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For the past year, I have talked of the Wisconsin Strategy which was simply the left attempting to make governing impossible for conservative governors. When Governor Scott Walker actually decided to fulfill his campaign promises to balance the budget, keep taxes in line and reform the public union's hold on the state purses, the Democratic left engaged in a strategy to prevent Walker from governing.

An AP story in the online USA Today described the efforts of American museums and collectors----The Smithsonian Institute, the Museum of the City of New York, the Museum of Jewish Heritage in lower Manhattan, the Queens College and more---to amass artifacts and electronic records about the Occupiers.

The formal statement from the Smithsonian explaining their intrigue with the Occupiers also acknowledged

I had an interesting conversation with an acquaintance a couple of weeks ago. This individual is a conservative East Texan. Unfortunately, this individual, like many other individuals (including conservatives), has fallen into the trap of believing everything he sees on the news instead of looking into the facts. It is vitally important for Americans, especially conservatives, to always research the facts about an issue. It is so very easy to be going along as a

From the public rhetoric and actions, it appears that the Left’s motto is “If I can’t have it, no one can.” In direct contrast to all the talk of protecting and preserving the middle class from the Obama administration, I’m convinced that their true goal is to control and limit the people who make it above lower middle class.   Read more »

Big Hollywood's John Nolte has been a busy fellow, updating and trying to keep up with various acts of violence and other disgusting behavior among the Occupy movement, which is starting to peter out. Most recently, one letter to the Hollywood Republican wrote about what a bunch of peaceful folks the LA occupiers were and what kind of fools we were to be opposed to such peaceful demonstration. (Just to make sure we got the point, he even capitalized PEACEFUL so we would understand his point; it was peaceful.)   Read more »

New York is two cities, one run by bureaucrats who are slowly strangling the life of the city and the 99 percent no one talks about and the producers responsible for keeping the city alive. Forget Zuccotti Park, the real 99 percent who deserve our thanks are those who struggle everyday against a stagnating economy, government edicts, high local and state taxes, as well bureaucratic mandates.   Read more »

Envy is a destructive force that undermines society for it doesn’t engender growth or progress but is a bureaucratization of society to enforce a false equality of results. America was designed and still is considered a land of opportunity, but there has been a debate on what is equality. Do we have an equality of opportunity, or do we strive for equality of results? The latter is based on an envious notion that wealth is stolen and must be restored whereas the former is based on the premise that a society is filled with people with different gifts and allow those gifts to be explored and developed.

The problem with Occupy Wall Street is that unlike its counterparts in the Tea Party, the movement is based on an aspect of nothing more than envy that their plight in life is not their responsibility and their life has been stolen by the 1%. The debate over the taxes represents this debate in its fullest.   Read more »

This news and video first broke on Andrew Breitbart’s website this past Saturday.

Former liberal activist/turned Tea Party conservative Brandon Darby was one of the featured speakers at the Choose Liberty 2012 event sponsored by the Eastern Orlando Tea Party. During the event, Darby called security over to point out the Occupy Orlando activists

BigGovernment.com is reporting that an ACORN front group, under the name of New York Communities for Change, is paying homeless people $100 a day to protest in the Occupy Wall Street movement. Watch the interview BigGovernment contributors Brandon Darby and Lee Stranahan conducted with an Occupier who has been protesting from the beginning.   Read more »

TexasGOPVote was on the scene reporting from the Occupy protests back when they were (as-advertised) peaceful protests.

(VIDEO, PHOTOS) Occupy Wall Street Protests in New York City Columbus Day

Occupy Philadelphia: vegetarian craving fat pig; kill your ego; beautiful and debonair mingle with destitute and aggrieved

(VIDEO, PHOTOS) Occupy Wall Street Protests in Washington, DC

However, the protests have turned