Watching Breitbart’s Throne

This morning, when I posted on Nadia Naffe’s lawsuit against Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney John Patrick Frey @Patterico, I used the words “Breitbart empire.” Naffe’s suit was in fact one subject of many among the last emails Andrew Breitbart exchanged before he died (.PDF). Breitbart was communicating with the Anon and Twitter troll known as @ZAPEM, […]

Occupy Stranahan: Monday, September 17 is “Everyone Blog About Lee Stranahan Day”

I’d like to try a scientific experiment. What happens when the Breitbart.com blogger who started “Everyone Blog About Brett Kimberlin Day” gets a day of his own as the focus of liberal blogs? Better yet, what if sincere conservative bloggers can be convinced to join in? I will be writing several posts about Lee Stranahan […]

Why the Occupy Movement Won’t Be Relevant Until it Involves Itself in Electoral Politics

Occupy and the Great Pool Jump

Occupy didn’t go away. MoveOn.org, just one of several big name organizations now swept up in Occupy, is training people in civil disobedience. I have to say I saw this coming, and began advocating for it the moment I witnessed civil disobedience in person. And it’s a good time to bring attention to the broader […]

Occupy Irrelevance

I’ve entertained hope that Occupy would evolve into what tea parties pretended to be, and failed to become: a populist uprising that grows roots and becomes a lasting force. Unfortunately, the militantly-leaderless nature of the movement lends itself to success-averse puritopians like this guy: “I don’t see any opportunity inside electoral politics this year,” long-time activist […]