I’m finally back after a full day of travel, where I had to rely on CNN and MSNBC on the plane for coverage of the Politico story about Herman Cain.
I can’t really sort through all the details yet, too much has happened in the last 12 hours.
The fragility of an insurgent...
I was over at #OWS yesterday and I know the LI readership will be pleased to hear that the movement is still going strong. This is despite Mayor Bloomberg's crackdown on their primitive heating system.What will be the next challenge for the organizers? After, you know, taking down the man, a...
Here are some things you may have missed this weekend:
#OWS’s policy of having no set views has its advantages. They can include all manner of extremists and unsavory characters while preserving plausible deniability when taken to task for their relationship with such socially-unacceptable figures.
Daniel Sieradski, #OWS’s main Jewish organizer, last seen thinking up new ways to appropri...
The conservative movement in America may have been had. #OWS is easy to attack, but the right’s demonization of #OWS, even if successful, may be playing into Obama’s hands by failing to address the real reason why the Democrats and their special interest allies have cultivated this movement.
The Financial Times...
Because I’m traveling all day, I’m not going to be able to cover the Politico’s not very specific yet sensational claims about two settlements in the 1990s involving women who worked at the National Restaurant Association when Herman Cain ran the organization. It’s not clear what Cain allegedly did, whether there...
Thanks to reader Thomas who writes:
I spotted this in Portland, Oregon today. I’m not sure what the point of the message is. Perhaps it’s some form of insurrection?
00Slow day here, traveled back from Palm Desert. I never watched the show The OC, but I hope the scenery is better than what I saw on the drive back to the airport.
Where has everyone gone this weekend? Ah, this explains it, Power outages from East Coast snow...
Seeing not very far into the future:
UNEXPECTED OCTOBER SNOWSTORM, WORST SINCE GREAT DEPRESSION, BLAMED FOR LAGGING ECONOMIC RECOVERY, SAYS OBAMA SPOKESMAN
Fascinating account of how new environmental regulations and restoration projects are emptying the northern California countryside, Rural rebellion brewing:
Sacramento is Government Central, a land of overly pensioned bureaucrats and restaurant discounts for...
Sometimes the Editorial Board of The NY Times gets it right, even if for the wrong reasons, as in this editorial, The Court and the Next President:
When Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. beg...
From Walter Russell Mead referencing cancellation of his own speech, and taking it all in good humor:
I was scheduled to give a talk at the Hannah Arendt conference here at Bard this evening on the problems of the green movement in dealing with the connections between scientific data and public policy,...
Thanks to reader Joe, who writes:
Spotted this unfortunate billboard in Chicago (which is shocking, I know) on Western Ave near the I-90 entrance ramp. Felt like it was juxtaposed nicely with the billboard from those greedy, evil corporate fat cats at Big Red.
Keep up all the great work!
00The pretext for the U.N. no fly zone in Libya was to protect Libyan civilians from Gaddafi’s army. The U.S., France and others then exceeded the U.N. mandate by attacking Gaddafi’s forces more generally, leading eventually to Gaddafi’s capture and field execution.
Back in March I asked whether Obama would protect Gaddafi...
This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain
The attacks on Herman Cain from the left are gruesome, as Cain is reduced by his attackers to an affirmative action candidate who helps white Republicans hide their racism by allowing them to support a compliant black...
