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Among the curiosities spewed from John Podesta's email by WikiLeaks is an intriguing memo to a group of billionaires that outlines the real goals of the Democratic Party's progressive wing. Turns out they don't want to rig an election, they want to rig the whole system — demographics, politics, the media, everything. The idea that the Democratic Party is the party of the "little man," as the old term would have it, is one of the great fallacies of our time, as this memo clearly shows. The Democratic Party has been captured by the interests of a handful of left-leaning...

As pro- and anti-Palin protesters clashed at California State University Stanilaus just prior to Gov. Palin’s fund-raising speech on June 25, 2010, one leftist called himself communist and said, “I hate the Constitution.” The leftist anti-Palin protesters were loudly cursing her and and her supporters. One of their standard slogans of the day was “eat the rich”. They displayed sexist signs referencing Gov. Palin’s breasts, and expletive-laden signage including a sexual reference to TEA partiers....

They challenged the closing of a Nevada mountain road by foresters trying to protect wildlife and fought the diversion of irrigation water from Oregon farms to help endangered salmon and suckerfish. Now, western advocates of property rights are taking on the Everglades restoration and promising to bring convoys of cars on a multi-state trek to South Florida for a "Sawgrass Rebellion."