Patrick Goodenough,CNSNews.com Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meets with Manuel Zelaya in Washington on September 3,2009. (State Dept. Photo by Michael Gross) An agreement signed in Colombia this week allowing the ousted former Honduran president,Manuel Zelaya,to return home and resume political activity without fear of prosecution marks “a [...] Dr. Paul G. Kengor,FloydReports.com Another round of declassified FBI files on Senator Ted Kennedy has been released (click here and here). Fittingly,in Kennedy’s case,they once again raise all sorts of questions,from the moral to the political to issues of national security. First,however,allow me to pause with a sympathetic [...] Judicial Watch Judicial Watch,the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption,announced today that it has obtained previously redacted material from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) file of the late Senator Edward “Ted” Kennedy,who died in August 2009 from brain cancer. Judicial Watch obtained the records pursuant [...] Dr. Paul G. Kengor,FloydReports.com A teachable moment on the purpose of government recently occurred on MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell,who has picked up the torch for the departed Keith Olbermann. It was Monday,February 7,the day after President Obama sat for an interview with Bill O’Reilly of [...] Dr. Paul Kengor,FloydReports.com Of course,it’s customary at year’s end to share our favorite news items from the year past. As someone who teaches and writes about history,I tend to focus on historical things I fear are lost to American education. So,my enduring “news item” of 2010 falls under the category [...] Dr. Paul Kengor,FloydReports.com No,that’s not “Clarence the Angel” of It’s a Wonderful Life fame. The Clarence in this article is much less inspiring—a humbug,really. I’m thinking of Clarence Darrow,dogmatic defender of atheists. As Christians this time of year absorb another spate of snipes at their revered holy day,[...] Dr. Paul Kengor,FloydReports.com The people of Poland got an early Christmas present this year. It’s bittersweet but long awaited,and indeed a gift of sorts—and from an unlikely source:Russia. In Moscow,the State Duma,Russia’s legislature,passed a statement conceding Soviet responsibility for the Katyn Woods massacre,one of the [...] Trevor Loudon,NewZeal Blog Amiri Baraka loves Barack Obama. Amiri Baraka is a self proclaimed communist. Baraka once led the Revolutionary Communist League (Marxist-Leninist-Maoist). In more recent years he has been a little closer to more orthodox Marxists such as the Communist Party USA and Democratic Socialists of America. His wife,Amina Baraka,has [...] Dr. Paul Kengor,FloydReports.com The ACLU seems unusually active right now. What gives? Maybe it’s the Christmas season,which always seems to spring the ACLU into high gear,making it more miserable than usual. I tried to ignore the latest round of ACLU legal challenges against religious Americans,but they became too much. The [...] Dr. Paul Kengor,American Thinker …John Drew was a contemporary of Obama at Occidental College and a Marxist himself. In fact,Drew was a well-known campus communist when Obama was introduced to him as “one of us.” “Obama was already an ardent Marxist when I met in the fall of 1980,”said [...] Trevour Loudon,New Zeal blog Joe Sims is co-editor of the Communist Party USA newszine Peoples World. In a recent article in the Communist Party theoretical journal Political Affairs,Sims takes to task,another comrade,C.J. Atkins ,who had effectively advocated dumping the “communist”label,in order to be able to [...] Dr. Paul Kengor,FloydReports.com North Korea is not an easy issue. I’ve dealt with it since the early 1990s,beginning at the Center for Strategic &International Studies. I had few answers then,and I still have few today. It also is not a partisan issue. For over 60 years,Democrat and Republican presidents [...] Susan Eovaldi,CoachIsRight.com The Communist plan of 45 declared goals for taking over America without waging a messy war contains several items that are eerily similar to Barack Obama’s criticism of our U.S. Constitution. Obama has said our sacred Constitution is “fundamentally flawed” because it lacks a mechanism for redistribution of wealth [...] Aaron Klein,WorldNetDaily A labor group affiliated with the nation’s largest union is giving its highest prize for journalism to a writer from the official newspaper of the Communist Party USA. President Obama’s labor secretary,Hilda Solis,will be on hand for the awards dinner this week to lead a special session on how [...] Aaron Klein,WorldNetDaily President Obama was “glad”to have met communist politicians on his trip to India,according to Indian news media accounts of the U.S. leader’s visit to the Asian nation. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh hosted a state dinner Monday night with Obama and dozens of Indian politicians. According to media [...] By Steve Baldwin,Western Center for Journalism Obama has surrounded himself with extreme advisors Much has been written about Obama’s controversial appointments,not only to the federal bench,but to key cabinet positions,as well as to the unaccountable (and probably unconstitutional) “Czar” positions. Much of the [...] By Glenn Beck,FoxNews Channel We’re going to take another look at our new green jobs "czar,"or special adviser to the president for green jobs or whatever they want to call him. But what I want to do is to really take a good,hard look at who Van Jones [...] | |
