By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  March 28th at 11:30 PM  | 

Remember when I seemed to write about Net Neutrality four times a week, which was really something when I was only posting three times? Well, the AT&T/T-Mobile deal is probably going to get that much discussion for now. Of course there’s nothing new yet. Discussion is all there is until government actually starts acting. My job is to find the interesting discussion, I suppose. So | Read More »

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  March 24th at 04:30 PM  | 

Jack Davis is, of course, the former Democrat trying to run in NY-26, which is up for a special election this spring (the Republican/Conservative Party candidate, equally of course, is Jane Corwin).  Davis, having been completely unable to get any traction in getting elected thus far, has decided to go one step further than such Democratic party luminaries such as Michael McGuinness and Alan Grayson; | Read More »

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  March 12th at 03:30 AM  | 

As I began work on tonight’s late Tech at Night, reports came out of an explosion at a nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture, Japan. As Japan continues to deal with an unimaginably strong earthquake and then a devastating tsunami caused by that quake, I hope nobody takes those special circumstances and tries to argue against clean, effective power generation technology in the general case. | Read More »

By: Melissa Clouthier (Diary)  |  February 28th at 02:04 PM  | 

In the opening of the not-nominated-for-an-Oscar movie Waiting For Superman, a school administrator who teaches disadvantaged inner-city children reveals his own disappointment as a child to find that Superman wasn’t real. If he’s not real, who would save us, he wondered. Republican gatherings, especially this year, have been similarly maudlin. People are waiting for Reagan. And the truth is, Ronald Reagan is dead. There will | Read More »

By: Ben Domenech (Diary)  |  February 24th at 10:41 AM  | 

Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Tim Carney to discuss unions, Wisconsin and the influence of special interests. Then Pejman Yousefzadeh discusses Chicago’s new Mayor, Rahm Emanuel. 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 »

By: Melissa Clouthier (Diary)  |  February 14th at 06:05 PM  | 

Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) and Matt Kibbe, President of Freedom Works, joined me at CPAC for a joint interview, last Friday. We talked about two things: The future of the Tea Party and the Balanced Budget Amendment. Both topics are subject to lots of controversy. In fact, there’s been much discussion that a Balanced Budget Amendment would mean, axiomatically, that taxes would increase. When I | Read More »

By: Jamie Radtke (Diary)  |  February 14th at 05:45 PM  | 

From the Diaries by NS The recent decision by Virginia Senator Jim Webb not to run for reelection was a gift to Republicans. While it is disappointing that we will not be able to give him the electoral defeat he had coming, it guarantees that Jim Webb will no longer be a reliable vote for the Democrats’ disastrous agenda in 2013. But the real gift | Read More »

By: Ben Domenech (Diary)  |  January 27th at 10:03 AM  | 

Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Ted Cruz to talk about his race to replace Kay Bailey Hutchison in the US Senate. 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 | Read More »

By: Melissa Clouthier (Diary)  |  January 24th at 12:34 PM  | 

Last week, Senator Rubio debated the necessity of the Tea Party Caucus. I wrote what I saw as the pros and cons of joining. It seems that he’s decided to skip it. Javier Majarres reports Rubio’s comment: ” Why do we need something in addition to the steering committee?…My concern is that politicians all of a sudden start co-opting the mantle of “Tea Party”. If | Read More »

By: Melissa Clouthier (Diary)  |  January 19th at 02:47 PM  | 

Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) may join the Tea Party Caucus. Should he? So far, the Senate Tea Party caucus consists of Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC), Mike Lee (R-UT) and founder, Rand Paul (R-KY). What are the planks of the Teaparty caucus? Senator Lee says this: “The Tea Party movement is a movement of everyday Americans who have grown tired of Washington playing by their own | Read More »

By: Ben Domenech (Diary)  |  January 18th at 11:20 AM  | 

Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson is joined by U.S. Senate candidate Jamie Radtke to discuss the Tea Party movement, budget cuts needed in Washington and much more. 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 | Read More »

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  December 20th at 11:30 AM  | 

From a New Hampshire Union Leader editorial crediting the Tea Party with ensuring that Senate Minority Leader McConnell would refuse to play ball on the Omnibus: The truth is that without the constant vigilance currently provided by what can loosely be called the Tea Party movement, Republicans would be just as happy as Democrats to squander taxpayer money. They are only acting frugal now because | Read More »

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  December 15th at 08:00 PM  | 

Paul Revere received a $400,000 earmark in the Omnibus Spending bill – well at least his house did.  The Paul Revere House received an earmark, thanks to Congressman Mike Capuano (D-MA).  It is ironic that the Tea Party movement has risen up to fight against out of control government spending, yet the elites in Washington, DC think it appropriate to soil the name of an American | Read More »

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  December 13th at 12:00 PM  | 

The Hill reports that the following House freshmen will be given slots on the following committees: Appropriations: Alan Nunnelee, Steve Womack, Kevin Yoder, & Tom Graves on Appropriations. Energy: Cory Gardner, Morgan Griffith, Adam Kinzinger, David McKinley, Mike Pompeo, and Charlie Bass. Financial Services: Quico Canseco, Bob Dold, Sean Duffy, Michael Grimm, Nan Hayworth, Bill Huizenga, Robert Hurt, Steve Stivers, Steve Pearce, and Michael Fitzpatrick. | Read More »

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  December 3rd at 03:00 PM  | 

Foreign politics are a tricky subject. While the broad strokes of politics can generally be understood the world over, when traditionalists battle leftists, and small government folk take on both, every country has its own exceptions, its own cultural taboos, and other factors that make it unique. Our politics for example completely baffle your typical European. Our conservative movement has few like it in the | Read More »