Nationwide, government at every level is requiring more and more of the workforce to get its permission just to earn a living. In the 1950s, only about 5 percent of the workforce needed a government license to do their job.
In the past 15 years, I’ve debated in favor of a national sales tax, testified before Congress on the merits of a national sales tax, gone on TV to advocate for the national sales tax, and spoken with dozens of
The New York Times has just published another in a series of establishment press missives seeking to marginalize — from the perspective of establishment press-types — tea party activists and politicians who embrace or are embraced by them. This latest
[audio: http://newledger.com/podcasts/CoffeeandMarkets102210.mp3] Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed In today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss the the latest Wall Street numbers, China’s move on precious metals, Obama’s
The New York Times has just published another in a series of establishment press missives seeking to marginalize — from the perspective of establishment press-types — tea party activists and politicians who embrace or are embraced by them. This latest
The Obama White House and Democrats charged recently that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other organizations are using foreign money in the 2010 campaign. In his Washington Post column today, Marc Thiessen points out that the Democrats are getting
While I’m not one to care what some over-paid harridans think (see Maureen Dowd), you have to admit the recent episode of the View, where Fox’s Bill O’Reilly got into a shouting match with the show’s two more extreme harpies
Back in mid-June, Leslie Gelb floated an idea in an op-ed piece that he published in The Wall Street Journal. After the midterms, he argued, when Robert Gates resigned his position as Secretary of Defense, Hillary Clinton should be given
Had Mario Puzo ever collaborated with George Orwell, one might easily imagine a sinister or otherwise shadowy character brandishing the honorific, “The Intellectual Godfather of Private Equity Tax Hikes.” Sadly, the genius of these two novelists is unnecessary in a
[audio: http://newledger.com/podcasts/CoffeeandMarkets101510.mp3] Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed In today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss the Ben Bernanke’s latest comments, the huge foreclosure mess, and Mitch Daniels’
By now, most Americans know how hard union bosses pushed, tugged, bullied and threatened, using tens of millions of their members’ money on advertising and lobbying, all to get health care reform passed. Most Americans also remember (though many did
Yesterday, at a candidate forum in Chicago held by the American Muslim Task Force, Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) was asked point-blank about H.R. 3808 (the Interstate Recognition of Notarizatons Act). Her answer reveals exactly why Americans are frustrated with Congress,
Folks who watched CBS “Face the Nation” yesterday were greeted by a once-in-a-lifetime miracle occurrence: host Bob Schieffer taking a contrary position to one of the Administration’s talking points. Talking to White House political director David Axelrod about the President’s
There is a brief story by Jim Carlton in the weekend edition of The Wall Street Journal entitled “Fiorina Stays Away from Middle Road,” and in the cover story for the latest issue of The Weekly Standard, Fred Barnes describes
In December, something unremarkable happened: the home of Bangladeshi pro-democracy dissident Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury was attacked. It was unremarkable because President Obama has removed the security and attendant American trial observers that his predecessor put in place to protect
It should come as no surprise that unions are spending big bucks to keep their Democratic friends in power. And with good reason: Does anyone honestly believe with fiscal conservatives in control of Congress, legislation like last summer’s $10 billion
On Monday, Goldman Sachs senior investment strategist Abby Joseph Cohen appeared on CNBC and lied about the S&P 500 price/earnings ratio index. She said that it was “dramatically below average,” when in fact any WSJ reader could check and see
[audio: http://newledger.com/podcasts/CoffeeandMarkets100810.mp3] Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed In today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss the unexpected unemployment figures, what the waiver of McDonalds and other companies
In mid-July, fifty days after oil began to leak out of the BP Deepwater Horizon drilling platform, President Obama tried to divert weeks of criticism by speaking to the American people, trying to convince the country that he had been
It isn’t often these days that the West or its allies can, after a counterterrorism operation, make a statement like the following: “The symbol of terror in Colombia has been brought down.” Less often is it followed by the stirringly
It is what everybody predicted would happen. When Attorney General Stedman Graham er, Eric Holder announced that some of the Gitmo terrorist trials would be switched from military tribunals to civilian courts, people warned that key evidence would now be
The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto: What kind of people blow up children? White supremacists, for one example. On the morning of Sept. 15, 1963, members of a Ku Klux Klan “splinter group” set off dynamite under the Sixteenth Street
Remember the Make-Believe Media flap over Tim Tebow’s pro-life Super Bowl commercial? What if that commercial, rather than gently affirming life, had instead advanced “choose life…or else”, then depicted pro-choice advocates suddenly exploding in sprays of blood and body parts
Where will it end? At some point liberal pundits will have to stop blaming the Tea Party movement for everything. In a fit of “through the looking glass” reasoning, The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank says we should blame the Tea
Peggy Noonan in today’s Wall Street Journal: The Democratic Party right now is showing signs of coming apart under the pressure of the election and two years of an unpopular presidency. But it’s not a split in two, with the
