From LearnLiberty.org: The Occupy Wall Street protests have popularized the distinction between the lowest 99% and the highest 1% of income earners. Prof. Chris Coyne suggests that a distinction between makers and the takers is a better way to understand the problems that the protesters decry. There are makers and takers in all income [...]
Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, chairman of the House budget committee, gave a forceful, highly regarded speech on Oct. 26, “Saving the American Idea: Rejecting Fear, Envy and the Politics of Division.” Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan, a former Reagan speechwriter, praised the speech in her weekly column (online Oct. 28, in print Oct. [...]
Liberals like to say their Occupy Wall Street movement is just like the Tea Party. They wish. Peggy Noonan, a former speechwriter for President Reagan and now a columnist for the Wall Street Journal, addresses that claim in her Oct. 22 column (page A17, available only to WSJ subscribers): It is not the tea party. [...]
I've been following the Occupy Whatever protests across the country so far with a mix of amusement, sadness, and annoyance. I don't dismiss these people as meaningless, because they can--and are starting to--cause a lot of damage; but it's also hard to take a group seriously who condemns corporate greed while simultaneously posting on Facebook [...]
I have been and will continue to be critical of the rush to dismiss the OWS protests as entirely silly / unwashed / redistributionist. It is simple to take one sign or one action and use it to dismiss the entire movement as any of the above. Most so-called "conservatives" are rushing to do [...]
