The #OWS Crowds’ Sucker Bet on Higher Ed
I admit; I chortled (in a completely inappropriate way): The number of people participating in the Occupy Wall Street sit-ins because they are angry that their education has not yielded the fruits that they hoped it would becomes more apparent by the day. Many of the protesters I have met are understandably ruffled that they [...]
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Are We Watching the Left’s Death Throes?
Taranto gets some jollies at the Left’s legislative morass: The White House is “bracing for the defeat of President Obama’s jobs bill,” the Hill reports. That’s hardly surprising, since Republicans control the House–except that it is the Senate, where Democrats hold a majority, that is expected to vote down the $447 billion Stimulus Jr. plan. [...]
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This Stupidity/Cupidity is Gonna End in Bloodshed
First: Idiocy on parade: “I support the message to the establishment,” House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said on ABC’s “This Week.” “Change has to happen. We cannot continue in a way that does not — that is not relevant to their lives. People are angry.” To Democrats eager for a liberal antidote to the [...]
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#OccupyWallStreet: Pining for the Fjords
Fighting capitalism via iPhone, Facebook and Twitter is too stupid to take seriously So, now we are in Week 3 of the protesters, occupying encamped on public private property in the Financial District, in order to protest against… well, pretty much everything, it seems (more here). Similar “actions” are forming in other cities, such as [...]
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