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Barack Obama was a founding member of the board of Public Allies in 1992, resigning before his wife became executive director of the Chicago chapter of Public Allies in 1993. Obama plans to use the nonprofit group, which he features on his campaign Web site, as the model for a national service corps. He calls his Orwellian program, "Universal Voluntary Public Service."...

Is Obama Repeating the Mistakes of the 1930s? by Dick McDonald A lot of problems with the freedom of unregulated commerce were visited on the world in the 1930s. It would have been quickly sorted out by the very nature of its capitalist economies if the world had not been seduced at that very moment in history by an economic myth called “socialism.” Nowhere was that more evident than in America. Although commerce was not nationalized like it was in the USSR, the “socialism” initiated in the 1930s by the Democrat Party still plagues America today in the form of...