Liberals finally realize Occupy Wall Street "is as good as dead"

Come back, Occupiers, come back!

The Occupy movement was over before it began because it was never more than grand unwashed cry for handouts. Consider the lunacy of its central claim to represent "the 99%" of Americans. If that were remotely true, if 99% of Americans agreed with their demands for socialism, then why would they ever need to protest at all? Wouldn't they have the numbers to simply vote like-minded socialists into every single elected office across America?

So reality caught up with the (not quite) 99%...

The Failure of Occupy Wall Street

In an election year as significant as this one, the Occupy movement is as good as dead. It will have achieved nothing legislatively, it will have elected no one and, in the end, it has had no material impact on American life. Nothing, that is, if you measure it against all other successful protest movements.

I often joked that the Tea Party should start taking up a collection to keep the hippie Occupy camps occupied.

Where’s Mayor Richard Daley when you need him? Maybe Nurse Bloomberg would start cracking skulls if we could somehow convince him that Occupy Wall Street protesters are cooking with trans fats and salting their food. Then again, if this is the face of liberalism, let’s not. Let’s hope these occupiers stay around until Election Day.

That from my Washington Times column last October: Liberalism’s unwashed last stand. Better yet, check out the South Park episode: 1% [Full episode here]

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CANNON: States Should Flatly Reject ObamaCare Exchanges

My latest Daily Caller video: Oh Brother ... Obama thinks he's your keeper

Barack Obama simply does not understand the American free-enterprise system. There are 300 million Americans and Barack still thinks, unless government is calling the shots, that we're on our own.



Swing by The Daily Caller so you can share it with 5,000 of your closest friends on Facebook, Twitter and everywhere else the cool kids are hanging out these days. Thanks!

And you can see all the episodes in the video series with the new links in the column to the right.

Wolf pack roundup: Don't have 8 minutes to spare? Try 5-second abs instead...

Light blogging this week as I've been far more concerned with this...

Than this...

But there have been some pieces well worth your time. If you read only one piece, read Hanson's. If you read only two pieces, read it twice....

HANSON: The Power of Cool. "We simply don’t mind that Google and Amazon rake in billions, but we despise Exxon and Archer Daniels Midland for doing the same. It is not that we need social networking and Internet searches more than food and fuel, but rather that we have the impression that cool zillionaires in flipflops are good while uncool ones in wingtips are quite bad."

HSIEH: Dr. Orwell Will See You Now. "Under ObamaCare, 'coverage' does not equal care. It’s like having a cellphone plan, which promises 'coverage' for your area, but never gives you a decent signal." The government can give your mother a shiny, new Medicare card but if she can't find a doctor who will accept it, what good is it?

CATRON: Catholic Institutions Revolt En Masse Against HHS Mandate. We are all Catholics now.

Blue-state economics returning to the Dark Ages: Detroit can't even keep the lights on. It's as dark as North Korea. This picture is worth a thousand reasons to abandon liberalism.

KNIGHT: Kansas leads way against ballot fraud. "The most encouraging news out of Kansas is that the state is taking the lead in cleaning up registration rolls so that people won’t vote in two states or vote after they’ve died, which is alarming news for Chicago and other cities where the dead vote early and often." Thank Kris Kobach.

"By law, the federal government can't tell the truth": Real federal deficit dwarfs official tally. "...companies, states and local governments must include retirement commitments in financial statements, as required by federal law and private boards that set accounting rules. The deficit was $5 trillion last year under those rules. The official number was $1.3 trillion."

Stay classy: Bill Clinton's Porn Stars. In the age of Facebook and other social media, you really need to be savvy about protecting your image and who you're seen with. I'm surprised the porn stars were willing to be photographed with him.

Attention graduates: 7 WRONG Ways to Decide Your Life’s Career.

Oh, some guy made a video and now thinks he's all that.


And finally: Don't have 8 minutes to spare? Try 5-second abs instead...

GAME ON: My Daily Caller video series Episode 1: Our Time for Choosing

I can't guarantee that you'll love this, but I can guarantee that the White House won't. OK fine, I guarantee you'll love it. Or ... your money back.



If you don't know the original Ronaldus Magnus "A Time for Choosing" speech, seriously, take the time to watch it. [Interestingly, in this monumental speech, the Gipper mentions Rice County, Kansas ... my boyhood home. Maybe, just maybe, Ronald Reagan was trying to signal -- 7 years before I was born -- that eventually he intended to pass the torch to me. We may never know.]

Swing by The Daily Caller to check out my accompanying op-ed An all-American family feud and be sure to watch the video (at least a hundred times). And as always, thanks for sharing it with 5,000 of your closest friends on Facebook, Twitter and everywhere else the cool kids are hanging out these days.

Kudos to Grae Stafford who knows more about video production than John Edwards now knows about campaign finance laws. More than Al Gore knows about carbon-neutral private jets. He knows a lot.

Here's the trailer in case you missed it.

I'm at least as much Cherokee Indian as Barack Obama

Like Elizabeth Warren, I was raised -- as was my mother -- to believe that our family has a Cherokee Indian heritage. My great grandfather's middle name -- Creekmore -- certainly isn't in itself evidence but does add credence to the family lore.

Thomas Creekmore McCurry, my great grandfather, was Barack Obama's great great grandfather. Barack was similarly raised to believe the same Cherokee heritage story. Michael Patrick Leahy of Breitbart is on the case...

Like Warren, Obama Claims Cherokee Ancestry--But Offers No Proof

President Barack Obama and Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren have more in common than just their liberal political ideology, Harvard Law pedigree, and Democratic Party affiliation. Both claim Cherokee ancestry, and neither can prove it.

Go read it all and check out my Breitbart pictorial debut:

Until recently, I believed the family lore of our Cherokee heritage to be true. And I have to say, if indeed it is not the case, I can't help but be saddened a little. To that extent, I have some sympathy for Elizabeth Warren who believed the same about her family (notwithstanding that my skin tone at least corroborates the idea whereas Warren with her blonde hair and blue eyes is, as Mark Steyn says, "the whitest white since Frosty the Snowman fell in a vat of Wite-Out."

But my sympathy for Warren stops cold when she used her unsubstantiated family lore to advance her career, both academically and politically. I'm no stranger to the high stakes of academia and I'm very well aware of the unfair advantage that I might have received if I had ever "checked the box" as Warren did. Says I...

"This much I know: I've never checked the Native American box on any school or job application. I believe in a merit-based society."

I should add, I'm not aware that Barack ever used the (very credible) lore of our shared Cherokee heritage to advance his career. He boasted of it in his book, but hey, I boasted of it to girls in high school. And my high school pick up lines were at least as well fact-checked as Barack's autobiographies.

Michael Patrick Leahy of Breitbart has become Massachusetts Democrat Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren's worst nightmare. Swing by Breitbart Awards and nominate him for his outstanding work on exposing Warren's fraudulent claims. I did. You'll need his email address: michaelpatrickleahy@gmail.com.

Michael Patrick Leahy's work may be the difference in dethroning Harry Reid from the Senate leadership. Breitbart lives on in Leahy.