The Hill: President Obama urged the Senate to pass his jobs act in a press conference Thursday, warning those who oppose his plan that “this is not a game” and telling senators they will have to explain to voters their opposition to the bill. The president said that “there is no doubt that growth has [...]
CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) — The man suspected of opening fire at a Northern California limestone quarry, killing three co-workers and injuring six was shot by authorities Thursday in a Silicon Valley neighborhood after a daylong manhunt. Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Sgt. Jose Cardoza confirmed Shareef Allman, 47, was shot but would not say if he [...]
Related: The Return Of Van Jones And Marxist Street Protests The Hill: Democratic lawmakers have begun to embrace the Occupy Wall Street protests as they spread to Washington on Thursday, with some likening the movement to a Tea Party of the left. Related: Leading House Democrat: “Occupy Wall Street” Protests, Van Jones Part Of US [...]
Notice how he bends over backwards to make this seem organic, and not led by Van Jones, et al. Hilariously, he mentions “no dues-paying organizations” when, in fact, yesterday, the unions hit the streets as part of the protests. “This is a historic day. This movement has come together because the people wanted it to [...]
CNS News: Left-wing activist and former Obama administration official Van Jones said “watch out” because his Save the American Dream movement, along with the Occupy Wall Street protest movement, would eclipse the Tea Party in 2012. “It was very easy when [the] Tea Party first started, to dismiss them, to laugh at them and say [...]
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy SCHULTZ: Bernie, I want you to address Mitt Romney’s comments about how this is dangerous when he was asked about the wall street protests taking place he said it’s dangerous. what your response to that? SANDERS: Well, class warfare is dangerous. The only [...]
Highjacked or originally, secretly created by? Paul Joseph Watson: Fears expressed by some that the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ movement is being hijacked by the Democratic Party establishment have intensified after the official OWS website announced that it “stands in solidarity” with MoveOn.org, a lobbying group for the Wall Street-backed Obama administration. The front page of [...]
Huffington Post: Just before 8 p.m. Wednesday, reportedly at the corner of Broadway and Wall Street, a New York Police Department officer appeared to turn on a throng of activists with the Occupy Wall Street movement, hitting them with a baton. A video posted hours later to YouTube shows the officer wielding the baton with [...]
Politico: Sarah Palin made her not-running appearance on Greta Van Susteren’s Fox News show tonight after breaking the news earlier via conservative talker Mark Levin. At the outset, Van Susteren’s first question to Palin wasn’t about her decision, but about the death of Steve Jobs. Continue Reading From there, they went on to GOP presidential [...]
The Hill: The White House defended Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday in the face of a growing torrent of Republican criticism that he has not been truthful about his knowledge of a botched gun-tracking operation. White House press secretary Jay Carney said that Holder has been “consistent and truthful” about when he learned of [...]
Politico: Dozens of House Democrats are calling for an investigation into potential conflict-of-interest issues involving Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. As the Supreme Court begins its fall session, Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.), Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.) and some of their colleagues are asking the House Judiciary Committee to hold hearings on alleged ethical violations and [...]
National Review Online: When he served as Clinton-administration deputy attorney general, Holder engineered the scandalous Marc Rich pardon by creating a rogue procedure that allowed the fugitive fraudster and his attorneys to appeal directly to President Clinton rather than go through DOJ’s regular pardon process. The regular process would have required input from the U.S. [...]
