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United States Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders reportedly called for the abolition of the CIA during his younger, more radical days. The CIA is "a dangerous institution that has got to go," Sanders told an audience in Vermont in October 1974, according to a Politico report. He described America's foreign intelligence service as a tool of American corporate interests that had repeatedly toppled democratically elected leaders. The agency, he added, was accountable to no one, "except right-wing lunatics who use it to prop up fascist dictatorships." Sanders, who was aged 33 at the time, was running for the U.S. Senate...

It’s long been known that the only self-professed socialist in the Senate spent time on a kibbutz, or communal farm. Nothing wrong with that. But so tight-lipped has Mr. Sanders been about it that the Israeli daily Haaretz put its reporters on the mystery. “One of Israel’s best-kept secrets” is how the paper described the name of Mr. Sanders’ kibbutz. At one point it thought it had found the senator’s name in a kibbutz archive, but it turned out to be a Bernice Stamder. Haaretz finally solved the mystery last week, with the discovery, in its own files, of an...

Among the Republican presidential candidates are a billionaire businessman, neurosurgeon, and a constitutional lawyer. When has the Democrat opposition had anything even remotely close? This election cycle the Democrats feature a woman with more scandals than achievements, and a man who thinks spending tens of trillions of dollars makes things "free." Investors Business Daily recently profiled the life of Bernie Sanders, and to nobody's surprise, it almost reads like a profile done by The Onion: Sanders spent most of his life as an angry radical and agitator who never accomplished much of anything. And yet now he thinks he deserves...

February 15, 2016 Bernie Sanders a Bum Who Didn't Earn His First Steady Paycheck Until Age 40 Then Wormed His Way Into Politics by Jim HoftWhat a shock. Bernie Sanders was a bum who didn't earn a steady paycheck until he was 40 years old. He was a slob who lived in a shack with a dirt floor. He later wrote about masturbation and rape for left-wing rags for $50 a story. The Socialist then wormed his way into politics. Bernie had his electricity cut off a lot so he'd run an extension cord down to the basement. He couldn't...