Glenn Beck - Evil supporting for Obama

Frances Fox Piven, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and Barack Obama all support Occupy Wall Street. What does that mean for the future?

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American Crossroads - Public Equity

President Obama is playing Wall Street games with our money.

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Bill Whittle - The Working Class

In this week's Afterburner, Bill Whittle takes on the liberal agenda by addressing the underlying assumptions of Juan Williams when he asked Newt Gingrich this question: "You recently said black Americans should demand jobs, not food stamps. You also said poor kids lack a strong work ethic and proposed having them work as janitors in their schools. Can't you see that this is viewed, at a minimum, as insulting to all Americans, but particularly to black Americans?"

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Mary Grabar - Dissident Prof Rants: The Media Bias against Occupy Wall Street!

Dissident Prof is getting whiplash every time she visits the website for the Center for American Progress.

Eric Alterman, Senior Fellow and “distinguished professor of English” at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, asks in his most recent article, “Why Do the Mainstream Media Like the Tea Party More than Occupy Wall Street?”

The professor cites that highly esteemed academic journal, The New Yorker, where “Ben McGrath described the Tea Party as a motley collection of ‘goldbugs, evangelicals, Atlas Shruggers, militia-men, strict Constitutionalists, swine-flu skeptics, scattered 9/11 “truthers,” neo-“Birchers,” and, of course, “birthers”—those who remained convinced that [President Barack Obama] was a Muslim double agent born in Kenya,’ intent on turning the United States into an Islamic Republic.”

While Dissident Prof appreciates the display of creative writing skills in the quoted passage, she hardly thinks it fits in well with the high seriousness of the article as attempted by the passage that follows:

Four academics confirmed this telling portrait. They recently presented a study of the views and attitudes of 2,000 voters sympathetic to the Tea Party at the 2011 annual meeting of the American Sociological Association. The study said that these voters ‘reflect four primary cultural and political beliefs more than other voters do: authoritarianism, libertarianism, fear of change, and negative attitudes toward immigrants and immigration.’”

(Funny, these “four academics” never called on Dissident Prof, herself an immigrant, and a tea party supporter, for her opinion.)

But it must be true because it’s from the esteemed American Sociological Association. (Sometimes those of us consigned to perpetual adjunct-hood get an inferiority complex.)

This thought, however, was interrupted by a little birdie chirping on Dissident’s Prof’s shoulder, “Authoritarian Personality, Authoritarian Personality” (or was it the Aflac duck?)

Finally all the chirping and quacking in her head reminded her of the latest, groundbreaking theory from Theodore Adorno, of the Marxist Frankfurt School. This must be the newest, most cutting-edge theory, inspiration to the barefoot, bomb-throwing, monogamy-smashing, lice-and-flea infested long-hairs of the very recent 1960s. These intellectuals too had serious thoughts about the Constitution, which they displayed through their interpretive dances.

The duck quacked, “But it’s fifty years later, it’s fifty years later!”

So why is “distinguished professor” Alterman using the theories of the 1960s? Is such research really au courant?

This requires some deconstruction, a practice to which Dissident Prof was subjected to in graduate school. Dissident Prof suspects some fear of “change” in professor Alterman. She suspects he does not want to do any research after the 1960s. She wonders if his contention that the “Tea Party was simply the old far right dressed up in funny new clothing” is not a projection.

For example, look at his colleague on the opposite coast at the campus that has become most known for “police brutality,” UC-Davis. In sartorial tribute to his intellectual progenitors, English professor Nathan Brown stands on a stage in front of thousands of adoring, cheering students who in the grand tradition of the Occupy Wall Street “human mic” repeat his words, phrase for phrase.

But notice something different? This rock star professor enjoys all the accoutrements of our Wall Street-supported high-tech society. There is a sound system, and a microphone, which Professor Brown brandishes with loving familiarity.

Of course, there is nothing authoritarian in having thousands of young people repeating your every word, right?

After all, these students are independent thinkers, having been schooled in critical thought by their facilitators, who have also guided them in collaborative learning. They have had music lessons in singing Obama praise songs. (Sorry, video disappeared by YouTube.)

Still, the media coverage of OWS was “sheer mockery,” maintains professor/think tank fellow Alterman. They presented none of the “substantive arguments,” he complains.

The professor might be a little too harsh on the less-well-educated folk for not being able to grasp the complexity of the original Adbusters manifesto that outlines the theory and practice of Occupy Wall Street, and from which I quote:

“The beauty of this new formula, and what makes this novel tactic exciting, is its pragmatic simplicity: we talk to each other in various physical gatherings and virtual people's assemblies … we zero in on what our one demand will be, a demand that awakens the imagination and, if achieved, would propel us toward the radical democracy of the future … and then we go out and seize a square of singular symbolic significance and put our asses on the line to make it happen.

“The time has come to deploy this emerging stratagem against the greatest corrupter of our democracy: Wall Street, the financial Gomorrah of America.”

And this little nugget of profundity:

“The most exciting candidate that we've heard so far is one that gets at the core of why the American political establishment is currently unworthy of being called a democracy: we demand that Barack Obama ordain a Presidential Commission tasked with ending the influence money has over our representatives in Washington. It's time for DEMOCRACY NOT CORPORATOCRACY, we're doomed without it.”

