In politics 19 days can be an eternity. In 19 days before my fellow Iowans caucus in local churches, schools, fire houses, and even homes the Republican field will have two more debates, we’ll be exposed countless radio and TV ads, and who knows how many trees have been sacrificed to send us mailers that most of us don’t want.
This is a solid campaign move by Perry. Newt Gingrich is coming on strong in the polls as the anti-Romney, but the fact that the former Speaker is an old-school Beltway insider is a vulnerability. If Perry hopes to revitalize
Supporters of the Occupy Wall Street movement took to Twitter to enlist the help of hacker group Anonymous in targeting New York Supreme Court Justice Michael Stallman within minutes of his ruling that Occupy Wall Street protesters could not return
We have oft spoken of how ridiculous Government General Motors (GM) has continued to become since receiving $50 billion of our bailout money. And of the Barack Obama Administration’s puffing up for political and campaign purposes GM’s alleged “recovery” from
From the Associated Press: A New York judge has upheld the city’s dismantling of the Occupy Wall Street encampment, saying that the protesters’ first amendment rights don’t entitle them to camp out indefinitely in the plaza. Supreme Court Justice Michael
From CBSNews: A bill to stop “insider trading” in Congress is gaining momentum with two new Senate sponsors. Sens. Scott Brown, R-Mass., and Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., today are introducing the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act of 2011, which
Reports of Big Labor support come in as NYC police act to remove occupiers from Zucotti Park. Reports indicate as many as 70 people have been arrested. Sarah Maslin Nir of the New York Times has tweeted a couple of
From BusinessInsider: The fact that many members of Congress appear to have traded on non-public information in their personal brokerage accounts during the financial crisis is outrageous. But since this bombshell news broke on Sunday night, the excuse has been
With a new congressional insider trading scandal unfolding in Washington, another name has been added to the hit parade: U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA). In the new blockbuster tell-all Throw Them All Out, investigative reporter and Breitbart editor Peter Schweizer
There is a real class war going on in this country, and the Occupy Movement doesn’t seem to realize that they are on the wrong side of it. No, it’s not the wealth-hating, broad brush 99% vs. 1% class war
[audio: http://www.coffeeandmarkets.com/CoffeeandMarkets111511.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 a new push to politically unite Europe to save the Eurozone, how
Yesterday, I wondered how Nancy Pelosi and her husband were able to participate in Visa’s IPO in March 2008. It is very difficult for an individual investor to participate in IPOs, especially those which are heavily ‘oversubscribed’ as Visa’s was.
EthicalOil.org, the organization that sparked a diplomatic incident between Canada and Saudi Arabia with its television commercials criticizing Saudi oil imports, has brought its controversial campaign to the United States. The group, which launched this summer, promotes “ethical” Canadian oil
From Accuracy in Media’s Benjamin Johnson: Since people started camping out in the name of socialism or something, there have only been half measures by the media to determine whether union organizers were using dues to provide transportation, food and
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Liberal talk show host Bill Press recently said he sees no difference between the allegations against Herman Cain and that of a child-sex abusing ex-Penn State coach stating, “What’s the difference, really? There’s no difference. I mean, okay, we have
Kyle Wingfield in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: See if you can follow me here: 1. CBS’s “60 Minutes” caused a stir with its report Sunday, based on a forthcoming book by Peter Schweizer, about members of Congress who may have traded
The Occupy movement’s professional victims were about to have the worst day ever thanks to a few pesky things called law and order, but thankfully, rich One-Percenter lawyers stepped in to save the debt-beguiled squatters. You know what that means:
From Newsweek: The effort began in earnest in late 2007. Ogilvy, one of Visa’s outside lobbying firms, picked off one of Pelosi’s government-affairs advisers, Dean Aguillen, who had close ties in the speaker’s office. Aguillen quit the speaker’s team and
Will Wednesday be a a day of reckoning for several doctors who handed out fake sick notes to government workers who protested Wiscosnin Governor Scott Walker’s labor reforms earlier this year? The MacIver News Service reports: [Madison, Wisc…] We’ll soon
In a desperate move to boost their effort to recall Governor Scott Walker, the liberal Soros front group One Wisconsin Now has hijacked the Occupy Wall Street movement. The formal Democratic Party-sponsored effort to force a recall of Governor Walker
In the wake of the $700 billion TARP bailout, Warren Buffett apparently shaped a plan to clean up toxic assets that Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner later adopted–resulting in massive profits for Buffett. That’s the latest bombshell revelation from investigative journalist
Today, in 1864, Union General William Tecumseh Sherman burned Atlanta and began his ‘March to the Sea.’
