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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”

[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. . .

[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.

[rhema]

[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.

[Surtur]

Plagiarism is only a fault in some people. These folks got off on the MLK defense. Happens all the time for the “right” people. You or me? We would be crucified and ostracized from polite society.

[Menehune56]

One thing I'd like to recommend is that any Freepers who haven't done so, contact both your senators and urge them to vote NO on this dreadful woman. It can't hurt. http://www.senate.gov/

[day21221]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWV6YTrWthE&feature=player_embedded#!
Elena Kagan in 2005: Barack Obama is my hero

[Tulsa Ramjet]

http://en.tackfilm.se/?id=1273769563091RA58

pretty funny. surprised the communication office hadn’t put this out.

[Fred Nerks]

Barack Obama of Harvard Law School—and Beyond
November 5, 2008

1 Comment During his student years at Harvard Law School, Barack Obama, J.D. ’91, now president-elect of the United States, also came to the attention of the wider University community.

In 1990, he was elected president of the Harvard Law Review (as reported here from the Harvard Magazine account), the first African American to attain that position in the journal’s then 103-year-old history. The news made national headlines, as the Harvard Crimson reported in a detailed account.

In 1991, Obama agreed to run for the Board of Overseers as one of three petition candidates put forward by the group Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni/ae Against Apartheid, which was seeking to persuade the University to divest its holdings in firms doing business in South Africa. None of the three was elected. (Note the members of the complete slates, including such prominent figures as Steven Ballmer ’77, now CEO of Microsoft.)

Harvard Magazine covered his campaign for U.S. Senate from Illinois in mid 2004, when he ran against another Harvard Law School alumnus.

In more recent campus comments, the November 4 issue of the Crimson reported the Morning Prayers remarks of Loeb University Professor Laurence H. Tribe, a constitutional law scholar, bearing on the qualities of his former student. And one of the panels convened for Harvard Law School’s capital-campaign celebration featured a discussion of potential changes in the Supreme Court’s makeup, and the contentious issues it might face, during an Obama administration. And the law school published this write-up and collection of links concerning its newly famous alumnus.

Finally, with the votes tallied, it’s time to revise the trivia manuals. Speaking at the Law School campaign celebration on October 23, Harvard President Drew Faust offered this bit of historical humor: “[I]t’s quite possible that 12 days from now, Rutherford B. Hayes may no longer be the only right answer to the trivia question, ‘What graduate of Harvard Law School was elected president of the United States?’” Occupying a whole new category of trivia, of course, is Michelle (Robinson) Obama, J.D. ’88.

http://harvardmagazine.com/alumni-in-the-news/barack-obama-of-harvard-law-school