Professor Alterman’s support for the claim of unfair media treatment, evidenced in the lack of their attention to “substantive arguments,” comes from Russia Today, the media arm of Putin’s government. (Mic check! There are no more communists, there are no more communists, there are no more communists. Repeat. Very good. You get an A, and a student loan balance of $80,000.)

Mary Grabar

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Mary Grabar is a writer and college English teacher, whose parents escaped from Slovenia in 1959 and spent a year in a refugee camp in Austria. They immigrated to Rochester, New York, when she was two.

Her views have been formed by experiences as an immigrant during the racial violence in Rochester in the 1960s and then at her alma mater, Benjamin Franklin Junior-Senior High School.

She tried to be a liberal, but then quickly realized that it was an exclusive club. Her conversion to conservatism was cinched when she returned to school in the master's program in English in the 1990's.

In spite of the hostility of most of the faculty and the torture of having to wade through postmodern nonsense, she earned her Ph.D. from the University of Georgia in 2002.

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Mary Grabar is a frequent Columnist at Town Hall.com and writes articles for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Newspaper.

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Andrew Klavan - Wall Street On Trial

The Manhattan Institute is proud to present... the second in a series of animated videos created by Andrew Klavan, City Journal contributing editor and creator of "Klavan on the Culture"

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Kevin McCullough - Why Income Inequality is Pure Myth

In every interview that is done on television, and on just about every discussion held on talk radio, the forces of Occupy Wall Street were allowed to perpetuate an idea that could not be more false. Yet they repeat it with fervor, constantly trying to brainwash any who will listen as to its reality. They don't want to admit what I'm about to state, but it must be said.

Income "inequality" is a myth of hysterical proportion.

There, that felt good.

Like tiny Miss Virginia in the movie Miracle on 34th Street, the Occupy forces have a very rough time believing reality. Yet the truth is all around them.

The problem is, they do not wish to admit basic truths. Truths like:

1. No one is guaranteed anything in this life.
2. Success comes through hard work.
3. The world is largely unfair.
4. America is the most fair/advantageous economic laboratory on the planet.

If they understood these basic concepts they would cease whining about the myth of "income inequality" and get their fannies back to their homes and begin efforts to reinvent, create, produce, and multiply (ideas.)

The truth is most of Occupy Wall Street is so riddled with absolute hypocrisy that even when CNN confronts an occupier using an Apple Computer at the Occupy location, the occupier merely smiles and says, "well no one is perfect."

Even so the talking point of "income inequality" has outlasted most of the hypocrisy and has begun to be a point of discussion in "serious media" as a "benefit" of the silly occupy movement.

Yet here's the certainty, no one is, nor should be guaranteed an income of any kind. Not without hard work, not without struggle, initiative, extra effort, and accomplishment. Even then that mindset of "results" should be evident in the everyday labor that is being performed.

The problem with Occupy is that it largely sees itself as victims, instead of decision makers. They view themselves as the have-nots, as opposed to those-that-do-not-have... yet. They stare in the mirror each morning examining life as an employee instead of as an entrepreneur. They lack motivation. They lack confidence. They lack direction. And they lack discernment.

They claim to be part of the 99%, when in reality almost no one in America is truly part of the 99% of the world's poorest.

And they are ungrateful, to their creator, to their fellow man, to the public servants that allow them the cover to gather, and to a nation which continues to insist upon them having the right to speak freely, even when that freedom has been grossly abused.

But Occupy's main problem is that they don't live reflective lives. They don't think. They don't problem solve.

They are all about building consensus. Punt consensus, go get a job, and start a savings account, learn about how to build wealth in little pieces over long periods of time, and do what they normal working people do every single day--work hard.

While many of Occupy would love to spit on the perceived wrongs they've been dealt, few of them understand what true income inequality is. Go back to the 1920's in the midst of women's suffrage and you would see it. Employers having the right to pay people less for the same job being done by a woman vs. the man she was working next to. But women now dominate the work scene, they head companies, they lead entire swaths of the work force in attaining success.

But our laws don't allow us to do that anymore.

We give raises based on merit and experience (except in labor unions who honestly believe they shouldn't have to work to get anything.)

In the free market we reward innovation, and we let the market handle the lack of it.

In America new ideas have not found their limits, and the need to produce, distribute, create, and expand will always exist.

Occupy really wants something different--they don't want income equality, because that would require real work--they want evenly distributed "wealth equity," regardless of how you went about getting it.

And that's the lazy man's approach.

So listen up Occupy. You don't have a "right" to a dime of anything. Earn your keep. Work hard. Excel in your endeavors and continue to learn. Make yourself invaluable to the operation--or shock of shocks--go start your own.

American history--unlike the histories of the socialist empires you pine for--is filled with people who changed the course of millions of lives, and because of their creativity and commitment to excellence and hard work they grew companies that employed thousands, made millions, and some even left behind plans to continue to change the world long after they no longer walked among us.

Taking a page from such a playbook, would begin to open your eyes--not to your victimhood, but to the array of potential that you have been too blind to even see!

Kevin McCullough

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Kevin McCullough is the nationally syndicated host of "The Kevin McCullough Show" weekdays (7-9am EST) & "Baldwin/McCullough Radio" Saturdays (9-11pm EST) on 289 stations & Sirius/XM . His newest best-selling hardcover from Thomas Nelson Publishers, "No He Can't: How Barack Obama is Dismantling Hope and Change" is in stores now.

