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GOP Leadership to Freshman: We’ll Stop Paying You if You Shut Down the Government

The Kabuki theater that is the debate over the federal budget took a weird turn this afternoon. The GOP-led House of Representatives passed HR 1255, the “Government Shutdown Prevention Act.” The measure is largely symbolic…it states that if the Democrat-led Senate and President Obama don’t act on $61 billion in cuts passed earlier this year [...]

9/11 Cheerleader and Cop-Killer Supporter Van Jones to Sit on Corporate Boards?

Will 9/11 cheerleader Anthony “Van” K. Jones soon be sitting on the boards of respectable American corporations? That is his plan, according to a series of posts Jones made on Twitter this week.
Photo collage by New Zeal blog
Jones, an anti-American communist radical who has rebranded his image as a “patriot” after being adopted by the [...]

Obama Administration Whitewashing Government Inaction Regarding Oil and Natural Gas Leases

An oil industry representative said the Obama Administration must abandon its policies “to defer, delay and deny access to domestic resources of oil and natural gas.”

Obama’s Union-Friendly, Feel-Good Approach to Education

The Obama administration, principally the president and Education Secretary Arne Duncan, are now routinely making public statements which are leading to one conclusion: instead of fixing American education, we should dumb down the standards.
According to the Associated Press, President Obama “is pushing a rewrite of the nation’s education law that would ease some of its [...]

Is Tim Pawlenty Destined for the 2012 GOP Nomination?

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On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson is joined by Matt Lewis to discuss Obama’s Libya speech, Tim Pawlenty, Newt Gingrich and more.
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What if Richard Nixon Had Been President During ‘Operation Gun Runner’?

In June 1972, political and covert operatives broke into the Watergate Hotel during President Richard Nixon’s bid for re-election. When it happened, the reasoning behind the crime was unknown but has since become clear: Republicans wanted to uncover dirt on Democrats in a bid to help Nixon win a second term. What was clear then, [...]

Washington DC: Boom Town

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On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson is joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss Libya, Washington’s boom town status and a key court decision against the Fed.
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Joe Biden to Impeach Barack Obama Today?

When President George W. Bush announced the beginnings of the Iraq War on March 19, 2003, he said: “American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger.” He then oversaw a military campaign in which the United [...]

Letter to President Obama Regarding Libya

March 23, 2011
The Honorable Barack Obama
President of the United States
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear Mr. President:
I have read your letter to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate dated March 21, 2011 concerning your order that United States Armed Forces attack the nation of Libya. You cite the authority of [...]

Libya: Obama’s War

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On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson is joined by Pejman Yousefzadeh to discus the war in Libya, a union plan to bring America to its knees, and the 2012 presidential campaign.
We’re brought to you as always by BigGovernment and Stephen Clouse and Associates. If you’d like [...]

BIDEN FLASHBACK: Launching an Attack Without Congressional Approval is an Impeachable Offense

In 2007, then Sen. Joe Biden appeared on MSNBC’s Hardball and said launching an attack without congressional approval is an impeachable offense. This flashback comes on the heels of Obama launching an attack on Libya without congressional approval.
Biden said:
I want to stand by that comment I made. The reason I made that [...]

The White House Guess List: How Obama Pulled a Fast One on the American People – in the Name of ‘Transparency’

President Barack Obama has won praise from the media — and from himself — for putting the White House visitor logs online. Yet the visitor logs may hide more than they reveal.
The White House is still holding back “tens of thousands” of visitor logs, according to congressional testimony last week by Tom Fitton, President of [...]

Reason.tv: Walter Williams – Up From the Projects

In 1981, Secretary of Health Education and Welfare Patricia Harris wrote in the Washington Post that libertarian economists Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell are “middle class” so they “don’t know what it is to be poor.”
In fact, Williams grew up in a single-parent household in a poor section of Philadelphia. He was raised [...]

2012: The Year of the Executive

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On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson is joined by Melissa Clouthier to discuss the 2012 GOP dream candidate and determine if it’s time for the American people to elect an executive for President.
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Obama: Consistently Anti-American

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Harvard Goes to War in Libya

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On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss the war in Libya, and the merger of AT&T and T-Mobile.
We’re brought to you as always by BigGovernment and Stephen Clouse and Associates. If you’d like to email us, you [...]

Boehner: Obama Should Explain Libya Mission

From Reuters:

House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner on Sunday called on President Barack Obama to explain the U.S. mission in Libya and how his administration intends to achieve its goals.
“The president is the commander-in-chief. But the administration has a responsibility to define for the American people, the Congress and our troops, what the mission in [...]

Libya Crisis: UK Prime Minister Emerges as Bold Statesman

From The Telegraph:

MPs of all political colours paid tribute to David Cameron’s role in securing the United Nations resolution on Libya.
They talked glowingly of Mr Cameron’s “breathtaking courage,” and his “superb leadership.” Even those who admitted they had doubted the Prime Minister were forced to admit he had brought off a “remarkable diplomatic success”.
In the [...]

The Truth About Obama and Nuclear Power

We have established that Obama’s war on coal assumed a massive, crash program of 100 new nuclear reactors — for optics purposes, keeping the cost of killing coal down, on paper — without which power the lights will necessarily go out. You cannot rule out half of our electricity supply and pretend otherwise.

Now that that [...]

A New Brand of Welfare Reform: Ending Earmarks

It’s been years since Wisconsin’s welfare reforms under Gov. Tommy Thompson inspired Congress to pass the Welfare Reform Act of 1996. Now, spurred to action by a looming $1 trillion federal budget deficit, a national debt of $14 trillion and a growing taxpayer rebellion, some members of Congress are taking a stand against the earmarks [...]

The President to Ipanema

There’s a ton of unrest in the world and world markets are jittery. So, having just finished off the arduous task of filling out his NCAA brackets, who would begrudge the President a little R and R. From Forbes:

President Barack Obama will take his first official trip to Brazil this weekend where he will speak [...]

Is Virginia the 2012 Ohio for Obama?

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On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Josh Kraushaar to talk about the new electoral math Obama faces in 2012. Then Pejman Yousefzadeh talks about PJ Crowley’s dismissal at the State Department.
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Obama Administration Falls Short of Promises on Transparency

From the Associated Press:

Two years into its pledge to improve government transparency, the Obama administration took action on fewer requests for federal records from citizens, journalists, companies and others last year even as significantly more people asked for information. The administration disclosed at least some of what people wanted at about the same rate as [...]

A Teachable Moment: How Obama Would Solve the NFL Labor Crisis

Some are now suggesting that President Obama get involved in the NFL strike talks. I was his college classmate at Columbia University and have studied his political career for years. My record of predicting where Obama will come down on the side of an issue and what lie he will tell to rationalize his [...]

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