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From Big Government correspondent on the scene: We have almost completely lost control of the Capitol building. We now only control the 3rd and 4th floors. Teachers Unions are sending out robo calls and emails to all their members, asking

While standing outside the Capitol amidst protesters, the MacIver Institute’s Bill Osmulski was singled out, surrounded, and confronted by protesters after the Senate passed a bill on collective bargaining. They broke off after fellow protesters opened the building’s doors from

Calling citizen journalists: Tomorrow, an army of very angry union thugs will be descending on the Wisconsin state capitol in Madison. They are furious that the Republican senators voted to pass the collective bargaining provisions of Gov. Scott Walker’s budget

Dear Media Matters: I just wanted to point out to you that the individual you allege is a “discredited activist,” James O’Keefe, has launched efforts that have led to ACORN losing financial support from taxpayers via Congress and ACORN was

MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Republicans in the Wisconsin Senate voted Wednesday night to strip nearly all collective bargaining rights from public workers after discovering a way to bypass the chamber’s missing Democrats. All 14 Senate Democrats fled to Illinois nearly

The latest revelation of National Public Radio Senior VP Ron Schiller’s statements caught on video leaves little doubt about NPR’s mindset on the reporting of the global warming issue, and this must ultimately lead to a much larger examination about

Andrew Ferguson is a senior editor at The Weekly Standard and the author of, most recently, Crazy U: One Dad’s Crash Course in Getting His Kid Into College. Drawing rave reviews from The New York Times and The Wall Street

Depending on the situation, he’s morphed into Carter, Bush, Clinton, Nixon, Reagan, Lincoln, and even Washington. With the Mid-East in full meltdown, the Chameleon-in-Chief’s true colors are starting to show. Cross-Posted: TobyToons (Conservative Political Cartoons)

If you’ve noticed over the last few days, the protests in Madison have gotten smaller. They’ve actually shrunk in size. Despite a visit from Fidel Castro Michael Moore over the weekend, the three-week old protests have just sort of begun

From Heritage’s The Foundry: Today former Congressman Ernest Istook testified before the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee about the $105 billion slush fund in advance appropriations liberals tucked inside Obamacare. The $105 billion bypasses the traditional yearly budgeting process

Suppose you’re a college student who is about to begin searching for a summer job. You’ve spent the past few semesters taking classes in “The Spirituality of Running” and “The Mythic Rhetoric of the American Superhero*,” so you feel adequately

Is this the distempered, hatemongering that our “teachers” are teaching our children? The video below is the last seven minutes of a townhall meeting that was held on March 7 in Wisconsin. It was hosted by Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner (R,

In Michigan, police were caught on tape stealing private property: What do you want to take in the basement? Do you want to take the drums and all that (expletive), or no? The police took three pages worth of property

[audio: http://newledger.com/podcasts/CoffeeandMarkets030911.mp3] Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Nick Loris of the Heritage Foundation to discuss smart policy solutions to address high oil and

Below are the Radio Television Digital News Association’s guidelines for the use of hidden cameras in news gathering. The Left, abetted by the mainstream media, has sought to demonize James O’Keefe from the start. Not content to stop there, they

Despite claims to the contrary from state Democratic officials, the recall efforts against eight Republican Senators could be coordinated by workers from Washington, DC, the MacIver News Service has learned. “These aren’t being run by national operatives,” said Democratic Party

3. GM’s Incentive Spending: Slashing prices through discounts and incentives to juke market share is not a healthy business model Famed investor Warren Buffett once said, “If you have to have a prayer session before raising prices by ten percent,

The Middle East is in flames, China will shortly rival our military power, trade deals needed to help our limping economy continue to lag, and the Washington Post reports the Administration is now engaged in a major diplomatic effort to

The conventional wisdom is, new media is a powerful insurrectionist-like force. The Left proved to be quite capable of employing it to damage Bush, protest the war and bring Obama to power. Now, what with the union’s problems in Wisconsin

In the past 10 years, the burden of federal spending has skyrocketed, more than doubling from$1.86 trillion in 2001 to an estimated $3.82 trillion this year. President Bush deserves a lot of the blame thanks to the no-bureaucrat-left-behind bill that

From the same MoveOn.org rally that brought us video of the now infamous foaming liberal, who proudly “declared war on righties, Teabaggers and Republicans” over at the always sunshine and roses hotspot known as Daily Kos, we bring you yet

Today is Ash Wednesday: