Visual source: Newseum
Daily News:
They've outlasted snow storms, pepper spray and even evictions. So it looks like the Occupy Wall St. movement isn't going anywhere. Check out the protest that has spread to all 50 states. Where are people occupying in your state? --
Bloomberg:
The demonstrators refer to themselves on signs and in slogans as “the 99 percent,” a reference to Nobel Prize- winning economist Joseph Stiglitz’s study showing the richest 1 percent control 40 percent of U.S. wealth.
NY Times editorial:
The Occupy Wall Street protesters had achieved a great deal before they were rousted from Zuccotti Park by New York City police on Tuesday morning. This ragged group, living in tents and tarps for two months in the financial district in Lower Manhattan, helped focus everyone’s attention on the growing income inequality in this country. They made “99 percent” into popular language for the have-nots. They spawned protests against further enriching the already rich 1 percent, like those in Chicago, Boston, Oakland, Calif., New Haven, and even London...
Now that Mayor Bloomberg has dismantled the anti-Wall Street group, he must keep his promise to support the protesters’ right to speak up about income inequality, especially in the city’s financial district.
WaPo:
The movement began as a protest of major economic and political issues, but as concerns about crime and sanitation mount, cities have a decision to make: Adapt or take action?
Ross Douthat on Newt:
But who’s laughing now? Michele Bachmann has faded, Rick Perry has flopped, and the Herman Cain phenomenon is on life support. And out of the billowing smoke and dust of debates and gaffes and brain freezes, Gingrich has re-emerged, once again ready to lead those who want their politicians to be able to remember the details of recent American military interventions and the names of the cabinet agencies they want to abolish.
Dana Milbank:
It’s not Gingrich’s disparaging of President Obama’s “Kenyan, neo-colonial” worldview. Or the six-figure bills he and his third wife ran up at Tiffany’s. Or the cruise of the Greek islands that led much of his staff to quit in frustration.
Gaffes and missteps may dislodge Perry and Cain from their top-tier status by making them appear unqualified to be president, but there’s no question the former speaker of the House is qualified.
His problem, rather, is that he is entirely too moderate in this field — and, therefore, in no position to establish himself as the conservative anti-Mitt Romney. The ideas that made him a conservative revolutionary in 1994 make him squishy in 2012.
Kathleen Parker:
Admit it. You miss Sarah Palin just a little: The wink, the red shoes, the pointing finger, the heck-with-ya attitude and, given the performance of some of her Republican colleagues, her Taser-like intelligence.
Um, no. The only part of Sarah Palin we miss is Tina Fey.