Big Government

A must-read courtesy of James Pethokoukis at The American: This could be just the beginning. If President Barack Obama’s legally dodgy appointment of Richard Cordray to head the consumer finance agency should stick, it may open the door to more

The most successful Obama campaign meme–repeated ad infinitum by the mainstream media–is the idea that the country is saddled with a “do-nothing Congress.” The implication–brilliantly conveyed, though completely untrue–is that we have a “do-nothing Republican Congress,” though in fact the

The fact that Paul Krugman received the Nobel Prize in economics makes sense given that both Al Gore and Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize. But that is the only way that it makes sense. In his December 29th column

The Republican Governors Association (RGA) reported their fundraising numbers for 2011 today and it was a record. Raising $44.1 million in the year that just ended, the RGA most than doubled the Democratic Governors Association’s (DGA) total of $20 million.

Obviously, the American Conservative Union (ACU) didn’t get the memo. After all, Governor Palin is irrelevant, donchaknow. At least that’s what the mainstream media told me, and the mainstream media never lies. Was that the sound of Katie Couric’s head

Ron Paul is an old man in a young man’s game. Were he elected to the presidency this year at age 77, he would be the oldest president ever elected. That doesn’t bother his young supporters, many of whom will

MADISON, Wis. – For years thousands of minority students have struggled in the Madison public school system. In 2010, for example, 87 percent of white students graduated on schedule, compared to only 48 percent of black students. So the Urban

Yesterday, we told you about how Senator Sherrod Brown was nowhere to be seen when Barack Obama spoke in suburban Cleveland yesterday. Sherrod can’t use Senate business as an excuse. He is in Ohio today. What Sherrod and Obama WANT

The Barack Obama Administration has, since its inception, been moving the United States dramatically leftward, trying to (at the very least) make us a western European socialist entity. Ideologically, a full-on participant in – rather than a rational outlier of

With the Iowa caucuses kicking off the primary season to decide the Republican presidential challenger, it is important to reflect on what President Obama will be doing to secure a second term, as he has no Democratic challenger. As Obama

The conservative base may not have rallied to him (yet), but one thing Gov. Mitt Romney does better than any other candidate is stand up to the misinformed goons of Occupy Wall Street. Leftist hecklers have been after Romney since

On Wednesday, Milwaukee Assistant District Attorney Bruce Landgraf issued a search warrant for Florida SEIU organizer Clarence Haynes declaring there is “probable cause that Mr. H [Clarence Haynes] voted without the proper qualifications as an elector when he cast a

With Michele Bachmann and Gary Johnson out of the race. Wait who Gary Johnson former governor of New Mexico who exactly. The race seem to be cutting the fat off the meat and getting to the nitty gritty. So what

DETROIT (AP) – A person briefed on the matter says General Motors will ask Volt owners to bring their electric cars into dealers to strengthen the structure around the batteries. The move is similar to a recall and involves the

On January 3, Media Matters for America (MMfA) linked, among others, a Big Government item by J. Christian Adams to support its mischaracterization of a Fox News segment on South Carolina’s contested voter ID law. MMfA cherry-picked a small portion

[audio: http://www.coffeeandmarkets.com/CoffeeandMarkets010512.mp3] Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by S.T. Karnick to discuss communitarian conservatism, Rick Santorum’s support of its principals and policies, and the

Sherrod Brown indicates his level of desire to be seen with Obama in Ohio Barack Obama campaigned in Ohio again yesterday. He is returning to Shaker Heights High School, where he spoke 2 years ago. From Henry Gomez of the

When President Obama pronounced the Constitution legally dead at a Cleveland campaign stop, Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) was nowhere to be found. Did the president reach a partisan bridge Sherrod refused to cross? Or was Sherrod’s “scheduling conflict” as politically

According to a recent Harvard Poll, the majority of young voters do not support the “Occupy Wall Street” movement. An overwhelming 66% of young voters say they are not following the recent uproar of protests, and a mere 33% say

From CBS News: (CBS/AP) DES MOINES, Iowa – With several attention-grabbing protests before Iowa’s caucuses, Occupy Wall Street activists proved their movement did not end when its encampments in big cities dispersed. But they also showed the group hasn’t matured

Contrary to popular perception, there were no winners in the Iowa caucuses, but many losers. Let’s dispense with the obvious losers first: Michele Bachmann: Hometown girl did not make good. Bachmann made much of her Iowa roots on the campaign

President Obama is hoping to capitalize on his controversial decision to appoint Richard Cordray as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Less than 12 hours after making the announcement, Obama’s campaign sent a fundraising email seeking up to $2,500

The Chicago Tribune editorial page believes that legislative efforts to ban congressional insider trading, such as the STOCK (Stop Trading On Congressional Knowledge) Act, are simply an exercise in “damage control” and “window dressing” to shield Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-AL)

Barack Obama has decided he doesn’t want to be a normal President. He wants what he wants, never mind the rules. So, yesterday he made a recess appointment for Richard Cordray to head an agency that has no Congressional oversight.