One of the five men accused of attempting to blow up a bridge in Ohio to make an Occupy-themed political statement has pleaded guilty.Anthony Hayne, who has a prior record for theft, will testify againsthis four co-conspirators in exchange for
A shooting by police in Anaheim, CA has led to four days ofprotests which seem to be growing more unruly with each passing day.Last night, 24 people were arrested after windows at local businesseswere broken and several trash bins were
The Obama campaign has been struggling lately. Obama’s “you didn’tbuild that” gaffe capped weeks of gloomy jobs numbers and fallinglikability for the President. But if there’s one thing team Obama hasgoing for it, it’s a surfeit of telegenic celebrities. George
Last Wednesday I had the chance to attend the L.A. screening of DineshD’Souza’s new film “2016: Obama’s America.” The film is essentially avisual treatment of D’Souza’s book “The Roots of Obama’s Rage.” Both the film and the book advance the
Wednesday, Buzzfeed publisheda document and a brief video clip to suggest that Romney was still CEOof Bain Capital after 1999. Here’s the description that goes with thearticle: Mitt Romney has spent much of the last week arguing that, despitesome public
Compton’s treasurer informed the city council Tuesday that he did not have enough cash on hand to make payments on city bonds. The city is currently $42 million in debt and the LA Times reports that Compton has “consistently fallen
The President’s statement about the importance of the public sectorat a stop in Roanoke, VA has received a lot of attention, mostly for hiscomment about private sector businesses. But there’s a lot more in this speech which deserves scrutiny. To
When Occupy LA took up residence in the park around LA’s City Hall in2011 the building was surrounded by a well-maintanined lawn. Months ofcamping at the site reduced it to a filthy, barren landscape where only the trees survived (and
Appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union” with Candy Crowley this Sunday,political adviser David Axelrod stated that the President saw taxloopholes differently than Mitt Romney: “I’m not suggesting that, basedon what we know, that he’s done anything illegal. I’m not
James Fallows at The Atlantic is a big fan of anonymous quotes in hisblog posts. Just last month I noted that he was using an anonymous (andfalse, it turned out) quote to accuse Mitt Romney of being a “liar.” Shortly
The head of British Secret Service spoke publicly about covert action in Iran for the first time this week. Sir John Sawer, head of MI6, the British equivalent of the CIA,said joint operations by the British, Americans and Israelis had
Jonathan Chait was pretty excited about the Boston Globe’s front page story on Bain Capital yesterday. The Globereport held the momentary promise of enabling Obama’s toughest attackson Romney to be judged, (or rather re-adjudicated) by fact checkers atthe Post and
Thursday morning the Boston Globe published a story alleging that Mitt Romney worked at Bain Capital three years longer thanhe has publicly claimed. The Obama campaign jumped on this with a conference call for reporters during which a senior campaign
The Boston Globe has quite a racket going. They identify valuableresearch from other news sites and then turn them into their own front pagestories, stories which forget to mention the source of the information. Case in point, a Boston Globe
After the collapse of Solyndra last summer, Department of EnergySecretary Chu was called to Congress to explain the bad decision makingthat led to a $500 million dollar loss for taxpayers. Chu’stestimony in November 2011 was widely regarded as self-serving nonsense.The
The reviews are in and everyone agrees Obama’s swing state adattacking Mitt Romney on the abortion issue is dishonest. Romney’s camp called the ad false the moment it appeared. Time magazine’s Michael Scherer does a nice job summarizing the bogus
Democrats are taking their class warfare to a new level this year. As revealed in a Politico storyyesterday, paid campaign trackers are being sent to film the homes ofGOP candidates and, in an unprecedented step, the footage is beingupload to
NY police announced Tuesday that DNA found at the scene of a 2004 murder of a young woman matchesDNA left on a chain used to prop open NY subway gates as part of anOccupy protest. Eight years ago Sarah Fox went
A report by the Wall Street Journallooks at the amount of money spent by unions on political organizingand finds it is actually four times the amount reported in FEC filings.Since 2005, unions have spent $4.4 billion on direct donations andorganizing
The Department of Justice has been waging a battle against Texas’photo ID voting law since last July. That battle became more openlypartisan this week when it was revealed that the DOJ hired a progressivevoter data firm called Catalist to supplement
The Labor Department released jobs numbers for June today and theresults were disappointing. Estimates were that non-farm payrollwould add around 100k jobs last month. Instead they added just 80K,which is just over half the number needed to keep up with
While most Americans were celebrating the 4th of July Wednesday, thedegenerate remains of Occupy Oakland held a “F*ck the 4th” march throughdowntown which featured vandalism, death threats and a flag burning. There were a total of 60 marchers in all,
The President is on a bus tour designed to shore up support in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Today the tour stopped in Parma, Ohio and the President made a speech, including his recollection of his first run for office. As I
The latest attack on Mitt Romney’s time at Bain Capital appeared this week at Vanity Fairby author Nicholas Shaxson. While the article is ostensibly aninvestigation into Mitt Romney’s offshore accounts, a close look at thereporting shows it is mostly a
“What’s in a name?” Juliet ponders in Shakespeare’s great tragedy,France’s new socialist President is hoping Juliet was wrong and thenames applied to policies will matter. Specifically, his governmentseems to think it can create a French austerity program of lowerspending and
