[audio: http://newledger.com/podcasts/CoffeeandMarkets090111.mp3] Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Paul Bonicelli to discuss Dick Cheney’s new book, In My Time, how it portrays other members
Mustafa Abduljalil spokesman for the new Libyan Zabibah-stan. Zabibah–prominent* Libyan “rebel” spokesperson Mustafa Abduljalil, born in 1952 in Al Baida, one of the first cities to rise against Gaddafi, studied law and Islamic jurisprudence in Benghazi before embarking on a
Erin R. Brown at NewsBusters: Fall means back to school, end of summer vacations, and exciting new television for those bored with “The Bachelor” and “Survivor.” But among this year’s crop of brand new television series, a rather “sex”y pattern
In reaction to the criticism over the Obama family heading to Martha’s Vineyard amidst gargantuan economic woes and unemployment rates so high even the dead are disturbed, liberals have taken to defending Obama’s vacation time (transportation compliments of two tax-payer
Last week, Google announced its plans to acquire Motorola Mobility, effecting a vertical integration from the Android operating system into hardware. Investors responded by shaving roughly 13% off Google’s value–roughly twice as much as the NASDAQ lost and three times
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The remains of the 30 Americans killed in the recent crash in AFPak returned to the US today, and that return was the occasion for a cynical photo-op that ignored the wishes of both the Pentagon and the fallen warrior’s
From AFP: US debt shot up $238 billion to reach 100 percent of gross domestic project after the government’s debt ceiling was lifted, Treasury figures showed Wednesday. Treasury borrowing jumped Tuesday, the data showed, immediately after President Barack Obama signed
—REDBOX REVENUES SOAR— Not that I personally rent from Redbox all that often, but that doesn’t mean I don’t admire a brilliantly simple concept so well executed it’s a wonder no one came up with it before. I remember VHS
The entire political landscape is currently engulfed in debt ceiling flames, for largely artificial and concocted reasons. This man-made inferno is now centered around and fixated upon the August 2 so-called “drop dead” date for reaching a deal to raise
What’s going to happen in Syria? The answer to that question rests on what the forces of freedom and the forces of tyranny are willing to do. With Syria up against a wall, Iran is now looking at provide $5.8
A New York Times Bits blog post has some parts of the technology world buzzing– and not exclusively in a good way. In the post, entitled “A Call to Take Back the Internet From Corporations,” NYT author Jennifer 8. Lee
If this leaves you a bit confused, imagine the muddled state-of-mind of our President. US aid to Palestinians in jeopardy over Hamas link WASHINGTON – American aid to the Palestinians is in jeopardy over their ties to the terrorist group
Google has built an empire by collecting, storing and using the personal data of their users. Every email sent through Gmail; every document created with GoogleDocs; every purchase made with Google Wallet; every thing users do is stored on Google’s
On July 9, the mostly Christian South Sudan will legally and officially separate from the Muslim north and become a new, independent and free country. Fearing loss of its iron clad grip of other non-Arab regions in the north, whose
What has happened to liberals in the past 50 years? A quick perusal of the news each day shows a clear pattern of anti-American behavior and actions by Democrats. We read of Democrat behavior today that would have appalled American
Following a major split in the Muslim Brotherhood over elections, reports are emerging that the Brotherhood is much closer to its affiliate political party than it previously admitted. Recent moves are yet another sign that the Muslim Brotherhood has not
From the Global Security Newswire: Few countries have this capability Iranian state television on Monday aired videos of subterranean launch facilities said to be holding medium- and long-range missiles for retaliating against a potential military strike, the Associated Press reported.
Rolling Stone’s hatchet job on Rep. Michele Bachmann has proven too much even for many liberals. As Yahoo News reports, there’s a controversy raging over the way the piece–sedately titled “Michele Bachmann’s Holy War”–“borrows heavily from a 2006 profile of
Churchill understood the jihad depredations of Sudan’s Arab Muslims There is a refreshingly honest–and alarming–piece by Alan Boswell writing for Time on the accumulating evidence that yet another jihad genocide may be under way in The Sudan–Arab Muslim mass murderers
Here’s the latest in kids’ superhero costumes for Halloween: Weinerman! Belt accessories include a cell phone with optional prophylactic cover for safe sexting. Last week began disastrously for Weiner with the Breitbart disclosures and groveling apology on Monday, yet appeared
Egypt’s main Islamist group has long denied official links to the Palestinian terrorist organization, Hamas, but public statements and actions by its senior leaders have often gone a long way to undercut the credibility of such denials. On Friday, Muslim
The media is having another Al Capone’s vault moment. Eager members of the MSM and progressive bloggers have been poring over 24,000 emails from Palin’s time as governor and still, the most shocking thing remains the media’s obsession with a
We’re all aware that Sarah Palin is a lightning rod for non-controversy and faux-criticism from those actively looking to destroy her. Whenever she misuses a phrase or gets minor facts wrong about something inconsequential, the media gets out their tweezers
BigGovernment.com and BigJournalism.com have reported throughout the morning about the emergence of new details in the Weinergate saga, after a young woman came forward with new information that tends to undermine severely the theory that Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) was
