Aaron Klein,WND.com The House Democratic Caucus hosted communist revolutionary-group founder Van Jones just one day before he spoke to a student group funded by billionaire George Soros. “Why are Nancy Pelosi and the House Democrat Caucus seeking out Jones’counsel?”asked Guy Harrison,executive director of the National Republican Congressional Committee,in a [...] 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 [...] Bryan Fischer,American Family Association Jared Lee Loughner's idea of great reading The dead bodies hadn’t even been taken to the morgue before CNN invited a cartoonist –a cartoonist! –on to blame the shootings of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords,federal judge John Roll,a nine-year-old girl,and numerous others on conservatives. Winger blogger [...] 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 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 [...] | |