Kagan, Obama, and the Harvard Legacy of Literary Fraud

American Thinker ^ | May 13, 2010 | Jack Cashill

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bump for morning reading

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B & B!!!!

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From David Horowitz's
FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org
PROFILE: ELENA KAGAN

• Served as President Bill Clinton's Associate White House Counsel
• Former dean of Harvard Law School
• Sought to overturn the Solomon Amendment, a law that denies federal funding to any university that bars military recruiters from its campus
• Believes that the military should open its ranks and barracks to homosexuals, without restriction
• Was appointed U.S. Solicitor General by President Barack Obama in January 2009

As an undergraduate at Princeton, Kagan wrote a senior thesis titled

"To the Final Conflict: Socialism in New York City, 1900-1933."

In the "Acknowledgments" section of her work, she specifically thanked her brother Marc, “whose involvement in radical causes led me to explore the history of American radicalism in the hope of clarifying my own political ideas.” In the body of the thesis, Kagan wrote:

"In our own times, a coherent socialist movement is nowhere to be found in the United States. Americans are more likely to speak of a golden past than of a golden future, of capitalism’s glories than of socialism’s greatness. Conformity overrides dissent; the desire to conserve has overwhelmed the urge to alter. Such a state of affairs cries out for explanation. Why, in a society by no means perfect, has a radical party never attained the status of a major political force? Why, in particular, did the socialist movement never become an alternative to the nation’s established parties?...

"Through its own internal feuding, then, the SP [Socialist Party] exhausted itself forever and further reduced labor radicalism in New York to the position of marginality and insignificance from which it has never recovered. The story is a sad but also a chastening one for those who, more than half a century after socialism’s decline, still wish to change America. Radicals have often succumbed to the devastating bane of sectarianism; it is easier, after all, to fight one’s fellows than it is to battle an entrenched and powerful foe. Yet if the history of Local New York shows anything, it is that American radicals cannot afford to become their own worst enemies. In unity lies their only hope."

Lots more on Kagan here:
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2398

[ROTB]

1) “Sycacuse”

[Slyfox]

BO tells us that Kagan is worth supporting because she was once nice to some conservatives.

Yeah, that's the best reason to vote for her.

[cricket]

Works for all the 'elite', no? Fortunately, Obama got himself not only a good writer; but he was a friend as well. Bill Ayers did a great job for Obama; what is amazing is that Obama, STILL getting credit for his 'auto'biography, 'Dreams'. . .(Dreams from My Father).

Am wondering if Bill ever collected the royalties. (Given that he now openly claims authorship, he probably did not, for very long.) What price this friendship, I wonder. . .

[screaminsunshine]

Harverd no longer gives grades to students in the Law School. It is pass/fail. Wonder if it had anything to do with that.

[ARepublicanForAllReasons]

Poor Elena plaintively asks,

"Why, in a society by no means perfect, has a radical party never attained the status of a major political force? Why, in particular, did the socialist movement never become an alternative to the nation’s established parties?...

A) 'Cause you are all assholes?
B) Because socialism is not a path to perfection?
C) Because most Americans recognize that socialism is 'just Marxism sold by the glass'? (quoting PJ O'Rourke)
D) Because the Roosevelt administration was socialist enough for most socialists.

The correct answer of course is ALL OF THE ABOVE.

[Rennes Templar]

I’ve read your Home Page. All I can say is God help us.

[bronxville]

And Larry Summers got the shaft because he said something that hurt some womens feelings.

[Son House]

Democrats should get smart and block this nomination, it’s an obvious political agenda, she hasn’t got no experience, and we’re talking the Supreme Court, jesters...

[Canedawg]

I despise the progressives and their agenda, and I loathe Ozero and his henchmen, but I’ll give credit where it is due: Tribe wrote an amazing treatise on American Constitutional Law a few decades ago that was a great read.

[Lilpug15]

BUMP

[rhema]

[GeronL]

lol

A 60 is probably passing.

haha

The Citizens United case is enough reason alone to NOT put her on SCOTUS if you ask me

[screaminsunshine]

Hahvahd just ain’t what it used to be.

[ichabod1]

Oh, my God. She’s dirty! How in the HELL can we hold these people responsible? Harvard needs to be taken apart brick by brick and thrown into the river.

[ichabod1]

How about because if she goes down you get Diane Wood or one of the others?

[ichabod1]

How in the world can you know he wrote it? Maybe he just signed his name to it? It seems to be all the left is about - faking.