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Doug Giles - From a Global Perspective, the 99 Percent Are Actually the 1 Percent

As I watch the various college-aged Occupiers in their True Religion jeans talk about how bad they’ve got it while they tweet on their Macs during a catered lunch consisting of salmon filets with dill sauce as a Rasta Columbia grad student strums gently on his Washburn 118SW, I keep thinking, “You charmed babies don’t have it that bad.”

Matter of fact, from an earth angle, you are truly the fortunate ones and have hit the lifestyle lotto. Trust me, there are stacks of people from developing countries who would love to have what you ingrates whine about. Just ask an illegal alien.

For instance …

1. Clean Water. Please bear in mind, Occupiers, that when you crack open your Evian or get a glass of water from your dorm room faucet that 884 million people worldwide drink water out of crap puddles. Also, even though it doesn’t look like many of you cats bathe, when you do scrub your undercarriage during a five-minute shower, know that you have burned more aqua in that foray than a normal Joe in a third world county has in the last 24 hours. Just a little FYI.
2. Toilets. I know some of your crew like to forego toilets and port-a-potties and drop deuces on police cars and American flags and urinate in public, but please understand that the mere fact that you’ve got an option to use an American Standard truly tosses you into the cultural elite class. Yep, worldwide 40% of our globe’s population (2.6 billion people) is forced, out of poverty, to pop a squat in the brush because they are that broke.
3. Electricity. Next time you power up your iPhone 4S or HDTV, think about this ditty: 1.6 billion folks live without the little extravagance of electricity.
4. A Roof. Globally, one billion people would kill to live in that tent you’re inhabiting right now in that swank park you’re ruining. One-sixth of the world’s collective live in cardboard boxes. According to the NYC arrest records of the 984 OWS protestors arrested between 9/18 and 10/15, they’re dwelling in digs that average about $305,000 a pop. Can you say, “1%”?
5. Grub. Did you know the rats you guys are attracting by the food you toss away during your protest would actually be a delicacy in developing countries? If you have three squares a day (or even one) please note that you are blessed because 790 million folks, give or take, go to bed every night with their stomachs sucking up against their spines.

I could go on and on talking about how great we have it here amidst all of our inequities and absurdities, but I’ve got a Thanksgiving dinner to eat, a cigar to smoke and a giant screen HDTV to watch the Dolphins lose on that forbid me to go any further with this diatribe. For more 411 on why the OWS crowd and all Americans should bow their knee and thank God we have this nation, check out this column.

And if you’re looking for a book for parents for Christmas that’ll keep kids from being part of the OWS crowd, get my barn burner here.

And check out my latest video for a shot of holy adrenaline.

Doug Giles

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Doug Giles’ new book “If You're Going Through Hell, Keep Going!" is now available. Ann Coulter says "Doug Giles is a substantive and funny tour de force for traditional values.” Doug’s talk show and video blog can be seen and heard at www.ClashRadio.com.

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Mike Adams - Occupy Wall Street Labor Day Telethon

Mike Adams - Occupy Wall Street Labor Day Telethon

There’s big news breaking simultaneously in the world of entertainment and in the not-so-different world of politics. Jerry Lewis is coming out of retirement. And he’s doing it just in time for the first annual Occupy Wall Street Labor Day Telethon. The telethon is being held for disillusioned youths who voted for Barack Obama only to have their hopes and dreams dashed by hopelessness and an undersupply of change – particularly change in the national rate of unemployment.

For Barracks Kids, also known as Barry’s Kids, Jerry Lewis has said he’ll be coming out of retirement only temporarily. “I want to support America’s newest cause, Occupiers, Barrack’s Kids, Barry’s Kids, or whatever you want to call them. They are all helpless and all they suffer from the same horrible symptoms,” said the 85 year old entertainer. “I want to educate the public and raise both awareness and money for this chronically helpless and handicapped generation of college graduates.”

Newly Enlightened Widespread Militant Dissatisfaction, or New MD, is relatively unknown to most of the general public. However, those stricken with it can be identified by several common characteristics:

Chronic joblessness: This is often due to personal hygiene issues. Unfortunately, once it sets in, a vicious cycle tends to break out. Bad hygiene hurts job prospects. Then unemployment impedes the ability of New MD sufferers to purchase products that might tend to improve personal hygiene.

Chronic confusion: Just one example: Many New MD sufferers are able to articulate a shared belief that debt should be banned. Yet they are incapable of explaining how poor people would get loans to purchase homes and automobiles and how this would reduce, and not exacerbate inequality.

Blurred vision: At first, this was thought to be caused by the overwhelming tendency to focus on other people’s possessions. Now, there is some consensus that it stems from excessive texting and preoccupation with playing video games – also known as chronic v-idiocy. Most protestors – despite their claimed distain for corporations – regularly use the Ipad2 and other compatible Apple products. Because they often do this after smoking copious amounts of marijuana, which increases squinting, their vision is eventually impaired.

Memory loss: Put simply, Barry’s Kids have forgotten that they live in the greatest nation on earth. Who else would host the first annual Occupy Wall Street Labor Day Telethon but public TV? It’s all in line with their philosophy: What’s yours is theirs and what’s theirs is theirs. But somehow they’ve forgotten that they would not have public TV without the generosity of the American taxpayer.

The first annual Occupy Wall Street Labor Day Telethon Special will feature an all-star cast – the kind only Jerry Lewis could assemble. Unlike the good old days, there will be no special appearances by Sammy Davis, Jr. and Dean Martin. But Operation Christmas Child will be diverting gift shoe boxes from children in poverty-stricken Africa in order to provide for shoeless Barry’s Kids living in public parks all across our great nation.

