[audio: http://newledger.com/podcasts/CoffeeandMarkets081111.mp3] Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Elizabeth Blackney are joined by Kathleen Hartnett White to discuss the regulation happy EPA, their new rules on cross-border pollution and
Washington DC, August 10, 2011 Dear taxpayers, we were slightly off in our projections for economic recovery. You may have heard about this. There have been some externalities that even the smartest economists could not account for. The earthquake in
Now that Jimmy McMillan, infamous leader of “The Rent is Too Damn High Party,” faces eviction from his rent-controlled apartment in New York City, perhaps he should move to Israel and try his political luck. Given McMillan’s past antisemitism, the
Mr. Geithner, please check your crystal ball because it appears to have a major malfunction! Either something’s wrong with the ball or you’ve got a classic case of “operator error” going on. You might look into borrowing your good buddy
John Nolte at Big Hollywood picked up something interesting from a Maureen Dowd column. The Obama administration, it seems, has granted an unusual amount of access to the team behind The Hurt Locker (writer Mark Boal and director Kathryn Bigelow)
Michele Bachmann’s decision to vote against raising the debt ceiling, and to campaign on that stance, may turn out to be a decisive event in the race for the GOP nomination–and the presidency. Whether that was the right policy for
A well connected publication that covers Asia, The Diplomat, has an interesting bit of analysis about the American credit downgrade and how the Chinese lead the charge. They are not suggesting that America’s credit problems are manufactured: they are real.
It’s already happening – the liberal dream of a perpetual social welfare state where deadbeat liberal constituencies feed off of the work of productive conservative citizens in perpetuity is dying. There’s no doubt about that; the only question left is
Salman Taseer, the Punjabi governor known for his opposition to Pakistan’s blasphemy laws, was assassinated earlier th is year. While his murderer has become something of a hero at home, the West lamented the death of this prominent Islamic moderate.
By refusing to set up a health care insurance exchange system that could be used to advance ObamaCare regulations, Gov. Bobby Jindal has cut a path that other state officials should follow, argue analysts with the Cato Institute. However, other
Since the inception of Operation Odyssey Dawn, the United States and its allies have half-heartedly executed military intervention operations against the Qaddafi regime. Numerous nation states immediately signed on with this operation pressuring the United States to eventually commit. This
In what appears to have been a sociopathically twisted interview, Martin Bashir of MSNBC interviewed Dr. Stanton Peele, who describes himself as an “addiction specialist,” to, lo and behold, diagnose members of the “Tea Party,” also known by their other
European courts brought more bad news to Google’s recent reign of error as Switzerland’s top Court ruled that Google’s Street View mapping service violated the privacy of its citizens forcing Google to blur faces and license plate numbers before putting
After the birth of our second daughter, my husband and I knew we needed some sort of contraceptive. Not ready for #3, and unwilling to give up the very activity that could lead to another ankle-biter, we decided to take
Syrian President Bashar Assad has been straddling the fence since his regime and long time family rule came under threat in March. First, he sought to quell the public dissenters with good old fashioned Arab force. When the protesters proved
If you are the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of a company that has received $50 billion in federal bailout coin, there are certain things that you realistically shouldn’t say or do. Both from a substantive policy and an optics perspective,
The bad drives out the good. Or what little there was of it in the first place. WSJ, Middle East News, August 2, 2011 Egyptians Turn Against Liberal Protesters By Yaroslav Trofimov CAIRO–Mobs of ordinary Egyptians joined with soldiers to
You might recall this extraordinary press conference on May 31, 2011, when then-Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) called a reporter a “jackass” in refusing to answer questions about his (false) allegation that someone had hacked his Twitter account. Instead, he wanted
[audio: http://newledger.com/podcasts/CoffeeandMarkets111510.mp3] Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson is joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss the McConnell – Obama debt deal, how we got screwed, and the weak GDP report.
The Debt Debate was politically nasty and a sickening display of Washington maneuvering. That’s not to say the negotiations were the worst we have witnessed, especially when compared to the first two years of the Obama administration. Before moving any
Liberals are already licking their wounds from the debt ceiling debate, wondering how it is that Republicans managed to get Democrats to abandon tax increases and shift the terms to spending cuts and entitlement reforms. Though there are many conservatives
It was recently reported that President Barack Obama’s campaign arm, Organizing for America, was assisting Democrats in the Wisconsin recall campaigns. On July 22, Organizing for America State Field Director Michelle Kleppe sent an email to supporters informing them that
The culture of fraud and extortion is now consuming both sides of the Atlantic. As I’ve written many times in the past, there is no solution to the Greece debt problem. It’s not a matter of left- or right- wing
The Baathist regime in Syria looks to be bending to the will of the people. What was once thought unthinkable, maybe even suicidal, to the ruling regime, Baath party members have decided on a draft law that would allow the
Last year, when Larry Scanlon, the Director of Political Operations for one of the nation’s largest government unions, the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), stated “the more members coming in, the more dues coming in, the
