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First proposed in 1966 and named after Columbia University sociologists Richard Andrew Cloward and his wife Frances Fox Piven (both longtime members of theDemocratic Socialists of America, where Piven today is an honorary chair), the "Cloward-Piven Strategy" seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse. Inspired by the August 1965 riots in the black district of Watts in Los Angeles (which erupted after police had used batons to subdue a black man suspected of drunk driving), Cloward and Piven published an article...

DARLINGTON - A 21-year-old man and illegal immigrant might be deported, for posing as a teenage high school student for 17 months at Darlington in southwest Wisconsin. Darlington Police said they were tipped off about the situation – and federal immigration agents arrested the man. He claimed to be 16 – five years younger than his actual age – but it’s not like he got in trouble at school. In fact, Principal Doug McArthur tells the Dubuque Telegraph-Herald that the student was well-behaved, had a good attendance record, and was making progress with his studies. Darlington Police Chief Jason King...

"...literary detective Jack Cashill discovered months before the November 2008 election: nothing in Obama’s history suggested he was capable of writing either Dreams or his 2006 book, The Audacity of Hope. In fact, as Cashill continued his research, he came to the shocking conclusion that the real craftsman behind Dreams was terrorist emeritus Bill Ayers."

Here's The Right Side Of It Chris Matthews - Angry AgainMSNBC’s Chris Matthews is again fast-approaching apoplexy, this time over a recent survey conducted by left-leaning Public Policy Polling which reveals that 72% of Republicans queried are either not sure (21%), or do not believe (51%), that Barack Obama was born in the United States.  Matthews and friends very much want the story to go away.  Yet, the more he yells about it, the more the questions persist and demand some straightforward answers.  WorldNet Daily has led the charge into the investigation of the President’s roots and the history he...

"That is what Abercrombie revealed in the "recorded list". Hawaii has a separated list which this dupnik apparently was not aware of, in order to bypass normal American registrations, so doctors were not on the legal hook, and these foreign born infants could just be dumped into the system ---as Hawaii was not going to ask, and no one there was going to tell in this corrupt intrastate system. Barack Hussein Obama is ON THE SEPARATED LIST and not on the American born list."

Steve Malzberg interviewing Jeffrey Kuhner of the Washington Times about the imposter in Chief and what is really going on.

New York Times International Bureau Coralville, Iowa - A high ranking official with the U.S. State Department expressed optimism this afternoon that new top-to-top diplomatic negotiations between the United States government and an elusive moderate Taliban warlord would bring a speedy end to the conflict in Afghanistan, paving the way for the Obama adminstration to withdraw American troops ahead of its 2011 plan . Continued

An impostor posing as a Taliban chief has made off with the huge fee paid by Nato allies to help broker a peace deal in Afghanistan....frpa

The secret peace talks between the Afghan government and Taliban leaders took a giant step backwards Monday. Turns out, Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour, an alleged boss in the ranks of terror and the supposed key to negotiating a peaceful future, was a fake. His impostor sham fooled the best. The man pretending to be Mr. Mansour was given diplomatic treatment for his role in the talks, including being flown on NATO aircraft from Pakistan to Kabul and escorted to the presidential palace for three meetings. A Western diplomat was quoted saying he also received "a lot of money." The jig...

If United States Senator Al Franken -- it hurts to say that -- ever had a redeeming moment, it was in the role of Stuart Smalley, a character he created for "Saturday Night Live." In the most memorable of Smalley's "Daily Affirmations," the lisping, wildly insecure psycho-babbler hosts Michael Jordan. After explaining to his audience that Jordan is "a basketball player for a professional basketball team," Smalley says to him, "You should be very proud of yourself." "Well, thank you, Stuart," says Jordan, "I am." Stunned by Jordan's self-assurance, Smalley blunders on: "I can imagine that the night before a...

Just seven days after he sparked controversy by omitting the word “Creator” when he closely paraphrased the passage from the Declaration of Independence that says all men “are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights,” President Barack Obama again omitted the Creator when speaking about the “inalienable rights” that “everybody is endowed with.”This time the president was speaking at a Sept. 22 fundraiser for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City, and his reference to “inalienable rights” was not as close a paraphrasing of the...

