The five men who allegedly attempted to blow up the Route 82 bridge near Cleveland, Ohio were in court today for an arraignment. All five pleaded not guilty to the charges against them. They were supported by their families but
Poor Occupiers. They can’t get any respect, even from other left-wing groups. The March for Dignity is an event put on by immigrants’ rights supporters which was held on May Day in Oakland this year. It can fairly be classified
This video clip is an epiphany waiting to happen. It shows two cops in an ATV running into a bicycle apparently owned by one of the Occupiers. The clip has been edited so you don’t see how the bike got
Early Wednesday morning Breitbart News posted a video of an Occupy protester in LA smashing a drum into the head of a female LAPD officer. At the time the video had fewer than 25 views. Within hours the video began
As Occupy gets under way after several months of hiatus, the public is finding even less to like about the group. A poll commisioned by CBS San Francisco found support for the group dwindling, and more than 2/3 of those
Yesterday afternoon, San Francisco protesters returned to 888 Turk Street, a vacant building they briefly occupied last month. After re-occupying the vacant building Tuesday, some members of the group climbed onto the roof and began throwing pipes, rocks, and bricks
May Day protests in Seattle quickly turned violent and led to eight arrests yesterday. One man was arrested for smashing a glass bottle on the face shield of a Seattle PD officer. Another officer was reportedly hit with a bottle
A video uploaded to YouTube shows an Occupy protester on May Day in Los Angeles hitting a female LAPD officer in the back of the head with a drum. The man in black walks past the officer nonchalantly and then
New video of a May Day march in New York shows black bloc anarchists in a shoving match with the NYPD. Aas officers try to separate some individuals from the crowd, other anarchists pull them back in. Protesters then begin
Writing over at Hot Air, Morgen Richmond notes that an anarchist group has written a long anti-capitalist, May Day screed and added the image above without explanation. That’s a photo of teen singer Rebecca Black. The person with the gas
This weekend, Marina Sitrin of the Occupy Legal Working Group appeared onMSNBC’s “Up with Chris Hayes.” Hayes introduced Sitrin as someonewith a “radical perspective outside” the world of Washington politics. Trueto her billing, Sitrin offered a vision so far outside themainstream
An attempt by Republican lawmakers to make the University of Michigan cease support for a liberal interest group is creating a nationwide response from university professors. The Restaurant Opportunities Center, which one lobbyist describes as “the ACORN of the restaurant
A new poll out this weekend confirms that Occupy 2.0 is just as anti-capitalist as ever and, according to pollster Doug Schoen, has only become more radical since protests shut down in December. More importantly, a significant percentage of Occupiers
This Thursday, former President of Liberia Charles Taylor was convicted by an international war crimes court at the Hague. This is the first such conviction since World War II. Taylor was found guilty of 11 counts for arming and supplying
A Baltimore area man was the first “high value” Al Qaeda detainee atGitmo to plead guilty two months ago. Majid Khan’s plea deal likely involves hiswillingness to testify against Khalid Sheik Mohammed. He also agreed not tosue the US government
Yesterday, a US District Judge refused to release death photos of Osamabin Laden. Conservative watchdog organization Judicial Watch hadfiled a Freedom of Information Act request for the photos, but Judge JamesBoasberg denied their request, saying: A picture may be worth a
Have you ever walked into a shop with a child and had them lead youaround to all the things they are sure you desperately need? Sometimes theseare odd trinkets of no real interest, but occasionally they may suggest something genuinely
There has been a second firing at NBC over the misleading edit of George Zimmerman’s 911 call. A report published yesterday afternoon by the Miami Herald identifies reporter/producer Jeff Burnside as the individual responsible for the edits which appeared in
Bankers, hedge fund managers and greedy CEOs. That’s the Occupy image ofAmerica’s top 1%. But it turns out that’s actually more of a caricature thana portrait. The real 1% are “hard-driving workaholics who tend to haveadvanced degrees and bring a
NPR has a splashy report headlined “If The Health Care Overhaul Goes Down, Could Medicare Follow?” It quotes a collection of left-leaning health care analysts to the effect that the end is nigh if Obamacare is rendered unconstitutional. For instance,
If the first step in solving a problem is admitting you have one, thenthe NY Times is almost on its way. A Saturday piece by Arthur Brisbane, thepaper’s public editor, comes as close as you’re ever likely to see to
Today the US DOJ announced via a press release on its website that a former BP engineer was being arrested and charged with two counts of obstruction of justice. The charges stem from the intentional deletion of text messages relating
CNN’s Don Lemon did a segment of his show Sunday night in which he suggested that, after three years in office, it was time for the Obama administration to stop looking back and blaming Bush for their problems. He even
Last week I criticized the premiere of Julian Assange’s new Russia Today chat show, which featured a tepid and occasionally fawning interview with Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Breitbart News wasn’t the only outlet to criticize Assange and RT. The Guardian,
You have to admire the blatant hypocrisy of the left-wing media. You could get whiplash watching an operator like Keith Olbermann do a reversal on politically-tinged dog stories: Jonah Goldberg broadened the argument beyond dog stories to the way the
Today, the left-leaning fact checkers at Politifact let the mask slip a bit while attempting to weigh in on the Obama-ate-a-dog story. In case you missed it, the DNC has spent months harping on a decades-old story about Romney putting
For the last year, the New York Times has sought to break the will of itsown employee union. That’s not something you’ll read in the Times’ pages,but it is the assessment of Times’ labor reporter Steven Greenhouse made public today
Kalle Lasn and the crew at Adbusters are very worried about the future ofOccupy. They are now encouraging their fans and followers to defend it notfrom the police or conservative media outlets but from the encroaching professionalleft: First they silenced
In an April 3rd appearance on the left-wing Democracy Now TV show, Van Jones has offered his own behind-the-scenes take on an incident that made race a political issue three yearsbefore the Trayvon Martin case. As Jones describes it, the
Obama was right about the “do-nothing Congress”–at least about the Democrat-controlled Senate portion. A report released by the Secretaryof the Senate shows that the 112th Senate has done less work than almost any Senate inrecent history. The 2011 Senate spent
Today Julian Assange unveiled his new show on RT (Russia Today) with a half-hour interview with Hezbollah leader Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah. The interview covered a number of topics, including the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the situation in Syria. Nasrallah spoke from
The Pulitzer Prize winners were announced today, and both Huffington Post and Politico won an award. The HuffPo award went to David Wood for his months-long series on wounded soldiers. The Politico award went to cartoonist Matt Wueker for “his
Today, Senate Democrats are attempting to pass the so-called Buffett Rule, which creates a 30% minimum tax on top earners. The bill isn’t expected to pass, and even some on the Democratic side of the aisle are calling it out
Members of Occupy San Francisco took over a building owned by theArchdiocese of San Francisco on Sunday. The usual chaos ensued: Despite their official police escort, demonstrators gainedaccess to the building, put up banners and scrawled anti-corporate andanti-police slogans on
John Paton is the CEO of a newspaper empire and a man who sees the end of the old guard media on the horizon. He addressed what the future of news will look like in a speech to the Canadian
When he was fired from Current last week, Keith Olbermann suggested he wouldbe filing a lawsuit against his employer. Thursday afternoon Olbermannfollowed through on his threat: According to the 43-page, eight-count complaint, filed Thursdayafternoon in Los Angeles Superior Court by
