Elizabeth Warren might just be the motivation that conservatives need to get behind the re-election campaign of Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA). Until now, the Tea Party activists that helped push Brown to an historic victory in 2010 had been grumbling
The Chicago media–much like the mainstream media in the rest of the country–has largely ignored the true origins of the Occupy demonstrations, and has failed to hold organizers accountable for the violence and bigotry of some of their members. It
Third Geneva Convention, Article 13: “…prisoners of war must at all times be protected…against insults and public curiosity.” On Oct. 17, as Gilad Shalit was being brought back to Israel as agreed, Egypt TV–colluding with Egyptian intelligence and Hamas terrorists–interrupted
Push youngest/oldest to the front lines….This is a battle over images, not just over the park. – Charles Lenchner, Occupy Wall Street activist, Oct. 13, 2011 If the police overreact (as they are likely to) and we take the blows,
Earlier this morning, James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas released a new video that sheds light on the way the New York Times promotes its favored candidates and causes, from Barack Obama to Occupy Wall Street. [youtube qBFOmUXR080] The video is an
Lisa Fithian–the radical organizer whose role in Occupy was first exposed at Big Government–has apparently confirmed that ACORN-linked organizations are leading the Occupy movement’s next major protest action against banks nationwide. Fox News reported earlier today that remnants of ACORN
Yesterday CNN asked its viewers whether President Barack Obama should bypass Congress to enact his economic policies, using–and expanding–his executive powers to control vast swathes of our economic life. Adopting Obama’s premise that our economic woes are all the fault
I must respectfully disagree with my insightful colleague John Nolte about Jennifer Rubin, the resident conservative blogger at the Washington Post. First, full disclosure: Rubin is a friend. I was privileged to get to know her during the 2010 elections
Big Government has learned that Occupy Wall Street activists and supporters are circulating this blog post from the left-wing site Firedoglake, entitled: “What to Do When the Media Says a Protester Attacked a Cop.” The plan is simple: find someone
Just twenty or so years ago, Barack Obama wouldn’t just have supported the Occupy protests. He would have organized them. From Stanley Kurtz’s essential Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism, pp. 117-8: In fact, Obama personally
There are now three frontrunners in the Republican presidential primary, based on polls, money, and/or organization: Gov. Mitt Romney, businessman Herman Cain, and Gov. Rick Perry. Each has unique strengths, but each also has weaknesses that has prevented him from
Following Big Government’s Oct. 16 article noting the alarming silence of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) regarding the evident antisemitism in many #Occupy protests, the organization issued the following statement Oct. 17: ADL Calls On ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Organizers To Condemn
The Anti-Defamation League is one of the most powerful and authoritative voices against bigotry of all kinds–not just in the United States, but throughout the world. Yet the ADL’s message has been compromised by left-wing political bias, most recently in
President Barack Obama’s call yesterday for “restraint on all sides” as defenseless Coptic Christians were attacked and murdered in Egypt in a government-supported Islamic pogrom was typical of his administration’s response to attacks by states against civilians. Though he has,
President Barack Obama’s call yesterday for “restraint on all sides” as defenseless Coptic Christians were attacked and murdered in Egypt in a government-supported Islamic pogrom was typical of his administration’s response to attacks by states against civilians. Though he has,
My fellow Americans–and, I suppose, Canadians: I regret to inform you that you are not the “99 Percent.” The 99 Percent dislikes big banks, but also dislikes big government–and big messes. The 99 Percent does not occupy property it does
Big Government has learned that anarchist groups, led by Lisa Fithian and working with Democrats and unions on the ground in Chicago, intend forcibly to disrupt the Mortgage Bankers’ Association meeting at the Hyatt Regency Chicago and other locations this
Convicted bank fraudster Robert Creamer, who recently set up a nationwide political consultancy to boost Democrats’ 2012 campaigns, and who wrote the Democrats’ political strategy on health care from federal prison, is promoting efforts by Democrats and the #OccuptWallStreet protestors
On CNN’s State of the Union this morning, host Candy Crowley joined the ranks of white journalists who presume to speak on behalf of black Americans in expressing their alleged skepticism about Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain. Blaming racism for
George Soros, billionaire investor and grand patron of the American institutional left, has just failed in his attempt to have his 2002 conviction for insider trading in France overturned. He plans to appeal. The Soros result has gone virtually unnoticed
On Friday, September 23, 2011, at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, a panel of activists held a press conference on the $2.7 billion Pigford settlement between the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and black farmers claiming past discrimination.
Forced to choose between left-wing bias and federal stimulus, National Public Radio is choosing left-wing bias. And that’s something to welcome. As reported yesterday morning by NPR’s David Folkenflik, after the scandals and resignations of the past year, the organization
The Nation reported yesterday that President Obama has dispatched the Department of Justice to investigate states that have enacted voter ID laws: Career lawyers in the civil rights division of the Justice Department, who were frequently sidelined and overruled during
Michael Moore, appearing live on The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell last week, from the #OccupyWallStreet protests: Note the sign at above right, above Moore’s left shoulder. The left can’t seem to decide: is “occupation” a good thing, or a
Yesterday’s New York Times reported that President Barack Obama has dispatched Vice-President Joe Biden to reassure wavering Jewish voters about the administration’s foreign policy towards Israel. (Biden? That’s when you know they’re in trouble.) During a meeting with rabbis in
