Geoff B notices that the way its playing out seems to take much of its direction, such as it is, from some rather infamous remarks by Stephen Lerner, a former SEIU official and, I’m willing to bet, a man who has the ear of many inside this Administration and inside the labor movement. Consider:

As someone who frequently generalizes about the modern academy — for the most part, it has become a bastion of mediocre groupthink and anti-intellectualism — I should probably point out examples of academics who have not succumbed to institutionalized leftism that has rendered much of contemporary scholarship nothing more than politically-motivated pablum. Here is one such example. Were it that this were the rule rather than the exception.

FOXNews: House Republicans are going to call for a special counsel to determine whether Attorney General Holder perjured himself during his testimony to the House Judiciary Committee on Operation Fast and Furious, Fox News has learned. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith, R-Texas, is sending a letter to President Obama arguing that Holder cannot investigate himself and will request a probe by a special counsel. The question is whether Holder

And why should he? I mean, same size screen as the iPhone 4? Dealbreaker. For now, at least. Maybe in 2016

The US Attorney General for all intents and purposes is a co-conspirator in the murder of US border agents. And where is the WaPo on this? Tracking down the history of a fucking rock in Texas — hoping the rock’s palimpsest history will speak to the subconscious racism of a GOP Governor whose most serious problem with his base is that he is too soft on illegal immigration. Journalism. ****

Coming up. Good opportunity to clarify his remarks. I’m listening.

I’m sorry, but when you’re running for the GOP nomination, it’s best not to keep asking yourself “what would George McGovern do?” — Or Michael Moore, for that matter — though that takes longer, because you always have to add the “once he’s done eating a crate of ribs and some waffle fries.” (And yes, I get that Paul was simply voicing civil-libertarian platitudes; but as I’ve said a number

Cain’s capitulation to the race-bating of the WaPo — coupled with his tacit agreement to mis-characterize the heckling of question as an anti-gay attack — suggests to me that Mr Cain is either listening to horrible advice from “seasoned” DC spin doctors, or else he’s doesn’t hold to the underlying principles of classical libreralism, making him just another candidate willing to allow electoral “pragmatism” carry him along the political jetstream.

I guess it depends: are you fighting to war to win it? Or are you fighting the war in order to perpetuate the need to fight it — and in so doing, solidifying your own prospects as a poverty fighter? Until the kinds of morons currently “occupying Wall Street” wake up to the fact that it is government intervention in the markets — combined with a ludicrous “progressive” tax structure

protein wisdom: “Maybe so. But is Herman Cain colorblind, is what I want to know.”