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House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and other House leaders paid tribute to Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) on September 22, despite the fact that he was overwhelmingly censured by the House less than a year ago for ethics violations and has a history of courtship with Soviet and Communist subversive activities. In December 2010, when the House was controlled by the Democratic majority of the 111th Congress, Democrats and Republicans overwhelmingly voted 333-79 to censure Congressman Rangel with regard to unpaid taxes on property he owned in the Dominican Republican, other hidden assets, and for improper use of the his campaign...

As Rep. Charlie Rangel prepares to celebrate his 81st birthday with a gala at the Plaza Hotel in New York City on Wednesday night, the veteran lawmaker faces a far different political landscape than he did just a year ago.

Five-and-a-half years after being convicted of providing material support for terrorism, terror lawyer Lynne Stewart finally received a sentence commensurate with her crime. She was resentenced last week to 10 years. But if George Soros had his way, she would be free today. Stewart made a career out of defending street criminals and terrorists, including Sammy "The Bull" Gravano (pleaded guilty), Weather Underground terrorist David J. Gilbert (convicted), and Larry Davis (acquitted of wounding six policemen and killing several others in 1986, only to be convicted of a later murder and killed in prison). It should have come as...

Scandal-plagued Rep. Charles Rangel, long a target of the right, fired back Wednesday at conservative opponents of health care - likening them to racist foes of civil rights.

Gather at 12noon at the White House (Lafayette Park) People from all over the country are organizing to converge on Washington, D.C., to demand the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of all U.S. and NATO forces from Afghanistan and Iraq. On Saturday, March 20, 2010, there will be a massive National March & Rally in D.C. Gather at 12 noon at the White House (Lafayette Park). There will be coinciding mass marches on March 20 in San Francisco and Los Angeles. The national actions are initiated by a large number of organizations and prominent individuals. To see a list of the...

Before there was a nationwide, grass-roots Tea Party movement, there was another nationwide, grass-roots movement that brought thousands of Americans to Washington, D.C. They called themselves the “Gathering of Eagles.” I covered two massive, GoE rallies against the Soros-funded, anti-war Left in March 2007 and September 2007. GOE activists continue to expose the transnational progressives, anti-military bullies, and phonies who operate under the “peace” banner. One of the groups that GOE dogged was Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) — whose members have included bomb-threat bullies and death-threat nutballs who threatened to assassinate me, fake Army vet Jesse MacBeth, and...

Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif., is taking over for Rep. Chairman Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., as the latter eases into a questionably voluntary leave of absence from the chair of the House Ways and Means Committee under a cloud of multiple scandals. What sort of chairman will Stark be? Try extremely thin-skinned and...to edit myself for charity, "volatile." That is not intended to be a slur -- it's just true. Don't take my word for it. Here's a video of Stark telling a constituent...well, you have to hear it for yourself, you really won't believe it if I write it out: In...

From the website of the Workers World Party: "Dear Comrade Kim Jong Il...With his leadership [Kim Il Sung], the Korean people defeated the Japanese colonial occupation and soon after brought about the first defeat of the U.S. imperialist military machine. ...Workers World Party values our close, comradely relations with the Workers Party of Korea very highly. We are proud to have known Kim Il Sung as a great leader and a comrade in the international communist movement. ..." With comradely solidarity, Sam Marcy Chairperson, Workers World Party" (1994):http://www.workers.org/marcy/cd/sam94/1994html/s940721.htm ___________________________________________________________ Workers World55 W. 17 St., NY, NY 10011 Email: ww@workers.org Subscribe...

New York, Baltimore, Boston, Detroit, Los Angeles, Raleigh APRIL 3 DEMO TO MARCH ON WALL STREET AND AIG posted March 26, 2009 Thousands to March on Wall Street & AIG on APRIL 3 as part of the Bail Out People, Not Banks Protest Main focus of March: * The need for a real jobs program * A moratorium on foreclosures and evictions The April 3 March on Wall Street will begin with an opening rally at 1:00 PM at Wall Street and Broadway, followed by a march to AIG at 70 Pine St. The Bail Out the People Movement Statement...

Statement from the ANSWER Coalition: We are organizing a Mass March on the Pentagon on Saturday, March 21, and it is important that you and your family, friends, co-workers and fellow students put on your marching shoes that day. People are coming from all over the country.

"The moonbats had a particularly dismal showing. Far from my initial estimate of a few thousand made a few days ago, they barely mustered perhaps four hundred. The poor weather undoubtedly drove some away, but their turnouts are so bad lately that it is hard to get our undercover operatives into their midst. The Adalah group whom I had been concerned about (because they announced they were going to meet at 44th St and march south to 42nd Street) were for the most part a no show. When I was still at the recruiter station I kept a sharp eye...

AUGUST 2, 2008: Demonstrate to Stop the War on Iran An Emergency Call to Action Actions in more than 87 cities - see growing list of activities here. http://stopwaroniran.org/ Alaska | Arizona | Arkansas | California | Colorado | Florida | Georgia | Hawaii Illinois | Indiana | Kentucky | Maine | Maryland | Massachusetts | Michigan Minnesota | Missouri | Montana | Nevada | New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico | New York | North Carolina | North Dakota | Ohio | Oklahoma Pennsylvania | Rhode Island | South Dakota | Tennessee | Texas | Utah | Virginia Washington...

MAY DAY 2008 Unity grows among immigrants, Black community and labor By Teresa Gutierrez Published Apr 30, 2008 9:47 PM May Day press conference, April 28, New York City. Third from the left is Teresa Gutierrez. WW photo: Deirdre Griswold April 27—On April 25 when the not guilty verdict against the cop killers of Sean Bell, a 23-year-old African American was announced, immigrant rights activists and many immigrants spontaneously joined the progressive movement in a demonstration in Queens, N.Y., to protest the racist verdict. ... (big snip) "Workers World Party Secretariat members Teresa Gutierrez and Fred Goldstein will deliver papers...

Charlie Rangel Wants to Draft Your Daughter (And Your Mom, Too) By Ben Johnson FrontPageMagazine.com | November 20, 2006 I HATE TO SAY I TOLD YOU SO, but…. I warned in these pages almost four years ago that Rep. Charlie Rangel’s efforts reinstate the draft could result in women facing conscription. Now Rangel has removed all doubt that this is his intention. The Washington Post reports Rangel has vowed to re-introduce “a plan to mandate military service for men and women between age 18 and 42” this year, after he takes over as chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. Rangel...