[audio: http://newledger.com/podcasts/CoffeeandMarkets091611.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 markets rise this week, the possible moves of the Fed next
By November 23, a team of 12 Congressmen and Senators will determine if they can agree on a way to cut at least $1.2 trillion dollars from the federal deficit. If they fail to agree, predetermined cuts will automatically occur,
There has been news aplenty about the Solyndra solar power company. The chock-full-of-Barack-Obama-Administration-cronies-and-donors corporation that received more than half a billion dollars in government-guaranteed loans to build the alleged future of energy. Which President Obama hailed as such after the
Congressman Paul Ryan, Chair of the House Budget Committee, has become the GOP’s go-to guy for everything economical, and there are two reasons why: first, he is courageous enough to jump into the water and get the pool party started.
– ATTACKWAAATCH! [youtube -XYKRokgX00 nolink] “Obama 2012. Because you still hate George Bush, right?” Video magic by Big J contributor Ezra Dulis and CnservativePunk of MisfitPolitics. – CNN #1 on debate night. – No, WaPo, no one cares enough about
Since taking office in January 2009, Obama has been bad for business. You might even say he’s been at war with business (I bet the president of Gibson Guitars and the untold number of small business owners on the verge
The question needs to be asked: Is it ignorance or malice? There was a time after the subprime mortgage meltdown when, if sound decisions on policy and financial initiatives had occurred, the American economy may not have been hobbled as
[audio:http://newledger.com/podcasts/CoffeeandMarkets091311.mp3] Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Bruce Walker talks about the government’s attempt to stop the AT&T/T-Mobile merger, and Elizabeth Blackney and Benjamin Domenech walk through the HPV vaccine issue in
The fireworks finally started to go off in last night’s GOP debate and, yes, Perry was the man in the cross-fire. There was plenty of give and take, if you want to let people know what you think, feel free
Recently, Obama called a joint session of Congress and on September 8 he stood before it to introduce his new jobs bill. At that time, he didn’t actually have a jobs bill, but promised he would soon. Then yesterday, on
On September 11, 2001, I was a left-wing freelance journalist spending a few days in the African ghetto of inner city Johannesburg as an escape from the previous week of antisemitic mayhem at the UN World Conference Against Racism in
One of my life’s maxims is: Education and knowledge are often mutually exclusive. With the Barack Obama Administration’s all-out assault on the for-profit higher education industry, one of the books I have long intended to write is becoming ever more
Herman Cain probably had the best reaction to the President’s speech: “We waited 30 months for this?” My reaction yesterday was mixed. In some sense, I was almost embarrassed for the President. He demanded a speech to a joint session
The Wall Street Journal argues persuasively that America’s current economic woes are rooted not in “imperial overstretch” (liberal historian Paul Kennedy’s phrase) but rather in “entitlement overstretch” (as described by military historian Andrew Krepinevich). That is, the economic crisis is
This would be a good time to remember there is a world of difference between finding and destroying al-Qaeda and the Taliban and remaking a tribal society in our image. For one thing, accomplishing the former while passing up the
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. * Turkey threatens military confrontation with Israel in Mediterranean * Turkey’s Erdogan may be backing off on threat to visit Gaza * Germany’s political turmoil threatens Greece’s next bailout payment * Switzerland takes the
A lead story in Wednesday’s trade press publication E&E Daily was “Energy, fighting EPA at the core of GOP jobs agenda”. This is true, but also reveals what may be the greatest gap between Obamanomics and an approach to governance
We all know who fantasizes and encourages violence. If it’s not just a guy in Obama’s neighborhood it’s a guy introducing Obama or unions or disturbing stuff like this: It’s the Left. Liars in the world of entertainment will tell
***Update: Much more on the game, including screenshots, at NRO. We all know who fantasizes and encourages violence. If it’s not just a guy in Obama’s neighborhood it’s a guy introducing Obama or unions or disturbing stuff like this: It’s
[audio:http://newledger.com/podcasts/CoffeeandMarkets090611.mp3] Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Elizabeth Blackney and Benjamin Domenech walk through the latest poll numbers for Barack Obama. Hint: They’re really, really bad. We’re brought to you as always
Yesterday a union boss introduced the President of the United States at a rally by telling him that the union workers present were Obama’s “army” before yelling that tea partiers are “sons of bitches” and vowing to “take them out.”
I once had a conversation with a prominent and influential New Left-era individual about what the possible roots of our vast ideological differences between the two of us. I reasoned that my conservatism is more then anything else a product
Burning Man has entered the mainstream. Not only did the event sell out for the first time in its history, but the Wall Street Journal and New York Times both gave it prominent coverage. What is Burning Man? For the
Being the world’s self-appointed defender of so-called tax havens has led to some rather bizarre episodes. The bureaucrats at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development threatened to have me thrown in a Mexican jail for the horrible crime of
Sarah Palin weighed in with a very important point in the policy debate about the role of government. Her Saturday speech, among other things, took a swipe at the country’s dilemma of booming crony capitalism: [T]he permanent political class …[use]
