The Republican presidential candidates debate tonight in North Charleston, South Carolina less than three weeks before the Iowa caucuses. Carly Fiorina, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum will participate in the undercard debate, which starts
With Chicago sitting in the heart the nation, and literally being the den of the progressive movement, is it any wonder that it is also known as the birthplace of the international labor and worker’s rights movement? If you were
So. With yesterday’s farcical Senate theater, the brain-trust begs a very basic question: “Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., who presided over the hearing [said] ‘Businesses should make a profit. That’s what drives our economy. But do these profitable
One of the big threats from the global warming moonbat types is that a rise in temperature will melt the polar ice caps causing the oceans to rise, with the cataclysmic result of skyscrapers being under water. Let’s face it,
Last week, my organization praised the Indiana lawmakers for passing some of the nation’s most significant education reforms. In one of Education Action Group’s weekly newsletters, we said that Indiana’s new voucher program and its decision to lift the cap
When President Obama gave a speech about “comprehensive” immigration reform on May 11th in El Paso, Texas, one thing was certain: he was in no hurry to close the border. Instead, he seemed focused on playing politics by offering an
From WMAR: “People are agreeing with what I’ve been saying for the past thirty years.”
Big Government has previously covered efforts led by California liberals, including Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner, to force out-of-state, online-only retailers with no physical presence in California to collect and remit California sales tax where they sell into the state, based purely
[audio: http://newledger.com/podcasts/CoffeeandMarkets051311.mp3] Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss Mitt Romney’s disastrous health care speech and the grilling of oil executives
On April 15, a day now known as “Black Friday”, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) effectively shut down three major online poker websites by seizing their domain names. The DOJ’s heavy-handed prosecution of the websites, all of which are
Potential Presidential candidate Mitt Romney was in his home state of Michigan yesterday and gave a much-anticipated address on the health care plan he implemented while Governor of Massachusetts. “RomneyCare” has been cited as one of the models for much
The White House visitor logs reveal a lot of things. For example, there are a heckuva lot of people that like to bowl at the White House lanes. Also, Richard Trumka had an Oval Office meeting with the president on
Yesterday, the House voted to end the Obama Administration’s ban on off-shore drilling. Unfortunate that Senate Democrats won’t go along with this, because this would be a really good time to increase the supply of oil.
