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Obamacare Isn't Medicine for Deficit

Avik Roy, a savvy health care analyst in New York City who writes an excellent blog on health policy, took the time to talk with me for The Heartland Institute’s Health Care News podcast about what we learned last week

The Politics of Unemployment

In this week’s edition of of Coffee and Markets, featuring The New Ledger’s Francis Cianfrocca, we’re talking about the latest unemployment numbers, the coming political conflict across class and generation, and why the iPad won’t save old media. We’re brought

'Son of Alar': The New Pesticide Scare Campaign

In 1989, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), a major environmentalist group, launched a nationwide panic over the presence on apples of alar, a chemical growth agent. On TV shows such as “60 Minutes” and “Donahue,” and in major women’s

EuroTarp, Finreg, and Why Leftist Elites Hate the Tea Parties

It’s time for your weekly dose of Coffee and Markets, featuring The New Ledger’s Francis Cianfrocca, a podcast brought to you by Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com and LibertyPundits.com, your home for conservative podcasts. In this week’s edition, we discuss the continued

Obama's Tangled Webs

Today is Earth Day, so if you haven’t already, sprawl yourself on the ground 
and give Mother Earth a great big hug. The president and vice president 
decided to mark Earth Day by hightailing it to New York City. I

Daily Gut: The New Extremism

So President Obama faced a few hecklers yesterday, who went after him about the “Don’t ask, Don’t Tell” policy. Take a gander, gander takers: Watch the latest news video at video.foxnews.com Now I, for one, think it’s awesome to see

Your Tool-Kit for Dealing with Tea Party 'Crashers'

Recently, a particularly bone-headed leftist threw up a website, recruiting fellow dunderheads to “crash” the tea parties. To be honest, I initially assumed it was a clever black-bag operation by someone affiliated with tea parties. The media is snipe-hunting for

The United States of Deficits Forever

[tweetmeme] It’s time for your weekly dose of Coffee and Markets, featuring The New Ledger’s Francis Cianfrocca, a podcast brought to you by the fine folks at Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com and LibertyPundits.com, your home for conservative podcasts. In this week’s

Who's Really Behind the Glenn Beck Boycott?

Boycotts could be considered an All American protest. The act of refusing to purchase the goods or services of a targeted product pre-dates the republic, with angry colonists refusing to buy tea following the British Parliament’s enactment of the 1773

Hey, Steve Jobs — Boycott Beck At Your Own Peril

The Politically Correct Boycott Corp is on the march again! If the show doesn’t fit within your political agenda, then just boycott it and try to “shut up dissent.” According to the Washington Post, around two hundred companies are now

The Health Care Controversy and Our European Future

It’s time for your weekly dose of Coffee and Markets, featuring The New Ledger’s Francis Cianfrocca, a podcast brought to you by the fine folks at Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com and LibertyPundits.com, your home for conservative podcasts. In this week’s edition,

REVIEW: 'Shooting Michael Moore' Debunks the Debunker

Michael Moore gets the Michael Moore treatment in a new documentary created by a fellow Michigan resident. Accountant turned filmmaker Kevin Leffler isn’t a dyed in the wool Republican trying to score cheap shots off the liberal gadfly. He’s just

Ricochet Podcast 6: A Good Ricochet Point

“A Good Ricochet Point“ The Ricochet parade of governors continues as we are joined this week by Mississippi Governor (and Chairman of the Republican Governors Association) Haley Barbour as well as by John Hinderaker of the Powerline Blog, sitting in

The Stimulus is Like, You Know, Totally Awesome

It’s time for your weekly dose of markets and politics with Coffee and Markets, featuring The New Ledger’s Francis Cianfrocca, a podcast brought to you by the fine folks at Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com and LibertyPundits.com, your new home for Conservative

Top 20: Unearthing My Own Uncool

Film blogger and sometimes Turner Classic Movies’ programmer,The Self-Styled Siren, came up with a terrific idea for a movie list: That which we love in filmdom that puts our cool credentials into question (And yes, I do have Cool Credentials.

The iPad: Making the Jump From Print to Screen

Apple has announced its new iPad tablet computer, marking the dawn of a new kind of device that bridges the gap between phone and laptop. Last November I wrote about the possibilities of this device for the print world over