Throughout the painful and paradoxical existence of Occupy Wall Street (OWS) we have been told by those in the mainstream media, as well as by sympathetic politicos, that at its root, at its genesis, the OWS Movement was both organic
You’ve gotta feel sorry for Jesse Jackson; his time is so far gone, people don’t even remember when his time was. He reminds me a little of Willie Mays playing for the Mets in 1973–the best all-round baseball player who
Box Office Analysis: 1. Puss In Boots $33M – With a total of take $75.5 after two weeks on a $130M budget, DreamWorks is probably feeling better after what looked like a weak opening. Still, this will have to make
When a group of black-clad protesters barged through the doors of the Rotunda Building, faces covered and ready to do some damage, Tagami calmly stepped up, racked his shotgun and effectively spooked the anarchist group who turned right around and
On the heels of new recommendations by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), that children as young as four years of age be evaluated for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), a new study (funded by two agencies of the Department
In this week’s edition of the HomeVideodrome podcast, Jim Dirkes and I discuss education documentaries, review Kevin Smith’s Red State and go through this week’s releases, including Cars 2, Cop Land, and Quigley Down Under. So be sure to go,
Lots to get through today…. BOND 23 WILL BE CALLED ‘SKYFALL’ Hollywood Wiretap: Producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson held a press conference in London on Thursday morning to unveil details on their upcoming James Bond film. The film
Best Description of ‘Quantum of Solace’ Yet IMDB: Roger Moore, who played James Bond longer than any other actor, has complained that the 007 franchise has suffered a decline in quality in recent years. In an interview with Varsity, the
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. * Universal fury at George Papandreou for referendum call * Papandreou’s government in Greece may be near collapse * ‘Sighs of relief have been replaced with cries of horror!’ * Foreign central banks are
On 28 October the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) held a conference in Vienna on “confronting intolerance and discrimination against Muslims in public discourse.” Among the featured speakers was Special Adviser to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) began in the days of detente as a forum for discussion and debate between East and West on issues like “conflict prevention, crisis management and post-conflict rehabilitation.” Unfortunately since the dissolution
In “The View’s” recent interview with Herman Cain, Joy Behar made the blockbuster revelation that “the Republican Party hasn’t been black friendly over the many centuries in this country.” Janeane Garofalo Dang, I had it backwards all these years. Professor
WOW: WARNER BROS. STOPS GIVING NEW TITLES TO BLOCKBUSTER Studios are getting desperate: According to The Financial Times, Warner Bros has stopped supplying discs of its latest releases to Blockbuster after the rental chain refused to agree to a 28-day
Governor Perry made significant strides toward producing a pro-growth tax proposal with his announced “Cut, Balance, and Grow” economic plan. Unfortunately, his plan has some glaring deficiencies. (1) It is NOT strictly a flat tax and will SHRINK the tax
From Entrepreneur: The Occupy Wall Street movement has very different objectives from most small-business owners. Doug Schoen, a political pollster and Fox News analyst, recently surveyed 200 protesters and concluded that the majority of the movement’s members want higher taxes
From NBC Universal: Starting Monday, October 24th, “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell” will move back to its original time slot of 10 p.m. ET/PT, Monday-Thursday. “The Ed Show” with Ed Schultz will lead off MSNBC’s primetime lineup each weeknight
Nothing is sacred in Hollywood, an industry that would remake ‘Casablanca’ if it could turn a profit. So TNT’s upcoming reboot of the classic soap opera ‘Dallas’ hardly strikes one as sacrilege. The new ‘Dallas,’ to star longtime cast favorites
File it under no good deed goes unpunished. Having fought now for ten years to deliver Afghans from the clutches of the Taliban, now comes a survey which demonstrates that, well, the work has gone unappreciated by a majority of
Evidence suggests that ACORN, the left’s premiere astro-turfing organization, has been paying people to participate in the Occupy Wall Street protests. Astro-turfing campaigns can generate big money, and ACORN’s lucrative protest-for-profit program is nothing new. As I note in my
APPLE NEGOTIATING WITH STUDIOS IN PREP FOR ITS OWN MOVIE CLOUD SERVICE The idea here is that you purchase a film through iTunes and then they store it for you and allow you to watch it from any device with
The Working Families Party, an infamous ACORN front group notorious for corruption, was instrumental in organizing the Occupy Wall Street protests, according to radical journalist Laura Flanders of Free Speech TV. The protests, which have spread to several other large
Netflix Stock Hits 52-Week Low After It Cancels DVD-Streaming Split That’s because Qwikster’s not the problem; it’s just a symptom of Netflix’s ongoing stupidity. Allowing people to opt out of the by-mail service and keep the streaming is the problem.
