And for some reason the media’s not covering this. Oh, right, because they’re helping coordinate it. The standard portrayal of the Wall Street protesters goes something like this: Ragtag group of unemployed young adults, venting often incoherent but overall legitimate populist outrage about economic inequality. But go down to the movement’s headquarters, as I did [...]
17. October 2011
Wow. In the name of educating students about a foreign culture, a teacher in McAllen, Tex., required students in her intermediate Spanish class to memorize and individually recite the Mexican national anthem and pledge of allegiance — but one student objected, catching the attention of the school district and The Blaze, which reported the story [...]
17. October 2011
“In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.” — Ronald Reagan, 1981 Voters aren’t buying the international Marxist spin that capitalism is to blame for all of our problems. Who’s to blame? Our incompetent, business-ignorant federal government. In the minds of likely voters, Washington, not Wall Street, [...]
17. October 2011
The now-infamous Blackberry outage could end up costing manufacturer Research in Motion (RIM) a pretty penny, the Financial Post reports. How much? Possibly $100 million, or 5 cents in earnings per share. The most severe BlackBerry service disruption in the history of Research In Motion Ltd. could cost the Canadian mobile device maker more than [...]
16. October 2011
Emails leaked from a left-wing email list show prominent media figures working with the extreme-left Occupy Movement to craft a political message. List members include Bill Moyers, Noam Chomsky, Dylan Ratigan, William Black, Glenn Greenwald, Tyler Durden, Matt Taibbi, David Cay Johnston, and more. You can read through the leaked emails here, while Big Journalism [...]
16. October 2011
IndyCar driver Dan Wheldon, who won the Indianapolis 500 in both 2005 and 2011 and who drove for sponsors including Target, has died following a fiery 15-vehicle accident at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. His vehicle had flown over another and crashed into the wall. Wheldon was 33-years-old. The massive accident, which left debris across the [...]
16. October 2011
Karl makes the point I’ve been pushing for a few days now: It’s time for everyone to calm down about Barack Obama’s fundraising in the last quarter. We’re told the fact he raised $43 million for himself and $27 million for the Democratic National Committee is impressive and should give Republicans pause. And on the [...]
16. October 2011
Most transparent administration ever? Only in the media’s collective dreams. The Obama administration is appealing a judge’s ruling that Secret Service records of visitors to the White House complex are subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act. The Justice Department filed a formal notice of appeal Friday afternoon regarding U.S. District Court Judge [...]
16. October 2011
Not quite like the Tea Party, huh? As Newt Gingrich said, these morons are just your average extreme-left protesters wearing a new mask. They’d show up for any other extreme-left rally next week if asked. They’re radical, anti-American leftists seeking to replace our capitalist system with a socialist one. They reek of the same radical, [...]
16. October 2011
How are they going to build a $100 million, multi-story mosque if they can’t even pay the $1.7 million they owe in back rent to Con Ed? Actually, they’ll probably get some big government-backed grant or loan, you know to encourage diversity at taxpayer expense, or something. Pay up or get out. Con Ed has [...]
17. October 2011
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