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Mayor Michael Bloomberg left no question about his reasons for ordering a surprise overnight raid on Zuccotti Park to clear protesters after weeks of occupation. “The park was becoming a place where people came not to protest, but rather to break laws, and in some cases, to harm others,” Bloomberg said in a statement. In [...]
Barack Obama’s first trip through Asia was about avoiding direct confrontation and modeling his new, un-Bush approach to foreign policy: More committed to international cooperation and deliberation, less aggressive in its expression of American power. Now Obama is again meeting with Asian leaders, as he prepares for a challenging re-election campaign. The stakes have changed, [...]
This really happened. You will never be the same after watching it. Make it your new ringtone. For context, watch the full clip here.
In the two years since he resigned from the government, under fire from conservatives for having once embraced “Marxist” ideology and other controversies, Van Jones has been seeking a way to recreate the grassroots energy of the Tea Party for the left. Since the Occupy Protests began, he has become one of their biggest cheerleaders, organizing a broad swath of liberal institutions, from labor unions to Planned Parenthood, to help support the cause and magnify the Occupy message.
CNBC sets the mood: A deep-voiced narrator. A video montage of struggling Detroit. The grim facts of American decline. “Massive unemployment,” the script reads. “Foreclosures in every neighborhood.” That’s right. In this land of lost opportunity, it’s debate night. Send the little ones off to bed. Pop another Xanax. Open the box wine spigot. This thing is going to last almost two hours, and it’s probably going to hurt.
Herman Cain had a bad week last week. This week, there are pictures. On Monday, a fourth woman accused Cain of sexually inappropriate behavior during his tenure with the National Restaurant Association. Represented by celebrity attorney Gloria Allred, Sharon Bialek was revealed to the media in a live-television press conference, putting a name and face [...]
Celebrity is not the only area of American life that the media has turned into an ontological head scratcher. Just look at Sarah Palin, Donald Trump and Herman Cain, three political leaders who make headlines just about every day. They are political leaders whose main claim to that title derives only from the successes of their own leadership-selling operations. Take away the reporters, the television cameras, the book deals and the speaking fees, and there is little left.
The Republican National Committee seems to think the answer is yes. Here the tear gas in Oakland is shown to describe instability in Obama’s America, and the Occupy protesters are used to demonstrate dissatisfaction with Obama.
On Sunday, the Obama Administration’s former top economist, Christina Romer, put to paper an idea she has been bandying about for a while: The Federal Reserve, she argues, should restate its mission and commit to returning the U.S. economy to its pre-recession path, as measured by nominal GDP, or the size of the economy before [...]
Civil disobedience is easy to embrace from a distance. Few Americans condemned the thousands who gathered peacefully in violation of the law across the Arab world this spring. But when it starts happening on your doorstep, clogging up your streets or bringing drum circles to your place of work, it’s another matter altogether. And so [...]
