Category Archives: Current Affairs

Portland PD Worried Occupiers Are Arming Themselves

Take this report with a grain of salt, because there is no hard proof provided in any of the multiple articles I perused (Reuters) Portland police warned on Friday that anti-Wall Street protesters in the city were fashioning makeshift weapons with wood and nails, in advance of a planned move by authorities to clear their […]

The Rose Bowl Parade Is Latest Thing The Occupiers May Ruin

Fortunately, it’s just in the “throw it against the wall and see if it stick” phase (Pasadena Sun) An activist who helped expand the Occupy Wall Street movement to Los Angeles is setting his sights on new territory: Pasadena’s iconic Rose Parade. “Everything is not coming up roses,” said Peter Thottam, an Occupy L.A. organizer […]

Could A SCOTUS Ruling In Favor Of The Individual Mandate Sink The Tea Party?

Elizabeth Wydra engages in a bit of fantasy over at The Politico, hoping against hope that the voices on the right will be shut down Of all the possible outcomes being tossed around as the Affordable Care Act litigation heads for Supreme Court consideration, one is usually overlooked: If the court upholds the act’s constitutionality […]

Man Shot, Killed Near Occupy Oakland

Just like during the Tea Party rallies….no? Funny, the media tended to call the Tea Party violent because people were bringing guns, in complete obeyence of the law, to the rallies. Yet, no one was shot during the rallies. We also didn’t have people pooping on cop cars, either (SF Chronicle) A young man was […]

Fifth Woman Accuses Cain Of…..Wanting To Have Dinner

Yesterday we first had the revelation that Herman Cain might have got a bit frisky with Sharon Bialek, who remembered every detail of something that happened 14 years ago, which amounted to….Cain supposedly getting frisky. Then, from the Washington Examiner we learned A former employee of the United States Agency for International Development says Republican […]

Awesome: Occupiers “Terrorize” Local Eatery

Remember, this is just like the Tea Party (NY Post) A business owner near the Occupy Wall Street encampment claims she has been repeatedly harassed and threatened with bodily harm by protesters after she and her employees refused to give in to their outlandish demands. “I’ve been told, ‘Watch your back!’ 10 times,” Stacey Tzortzatos, […]

Good News! Iran On Brink Of Having Nuclear Weapons

But, wait, I thought In late October 2007, according to the International Herald Tribune, the head of the IAEA, Mohamed ElBaradei, stated that he had seen “no evidence” of Iran developing nuclear weapons. The IHT quoted ElBaradei as saying “We have information that there has been maybe some studies about possible weaponization. That’s why we […]

NYPD On OWS: “It’s all we’re doing, every two seconds, is locking somebody up…”

In all seriousness, I want the Occupiers to keep their little slice of insanity (violence, criminality, etc) up for another year and 2 days. The longer this goes on, the more people get an eyeful of what the Left, especially the Progressives, stand for, and, by extension, what Obama, Pelosi, and a good chunk of […]

Oakland’s Liberal Mayor Sends In Police Against Liberal Occupiers

I’m not sure what Oakland mayor Jean Quan was thinking. The protesters were completely peaceful (MSNBC) Police in riot gear clashed with protesters in Oakland in the early morning hours on Thursday, firing tear gas to disperse demonstrators lingering in the streets after a day of mostly peaceful rallies against economic inequality and police brutality. […]

House GOP Will Subpoena Illegal Immigration Data From DHS

Solyndra, Fast and Furious, now illegal immigration. The House GOP are busy little bees (Washington Times) House Republicans are moving to subpoena a list of all immigrants whom the Obama administration has flagged under its secure communities program but failed to arrest for deportation, after the Homeland Security Department missed a congressionally imposed deadline to […]

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