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In May 1966, Columbia University sociologists and political activists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven published what would become known as their Cloward–Piven strategy in the liberal magazine, “The Nation.” Their article was titled, “The weight of the poor: A strategy to end poverty.” In short, the Cloward-Piven strategy is a political plan to overload the U.S. public welfare system with the goal to replace it with a national system of “a guaranteed annual income and thus an end to poverty.” Wikipedia summarized their strategy well: “The two stated that many Americans who were eligible for welfare were not receiving...

On the same day that Senate Budget Committee Republicans revealed that spending on federal welfare programs constituted the single largest expenditure in the 2011 budget, the Department of Agriculture failed to meet a key deadline to further explain its food stamp partnership with the Mexican government....(SNAP), or food stamps, which recently reached an all-time high enrollment of nearly 47 million participants. Non-citizen participation in SNAP has quadrupled since 2001 and doubled since 2008.

Below Fox News Channel’s Glenn Beck explains the Apollo Alliance on his July 28 show. Beck mentions the Obama administration’s “stimulus” blueprint, “The New Apollo Program: Clean Energy, Good Jobs,” which you can read here.

It has been said before, and will be said again, the question is, when are liberal supporters going to see the truth? ACORN The Association of Community Organization for Reform Now is the subject of a Complaint filed today by the Nevada Attorney General. Also named in the suit is Christopher Howell Edwards the Las Vegas Field Director for ACORN. The complaint states that ACORN canvassers were required to fill a daily quota of new voter registrations, with a bonus possible in the “Blackjack” or “21” which would give the canvasser an extra 5$ if they registered 21 in a...