Fundraising events will include a marathon for Occupy Wall Streeters only. It’s unlikely the Occupiers will actually run. In all likelihood, they’ll be expecting someone else to run for them. A benefit concert is also planned. It will have headliners like Lionel Richie’s step cousin Jerome, Milli Vanilli, and Stryper with background vocals by Nancy Pelosi. Lyrics are already in the works for a Barry’s Kids theme song "Don't stand so close to me (Really, you haven't bathed in 3 weeks!).”

Eventually, there will be a cure for New MD, which is afflicting literally thousands of recent college graduates who voted for Barack Obama. But hope is on the way for Barry’s kids. They can rest assured that a cure is being sought by people who are much more intelligent, productive, and grateful than they are.

In the meantime, it is important for parents to prevent their kids from ever being afflicted with New MD. The best thing they can do is to challenge them intellectually by keeping them out of the public schools. Then, if they go to college, they can ban them from majoring in useless disciplines like sociology or anything ending with the word “studies.”

A mind really is a terrible thing to waste. That’s especially true if you’re a white kid with a worthless degree, a mountain of debt, and a false sense of moral superiority.

Those offended by today’s column may contact me on my personal Facebook page. No profanity please.

Mike Adams

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Mike Adams

Mike Adams is a criminology professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington and author of Feminists Say the Darndest Things: A Politically Incorrect Professor Confronts "Womyn" On Campus.

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Alfonzo Rachel - Waterboard Occupy Wall Street? Uninformed, Out of Touch... and Not Potty Trained

Whether it's the Occupy movement, or CNN, Zo has plenty about which to rant this week. Obama got a softball question from CNN on waterboarding, while an OWS protester pooped in public but did not wipe. WARNING: This segment has actual footage of an Occupy protester pooping.

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Trevor Loudon - on GBTV

Trevor, a world-famous blogger from New Zealand, is the author of Barack Obama and the Enemies Within. He says the survival of America hangs in the balance and that the next phase of Obama's plan is to slash U.S. national defense spending.

Trevor Loudon

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A history about those who advise, mentor, and operate behind the throne of the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama. From early childhood to the present day the President chose to keep his personal life a secret. Those who surround him fall into a wide category of radicals, marxists, communists, and Americans who have joined together in a coordinated effort to overthrow capitalism and the Republic of the United States of America.

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Trevor Loudon of New Zealand, was the Blogger Who Exposed Van Jones as a Communist and caused the Van Jones resignation.

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Lurita Doan - Obama's Economic Team: Charlatans and Quacksalvers

If a man is judged by the company he keeps--what does Obama's choices say about him? Consider Obama's choices for his economic advisors. There seem to be three overarching principles that guide their decision-making--all bad.

First, Obama's advisors believe that economic growth can be achieved by rewarding dubious, but favored, industries. Second, Obama seems to think that the financial assistance provided to his "favorites" can be achieved by taxing and placing additional regulatory burdens on small businesses, prudent savers and job creators. Third, Obama seems to think he can act irresponsibly with other people's money--take enormous risks--and refuse to accept any responsibility for failure as the cumulative effect of his policies expands the role and power of government.

Americans have watched, over the past three years, as the recommendations of Obama's economic advisors have crashed and burned, exacerbating rather than improving the economic situation in the U.S.. Nowhere is this flawed approach to economic growth more apparent than in the recent debacle surrounding M F Global Holdings and Jon Corzine, the President Obama's "Wall Street Guy".

What the current MF Global scandal has shown is the likelihood that Corzine has been flimflamming investors. Huge and irresponsible risks were taken, all with someone else’s money, in the blind hope that government would bail out any losses. Worse yet, according to most recent reports in the press, Corzine seems to have illegally tapped as much as $900 million dollars from individual investor accounts in a vain attempt to cover and hide his many misdeeds.

Playing fast and loose with other people’s money was a skill Corzine developed and refined as the Democratic Governor of New Jersey, but, when exposed in the real world, the inevitable result is Chapter 11. Here, too, it is important to note that Corzine’s ruinous actions will almost certainly result in the immediate termination of the jobs of 3000 employees that once worked for MF Global and were dependent upon Jon Corzine's stewardship.

As his investors and former employees now face economic ruin, Jon Corzine’s vast, personal fortune, estimated at $300 million or more remains unaffected. Small business owners that make boneheaded decisions face certain economic ruin, but Corzine is, incredibly, eligible for a $12 million severance package after plundering MF Global Holdings, ruining employees' jobs, and losing investors' private funds.

The Corzine Affair also offers insights into the Obama Administration's compendium of new rules, regulation and increased oversight designed monitor the level of risk within financial institutions. The system clearly didn't work--or at least not well enough to save the MF Global Holdings investors.

Americans should also remember that Obama believed so strongly in Jon Corzine back in July of 2009 that he campaigned aggressively for Corzine against Chris Christie. Obama even went so far as to claim that Corzine was "one of the best partners I have in the White House."

Corzine has been closely involved with the Obama Administration as far back as Obama's presidential campaign--where Corzine was often cited and photographed as being one of Obama's close economic advisors.

Obama has shown a consistent pattern of keeping bad company, bad advisors and the result has been bad for the American economy. Most of the President's early economic advisors have abandoned him.

