Archive for 2011

THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT IN ORANGE COUNTY DOESN’T LOOK SO BAD, according to Prof. Donald Douglas. “Closest you’ll get to a leftist tea party. No matter though. The ‘occupy’ brand is brutally damaged goods.”

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Did 2008 Fears About Obama Come True? Yes, They Did. “The skeptics of 2008 proved prescient; those who demonized them should be embarrassed. And we should remember that candidates, of both parties, will govern mostly as they campaign. Slips are not indiscretions, but often will prove in hindsight windows of the soul.

NEW YORK MAGAZINE: Occupy Wall Street: Fighting Capitalism, One Food Cart at a Time. “Even as Occupy Wall Street protesters are decrying the grip of big business on America, they are causing angst for some small business that are well within the 99 percent: The New York food carts and tourist stands that surround Zuccotti Park. And while the occupation has been compared to the Arab Spring and Tahrir Square, the mostly Egyptian kebab cookers and breakfast sellers who are losing their livelihoods aren’t too sure.”

ISRAELIS concerned with state of U.S. politics. “We’re not the only ones who’ve noticed the ugly anti-Semitism coming from the Occupy Wall Street creeps. The folks in Israel see what’s happening.”

A EUROPEAN AMBITION turning sour.