The state of our national government is in shambles. We are so far removed from the traditional political divide. To explain what is going on in Washington would require use of a metaphor such as The Mariana Trench to explain
[audio: http://newledger.com/podcasts/CoffeeandMarkets041411.mp3] Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by David Hogberg to discuss Barack Obama’s speech on deficit reduction responding to Paul Ryan’s budget plan.
From The Wall Street Journal: U.S. government lawyers in December argued that Google hadn’t received an important security clearance for a suite of online applications despite the company’s statements to the contrary, according to a court filing unsealed last week.
[audio: http://newledger.com/podcasts/CoffeeandMarkets041111.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 Tim Pawlenty’s hiring of Nick Ayers and the budget compromise that
When Donald Trump began testing the presidential waters in late February, it was easy to discard his efforts as nothing more than a public relations ploy. It seemed “The Don” was just looking for one more way to get the
Am I surprised over Trumps’ early success in testing the waters as the Republican nominee for 2012? To be perfectly honest, yes I am. The man is in second place in New Hampshire, within single digits of Romney, and according
As late as Wednesday morning, Portugal’s finance ministry was saying that the country can meet all its financing needs without any aid from the European Union, and that there were no plans to ask for a bailout, according to the
On April 3rd, Chinese artist and citizen investigator Ai Weiwei was taken into custody by his government while attempting to fly from Beijing to Hong Kong. Initially, Chinese law enforcement would not disclose the reason, but yesterday announced they were
Let’s understand why school choice is important. As in the free marketplace, competition creates better schools, public as well as private, better teachers, and thus reforms education- unlike pouring billions of dollars of taxpayer money into public schools to get
[audio: http://newledger.com/podcasts/CoffeeandMarkets040611.mp3] Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson is joined by Mark Hemingway to discuss the Obama’s launch of his 2012 campaign and who the GOP might nominate to face
When Pastor Terry Jones, 59, announced an intent to burn a Koran on the anniversary of 9/11 in 2010, the U.S. government, fearing attacks on American troops abroad, put intense pressure on him to desist and eventually he called off
[audio: http://newledger.com/podcasts/CoffeeandMarkets040511.mp3] Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson is joined by Francis Cianfrocca and Pejman Yousefzadeh to discuss Paul Ryan’s budget proposal, plus Francis explains why the Fed loaned billions
From The Wall Street Journal: Our budget, which we call The Path to Prosperity, is very different. For starters, it cuts $6.2 trillion in spending from the president’s budget over the next 10 years, reduces the debt as a percentage
First off, if you live in Wisconsin and haven’t yet voted to re-elect State Supreme Court Justice David Prosser, stop reading this and go vote. Secondly, if you know anyone in Wisconsin and haven’t yet called and urged them to
[audio: http://newledger.com/podcasts/CoffeeandMarkets040411.mp3] Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson is joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss the differing unemployment statistics, and the consequences of long term unemployment benefits. We’re brought to
The Tea Party held a rally outside the Capitol Building last week to demand that congressional Republicans demand significant cuts in federal spending. The outlook is bad. House Republicans are fighting to hold on to the $61 billion in spending
With the Federal government scheduled to shut down on April 8, Congress is not only debating where to spend trillions of dollars in the next fiscal year, but also whether to raise the roof, i.e. the debt ceiling. The debt
If you’ve been following the Wisconsin fracas over these past few weeks, you’ve probably noticed that the Left’s enemy du jour has become the American businessmen Charles and David Koch of Koch Industries. As an American company, Koch Industries employs
Compared to President Obama’s other initiatives, the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program barely registers on the government’s balance sheet. Yet the $7,500 scholarships for poor children are apparently still too costly for a White House beholden to Big Labor. [youtube rEySpQDdf_o]
It comes as no surprise that The Washington Post’s E.J. Dionne isn’t a fan of conservatives or Republicans, but it is occasionally surprising how far he goes to distort their positions in support of the Lightbringer. In his most recent
Today, NATO commander Admiral James Stavridis told the US Senate something some of us have been noticing from afar ever since this weirdo-bizarre R2P “humanitarian” assault in Libya on American national interest began: “We have seen flickers in the intelligence
Last week, while passing through Sin City (aka Washington, DC), I had the opportunity to attend a screening of Atlas Shrugged, Part One at the Heritage Foundation. As one whose life took a remarkable turn nearly two decades ago, in
In a sea of perpetual turmoil that is the Middle East, the US holds few real cards. Our options are few and our choices even fewer. That is why, much to our criticism, we’ve had friendly relations with dictators and
“Never before has such a low bar been set for certifying such a gargantuan class” Judge Sandra Ikuta writing in her dissent against class certification of the Walmart lawsuit in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Walmart is getting sued
