Its unfair. John politician are cronies of businessman, safety nannies and aspiring social engineers. Instead of keeping us safe, they chip away at our liberty. Thats our show, tonight. Obviously, the biggest threat to liberty is one that will take your life. Recently in paris, terrorists killed more than 130 people, and afterward, isis bragged we successfully attacked the capital of prostitution and obscenity. Were prostitution and obscenity the reason the murderers did what they did . I dont presume to know. But i do know that the first and most important job of government is to protect us from enemies, foreign and domestic. And no government can do that perfectly, but its much harder to do when politicians obsess about so many other things that some people do. Prostitution, obscenity, but also gambling, drug use, speech and more. When politicians go after things like that, they cant focus on real enemies, and yet in america thats whats happening. Our government has told colleges you
For you to call them cronies its unfair. John politician are cronies of businessman, safety nannies and aspiring social engineers. Instead of keeping us safe, they chip away at our liberty. Thats our show, tonight. Obviously, the biggest threat to liberty is one that will take your life. Recently in paris, terrorists killed more than 130 people, and afterward, isis bragged we successfully attacked the capital of prostitution and obscenity. Were prostitution and obscenity the reason the murderers did what they did . I dont presume to know. But i do know that the first and most important job of rnmen from enemies, foreign and domestic. And no government can do that perfectly, but its much harder to do when politicians obsess about so many other things that some people do. Prostitution, obscenity, but also gambling, drug use, speech and more. When politicians go after things like that, they cant focus on real enemies, and yet in america thats whats happening. Our government has told colle
It will get a little sunshine to mix for the day that will help melt some things out. 26 at noon, and a high of 30 this afternoon. Heres a live look at whats happening in cedar rapids. Traffic is moving as you examine downtown. 12 with a clear sky right now. It is 501 into core, in decorah. The windsor suddenly, kind of south and west the winds are suddenly kind of south and west. Moving. We are seeing some cloud cover sneak in around waterloo. A few flurries are not out of the question. We have a few quick moving little storm systems. Again tomorrow we will have some chances, and the big kahuna moves in for sunday night. Nothing major was like what we have dealt with. 26 at noon, 30 is the forecast today it will take a look at the bus stop numbers and see what Mother Nature has in for our super weekend coming up in just a little bit. We do have a breaking news this morning about a multivehicle crash in Benton County we are sending acre to the scene so hopefully we can get some eyes ou
Judge highs, low prices not helping the german economy. It begins with volatility in the market, russia fails to stabilize its currency. We do have it sparking in m a, buy iing towsman. Boeing ups its buyback. Cocacola updating the guidance for 2015. Below 2,000 for the first time. Russias central bank hiking rates 6 1 2 points. That has not stopped the ruble to sliding to record lows. The moscow stock market tumbling, all of this as the fed begins the twoday policy meeting today, which brings up an interesting point. If the discuss today, jim, is about considerable period, does the fed step on the gas here, when we know what that would do to emerging markets . The fed is very data friendly. They look at the things we are looking at. I i think the old fed before bebangie would ignore this stuff and say weve got to think about the next 5 to 10 years. This fed recognizes that the world doesnt work like that. I expect that there will be people who interpret yellen as saying that, look, sh
And it is a tone that will depend largely on the administrations willingness to respect the message sent. That is one of the things that we are discussing on friday. It was a productive meeting and there were a lot that both parties can accomplish over the next couple of years. I hope that happens and i hope im optimistic currid working together requires trust. I think president obama has the duty to help build the trust that we all need to move forward together. And to double down on old ways of doing business. That is why i think moving forward with unilateral action would be a big mistake. As it was last nights announcement to give china a free pass on a mission while herding middleclass families and struggling miners here in our country. Last friday the president said that the American People would like to see more cooperation in washington. He says he thinks all of us have the responsibility and himself in particular to try to make that happen. And that is the kind of tone that th