A survey of Occupy Wall Street reveals the group was primarily made up of white, wealthy college graduates, many of whom had grad school degrees. The survey was carried out by sociologists at the City University of New York. Their
With 44 murders in Chicago for January alone, including that of a 15-year old girlwho took part in President Obama’s inauguration last month, Mayor Rahm Emanuel has announced a return to policing tactics he abandoned when hecame to office. The
Follow up to what I posted earlier about the school shooting yesterday in Atlanta. Apparently, gun control advocate Piers Morgan thinks what happened yesterday (an armed cop disarmed the shooter with only one person hurt) is evidence that armed cops
In response to Binge-viewing: I’ve been a fan of binge-viewing since my wife bought the first season of Lost. Anyway, I recently started watching Castle which is a one hour police procedural show starring Nathan Fillion. When this show came
Immediately after the NRA recommended putting cops in schools the left flooded the zone with pieces claiming this was daft idea. Case in point “NRA Calls for More Guns Everywhere” by Adam Serwer: LaPierre’s “solution” is for Americans to arm
Neil Heslin is the parent of a child killed at Sandy Hook elementary school. His call for additional gun control laws–made during a Connecticut hearing on gun violence prevention–received lots of attention after some news outlets claimed he’d been heckled.
Kansas is the latest state to seek to curb union power; on Wednesday, a preliminary vote in the Kansas legislature approved the Paycheck Protection Act aimed at eliminating automatic dues collection for unions. The measure was passed on Thursday by
Nancy Pelosi once said of the Affordable Care Act, “we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it.” Nearly three years later it has finally dawned on some unions that the changes they publicly
Remember back in 2011 when there were people literally begging Chris Christie to run for President on an almost daily basis? All of that heat evaporated over the last two months, starting with Christie’s praise of Barack Obama after hurricane
Last week S&P downgraded Illinois to the worst debt rating in the nation. The reason was simple: Illinois still has not done anything about its unsustainable pension system for state workers. Maybe the downgrade caused some soul searching on the
If you thought environmental science had something to do with laboratories testing for contaminants, you haven’t been keeping up. Apparently it has more to do with celebrities on a bus tour making symbolic water deliveries to faux victims while hecklers
Cass Sunstein wrote a piece over the weekend in which he claimed Obama is fulfilling FDR’s vision of a 2nd bill of rights. Joel covered this yesterday. According to Sunstein, Obama’s project is to push beyond the statement of negative
Former SEIU local president Tyrone Freeman has been convicted of embezzling from the low-wage employees he once represented. He now faces a maximum of 180 years in prison. Freeman was considered a rising star in the SEIU. As president of
It’s National School Choice Week and Heritage has a timely reminder that school choice works: students who participate in the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program (DCOSP)–a private school voucher program for low-income K-12 students–graduate at significantly higher rates than their peers,
In his appearance on Meet the Press this morning Paul Ryan attacked Barack Obama’s seriousness on debt issues by comparing him to former President Bill Clinton. Ryan was asked by host David Gregory about a recent moment when he chatted
Standard & Poor’s has announced that it is downgrading the debt rating of the state of Illinois to A-. The downgrade is the result of the state’s failure to deal with pension liabilities. The state was also given a negative outlook
Attorney Miguel Estrada, who was once at the center of a contentious nomination battle, filed an amicus brief on behalf of Senate Republicans against President Obama’s recess appointments to the NLRB. Estrada was selected last April by Senator Mitch McConnell
In an editorial published Wednesday, the Washington Post urged President Obama to approve the Keystone XL pipeline and “ignore” activists who want it blocked on environmental grounds. In it’s most recent editorial on the topic, The Post says President Obama
One of the top stories on the NY Times website right is this one about an American Girls doll which was donated to a NY library branch and eventually began being loaned out to kids like a book. It’s an
Two of the world’s leaders in green energy production also have the world’s highest residential energy costs. Danish academic and writer Bjorn Lomborg posted a graph on his Facebook page highlighting the high cost of electricity in countries with a