Christina Romer, Chief of the Council of Economic Advisors, left after only one year, when neither the $787 billion dollar economic stimulus had any effect, nor did unemployment decrease, despite her promises and predictions.

Larry Summers, Director of the National Economic Council, left after a year, during which increased regulations strangled small businesses and unemployment remained at staggering highs.

Austan Goolsbee, Romer's replacement, only lasted 11 months.

Peter Orszag, Obama's Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the first to leave and move on to greener pastures, left Americans with a federal budget almost $3 trillion dollars more annually than when he first entered the job and the realizations that the economic growth promised by critical infrastructure projects that never occurred left the nation worse off than ever.

What is somewhat startling is the sheer number of Obama's economic advisors who have departed the White House. Many of the lower levels of Obama’s National Economic Council team (Sarah Cannon, Eric Lesser, Bryan Jung, Kyle Watkins, Pascal Noel) abandoned the sinking Obama ship. This mass exodus of Team Obama’s economic advisors seems a clear vote of no confidence in the President’s economic policies.

Americans are left with many questions-- but two rise to the top. First, is President Obama the only one who still believes wealth distribution schemes, favoritism, and punishing job creators is the best way to advance the American economy? Second, who has replaced Jon Corvine and the many other mountebanks who provided Obama with such poor economic advice over the past three years?

Obama gave us the answer to one of the questions. Where is he getting his economic advice now? Looks to me like Obama is now getting his economic counsel from The Occupy Wall Street crowd, who seem to be the only people left that still believe it is possible to expand government and all entitlements, reward favorite industries, despite the growing number of bankruptcies and failures, and fund the madness by punishing job creators.

If that doesn't scare Americans--then nothing will.

Lurita Doan

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Lurita Alexis Doan is an African American conservative commentator who writes about issues affecting the federal government.

Lurita has been involved in the business community through participation in many trade associations, membership in business organizations including the Young Entrepreneurs' Organization (now Entrepreneurs' Organization) and Young Presidents' Organization, and involvement on charitable community activities.

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November 14, 2011

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Occupy DC 'Mother' Doesn't Regret Using Kids to Blockade Door

On November 4, 2011, Occupy DC flocked outside of AFP’s Defending the Dream Summit held at the Washington Convention Center and began protesting. During the course of the events, the situation turned violent. One instance involved a mother using her kids to blockade the door in which MRCTV’s Stephen Gutowski caught on tape.

By sheer luck, just days before on October 31, MRCTV’s Dan Joseph asked the lady why she believes the cops haven’t broken up their living headquarters at McPherson Square. She responded by saying it was politically expedient for the cops to let them continue.

On November 8, MRCTV’s Joe Schoffstall caught up with the lady as they were protesting downtown in retaliation to what happened at the AFP summit. She told us that her and her children ‘protest together’ and that she doesn’t regret placing her kids in front of the door and will continue to do so. She also said it was the police who put her children in danger.

Where is Child Protective Services?

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Austin Hill - Brought To You By, OWS!

Have you seen the new Occupy Wall Street ad campaign?

Yes, I said the “ad campaign!” In a slick thirty-second video commercial, eight activists appear on camera, presumably gathered outdoors at an OWS event, and each describes in a sentence what they want from their country.

Ironically, the OWS folks paid big bucks for their ad to appear - gasp! – on the Fox Newschannel. Funny how capitalism works, isn’t it? The presumably evil Rupert Murdoch-owned enterprise collected the occupiers’ cash, and in return the occupiers got what they wanted – access to FNC’s huge audience.

The “encampments” may soon be winding-down, given the death and disease that is proliferating. But the rhetoric remains, and it’s worth examining. Here’s what they said in their commercial – and some of the implications of it all.

Occupier number one, a casually dressed, twenty-something African American man: “…I want to see more serious political conversations starting to happen…” Serious political conversations are always happening in America, but they’re not found in soundbytes and protester chants. And if one is serious about conversation, one must be prepared to dialog rather than just “emoting,” and to have one’s assumptions challenged.

Occupier number two, a casually dressed 20-something Caucasian man: “I want corporations out of the government, and I want people back in…” This is a heart-felt way of expressing frustration over the influence that large companies have over our nation’s public policy. This is a legitimate problem, for sure, and it’s a concern that resonates with a lot of Americans – even many non-occupiers.

There are also a couple of logical errors here. For one, people don’t need to get “back in” our government – they never “left.” In fact the most important component of any government – or any corporation for that matter - is the people. Without people, there is no government or corporation. There is only material matter.

Secondly, this expression fails to acknowledge how corporations get “into” government in the first place: politicians allow it to happen. This is not a problem with our economic or political system, but rather, it’s a matter of bad government policy makers making bad decisions.

Occupier number three, a casually dressed middle-aged Caucasian woman: “I want peace, rather than militarization…” It’s not difficult to imagine this lady saying much the same thing some forty years ago in the face of the militarization of Viet Nam. But our nation’s peace was threatened then, and it still is today. Thus we need a military, whether anyone likes that or not.

Occupier number four, a casually dressed 20-something Caucasian woman: “I want the top wealthiest Americans to be taxed higher and that money to go to education…” At least this woman is honest with her feelings. Instead of couching it in pejorative ambiguities – “rich people need to pay their fair share,” for example (what a great way to imply that rich people don’t pay their “fair share,” without defining what “fair share” means), she’s being straight forward. She wants other people to have more of their money confiscated by government.

