For the entire AmeriCorps profile, click here. Selected highlights from the AmeriCorps profile: AmeriCorps is a government-funded public-service network that was formally launched when President Bill Clinton signed the 1993 National and Community Service Trust Act … “to improve lives, strengthen communities, and foster civic engagement through service and volunteering.” … AmeriCorps members are paid workers, not volunteers…. [...]

For the entire Rahm Emanuel profile, click here. Selected highlights from the Rahm Emanuel profile: … On November 4, 1992 – the night after Bill Clinton had been elected President –Rahm Emanuel and other campaign aids convened for a celebratory dinner. At one point in the evening, the discussion turned to the topic of certain individuals who, in [...]

For the entire Saul Alinsky profile, click here. Selected highlights from the Saul Alinsky profile: Born to Russian-Jewish parents in Chicago in 1909, Saul Alinsky was a Communist/Marxist fellow-traveler who helped establish the dual political tactics of confrontation and infiltration that characterized the 1960s and have remained central to all subsequent revolutionary movements in the United States. He never [...]

For the entire Ron Bloom profile, click here. Selected highlights from the Ron Bloom profile: Born in 1956, Ron Bloom was raised in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. During his childhood, he was deeply involved with Habonim – ”a progressive Labor Zionist youth movement that emphasizes cultural Judaism, socialism and social justice.” … Bloom’s experience with this movement had a major influence on [...]

For the entire Valerie Jarrett profile, click here. Selected highlights from the Valerie Jarrett profile: … In 1983 Valerie married Dr. William Robert Jarrett, son of the Chicago Sun-Times reporter Vernon Jarrett. Vernon Jarrett was a pioneering black journalist who wrote columns for The Chicago Defender extolling Communist poet Langston Hughes and lifelong Stalinists W.E.B. DuBois and Paul Robeson…. After [Chicago [...]

For the entire Van Jones profile, click here.   Selected highlights from the Van Jones profile: On March 10, 2009, President Obama named Van Jones to be his so-called “Green Jobs Czar.” Amid mounting controversy, however, Jones resigned his post on Labor Day weekend last month…. After earning his BA degree, Jones abandoned his plan to become a journalist and [...]

For the entire Janet Napolitano profile, click here. Selected highlights from the Janet Napolitano profile: … In November 2008, President-elect Barack Obama named former Arizona governor Janet Napolitano as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)…. In early 2009 Napolitano claimed that “70 percent of the weapons in the hands of the [Mexican] drug cartels are [...]