Los Angeles Times: Protesters plan to file for a federal injunction that would prevent police from dismantling the Occupy L.A. encampment around City Hall. The complaint, which was to be filed at 10 a.m. Monday in federal court, names the city of Los Angeles, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and LAPD Chief Charlie Beck, alleging that the [...]
The Daily Caller: A new book details how environmental extremist and Occupy Wall Street enthusiast Van Jones may still be influencing President Barack Obama’s policy decisions. Jones resigned from his post as Obama’s green jobs czar on September 5, 2009 amid political pressure after his history of radicalism was revealed in conservative media outlets. It [...]
The Hill: Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) said the Democratic Party would benefit from Newt Gingrich winning the GOP 2012 presidential nomination. “He would be the best thing to happen to Democrats since Barry Goldwater,” Frank said at a press conference on Monday. Gingrich has recently jumped to the head of the Republican presidential field. A [...]
Haaretz: An explosion rocked the western Iranian city of Isfahan on Monday, the semi-official Fars news agency reported, adding that the blast was heard in several parts of the city. The reported incident occurred about two weeks after Gen. Hasan Tehrani Moghaddam was killed together with 20 other Guard members Nov. 12 at a military [...]
OWS Exposed: In a press release issued on Saturday, a group of occupiers from Cincinnati announced the formation of a new political party called “The Occupation Party.” Here’s a link to their press release and a link to their website. Perhaps the occupiers are finally realizing they need to engage in the political process rather [...]
Yahoo: Tobey Maguire has decided to fold ‘em and settle a lawsuit over his winnings from a convicted con man during high-stakes Hollywood poker games. The “Spider-Man” star agreed to pay $80,000 to settle the lawsuit filed over more than $311,000 he was paid by a convicted Ponzi scheme operator in Texas Hold ‘Em matches [...]
LATimes: Emma Sullivan, the Kansas teenager whose tweet about Gov. Sam Brownback has turned the conservative Republican into a social media target, is standing by her refusal to apologize. In an exchange of emails with the Los Angeles Times, Sullivan on Monday said she won’t comply with her principal’s demand that she write an apology [...]
Los Angeles Times: The Los Angeles Police Department arrested several people Monday morning as it worked to deal with a swelling crowd that came to protest the planned eviction of Occupy L.A. campers on the lawn of City Hall. When the LAPD announced that it wanted the campers out by midnight Sunday, officials hoped many [...]
SEATTLE, Wash. (AP) — Seattle police say someone caused tens of thousands of dollars of damage to a North Seattle bank — and spray-painted on the building that the vandalism was “revenge for Occupy Oakland.” Nearly all the windows of the U.S. Bank branch on Northeast 63rd Street were shattered or punctured just before 3 [...]
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The Daily Caller: Televangelist and senior pastor of Houston’s Lakewood Church Joel Osteen explained on Fox News Channel’s “Huckabee” over the weekend that President Barack Obama reached out to Osteen and Lakewood. “He has reached out to us,” Osteen said. “And we have done some of the leadership things there at the White House with [...]
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The U.S. economy grew at a slower pace than originally estimated in the third quarter, mainly because companies reduced inventories and did not invest as much. The Commerce Department cut its estimate of gross domestic product to 2.0% from a first reading of 2.5%. The government’ second revision of GDP includes data [...]
New York Times: For decades, Democrats have suffered continuous and increasingly severe losses among white voters. But preparations by Democratic operatives for the 2012 election make it clear for the first time that the party will explicitly abandon the white working class. All pretense of trying to win a majority of the white working class [...]
