Push back.

Aw. And here many of the Occupy Wall Street kids thought Obama the populist champion of the Working Man, leader of the 99% in their battle against the evils of rich people, Jews (but I repeat myself), and corporate Amerikkka. Although in Obama’s favor is this: they live in tents or on tarps and use stationary bicycles connected to dynamos to generate power. And they’re mostly very very dumb. So

Sometimes it takes an outsider, I guess. Cain’s 9-9-9 Plan — which brought to the table a proposal for real tax reform and was developed in part by Art Laffer — has now been followed up upon by Rick Perry’s flat tax proposal (Gingrich has one, as well), which has received the endorsement of Steve Forbes. Predictably, the left is smirking and sniffing and calling both plans “radical.” Also predictably,

“No One Died From Radiation Exposure at Fukushima, Top U.S. Regulator Says.” But of course, that doesn’t mean they won’t, sometime in the future. So we should still be concerned. But we shouldn’t panic. Because this might be a nuclear catastrophe of the highest order. Unless it isn’t. Which we can’t ever know — and even if we did, we should probably report it conditionally. With caveats and such. update:

“Justice Dept. proposes lying, hiding existence of records under new FOIA rule”: A proposed revision to Freedom of Information Act rules would allow federal agencies to lie to citizens and reporters seeking certain records, telling them the records don’t exist. The Justice Department has proposed the change as part of a large revision of FOIA rules for federal agencies. Specifically, the rule would direct government agencies who are denying a

And why wouldn’t they? These public sector union gigs are tits! From the Chicago Tribune: Two lobbyists with no prior teaching experience were allowed to count their years as union employees toward a state teacher pension once they served a single day of subbing in 2007, a Tribune/WGN-TV investigation has found. Steven Preckwinkle, the political director for the Illinois Federation of Teachers, and fellow union lobbyist David Piccioli were the

Do as I say, not as I-shovel-so-many-hot-wings-and-fried-Snicker’s-bars-into-my-face-that-should-I-add-in-a-few-Chinese-fire-peppers-chances-are-I-could-shit-you-out-an-order-or-General-Tsao’s-chicken-and-a-chocolate-dessert-parfait. Recognize.

So asks the WaPo’s Richard Cohen, who likes to use his own Judaism as a badge of moral authority on such matters. And try as he might, Cohen can’t find even a hint of anti-semitism — writing off the very idea as a “reprehensible” “right wing” plot to discredit the protests. But then, I think I figured out Cohen’s journalistic failing: he was out looking for paper mache renderings of