A few weeks back, Oakland Police fired non-lethal projectiles and teargas into a crowd of Occupy protesters, and the former …
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Inside the Organized Left’s Courtship of Occupy Wall Street
When Richard Trumka, the head of the nation’s largest labor union coalition, the AFL-CIO, visited the Occupy Wall Street protesters last week, he offered a simple message. “We are going to support them in any way we can,” he said. “We’re not going to try to usurp them in any way.” Those marching orders have since been spread across the …
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The Republican Response
Last week I said that it would probably be best for Van Jones–who used to go around saying that he was a communist and then signed a “truther” petition–to resign his job as one of the President’s environmental advisers.
Now, it seems, the Republicans have designated a former birther–that is, one of those paranoid nitwits who …
Van Jones Resigns, Citing “Vicious Smear Campaign”
The writing was, to use a tired cliche, on the wall last Friday, when White House spokesman Robert Gibbs declined to say that President Obama still had confidence in one his advisers to the Council on Environmental Quality, a longtime activist named Van Jones. Republicans in Congress, seeing an opportunity, had begun promising …
White House Declines To Express Confidence In Van Jones
[This post has been corrected and updated. See notes below in brackets.]
Last night, Van Jones, an adviser to the Council on Environmental Quality, released a statement apologizing for some of his past remarks, and disavowing his signature on a 2004 petition raising questions about the Bush Administration’s involvement in allowing the …
Van Jones Apologizes, Says He’s Not A 9/11 Truther
In response to a torrent of criticism, originated and directed by Fox News’s Glenn Beck, White House adviser Van Jones has apologized for some of his past statements and distanced himself from a document he once signed.
“In recent days some in the news media have reported on past statements I made before I joined the administration …