I was watching coverage of the Occupy Wall Street protests the other day and couldn’t help but laugh at how pitiful the whole ordeal has become. It’s almost become a cliché to note how the protesters go on and on
“Greedy: Excessively or inordinately desirous of wealth, profit, etc.; avaricious.” – Dictionary.com By now, no doubt, you have heard about the “incredible” Occupy Wall Street Movement taking place on and around Wall Street; a movement whose organizers claim is “organic”
A WORD ON STEVE JOBS… Jobs was not only a great man who changed the world for the better, he remains an example of how one person is capable of doing extraordinary things when he or she is lucky enough
The liberal media has constantly found new ways to put down the tea party movement. First came the sexual slurs; we were “tea baggers.” Then we were racists, we were stupid, and finally, we were stubborn extremists whose only wish
The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is one of America’s most sacred freedoms and our public universities often among its staunchest defenders. But at the University of Wisconsin-Stout (UWS), it seems this sacred freedom is in the eye of
With the ever-increasing role the federal government is playing, the state of primary and secondary education in these United States has over the last thirty-plus years decayed – tragically, tremendously and inexorably. President Jimmy Carter’s 1979 gift to the teachers’
Richard Epstein in Hoover’s Defining Ideas: What is so striking about Obama’s shopworn rhetoric is its juvenile intellectual quality. His explanation for how the AJA will create jobs is a non-starter because he does not explain how we get from
NIRVANA’S “NEVERMIND” IS 20 YEARS OLD? All I remember about this album is that it ushered in the grunge era which in turn forced me to stop wearing flannel shirts because I’d rather be dead than trendy. Yep, it’s been
Michael Moore recently pontificated that under Obamacare Americans would have to wait for certain non life-threatening procedures such as a knee replacement. In his mind a “patriotic American” would be happy to do so. If one takes a critical look
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. * President Obama delivers ‘warmest pro-Israel speech ever’ to UN * Palestinians back off on statehood bid — temporarily * Israel uses ‘The Scream’ as Palestinians demonstrate * ECB ‘dissidents’ meet secretly to oppose
When the story of last month’s raid on the Gibson Guitar factories and offices in Memphis and Nashville broke, the first thought that hit me was…”Were the drawn weapons really necessary? Is this still America?” Imagine my complete surprise when
The upheavals of the sixties had political and cultural contexts – the war in Vietnam and the Civil Rights movement. There is a great debate about the relationship between culture and politics; a which-came-first conundrum similar to the vexed “chicken
From The Wrap: Hollywood donors are high on the list of political donors whose money is presumed lost in an alleged embezzlement scheme that led to the arrest last week of a longtime Democratic operative. Sony, Disney, News Corp., labor
One of my life’s maxims is: Education and knowledge are often mutually exclusive. With the Barack Obama Administration’s all-out assault on the for-profit higher education industry, one of the books I have long intended to write is becoming ever more
AFP: For many people, the images of commercial airliners hitting the Twin Towers, and of Manhattan engulfed in a huge dust cloud as they collapsed, looked like a Hollywood apocalypse-style movie. But despite that — or maybe in part because
Today on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio, Frank is joined by author and political commentator Bat Ye’or for a full hour to discuss the Muslim world, “Eurabia,” dhimmitude, universal rights and much more. The Cairo-born refugee, who know resides in
Watching the jubilant Libyan rebels celebrating in the streets of Tripoli, it’s easy to get caught up in the euphoria of the moment as a brutal tyrant is at last being brought down. The spokeswoman at the Department of State
Democratic and Working Families Party Governor Dannel Malloy of Connecticut dusted off the speech he had planned to make at the end of June, when state employee unions rejected a $1.6 billion concession package that would close a hole in