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There were reports of babies out in the cold for hours in Houston. In Indianapolis, two dozen police officers used pepper spray to control an unruly crowd that pried shopping center doors off their hinges. (more)

A new book details how environmental extremist and Occupy Wall Street enthusiast Van Jones may still be influencing President Barack Obama’s policy decisions. (more)

Former White House green jobs czar Van Jones called on Americans to “stand in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street” and praised protesters’ refusal on Friday to leave their encampment in New York as “truly amazing” and “a victory.”  (more)

The “Occupy Wall Street” protests and former White House “green jobs czar” Van Jones are the beginning of an “American Fall,” according to Rep. John Larson, chairman of the House Democratic Caucus. (more)

Former White House official, ex-9/11 truther and environmental advocate Van Jones gave a shout-out to the tea party movement Monday at the progressive “Take Back the American Dream Conference” in Washington, D.C. (more)

Liberal activist Van Jones is taking another page out of the Tea Party playbook. (more)

Former Obama administration green jobs czar Van Jones is trying to build a liberal “Tea Party” movement by denying the federal budget crisis. (more)

Almost two years after he resigned as “green jobs” czar in the Obama White House, due in part to pressure from Glenn Beck, Van Jones is fighting back, and is considering legal action against Fox News. (more)

Van Jones gave the keynote speech yesterday at the Netroots Nation conference in Minneapolis. But the real fireworks came in an interview with Talking Points Memo. (more)

Dad of the Year: So far only 50% of Harvey Weinstein’s Daily Beast pieces have been plugs for his films.  The latest is a rare self-congratulatory moment!  … Weinstein hails himself for releasing a PG-13 version of King’s Speech. (“Sometimes I make decisions as the head of a company, but in this case I made the decision as a dad.”) [Doesn't Arianna let her friends plug their projects?-ed. Arianna lets everybody plug their projects (as long as they don't dis Van Jones). This is different--a special Friends of Tina service. You feel slightly unclean reading it, not knowing the various truth-shading stages of politics, self-promotion and press-agentry it's been through.] … Why my judgment might be colored: I’ve been lied to by Weinstein’s people before. I guess dads sometimes have to do that! … P.S.: Tina tends to post these really embarrassing pieces on the weekend, so maybe she has some vestigial shame. Hope in a crazy world! … Oh, wait. Here’s a piece of gratuitous puff crap for the Weinstein Company’s new film Scream 4 in the actual printed Newsweek. Never mind. … Ron Perelman is looking like John Peter Zenger at this point. … (more)

Hey, Arianna! Andrew Breitbart called Van Jones a “punk.” Bill Maher called Sarah Palin a “cunt.” Which one did you ban again? (more)

Amid pressure from left-wing advocacy organization Color of Change, the Huffington Post removed conservative publisher Andrew Breitbart’s blog from its front page last week. But Breitbart is furious that the liberal site’s top brass refused to defend him against the racism allegations made by Color of Change. (more)

Jason Linkins, Banned from HuffPo Front Page! Today, Huffington Post’s Mario Ruiz announced a new policy–that someone who engages in an “ad hominem” attack (even if it’s not in the pages of HuffPo ) “violates the tenets of debate and civil discourse we have strived for since the day we launched. As a result, we will no longer feature his posts on the front page.” (more)

Huffpocrisy Watch–The Breitbart Rule: So in order to appear on the Huffington Post front page, you not only have to avoid making “ad hominem” attacks (that violate their “tenets of debate and civil discourse”) in what you write for Huffington Post–a reasonable rule–but you have to avoid making ad hominem attacks in what you say and write anywhere else? … If this rule is applied honestly, I suspect a whole lot of people are now banned from HuffPo’s front page. … The first name there right now, for example, is HuffPo writer Jason Linkins. You think Linkins is never ad hominem? On his twitter feed too? … (more)

President Barack Obama’s former “green jobs czar,” Van Jones, currently a staffer at the left-wing Center for American Progress, used and defended the term “Obamacare” Wednesday evening on Twitter. Jones said that “Obamacare is WORKING,” when retweeting a House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi comment – she claimed that “being a woman” is no longer considered a pre-existing condition because of the president’s health care overhaul. (more)

When it comes to President Barack Obama’s “green jobs” push, the administration may be more interested in “green” than “jobs.” (more)

This week marks the one-year anniversary of ‘ClimateGate,’ the release of thousands of damning emails between the most prominent alarmist ‘climate’ scientists, as well as computer code and annotations affirming that the books were being cooked. ClimateGate spelled the end for the global warming agenda in the U.S., at least through the front door of the cap-and-trade energy tax. (more)

Willie Sutton was one of the most prolific, and famous, bank robbers in history. When asked why he robbed banks, Sutton is credited with the famous response, “Because that’s where the money is.” It makes perfect sense: if you’re after something, you go to where you have the best chance of getting it. The same applies to government — if you want to beat an industry, you don’t rail against them in the opinion pages of the New York Times, you don’t sue them continuously in the courts, you join the government in a capacity that gives you control over them and regulate them until they become what you need them to be in order to advance your agenda. It’s the 21st-century version of “heads I win, tails you lose,” and it’s happening right now in the Obama administration. (more)

Is America only for white people?  The question stuck in my mind following yet another e-mail exchange with a friend of mine, regarding my conservatism.  For this particular gentleman, being black in America is at odds with conservatism. As he put it: (more)

“This is a very bad day for us.” (more)