Sarah Palin and the Tea Party Express have roared right through the latest round of Republican Party primaries this week, rattling the party establishment and terrifying the Democrats. For those of you who are trained in the fastidious ways of the British ‘liberalism’ and are therefore shocked and can’t think why the American Right is gaining such strength, here’s the reason: Barack Obama. Americans are waking up to the fact that they have elected a man as president who is every inch an exotic creature. Which was rather fun at first. The problem is, America is discovering that Mr Obama...

But historians say Americans have long accused their presidents of being illegitimate officeholders for all sorts of dark, and bizarre, reasons. "Heavens, where do I start?" says David Crockett, an associate professor of political science at Trinity University in Texas. "No one wants to admit that they got spanked in an election contest. It's always nicer to think the opponent somehow cheated the system. So yes -- Obama wasn't born here, Bush stole the election, Clinton won only because Ross Perot screwed up Bush's [the elder's] chances, Bush the elder won only because he demagogued Willie Horton. ... I could...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama demanded that BP set up a compensation fund for the oil-tainted Gulf Coast and prepared for his first Oval Office address to the nation as he tried to wrest control of the environmental disaster threatening to overwhelm his administration. White House officials announced the steps Sunday as Obama prepared for his fourth visit to the tortured Gulf.

Man, 22, turns himself in after girl says she had relationship with himODESSA, Texas - A 22-year-old man accused of posing as a high school basketball star in West Texas was charged with sexual assault Friday after an underage girl reported having sex with him last summer when she thought he was a teenager, police said. Guerdwich Montimer was arrested for the third time in four days, this time after a 16-year-old girl in Odessa told police and school district officials she had sex with him at a home in August when she thought he was 15-year-old Jerry Joseph, said...

Police in Texas have determined that a high school basketball player who led his team to the state playoffs this past season was actually a 22-year-old man who previously had played high school basketball in Florida. According to police, Guerdwich Montimere had enrolled at Permian High school in Odessa, Texas, claiming to be 16-year-old Jerry Joseph, for the 2009-10 academic year. Claiming to be homeless, he was taken in by the school's basketball coach, Danny Wright, and lived at the coach's house. However, last month, Montimere was recognized at a basketball tournament by coaches from Florida for whom he played...

Odessa, TX - A 22-year-old man claiming to be 16 years old is busted after enrolling as a student in ECISD for more than a year. For more than a year, he successfully convinced school officials, students - even law enforcement that he was 16-year-old Jerry Joseph, an immigrant from Haiti. He flew under the radar in plain sight as a basketball star; even being featured in a news story after the devastating Haiti earthquake. His coach, Danny Wright had sympathy and took him into his own home. Two weeks ago rumors begin to circulate that Joseph may be older...

Comrade Obama gives his obeisance to the guy he sold your children to, mainland China's top commie, Hu Jintao: Just how out of touch does Chairman Zero have to be not to realize that his habit of bowing obsequiously to America's rivals while blowing his nose at friends like Britain and Israel is not playing in Peoria? At least we don't have to worry about him bowing to our allies. He hates their guts, and the feeling is becoming mutual.

1STCavRVN11B sent me this photo from our friends at POW Net. I immediately fired it off to a bunch of other MilBlogs to see if we can ID this numbnuts. The picture was taken at Democrat Annise Parker’s victory party last month in Houston. How this doofus thought it was a good idea to dress up as a two star general is beyond me. Aside from that he’s wearing infantry brass and an infantry officer’s blue lapel (Generals aren’t affiliated with any branch), those totally unauthorized ball dusters on his chin, and the fact that he looks about ten years...

Matthew Alexander published his book last year entitled “How to Break a Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down the Deadliest Man in Iraq”. The book has it’s roots in a Mark Bowden article in the Atlantic. Alexander parlayed the Atlantic article into a book deal. After he wrote it, with some help from a renowned co-author, he went on a book tour making the rounds of all of the farthest Left news programs that would have him. Alexander didn’t use his real name to author the book or do his book tour. According to...