Germany Looks to Consolidate Their Power in the EU

By: Brad Jackson (Diary)  |  November 18th at 10:09 AM  | 

Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss a new German push to politically unite Europe to save the Eurozone, Obama’s decision to kill 20,000 jobs, and we respond to a question from a listener. We’re brought to you as always by BigGovernment and Stephen Clouse and | Read More »

The Left Riots Because It Works Like Perdition

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  March 28th at 12:12 PM  | 

For some on the left, too much is never enough — because, by definition, it can’t be. They operate on a modified version of the old Brezhnev Doctrine, which stated that once a country went communist, it could never go back: Once a government program is in place, it can never be cut or rescinded, only fattened. – Michael Walsh (HT: New York Post) I | Read More »

The UK’s Big Freeze Redux

By: Steve Maley (Diary)  |  December 28th at 10:30 PM  | 

Bwhahahahahaha! In a replay of last year’s weather pattern, the U.K. is once again in the grips of a Global Warming Climate Change-induced record cold snap. Not to worry. Those industrious Brits had the foresight to build wind farms with rated capacity equal to 5% of the country’s electricity needs. But they’re getting only 1.6% of their electricity from the wind farms. Because… Extreme wintertime | Read More »

Obama’s Fiscal Train Wreck

By: Ben Domenech (Diary)  |  October 29th at 10:31 AM  | 

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 latest GDP numbers, Obama’s fiscal train wreck, and his views on the economy shared this week on the Daily Show. We’re brought to you as always by BigGovernment and Stephen Clouse and Associates. You can find our iTunes | Read More »

For the EU, It’s Still ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’

By: Steve Maley (Diary)  |  October 7th at 07:00 PM  | 

In spite of a vote by its committee on the environment to ban all deep sea drilling in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the European Parliament has rejected a moratorium on deep sea drilling for oil and gas. By doing so, the EU finds itself in a rather unfamiliar position: being farther to the right on an issue, more pragmatic and more firmly | Read More »

Last of the Sports Drink Suicide airline bomb plotters convicted in UK

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  July 9th at 12:00 PM  | 

The terrorists responsible for the Three-Ounce Liquids and One-Quart Ziploc Baggie rule at US and some international airports have finally been convicted in UK court, after three trials and millions of pounds in investigation and prosecution costs. The last three defendants in “longest and costliest terrorism prosecution in British history,” the Sports Drink Suicide bomb plot case, were convicted yesterday in London of “plotting to | Read More »

The Brits and the BP Spill

By: Steve Maley (Diary)  |  June 13th at 10:33 AM  | 

It’s BP, not British Petroleum, ever since Maggie Thatcher privatized the government’s stake in the energy giant back in the 1980s. But the stakes involve a large chunk of the UK’s national wealth, not to mention their national pride. From Foreign Policy: Has the BP Bashing Gone Too Far? There has been extensive coverage in Britain of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. | Read More »