Jonah Goldberg, anti-communist: Here’s one useful tip: Whenever the substance of the Occupy Wall Street movement troubles Democratic politicians their response is to hide behind platitudes about free speech. “It’s about their right to express themselves!” Well, no it’s not. Free speech is important, but it’s really not the issue. It certainly wasn’t even much of a concern when it was the Tea Party expressing itself — which it managed

It’s come to this. The king is asking The People to help him overthrow the power of the Court. So he can rule the way he pleases. And thereby fundamentally transform the kingdom. May you live in interesting times. (thanks to JD)

Well, let’s be fair. It will also dovetail nicely with Romney’s! So. Allow me to briefly describe the positions of the inevitable candidate being pushed by the GOP establishment. 1. Social Security? Not a Ponzi scheme. Why do right-wingers want to kill the old people? 2. AGW/carbon emissions are real problems. Science says so, and I’m not anti-science. In fact, I’m very very pro science — so much so that

Nobel Laureate Robert Lucas: Of the tendencies that are harmful to sound economics, the most seductive, and in my opinion the most poisonous, is to focus on questions of distribution. In this very minute, a child is being born to an American family and another child, equally valued by God, is being born to a family in India. The resources of all kinds that will be at the disposal of

Steve Brill, Reason TV: And here I thought the way to fix public schools was to

Predictably, the GOP is against income disparity, too! Now, sure, they’ve changed the name a bit (it’s now “income mobility”) — but once again, they’ve allowed the left to set the narrative, and now they find themselves on the defensive for having accepted it. So here’s the question: why should conservatives, classical liberals, libertarians, and other free market capitalists back a party whose leadership accepts one of the fundamental planks

Finally, something other than the rank evil of the Tea Party that the Obama Administration and the GOP establishment can agree upon!

James Pethokoukis: President Barack Obama has now, unfortunately, embraced the anti-capitalist, anti-markets Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement as a way of continuing to occupy the Oval Office for another term. At the Martin Luther King Memorial dedication, Obama said King would “want us to challenge the excesses of Wall Street without demonizing those who work there.” (Like, you know, the secretaries, IT guys … and wealthy potential campaign contributors.) Also

The useful idiots wandering around with their fringe-nut signs aren’t going to cut it in terms of messaging, so while they can still be used for optics, it’s the activist appendage of the progressive movement — the legacy media — that will take care of telling us what all these aimless stoned free-loading shitheads really want. — Which, surprise, it seems what they want, judging by the official list of

It’s here, people. Obama’s plan is to marshal this “People’s uprising” into a political attack on the engine of capitalism, using the Wall Street he’s in bed with as an attack on the capitalist system, and the “bankers” and traders as the scapegoats. The outlines of the plan have long been clear, but sadly, those who bothered to look and to express alarm early on were dismissed as fringe cranks