What she is not so honest about is how public education funds are currently being spent. Six-figure salaries, and tax-payer funded car allowances, travel and dining accounts and mobile telephones are common expenditures for public school district office personnel (not so much with the teachers themselves). It’s difficult to say that this kind of “education spending” is all “for the children,” and this kind of selfish waste should be an anathema to the occupiers, if only they’d care to learn about it.

Occupier number five, a middle-aged Caucasian man in business attire: “I want economic justice…” Yes, and don’t we all? But what does this mean?

Occupier number six, a thirty-something Caucasian man in casual clothing: “I want greater regulation of the banks and the markets.” Okay, but how much is “greater?” President Obama has significantly increased governmental regulation of banking and financial institutions, but it doesn’t occur to some that this has actually caused higher banking fees and less lending. Shall we do more of the same, and expect a different outcome?

Occupier number seven, a middle-aged, possibly Hispanic- looking man in casual dress: “I want my kids to have a job, and healthcare.” Probably most American parents would want these things for their kids. The real question is how one obtains them: are we “entitled” to “a job” and “healthcare,” or must one “earn” them? What level of a job, and what level of healthcare, is anybody “entitled” to?

Occupier number eight, a middle-aged Caucasian man dressed in construction worker garb: “I want true democracy for the ninety-nine percent of us that don’t have it anymore…” This is a common refrain from the occupiers. But I’d like to ask this man “who represents you in the Congress and in your state legislature? Or how about in your city council or school board?”

Sadly, many of the occupiers seem to have very little familiarity with how our system of representative government works, and they don’t seem interested in learning.

What becomes of the OWS encampments and their commercials is anybody’s guess. But the questions and the rhetoric remain – and they warrant a response.

Austin Hill

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Austin Hill is an emerging American voice, addressing culture-defining questions through books, talk radio, web, speaking, and interviews. His recent books "White House Confidential" and his new title "The Virtues Of Capitalism" show his range from whit-infused writer to thought-provoking expert on the intersection of philosophy, religion, politics & culture. Hill helps to make the complex seem simple when exploring capitalism, socialism, and other "Isms".

He is an editorial contributor to national publications such as U.S. News & World Report, a columnist with TownHall.com, and is a popular expert-host on radio from leading stations in Washington DC, Chicago, Phoenix and Los Angeles, and nationally with networks such as Fox NewsTalk Radio.  He hosts the "Austin Hill Show" weekday mornings at Fresno, California's Talk Radio 105-9 KMJ-FM,  and weekday afternoons at Boise, Idaho's Newstalk 580 K I D O radio.

Hill holds a Bachelor's Degree in English Literature from California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo, and a Master's Degree in Philosophy of Religion and Ethics from Biola University in California.

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For those Interested - here is the OWS Commercial Austin wrote about:

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Doug Giles - Occupy Bull Streeters Get Worse

This past week I was in Texas with my family honoring our wounded troops with our 3rd annual Texas Purple Heart Hunt. For the last three years the Giles Tribe has gathered (along with several others) at one of Roy Burnes’ ranches to celebrate America and those who keep her safe by hunting deer and drinking beer while listening to great music as we roast the flesh with the best of the best. It was truly a great time deep in the heart of Texas.

As you can imagine, partying and hunting with our vets for the last few days pulled me away from my job of monitoring the fetid chum slick of the daily news. So, I was itching to see what in the world had happened while we were blissfully tucked away with guns in God’s Country.

Upon arrival back to civilization I opened my email account and started plowing through the gazillion emails my columns spawn. Many of the emails I got told me about how great I am. Of course I hit print and pasted them on my office wall next to the altar sporting the life-sized poster of myself. However, several of the emails I received told me how full of crap I am in regard to the last column I penned about the Occupy crowd and their aberrant and criminal behavior.

When I pointed out last week how the media and the president had insanely ignored the 99% who’re turning our taxpayer funded cities into trash and disease-filled Petri dishes, where rapes and multi-million dollar vandalism goes down, I was told that I am the mean guy and have been skewing the facts—even though I cited several legit sources.

Being one who practices the biblical discipline of self-examination, I took a nanosecond and asked myself, “Self … have you indeed wrongfully judged a reasonable democratic uprising? Do I need to repent?”

Having been out of the loop, I minimized my email page, popped open Google and typed in “Occupy November 5th – 11th” to see if I had grieved the Holy Spirit by fudging the facts. Holy Schnikey. Was I not only right about the things previously reported, but it appears that Occupy matters have gotten worse. For instance …

More Americans Died at 'Occupy' Protests Than in Afghanistan on Thursday

Tea Partier Violently Assaulted at 'Occupy San Diego'

Cops Bust up 'Occupiers' With Nightsticks

'Occupiers' to Block Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony?

Tuberculosis Outbreak at Occupy Atlanta's Base

Is This the Nuttiest 'Occupy' Protester Ever?

'Occupy Wall Street' Kicks Hungry Homeless Out of Park

Help me here, main stream media and Doug critics: I don’t recollect any murders, assaults, rapes, multi-million dollar trashing of environments, nudity, nightsticks, protests of Christmas, or any homeless people snubbed by tea partiers … and yet it is the tea partiers who are demonized—as in, ridiculously demonized.

However, facts be damned, it is the occupiers who are spawning the mayhem throughout our land, and I for one hope sane voters are seriously paying attention to the fruit of the progressive movement.

