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FBI Files Show Bureau’s Interest in Ted Kennedy’s Pre-Senate Politics

By | 06.14.10 | 2:27 pm

FBI documents released today reveal the bureau had been gathering background information on the late Sen. Ted Kennedy’s (D-Mass.) pre-Senate dealings with people on the left and the right as early as 1954.

Among the 2,352 pages the FBI released today, which mainly concentrate on death threats made More…

Beck Links Obama Administration to Chinese Cultural Revolution

By | 10.15.09 | 7:15 pm

This video from Glenn Beck’s show is making the rounds on the right, and it is sort of sublime. Beck, who’s been after interim White House Communications Director Anita Dunn since she attacked Fox News, gives a short briefing on Chinese Communism to his audience before playing a clip More…

Climate Change Skeptics Oust Jones With ‘Green Socialist’ Attacks

By | 09.06.09 | 4:36 pm

The descent of Van Jones from a powerful job in Barack Obama’s administration to career-sinking political controversy happened at a stunning pace. On Aug. 10, the White House’s ousted special adviser for green jobs appeared at the National Clean Energy Summit 2.0 in Las Vegas, More…

We’ll Keep the Red Tea Flying

By | 06.12.09 | 12:32 pm

Eric Kleefeld notices that FreedomWorks’ logo for the Sept. 12, 2009 anti-tax March on Washington appropriates the Communist/left-wing iconography of red fists punching the air. Adam Brandon of FreedomWorks explains:

When you start working here at FreedomWorks, the first book you read is Saul Alinsky’s “Rules For Radicals.” We’re

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Happy Loyalty Day

By | 05.01.09 | 12:42 pm

It’s May 1, which around the world used to be celebrated as a celebration of the soul-killing social religion known as communism, and is officially celebrated in the United States (by no one in particular) in a similarly cringeworthy way as “Loyalty Day.” The White House just issued a declaration More…

Now is Not the Time for Made-Up Quotes

By | 02.02.09 | 6:22 pm

Jim Cramer is looking at President Obama and seeing red.

Let me tell you something, we heard Lenin. There was a little snippet last week that was, ‘Now is not the time for profits.’ Look – in Lenin’s book, ‘What Is to Be Done?’ is simple text of

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Faith and the Uniform

By | 11.17.08 | 6:00 am

So there are atheists in foxholes after all.

Last week, on the eve of Veterans Day, the Secular Coalition for America and the Military Assn. of Atheists and Freethinkers held a news conference in Washington to present an open letter to President-elect Barack Obama. Citing a report that found 21 More…

Is America Going Commie?

By | 09.23.08 | 7:38 pm

If you’re a regular reader of the print edition of The New York Times — yes, they still have a print version — you may have noticed a curious full-page advertisement this morning in the middle of section “A,” apparently protesting the federal Wall Street bailout. The ad featured an More…