—– Yeah, okay NBC, except that in the movie the Michael Douglas character didn’t get all sanctimonious about serious issues and then trot off to do an appearance on Oprah. Anyway, let’s add complete lack of imagination to Obama’s growing
[audio: http://newledger.com/podcasts/CoffeeandMarkets042811.mp3] Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech discuss the world’s challenges providing food for booming populations in China, India and elsewhere. We’re brought to you as
The first time I heard the song See, Hear, Pray, by Debbie K and The Freedom Band, which has been featured on Glenn Beck’s 8/28 Restoring Honor Rally website and the national Support Our Troops website as well as other
President Obama’s birth certificate is both the Hot Button and the Third Rail of politics, and rightfully so. Put aside for the moment your opinion on the specific issue, and look to the broader one: Barack Obama has not only
There is an old saying in politics: “What’s old is new.” And with a presidential election around the corner, some of Obama’s sordid connections are now back in the news and being investigated with renewed fervor. Of course, if you’ve
You hear this mantra everywhere in the activist old media, “The Republican candidates for president are flawed,” “Republicans are not happy with their candidates.” George Stephanopoulos goes to the “Smart Screen” on Good Morning America with the latest poll/editorial that
Energy crisis. Obesity crisis. Climate crisis. Unemployment crisis. The solution came to me in a rerun. What do high gas prices, global warming, high youth employment, and child obesity have in common? The lack of a government solution. I’ve found
President Barack Obama sat down with Associated Press White House Correspondent Ben Feller in Chicago on Friday. Feller described the wide-ranging interview as ‘a conversation’ and one that ‘went really smoothly and really well.’
In his latest NY Times op-ed, Paul Krugman asks, “What have they done with President Obama?” Krugman longs for the day when President Obama was forceful and transformational, as if that rhetorical facade had any substance in the first place.
First, he won the health care debate handily. President Obama had no answer to Paul Ryan’s charge that ObamaCare double-counted the $500 billion “savings” it had cut from Medicare to spend elsewhere. Later, even Obama’s own head of Health and
We received an email invitation to the “We Are One” labor union solidarity protest from Alex Armour, Political Director, for Illinois 9th District Congress Woman, Democrat Jan Schakowsky and decided to attend. Alex was on hand and “one” with the
This is the fourth in a 14 part series at Big Peace which will detail the history, objectives, strategy, operational structure, modus operandi, and influence of the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States. Click here to view previous articles on
[audio: http://newledger.com/podcasts/CoffeeandMarkets040811.mp3] Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets from the Sammies in Chicago, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss the political and economic costs of a
Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin is denying a report that his recent hearing on anti-Muslim bigotry was triggered by a request from a radical mosque outside of Chicago. The Daily Caller reports that people associated with the Mosque Foundation in Bridgeview,
Bill Ayers, the one-time domestic terrorist who, along with his colleagues in the Weather Underground, bombed government buildings, now wants us to believe the government is the answer to all our problems. I suppose that’s what happens when your friend
There are–of course–the Grammys, the Emmys, and the Oscars, but the Sammies? You won’t see Kanye, Rosie, or Bragelina at this year’s Sammies, rather you’ll see Omid Malekan, Rob Port, and Michelle Minton–all finalists for what our keynote speaker, John
Ed. Note: A reader emailed about this specific episode and I asked him if hr would be kind enough to write something up we could use. Many thanks! – J.N. The Chicago Code (Monday nights on FOX) is the latest
Taut thriller nearly trips over its own political correctness… Source Code is a well-made movie with an engaging high-concept premise and — in a world where many movies don’t know how to land — a satisfying conclusion. Writer Ben Ripley
Chicago media reported on a recent march in Chicago as being an “Anti-War” march organized by students and “faith based groups” who “hope to spark change in our democracy.” What they left out was the clear fact that the march
Breitbart Media has worked for days to get to the bottom of a seemingly highly-charged story allegedly involving racism from a high profile Democrat and now former law enforcement official that may reach into the upper-level of Illinois state government,
President Obama’s hometown of Chicago is nearly 1,000 miles from the Gulf of Mexico. But like many other communities across the country, it is suffering the consequences of his Administration’s anti-drilling agenda. Illinois accounted for $376.2 million in shallow-water drilling
Nothing like a Hollywood film to brush up my days as a Jesuit schoolboy. Clash of The Titans is a film that has been made twice. Once with Laurence Olivier as Zeus (1981) and the second (2010) with Liam Neeson
Union leaders can dress it up and use innocuous-sounding phrases like ” voluntary consumer activism,” but the bottom line is that Wisconsin’s unions are now resorting to thug-like behavior against political opponents, real or imagined. The state’s largest teachers union,
Illinois has long earned the reputation as one of the most corrupt states in the union and for reasons too numerous to list here. However, not content to have reached rock bottom, the Illinois Municipal League (a collection of local
Okay, I guess I seem a little obsessed by this gas price thing — but I have a couple of good reasons for it. One, like everybody else I fill up twice a week and I think swear words whenever
