The wind energy industry got some more hot air knocked out of it recently. Discovery News reports, “wind farms actually warm up the surface of the land underneath them during the night, a phenomenon that could put a damper on efforts to expand wind energy as a green energy solution. Aside from killing a half-million birds and bats without penalty every year, are wind farms now contributing to the so-called global warming crisis?

The Tea Party is working successfully within the system while taking it on. In sharp contrast, the Occupy movement seemingly took the line that the system cannot be fixed from within, and so does not bother. The frustration of the Occupy movement is understandable, given the corrupt state of our political and financial institutions. But they have missed the primary target, which are the government policies that created the credit bubble in the first place, wrecked the economy, and left future generations with a debt so large it cannot be repaid.

I think the battle we have seen over the past year or so in Wisconsin-as Gov. Scott Walker and fellow Republicans have worked to rein in decades of runaway socialist largess at taxpayer expense, and the hideously childish behavior of Marxists in Wisconsin-can succinctly be described as a war between the takers and the producers.

KTVU TV in San Francisco reports a band of thugs went out Monday night (gearing up for Marxist May Day?) and vandalized a police station and several nearby businesses and vehicles. One SUV had the window knocked out and a flare tossed inside. These marauders weren’t clearly identified as Occupy Wall Street protesters, but consider that this is the OWS modus operandi. Property destruction and contempt for law and order is what the OWS movement does best. Dollars to dimes, there’s no doubt: this was the OWS crowd.

The director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, died MAY 2, 1972. For 48 years, under eight Presidents, J. Edgar Hoover oversaw the Federal Bureau of Investigation, becoming famous for his dramatic campaigns to stop gangsters and organized crime. Hoover established the use of fingerprints in law enforcement and successfully tracked down well-known criminals. FDR gave Hoover the task of investigating foreign espionage and left-wing activist groups.