Iran State TV station FARS announced Saturday morning that four American dual-nationality prisoners were released from Iranian custody in a “prisoner swap” with the United States.
Tonight, 9 candidates for the GOP nomination debate in Orlando, FL. The debate is sponsored by FoxNews and Google(!). The debate starts at 9pm EDT. We’ll have comments and thoughts from the Breitbart editors throughout the night.
Peter Schiff, the president of EuroPacific Capital and sometimes-pundit/author/political-candidate, testified before the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Government Reform and Stimulus Oversight on September 13th. The video of his testimony has become a minor YouTube hit and was featured prominently
One year ago, Ground Zero Mosque leader Daisy Khan, the wife of stealth Islamic supremacist Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf, said that they would be breaking ground on September 11, 2011 for the 15-story monster mosque going up in a building
During the Tea Party debate, Wolf Blitzer presented to Ron Paul, a hypothetical situation in which an able man chooses to not buy health insurance and then gets very ill. Paul said “that’s what freedom is all about, taking your
The American Jobs Act exposes states to frivolous lawsuits while providing a boon to trial lawyers seeking government settlement money. The President made no mention of this boon to the trial bar in his national jobs speech. Nor does the
Try as he might and promise though he does, Obama’s attempts to lower unemployment in the U.S. have proven politically impotent. On the one hand he spends recklessly, $800 billion-plus in stimulus funds during his first months in office alone,
On September 21, 2011, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) spoke to a crowd gathered in Washington, D.C., outside of the Capitol and said, “We need some of you probably getting arrested for doing things you shouldn’t be doing” to save Medicaid.
Now this is the sort of corruption we are used to seeing in Illinois, eh? This week the Chicago Tribune and WGN TV have found up to 23 retired union operatives that are collecting millions in taxpayer dollars because they
Continuing a fiat governance style that is right out of the Obama playbook, Democratic and Working Families Party Governor Dannel Malloy issued two executive orders yesterday that will force daycare providers and home healthcare workers in Connecticut to join unions.
[audio: http://newledger.com/podcasts/CoffeeandMarkets092211.mp3] Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech discuss the murky definition of “affordable” healthcare plans in Obamacare, how it may impact the average American family and
Tonight, GOP candidates will face off in Orlando for this week’s presidential debate. Tonight’s debate is sponsored by FoxNews and Google (!). The latest polling shows the race tightening between Perry and Romney, Gingrich gaining ground and Bachmann fading. Romney
From TPM: A former staffer for Rev. Jesse Jackson and his non-profit Rainbow PUSH Coalition alleges in a lawsuit that he was discriminated against because he is gay, allegedly instructed to bring women to Jackson’s hotel rooms and sometimes sexually
In a move that some are calling QE3, the Federal Reserve announced yesterday that it will engage in a policy called “the twist” – selling short-term bonds and buying long-term bonds in hopes of artificially reducing long-term interest rates. If
From the Associated Press: The U.S. Federal Reserve’s tacit acknowledgment that America’s economic slowdown is likely to persist for quite a while sent global stock markets skidding Thursday as investors brushed off the central bank’s efforts to spur growth and
I recently wrote on my blog that Libertarians should not support Democrats. Ever. The post generated a tremendous response and produced an invitation from BIG Government Editor Michael Flynn to expand on my thoughts here. I’m honored to do so.
From the Associated Press: he number of people applying for unemployment benefits fell last week, though the decline isn’t enough to signal improvement in the job market. The Labor Department says weekly applications dropped 9,000 to a seasonally adjusted 423,000.
About nine years ago, I sat down for my first class in law school: contracts. I don’t remember the name of the first case that our professor had us read, but I remember what it was about: remedies. The case
On August 21, 2011, Rep. Maxine Waters, a senior member of the Congressional Black Caucus, at what was supposed to be a “jobs fair”, in Inglewood, California, made the following statement: “This is a tough game. You can’t be intimidated.
The awful launch week for the over-hyped, expected bestseller The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin, by controversial author Joe McGinniss, just got worse. Much worse. After a week of universally scathing pans from the reflexively anti-Palin establishment media,
Today, in 1776, patriot Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during the American Revolution.