BTW Occupusses: Here’s a shot of your chunky buddy Michael Moore’s vacation house. Breitbart Exclusive Pics: Michael Moore's Massive Michigan Vacation Mansion...

Oh, and one more BTW: From a global perspective, all you Ninety-Nine Percenters are the lucky one percent. Yes, if you eat three meals a day, have a cell phone and a laptop you are one of the world’s lucky ones.

Doug Giles

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Anne from PA - Occupy DC Pushes Grandma Down Stairs

This is what Barack Obama is solidly behind.

Occupy DC Protesters assaulted conservatives as they exited an Americans For Prosperity "Tribute to Ronald Reagan" dinner.

This elderly woman, 78 years old, rode 11 hrs on a bus from Detroit to attend the dinner. After the attack she was taken to hospital with multiple injuries, a bloody nose which developed after the fall, and a large knot on her head. After x-rays and a CAT scan, she was released the following morning with cuts and large bruises.

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Austin Hill - President of the Protesters?

What happens to a U.S. President when he aligns himself with civil unrest? Barack Obama’s pledge to the occupy protesters that he is “on their side” is – to use the President’s word of choice to describe himself – “unprecedented.” Where this association takes him and his fellow Democrats will be very interesting to watch.

American history is replete with corruption and legally questionable behavior at the White House, much of which pre-dates those of us who are alive today. President Andrew Jackson, for example, was caught transferring taxpayer money out of federal coffers and “investing” it into private banks that were owned by his campaign donors.

President James Buchanan was known to have “sold” positions in his Administration before he was even elected. Years later after President Buchanan had negotiated an opportunity to buy the island of Cuba, Congress refused to appropriate funds for the purchase because they didn’t trust the President to handle the money properly.

Thus, the Obama scandals are not “unprecedented.” The President’s selfish waste of American taxpayer dollars to the now-bankrupt MF Global Holdings Corporation with former Governor John Corzine, the now-bankrupt Solyndra green energy Corporation, and former Vice President Al Gore’s Finland-base electric car company, fit right in with the corrupt behavior of many of our past Presidents who controlled to much of our public assets.

What is different about President Barack Obama is his proactive effort to publicly and intentionally align himself with a scandal that, so far as we can tell, has emerged from outside of the White House. And the occupy movement is indeed “scandalous” in as much as it is antithetical to our Constitutional system of governance, and our free market economic system.

Ask any occupy protesters you meet, and you’ll likely hear the usual talking points: “We’re the 99% and we need to let our voices be heard;” “The government only represents the top 1% and ignores the rest of us.” The rhetoric is designed to create a sense of victimization, and to a certain point, it is effective.

But then ask your local occupy protester some very basic questions about our representative government and you’ll likely find that the discussion falls apart. Simple questions, like “who has been elected to represent you in your state legislature?,” or “Who is the Mayor of your city?,” or “Who are your U.S. Senators?” will likely take the conversation over a cliff. And if naming their elected officials isn’t sufficiently challenging, try asking your occupy protester “How does legislation get created?,” and then prepare for a very dismissive, if not angry response.

The point here is that the occupy protesters can scarcely tell you anything about the design and functioning of our American representative governmental system, yet they are nonetheless quite sure that it has “failed.” And whether they realize it or not, they are pushing for something on the order of a “direct democracy,” a system of government that the world mostly rejected several centuries ago in favor of representational government.

The lessons of history don’t matter to the occupy protesters. And their lessons in basic American civics – if indeed they ever learned basic American civics – don’t matter either. They want what they want, whether it fits with the U.S. Constitution or not.

Thus we have a “movement” that has brought about costly damages to both private and public property – an estimated $19,000 worth of damage in Portland, $35,000 in New York, and $25,000 in Oakland – and multiple instances of sexual assault, public urinating and defecating, and allegations of rape. And it’s all for the cause of – what? – abandoning our Constitutional form of government?

Indeed, it is “unprecedented” for a U.S. President to align himself with this type of anti-constitutional movement. How much longer will America remain aligned with him?

Austin Hill

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Austin Hill is an emerging American voice, addressing culture-defining questions through books, talk radio, web, speaking, and interviews. His recent books "White House Confidential" and his new title "The Virtues Of Capitalism" show his range from whit-infused writer to thought-provoking expert on the intersection of philosophy, religion, politics & culture. Hill helps to make the complex seem simple when exploring capitalism, socialism, and other "Isms".

He is an editorial contributor to national publications such as U.S. News & World Report, a columnist with TownHall.com, and is a popular expert-host on radio from leading stations in Washington DC, Chicago, Phoenix and Los Angeles, and nationally with networks such as Fox NewsTalk Radio.  He hosts the "Austin Hill Show" weekday mornings at Fresno, California's Talk Radio 105-9 KMJ-FM,  and weekday afternoons at Boise, Idaho's Newstalk 580 K I D O radio.

Hill holds a Bachelor's Degree in English Literature from California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo, and a Master's Degree in Philosophy of Religion and Ethics from Biola University in California.

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Doug Giles - Meet the 99%: Agitators, Racists and Rapists

Isn’t it ironic that the same media that’s indignant over Cain’s alleged sexual misconduct from fifteen years ago is Teller-like in their silence over the multitudinous rapes going down at the Occupy rallies like fifteen hours ago?

