Police Begin Clearing Zuccotti Park - WSJ.com

If protesters are allowed to return, it will be without the equipment they have used to keep warm in the cold weather.

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But my point is this – even without fraud or cronyism.  Even if every choice were made by the best and the brightest in a politically color-blind fashion, the program would still be failing.  Because by definition the program’s success would require a few folks in Washington to be smarter than, and to have more and better information than, the entire rest of the country which turned down the opportunity to invest in these companies.

Newt Gingrich’s Dumbest Idea

Ethanol kills, and Gingrich supports subsidies for the industry. In addition to being unethical, ethanol subsidies are also nonsensical. Demand for ethanol is established by law: This year, American consumers must purchase 13 billion gallons or corn-ahol. Why does ethanol merit subsidies, in addition to a mandate that forces people to buy it? Gingrich has a reputation of being a policy wonk, so he must know this. Yet he supports the subsidies. Why? The likely answer was provided by an analysis of Gingrich’s tax returns by the Center for Public Integrity, which showed that his consulting firm received $300,000 from Growth Energy, an ethanol business. The global warming ad was dumb, but shilling for ethanol is dumber.

Bill McKibben: poster boy for FAIL | Watts Up With That?

McKibben’s goal of stopping the XL pipeline did nothing but hurt the United States and will have zero a net positive* effect on CO2 emissions from it. He’s not even a useful idiot.