James O’Keefe is back in the news again, but not for his usual videos smearing different organizations. This time he is found as the accused. From Raw Story: Conservative blogger Nadia Naffe accused O’Keefe of sending her harassing messages after she backed out of an upcoming hidden camera sting on the “Occupy Wall Street” protest […]
This story at the New York Times has me ready to kick kittens: The share of income received by the top 1 percent — that potent symbol of inequality — dropped to 17 percent in 2009 from 23 percent in 2007, according to federal tax data. Within the group, average income fell to $957,000 in […]
This is as amazing at it is an assault on our constitutional rights But when a couple of Daily Caller employees were at Occupy Wall Street this morning, it was the very protesters they had been demonizing who ended up helping them out. Daily Caller reporter Michelle Fields — who faced off with actor Matt […]
We are seeing some good economic news for a change with the Dow Jones poised to have it’s largest monthly increase in history: The 1200 or so points we’ve picked up in this month would be THE BIGGEST POINT GAIN IN DOW HISTORY. What the? And it’s not just the Dow, which is sometimes disconnected […]
A video posted by the hacking Anonymous stating that on November 5th they will attack Fox news servers and bring them down. The reason for the attack is over Fox’s coverage of Occupy Wall Street (or should I say their propaganda against it). Here’s the video posted on YouTube by Anonymous: The group doesn’t seem […]
The WSJ has launched a pity-party today for the suffering 1% of this country: Jacqueline Siegel paces the floor of her unfinished 7,200-square-foot ballroom. The former beauty queen, with platinum-blond hair, blue eye shadow and a white minidress, clacks along the plywood construction boards in her high heels trailed by a small entourage of helpers […]
An interesting article in today’s Wall Street Journal addresses the growing trend of employers firing workers over postings on such sites as Facebook. Next week the National Labor Relations Board is expected to rule in the first case of this type. The article then goes on to describe other cases of this type where people […]
10. I am really looking forward to nonstop investigations of President Obama over the next two years. 9. It will make Sarah Palin proud. 8. Majority Leader Mitch has a real jazzy sound to it. 7. Insurance companies should have the right to deny coverage to anyone and jack up the prices whenever they want. […]
As if this comes as any shocker: Corporate America finished the second quarter with “near-historic” profits, largely by cutting costs, laying off employees and streamlining operations, the Wall Street Journal reports. Profits for companies in the S&P 500 soared 38 percent from the same period last year, hitting $189 billion, the WSJ says, the sixth-highest […]
From TPM: Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander of the Afghanistan War, said today the planned burning of Korans by a Florida church could put American troops in danger. “It could endanger troops and it could endanger the overall effort,” Petraeus told the Wall Street Journal. “It is precisely the kind of action the […]