The Left raises cain about Cain’s sexual harassment, yet they don’t say shizzle about the Occupy Other People’s Panties protestors trying to forcibly knock someone else’s knickers. Case in point: I was at my gym working a kick bag for thirty plus minutes last Wednesday and they had CNN blaring. Thirty minutes on Cain. Zero on Occupy’s various sexual assaults. This made me angry, which was bad for the bag but good for me because it did help me with my roundhouse, side kick and my inside/out crescent. Yep, at nearly the half-century mark, I’ve still got it.

Also conspicuous in their silence on the Occupy rapes is the National Organization for Women. You’d figure this organization that’s supposed to be looking out for lasses would be screaming bloody hell over the abuse of women at the various protests—but nah. The reason being? Well, they agree with the occupiers’ agenda, so … sorry ladies, you can be violated.

Check this out: What about the media silence regarding the black cop getting shoved over while riding his Harley as he patrolled the lunatics at the Occupy Denver Whine Fest? What’s that? You didn’t catch that one on the tube? Yep, a black (as in African American) police officer got pushed over by a white (as in honky, gringo, pasty skin, Caucasian) Occupy protestor. Can you imagine if a white tea partier pushed a black cop over at a Tea Party rally? Helter skelter. Helter skelter.

Now, let’s turn our attention to the media’s lack of reportage of the Occupy Oakland’s violent vandals. Remember how the MSM warned America to watch out for the Tea Party because they could become violent? Well, the Occupy Oakland wonks have become violently destructive, starting fires and smashing retail shops. And you know what garners more attention than this class warfare carnage from the MSM? Kim Kardashian’s sham wedding and divorce, that’s what. Remember how the media berated the Tea Party for using a “tone” at their rallies? A tone? These morons take axes to Whole Foods stores in Oakland, vandalize various buildings, and spit on cops, yet the media and our president paint them as disgruntled little puppies who can’t find a comfortable position to sleep in yet. Woof.

Fourth and final on our list, little kiddies, where the media has been deaf and blind is the little stunt some Occupy Madison protesters pulled which caused the city to ban these bologna boppers. Yep, OM had their group banned because of public defecation and urination and being an utter hemorrhoid to Madison’s fair citizens. And some of their 99% were getting 100% off in public.

And that, peeps, concludes this week’s edition of Glaring Omissions by the Mainstream Media. Now where’s my kick bag?

Doug Giles

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Doug Giles’ new book “If You're Going Through Hell, Keep Going!" is now available. Ann Coulter says "Doug Giles is a substantive and funny tour de force for traditional values.” Doug’s talk show and video blog can be seen and heard at www.ClashRadio.com.

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Origins and Philosophy Behind Occupy Movement

The story goes that Benjamin Franklin was approached by a woman as he left the Constitutional Convention.
She asked: “What have you given us?”
Franklin is said to have replied:
“A republic, if you can keep it.”

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Perhaps the 'Greatest Lie' perpetrated by the Left on the American Citizenry, is that the United States Government is a Democracy instead of a Constitutional Republic (Limited Democracy).

What is the difference between a 'Constitutional Republic and a Democracy'?

A Republic is a political unit that governs by Charter or Constitution, a Democracy is a political unit that governs by the fiat of the 'Majority of the Minute'.

In the simplest of terms, a Constitutional Republic is governed by the rule of law and a 'Direct Democracy' is governed by 'Mob Rule'. Even though many Americans use these terms synonymously, they are as different as Night and Day or an Apple and an Orange.

A prime example of a 'Direct or Pure Democracy' and the 'Right to Choose' whatever the people want (mob rule) instead of the 'Rule of Law', would be a lynching.

Everyone involved in the Lynching has a vote – even the one being lynched, but the mob rules by majority and not by law - this would be described by Liberals as 'Fairness', because the 'People' made their choice by popular vote and Liberals would defend the 'Mob Rule choice'. 'Fairness' to a Liberal is 'Situational' and should be decided by 'Mob Rule' rather than the Constitution or Bill of Rights.

It should be noted and understood, that the 'Goal of Socialism' is Communism and Socialism is much easier to implement from a 'Direct or Pure Democracy' than by Revolution.

The following video documents the Propagandizing of the 'Occupiers' of Wall Street and other Cities and communities through Propaganda, 'Cultic Chanting', 'Mind Control' and the destruction of the concept of the Individual through praise of Collectives.

Retired Geek

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Considering the widespread support the movement is receiving from mainstream politicians, the ideological and philosophical underpinnings of the "Occupy" movement are quite bizarre.

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Media Glorifying Violent 'Occupy' Protests?

The attitude in the media towards Occupy Wall Street, Goldberg, argues, is far too favorable because “if they [the media] share your values, you will get an easy ride.” In contrast, the Tea Party, being conservative, was molded into a narrative where “conservatives are people who aren’t very nice and, frankly, racists,” while the Occupy Wall Street folk are “young idealists, the American version of the Arab spring.” Crowley noted that the coverage of violence and anti-Semitism at the events was lacking, which Goldberg compared to that of racism in the Tea Party. “I’m not saying at all that these anti-Semitic signs are representative of the whole movement,” Goldberg argued, but that “the racist sign at the Tea Party was also an outlier.”

October 31, 2011

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Zonation - Outshining the Tea Party? Privileged, White Kids Dominate Occupy Wall Street

Ever notice how Occupy Wall Street is guilty of all the things liberals accuse the tea party of doing? For example, where are African Americans at these protests? Alfonzo Rachel has some good advice for OWS and the Oakland Police Department. Find out what it is here.

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