Big Government

I want to opine on something. I’ve been watching fox news channel and Dick Morris and Karl Rove is on there flapping their gums while Greta nod her head while thinking about a trip to Barbados. Then they both sling

Last week, the Chicago Tribune published a commentary piece I wrote about the Occupy Wall Street protesters in Chicago. They’ve been camped out near my office for the past few weeks, and I decided to engage them in conversation on

Cleveland’s schools are facing a $13 million deficit. Because of this, the district is forced to make cuts to pre-school, sports, busing and textbooks. But worry not, the Cleveland teachers union has a solution to these cuts. [youtube LLZpvjOVeUs] Issue

Some on the Left suggest that if were Jesus alive today he would be encouraging or even participating in the Occupy protests occurring around this nation. Although Leftists often derisively dismiss the value of religious beliefs to contemporary government and

Scott Olsen is the ex-Marine and Iraq War veteran who was injured in the riot instigated by Occupy Oakland on Oct. 25. The Occupy Wall Street movement and its institutional patrons are using the incident to rally support, declaring: “We

From The New York Post: Former Long Island Rail Road workers who lied about being disabled rode a “train of lies” to golden retirements in an audacious, $1 billion pension scam, the feds said yesterday. Eleven suspects were charged: six

From The Daily Mail (UK): Drivers in Miami today were likely doing double takes on Wednesday as they passed what looked like a banker hanging by a noose from a telephone wire alongside a Florida highway. To accompany his Occupy

A powerful United Food & Commercial Workers local union (348s) in New York was closed for business on Thursday as police arrested three family members who run the union local. Police arrested the president, former president, and treasurer of Local

From the Department of Justice: Attorney General Eric Holder and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack released the following statements on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia approval of the historic Pigford II settlement: “This settlement allows the Department

We are squandering a great opportunity to become energy independent and put millions of Americans back to work with moratoriums and still more regulations. To say more would only be repeating what has been said in the past. With reckless

From Politico: Occupy Wall Street protesters will march to five banks in Manhattan on Friday and deliver thousands of letters to the companies — in the form of a “mass paper airplane throwing.” According to the movement’s website, at 1

Union bosses in Ohio and Washington, D.C. are – oddly enough – opposed to the sensible government union reforms in Ohio’s Senate Bill 5. Exactly how opposed? Combine yesterday’s cash and in-kind numbers from the Ohio Secretary of State with

From The Union-Leader: MANCHESTER – A city woman is accused of pimping out a 16-year-old girl she met in Victory Park during the Occupy NH demonstrations. Police said the teen’s mother called them Thursday about noon to say her daughter

[audio: http://www.coffeeandmarkets.com/CoffeeandMarkets102811.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 the stock market’s booming October, China’s rescue of the failing Eurozone and

When Gov. Sarah Palin was deciding whether or not to get into the presidential race, Karl Rove was popping up on Fox News to talk about why her skin was too thin for the job. And when Gov. Rick Perry

Folks, the Democrats and We Are Ohio unions will stop at NOTHING to preserve the government union advantage over the officials we elect to manage our tax dollars. They will say, and do, absolutely ANYTHING to stop the reasonable reforms

As Ohio’s SB5 (collective bargaining reform) goes to a vote on November 8th, pressure is being ramped up in the final week and a half. According to the Columbus Dispatch, unions and their fellow reform opponents have bankrolled the We

From The Oregonian: Organizers of Occupy Portland say they fear as much as $20,000 donated to the group through a PayPal account has disappeared. They also say the group’s finance committee has hijacked the demonstration’s Internet domain name and filed

The following video features the demands made by Occupy Chicago activists Andy Thayer and Joe Iosbaker during the invasion they led into City Hall yesterday. The march of the moochers stormed the building and marched clockwise in the lobby, rather

We don’t know the full details, but China will play a major role bailing out the EU. Say that three times and think about it.