Wed, 23 May 2012 13:52:35 +0000

Obama hasn’t a lot to brag about in the way of economic recovery, so he’s trying his best to distract from the economy and turn your attention elsewhere. There is the War on Women, elevated from a matter of taxpayers not feeling that it is necessary for them to pay for women’s birth-control pills ($9. [...]

Three Reasons to Quit Drinking

The Elephant's Child — Wed, 23 May 2012 03:26:35 +0000

OK, this is just silly, but I thought you might need a good laugh.

The President Doesn’t Understand the Free Market! [Digg]

Digg — Tue, 22 May 2012 13:53:29 PDT

Forgive me, but this is so embarrassing. Barack Obama has just carefully explained that he has no understanding whatsoever of business. Like many leftists, he regards profit as something rather dis...

Forty-three Catholic Institutions File Lawsuits over HHS Mandate. [Digg]

Digg — Mon, 21 May 2012 18:34:41 PDT

Twelve legal challenges have been filed today by 43 plaintiffs against the ObamaCare regulation that requires health care plans to include abortion-inducing drugs, contraceptives, and sterilization...

The Group of Eight Met, But Did They Accomplish Anything? [Digg]

Digg — Mon, 21 May 2012 12:44:59 PDT

The Group of Eight met at Camp David on May 18 and 19 to be lectured by President Obama on how to solve their economic problems. just like he has. At least previously he had no compunctions about t...

Genocidal Eco-Fascism: How to Save the Planet. [Digg]

Digg — Sun, 20 May 2012 23:38:59 PDT

Finnish writer Pentti Linkola is an ecological radical. He demands that the human population of the world reduce its size to around 500 million, abandon modern technology and the pursuit of economi...

Memorable Moments in Presidential History [Digg]

Digg — Sun, 20 May 2012 23:25:20 PDT

Magnificent Mockery from American Crossroads. I can’t get enough of it.

Here’s How Obama, Democrats and "Progressivism" Destroy American Jobs [Digg]

Digg — Sat, 19 May 2012 13:11:25 PDT

This video was made back in October of last year, when Henry Juszkiewicz , CEO of Gibson Guitar Company testified before Congress. Gibson Guitars has been accused by the Obama Administration of r...

It was 32 Years Ago Today! [Digg]

Digg — Sat, 19 May 2012 00:50:02 PDT

[Ed. note: the following was originally posted in 2008 on this infamous day] Chances are, if you’re not from Washington or Oregon, the date May 18th has little meaning to you. Heck, even arou...

A History & Economic Lesson for Obama. [Digg]

Digg — Wed, 16 May 2012 21:19:04 PDT

I didn’t expect to use the same image again so soon, but it fits this story even better. Obama believes in government spending (Boy, do we have evidence of that!) so much so that he refers ...

Pity the Poor Professors: They’re on Food Stamps Too. [Digg]

Digg — Wed, 16 May 2012 18:04:51 PDT

According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, between 2007 and 2010, the percentage of people with a graduate degree who were on food stamps or were receiving another kind of federal aid more tha...

The Antidote to Pessimism: The Free Market Works! [Digg]

Digg — Mon, 14 May 2012 19:44:11 PDT

Over the weekend, 230,000 unemployed people lost their benefits, they just ran out. The recession continues, prices climb at the grocery store, crisis in Europe, class warfare; this seems like a ...