The yesterday’s-news Occupy Wall Street movement is calling for a national labor strike on May Day, the International Communist Party holiday. But how will it pay to advertise its day of inertia without the $500,000 in donations that seem to have been stolen by OCW leaders opposed to greed? That’s right, much of OWS’s money is missing […]
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The editors at Bloomberg News today write that the Occupy Wall Street protesters should regroup and “set an agenda for reform.“ These guys? An agenda for reform? Ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!
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New York City has cleared Zuccotti Park of the Occupy Wall Street tents. That’s a good thing. But there are downsides. Where now will my old friend, the libertarian filmmaker Evan Coyne Maloney get material like this? Maloney’s secret, by the way, is that he he’s a genuinely affable guy. He lampoons the Left, but […]
Read the rest of this entry »Remembering the Hardhat Riot
In May of 1970, in what later became known as the “Hardhat Riot“, a group of New York City construction workers organized by the AFL-CIO lashed out against a group of anti-Vietnam-War hippies in lower Manhattan. Seventy people were injured in the two-hour melee. One wonders if such an occurrence is not possible in lower Manhattan now as the […]
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There’s a memorable scene in the movie “The Killing Fields” where, barricaded inside the walls of the French embassy in Phnom Pen after the fall of the Cambodian capital to Marxist guerrillas, a group of Western journalists peer through its windows at the arrival of a truckload of Soviet diplomats. A Khmer Rouge insurgent, in […]
Read the rest of this entry »But Don’t Take a Slice of My Pie…
Wouldn’t it be ironic if money ended up being the thing that killed the Occupy Wall Street protests. Two stories out today suggest it might be. The first is about the famously fancy food being catered to the young radicals. It has attracted in great numbers the homeless and the recently incarcerated — some of […]
Read the rest of this entry »Are You Smarter Than a Wall Street Protester?
I stole that headline directly from New York Magazine which just published the results of a quiz of the Wall Street protesters on current — and basic — economic and political questions. I would love to comment more on the results, but I don’t want to skew your answers on the survey. Besides, I’m too busy […]
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