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Van Jones is unabashedly anti-Tea Party. After resigning from the Obama administration back in 2009, the former “green jobs” adviser seems to have finally found a calling in railing against the conservative movement. During “Take Back the American Dream” this week, a three-day conference in Washington, D.C., intended to inspire liberal activists and their enthusiasts, Jones slammed the Tea Party, dismissing its cause as “silly” and “the worst.” However, his jabs were also countered with some positive compliments about the inner workers of the Tea Party — a movement that has become a part of the nation’s political discourse. For...

The Campaign for America’s Future, strategy center for the progressive “uprising” is teaming up with Van Jones’ “Rebuild The Dream” organization to lead the “Take Back the American Dream” conference this week in Washington DC. The Campaign for America’s Future writes: “The ‘American Dream’ of a vibrant middle class is under siege. But there is a real middle-class uprising sweeping the nation to save it and renew it. The Campaign for America‘s Future is teaming up with Van Jones’ “Rebuild The Dream” organization to add fuel to the grassroots fire that has already been lit—in Madison, Wisconsin and town halls...

The clueless media continues to try and paint the dopes protesting on Wall Street as some sort of heroic pillars of society who must be glorified for their bravery. The reality is far less appealing – communist hippies who hate everything about America and want to fundamentally transform it. How is it that the Tea Parties were ruthlessly scrutinized for their signs yet no one is concerned about the dangerous clashes and confrontations these radicals are having with police? “I obviously believe that my ideas are persuasive enough and beneficial enough to society that people should subscribe to them at...