I was out earlier so I just now watched the debate. First, let me say this: many of the people on my Twitter feed almost CERTAINLY were watching a different debate than I was. I know this because their suggestions about who did well and helped themselves, and who did poorly and hurt themselves, is based on nothing that I actually saw during that debate. Rather, it seems they’ve based

What will Mitt do to help the 99%? I’m on the edge of my seat.

Investor’s Business Daily: A powerful House Republican committee chairman accused the National Labor Relations Board of being a “rogue agency” in a letter to its general counsel Monday. The chairman claimed the NLRB knowingly withheld damaging documents relating to his committee’s probe of the agency’s controversial Boeing (BA) complaint. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darryl Issa, R-Calif., in a letter to Lafe Solomon, NLRB acting general counsel, said

Catherine Rampell, Economix, NYT: India’s poorest ventile corresponds with the 4th poorest percentile worldwide. And its richest? The 68th percentile. Yes, that’s right: America’s poorest are, as a group, about as rich as India’s richest. Kind of blows your mind, right? Not really, no. But I know some people choosing to live in tent cities whose minds might be blown, were those minds not already so filled with Whip-it fumes

Pethokoukis. May I presume to add what to me is an obvious 6th (and more general) reason? Wealth “disparity” only matters, to the extent those who rely on it as a wedge issue insist it does, in a system where the amount of wealth is fixed. But there is no fixed pie of “the wealth”; and the only way “the 1%” can keep their wealth from working for “the 99%”

Meanwhile, just a few short months ago, from the NYT, we find this (with thanks to David Limbaugh): “Obama Seeks to Win Back Wall St. Cash”: A few weeks before announcing his re-election campaign, President Obama convened two dozen Wall Street executives, many of them longtime donors, in the White House’s Blue Room. The guests were asked for their thoughts on how to speed the economic recovery, then the president

Michael Walsh, “The Full Alinksy”: Alinsky rode into town on a one-trick pony that the Left has since turned into its warhorse: Agitate one side’s grievances, and appeal to another side’s decency and gullibility in order to provoke the establishment, whose reaction will unite the other two. Then the community organizer charges in on his nag-turned-steed and proceeds to set the rot in motion under the banner of “progress.” It