NY Magazine: All occupiers are equal — but some occupiers are more equal than others. In wind-whipped Zuccotti Park, new divisions and hierarchies are threatening to upend Occupy Wall Street and its leaderless collective. That’s the ostensible thesis — and we as conservatives/classical liberals are supposed to take great pleasure from the confusion of the rabble’s “movement” — but in reality, let me propose that what is happening here (and

Amazingly, those commentators who have spent the last 3 years or so decrying the “extremist right’s” insistence on “purity” tests (and were early adopters of a Mitch Daniels candidacy, Daniels having famously counseled that the GOP leave aside social issues) have just recently become very very concerned with Herman Cain’s positioning on certain key questions important to social conservatives — the latest being, where does Cain stand on the issue

1. “Obama Admin Defends $529 Million Taxpayer Loan To Company Building Electric Cars in Finland” 2. “White House backs Biden’s rape, murder remarks” 3. “White House defends its record on poverty” 4. “DOE Continues to Thwart Solyndra Investigation” 5. “LightSquared refuses to release communications with White House” 6. “ABC Spikes Tapper’s Fast and Furious Question to Obama but Makes Time for Exchange on Children’s Books”

NYP: President Barack Obama will announce Friday that the US will completely withdraw its troops from Iraq by the end of 2011, FOX News Channel reported. Obama is expected to make the announcement at a 12:45 p.m. White House press briefing. Obama held a video conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki earlier Friday. “Today the president will announce that we will fulfill our commitment and complete the drawdown

Meh. What’s a few rapes if, in the end, the message of Che Guevara is able to find its voice in a handful of puppets somewhere in some community playhouse in Minnesota?

Time and space don’t come to a screeching halt (Bork endorsed Romney in 2007, as well), but they do think about it briefly.

Here’s an idea: put down the cameras long enough to stop filming your own ostentatious, self-serving sanctimony and write a freakin’ check. If you want to play rubber-suited gimp in a masochism fantasy, try hiring a bonded dominatrix by the hour like the rest of us regular folk. Penn Jillette: It’s amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion.

Eco-fads and the eco-faddists who befad them.

How soon before we see pics on liberal blogs of Cain decked out in blackface and Bojangles attire? Because clearly, one can only be “authentically Black” if one thinks precisely like White liberals tell them they must. Robert Byrd’s Kleagle hood could not be reached for comment. (h/t afs)

Let’s you and I play a game.Whoever wins will dramatically influence the course of American life over the next 30 – 50 years. I’ll set the bounds of the game, I’ll referee, and I’ll report the game. Go. I understand people occasionally wager on the outcome of games. Which side would you bet on in this game? Would you be willing to bet your children and grand-children’s prosperity and freedom