Japan’s Finance Minister said Monday that the elderly should be allowed to “hurry up and die” to save the country the cost of keeping them alive. Taro Aso, who is also the country’s Deputy Prime Minister, said during a meeting
The uncle of one of the children killed at Sandy Hook Elementary has proposed new legislation designed to reduce future mass shootings without resorting to gun bans. Lawyer Alexis Haller is the uncle of Noah Pozner, who was killed by
During an interview on the Today show this morning, presidential adviser David Axelrod told host Savannah Guthrie, “This is not a partisan day.” But the President’s 2nd inaugural speech contradicted that message at times, veering into criticism of GOP congressional
Josh Fox, director of the anti-fracking film Gasland, led a celebrity bus tour through the town of Dimock, PA on Thursday. Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon, and Susan Sarandon were all on board and spoke to the media about their opposition
Wednesday the President rolled out his four-point plan for protecting children from gun violence. Timed with the release, the House Democratic Steering Committee held a hearing in which select advocates made their case for gun control. The hearing exemplified much
Piers Morgan has transformed himself into a noisy advocate for gun control lately, but it turns out that not too long ago he discussed shooting his enemies. Charles C. Johnson has uncovered a 2006 interview Morgan gave to the Daily
A decision issued today by the 7th circuit Court of Appeals says collective bargaining reforms passed by Governor Scott Walker will stand. Act 10 was the controversial reform law passed in Wisconsin in 2011 after weeks of protests and stalling
Today the White House launched its four point plan to “protect our children and our communities by reducing gun violence.” The brochure capitalizes on the Sandy Hook tragedy to push a scatter-shot package of progressive measures which the White House
Piers Morgan must be terribly worried about his interview with Ben Shapiro. He seems to be in full damage control mode this week. After the interview, in which Shapiro made a reasoned case for the 2nd amendment, Piers and producers
At his press conference Monday morning, President Obama got a tough question from Major Garrett about the politics of debt-ceiling negotiations. In his response, the President blamed GOP absolutism for the crisis; then, as if missing his own point, offered
In his press conference this morning the President seemed to indicated that the phantom war savings he has been pushing as a serious budget don’t really count. Here’s what he said near the beginning of his statement: Over the past
Health Information Technology was one of the cost saving initiatives in Obama’s health plan. The White House promised it would save us billions over time, but a new study finds it may actually be costing us more. In 2005, the
In what seems like a surprise move, the White House working group on gun control is considering expanding federal funding for cops in schools. It was the NRA’s Wayne LaPierre who, a week after the shooting in Newtown, recommended placing
When a film offers a free-market perspective on the most controversial energy production technique in the country and still gets sterling reviews from Variety and the New York Times, it must be good. In fact, “FrackNation” isn’t just good. It’s
President Obama and progressives haven’t been shy about using the Sandy Hook shooting to promote more gun control, but back in Newtown, parents and the superintendent are demanding more security in the form of armed police on school campus. School
Update 12:51 PST: Based on a news conference provide by Kern County and Taft police, here is the sequence of events this morning: The shooter is a 16 y.o. male who did not attend the start of class this morning.
A newly released report by the US Geological Survey found no groundwater contamination as a result of fracking in an area of Arkansas. This comes just a week after a leaked report showed that NY had determined the process was
The issue of the moment is gun control. In the last two days, that issue has become a microcosm of how our political dialog is carried out in the media, one that explains why conservatives so often lose these battles.
The New York Post spoke to staffers at Current TV who are now being introduced to their new owners at Al Jazeera. Al Gore himself was apparently not on hand for the transition. But no hard feelings, right? Well, not
According to government projections, Social Security will be broke in 2033, but outside estimates suggest the date when the program can no longer pay its obligations is at least two years closer. A pair of professors from Harvard and Dartmouth
