Against Expectations, Hosni Mubarak Does Not Step Down

By: Brad Jackson (Diary)  |  February 10th at 04:14 PM  | 

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has decided not to step aside and will in fact stay in power until the elections in September. Early reports today indicated that he would resign the presidency, and hand over power to his Vice President, Omar Suleiman. When the estimated three million energetic Egyptians who had gathered in Cairo’s Tahrir Square in anticipation of Mubarak’s ouster learned of his decision, | Read More »

Don Berwick Goes to Capitol Hill

By: Ben Domenech (Diary)  |  February 10th at 11:04 AM  | 

Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech discuss Donald Berwick’s testimony on Capitol Hill today. Then Pejman Yousefzadeh talks about Mubarak and the White House. We’re brought to you as always by BigGovernment and Stephen Clouse and Associates. If you’d like to email us, you can do so at coffee[at]newledger.com. We hope you | Read More »

Egypt: The writing is on the wall.

By: TobyToons (Diary)  |  February 10th at 08:00 AM  | 

The Uprising in Egypt and the Threat of the Muslim Brotherhood

By: Ben Domenech (Diary)  |  February 9th at 11:03 AM  | 

Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Lee Smith to discuss the uprising in Egypt, the threat of the Muslim Brotherhood, and threats it poses for the region. We’re brought to you as always by BigGovernment and Stephen Clouse and Associates. If you’d like to email us, you can do | Read More »

Hey Barack, Resign Now, and Now Means Yesterday

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  February 7th at 10:00 PM  | 

From the diaries by Leon… While our nation languishes amidst record food and energy prices, unprecedented underemployment (including those excluded from the workforce) and economic stagnation, crippling regulations, and an administration in contempt of two court decisions, the media would rather distract us with the Islamist uprising in Egypt.  It is imperative that we keep up the pressure on Obama and the Democrats by denying | Read More »

RS Caption Contest 02.05.2011 Results

By: TobyToons (Diary)  |  February 7th at 07:00 AM  | 

This week’s winning caption came from throwback95 with 20% of the votes (it was a close one this week). See the rest of the winning captions below: Thanks for participating. I hope you had as much fun as I, reading the humor of Redstate readers.

RS Caption Contest 02.05.2011

By: TobyToons (Diary)  |  February 5th at 08:00 AM  | 

TO VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE CAPTION, VISIT TobyToons. The poll will be in the right sidebar on the screen. The polling will start Sunday morning and end at 9:00pm Sunday night. Here is this week’s caption contest. We will take entries until midnight Saturday. On Sunday, I will create a poll of my favorites and let you, the RS readers, vote on them (on TobyToons.com). | Read More »

Tech at Night: Net Neutrality, FCC, Republicans charge ahead

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  February 5th at 02:00 AM  | 

Forgive me if I’m not as engaging as usual tonight. Firefox robbed me of a good 20 minutes of time tonight. Firefox 3, what was supposed to be faster and better than ever, had taken up so much memory it was slowing my whole system, and then it took forever to restart. Of course, now they’re saying Firefox 4 will be better this time. Really. | Read More »

The Global Fund’s Corruption Problems

By: Ben Domenech (Diary)  |  February 3rd at 10:11 AM  | 

Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Roger Bate of the American Enterprise Institute to discuss problems facing the Global Fund. Then Pejman Yousefzadeh talks about the continuing unrest in Egypt. We’re brought to you as always by BigGovernment and Stephen Clouse and Associates. If you’d like to email us, | Read More »

Barack Obama’s Egypt Failure: He’s Becoming Carter Faster Than Carter Became Carter

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  February 2nd at 10:39 AM  | 

Barack Obama’s failure in Egypt has nothing to do with Egypt itself descending to chaos. No American administration has been willing to call Hosni Mubarak a dictator, which he is. And no administration has sought to strong arm Mubarak into a succession plan devoid of kleptocratic relatives. We cannot blame Barack Obama for Egypt collapsing in on itself. We can however blame Barack Obama for | Read More »

Tech at Night: Susan Collins, Queen of Denial

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  January 31st at 11:30 PM  | 

Wow, my Tech at Night graphic is now out of date. I was already late to the iPhone 4 party because of the iPad and because I had waited for the legendary White iPhone 4. But now that I have an iPhone 4, having the 3GS in the graphic seems wrong somehow. Time for a new one if I get a good idea. Comments welcome. | Read More »

Elliott Abrams Talks About Unrest in Egypt

By: Ben Domenech (Diary)  |  January 31st at 10:00 AM  | 

Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Francis Cianfrocca and Elliott Abrams, former senior national security adviser to George W. Bush and assistant secretary of state for Ronald Reagan to discus the unrest in Egypt. We’re brought to you as always by BigGovernment and Stephen Clouse and Associates. If you’d | Read More »

Podcast Preview: Elliott Abrams on Egypt and Democracy

By: Ben Domenech (Diary)  |  January 30th at 09:57 AM  | 

Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed Today we’re giving you a special advance preview of Monday’s Coffee and Markets with an interview with Elliott Abrams, a former senior national security adviser to George W. Bush and assistant secretary of state for Ronald Reagan and a leading expert on politics and the Middle East. We’ll ask him about what the future holds for Egypt, whether | Read More »

President Obama’s Big Diplomatic Test – Egypt

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  January 30th at 09:00 AM  | 

It is clear that the Obama Administration is facing a big diplomatic test in dealing with the fast developing situation in Egypt.  On one side is the Obama Administration’s interest of promoting freedom and democracy for the people of Egypt.  On the other side is the national security interest of maintaining a strong pro-Western U.S. ally in the Global War on Terror in Egypt.  These are very difficult interests to balance.  | Read More »