New York City residents support Occupy Wall Street. According to a Quinnipac poll released today, New Yorkers believe that it is "okay that they are protesting" by a ratio of 87% to 10%, and 67% agree with the views expressed by the demonstrators, while 23% disagree. While Republicans disagree with the message 58 to 35%, 73% of them agree that they have a right to occupy Zuccotti Park. When reached for comment, Mayor Bloomberg wiped his brow in an exaggerated fashion and exclaimed, "Phew!" more ›

Higher education is Big Business: students who pay the full tuition without assistance had lower grades and test scores than others, and more than a third of admissions deans at four-year colleges are doing more to recruit those who can pay full price. New Jersey college Seton Hall is bucking this trend by giving their smartest incoming students a $21,000 discount—two-thirds off the tuition price. "The primary motivation has been that as we go through what looks like a double-dip recession, we wanted to help our students," Seton Hall's president tells the Times. more ›

Former British prime minister Tony Blair secretly met with deposed dictator Moammer Gadhafi—even flying to the country on one of Gadhafi's private jets—in 2008 and in 2009, one day before Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset al-Megrahi's prisoner release form was signed. In correspondence and email found by the Telegraph, Blair refers to Gadhafi as "The Leader," and also met with the chairman of Libya's state-owned National Oil Company. "These new meetings between Mr. Blair and Gadhafi are disturbing, and details of what was discussed should now be made public," Oliver Miles, former British ambassador to Libya said. "I am astonished Tony Blair continued to have meetings like this out of office." more ›

In a unanimous opinion, the Supreme Court tossed out a massive sex-discrimination suit against Wal-Mart, stating that the 1.5 million women who would have been affected by the case may not proceed as a class. The Court ruled that the plaintiff's lawyers, who would have succeeded in trying the largest class action suit in the country's history, "improperly sued under a part of the class action rules that was not primarily concerned with monetary claims, the Times reports. In the related claim of whether or not the plaintiffs proved that "there are questions of law or fact common to the class," the court split along ideological lines 5-4, with Scalia's opinion [pdf] for the majority stating that the plaintiffs failed to prove "a common answer to the crucial question why was I disfavored." (Italics his.) more ›

MOVIE: Michael Moore is in town with his latest film that's pissing off the government while informing the nation, Sicko (trailer here). Get ready to be filled with rage as the carpet is pulled back on the American healthcare system and much, much more. more ›