Washington Post: One of the enduring questions about Occupy Wall Street has been this: Can the energy unleashed by the movement be leveraged behind a concrete political agenda and push for change that will constitute a meaningful challenge to the inequality and excessive Wall Street influence highlighted by the protests? A coalition of labor and [...]
Beltway Confidential: Notwithstanding his ties to the Occupy Wall Streeters, the man who shot at the White House must have derived his views from Christian conservatives and the Tea Party, according to a column in the Guardian, because he reportedly called President Obama the Antichrist. “Alleged presidential assassin Ortega-Hernandez reportedly called Obama ‘the Antichrist,’” notes [...]
Y-Net: The Iranian army was set to launch an air defense drill Friday evening simulating an attack on the country’s nuclear facilities, the Islamic Republic News Agency reported. According to the regime’s mouthpiece, the four-day drill will be held in eastern Iran and stress “the characteristics of the Islamic Republic’s defense doctrine in the framework [...]
Politico: In a sign that he wants to deal proactively with the scrutiny now coming his way, Newt Gingrich has created a website aimed at clarifying past issues and controversies that could dog his campaign. Continue Reading Entitled “Answering the Attacks,” the page includes links to 16 different topics that could be used against Gingrich. [...]
Ask Men: If you know the Colonel Sanders secret recipe or the true identity of Batman, you might not want to share that with a woman. That’s because none of your secrets are safe with her — ever. Skin-care company Simply surveyed 3,000 British women about how they treat confidential information, and the conclusion was [...]
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Former Penn State coach Joe Paterno has a treatable form of lung cancer, according to his son. Scott Paterno said in a statement provided to The Associated Press by a family representative on Friday that the 84-year-old Joe Paterno is undergoing treatment and that “his doctors are optimistic he will make [...]
Originally published October 5: World Tribune: A “Take Back the American Dream” three-day conference in Washington begins on Oct. 3 that features Van Jones, the disgraced former Obama Administration “Green Jobs Czar,” a Russian TV star, and a veteran of the Venceremos Brigades to Cuba who works for the AFL-CIO. Such is the nature of [...]
Van Jones: Progressives Should Be More Like The Tea Party
This was last month, September 29. He’s hiding behind “The American Dream Movement” as his pretense of distance from the “Occupy” movement which he secretly created, and the media is buying into the meme of it being “spontaneous”. And Desperate to create the illusion of distance between the planning of “Occupy” & the White House, [...]
Wait — now they want to establish an authoritative, heirarchical power structure, with representatives that claim to speak for all Occutards? Hmmm…
Fox Nation: In the shock poll of the day, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has pulled into a statistical tie with Mitt Romney in the former Massachusetts governor’s backyard, New Hampshire. The poll of likely Republican primary voters by Magellan Strategies for the online New Hampshire Journal shows Mr. Romney with 29% in the Granite [...]
