Michael Klonsky

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Selected highlights from the Michael Klonsky profile:
In the 1960s Michael Klonsky, while attending San Fernando Valley State College, joined the radical Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). In 1968 he became SDS’s national chairman. That same year, he helped spark the riots that erupted in Chicago during the Democratic National Convention. Klonsky was also a member of the [...]

Anita Dunn

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Selected highlights from the Anita Dunn profile:
Born in 1958, Anita Dunn began her political career in the late 1970s as an intern for Gerald Rafshoon, President Jimmy Carter’s White House communications director. She then worked for Carter’s chief of staff Hamilton Jordan. In 1993 Dunn co-founded the Washington, DC-based political consulting firm, Squier Knapp Dunn [...]

Samantha Power

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Selected highlights from the Samantha Power profile:
In January 2009 President Obama appointed Samantha Power to serve as Director for Multilateral Affairs in the National Security Council. Power has become one of Obama’s closest advisors on foreign policy.
Power has a long record of antipathy toward Israel. In 2001 she attended the United Nations’ [...]

Khalid Shaikh Mohammed

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Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (also known as Ashraf Refaat Nabith Henin, Khalid Adbul Wadood, Salem Ali, Abdul Majid, Abdullah al-Fak’asi al-Ghamdior, Fahd Bin Adballah Bin Khalid, and 27 other aliases) is the military head of Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda network. Mohammed has [...]

Health Care for America Now

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Established in early 2009, Health Care for America Now (HCAN) describes itself as a “national grassroots campaign of more than 1,000 organizations in 46 states representing 30 million people” who believe that “[o]ur government’s responsibility is to guarantee [...]

Keith Ellison

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Selected highlights from the Keith Ellison profile:

… As a third-year law student in 1989-90, Ellison penned two columns for the Minnesota Daily under the name “Keith Hakim.” In the first, he made respectful reference to “Minister Louis Farrakhan” and used a tone indicating that he was an avid Nation of Islam (NOI) advocate; [...]

Council on American-Islamic Relations

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The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) describes itself as a “non-profit, grassroots membership organization … established to promote a positive image of Islam and Muslims in America,” to protect Muslims from hate crimes and discrimination, and to present “an Islamic perspective on issues of [...]

Muslim Brotherhood

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Founded in 1928 by the Egyptian activist Hasan al-Banna, the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood is one of the oldest, largest and most influential Islamist organizations. Egypt has historically been the center of the Brotherhood’s operations, though the group maintains offshoots throughout the Arab-Muslim [...]

Muslim Brotherhood

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Selected highlights from the Muslim Brotherhood profile:
Founded in 1928 by the Egyptian activist Hasan al-Banna, the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood is one of the oldest, largest and most influential Islamist organizations. Egypt has historically been the center of the Brotherhood’s operations, though the group maintains offshoots throughout the Arab-Muslim [...]

Al Sharpton

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Selected highlights from the Al Sharpton profile:

Alfred Charles Sharpton is a civil rights activist known for his racially charged, incendiary rhetoric…. Sharpton was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1954, to comparatively prosperous parents. He demonstrated considerable verbal dexterity at an early age and was touted as “the Wonder Boy Preacher” by age [...]

Bill Ayers

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Selected highlights from the Bill Ayers profile:
Born in 1944, Bill Ayers, along with his wife Bernardine Dohrn, was a 1960s leader of the homegrown terrorist group Weatherman, a Communist-driven splinter faction of Students for a Democratic Society. Characterizing Weatherman as “an American Red Army,” Ayers summed up the organization’s ideology as follows: [...]

American Constitution Society

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The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy (ACS) is a Washington, DC-based think tank claiming to have approximately 22,000 affiliates nationwide—mostly law students, law professors, practicing attorneys, and judges. In addition to its student chapters at some 165 law schools across [...]

Charles Rangel

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Born in Harlem, New York in June 1930, Charles Rangel is a Democratic congressman who represents the 15th Congressional District of New York, located in upper Manhattan. He has served in the House of Representatives since 1971.
Rangel, who is black, has a long [...]

ACORN

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The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) is a grassroots political organization that grew out of George Wiley’s National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO), whose members in the late 1960s and early 1970s invaded welfare offices across the U.S. — often violently — bullying social workers and [...]

AmeriCorps

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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….
Financed by the federal [...]

Rahm Emanuel

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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 the estimation [...]

Saul Alinsky, Obama’s Political Guru

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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 joined the [...]

Ron Bloom, Manufacturing Czar

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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 his personal [...]

Valerie Jarrett, Obama Adviser

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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 mayor Harold] Washington’s [...]

Former “Green Jobs Czar” Van Jones

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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 instead enrolled at Yale Law School, where, [...]

Janet Napolitano

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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 coming from the [...]

John Holdren

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… In 1969 John Holdren wrote that it was imperative “to convince society and its leaders that there is no alternative but the cessation of our irresponsible, all-demanding, and all-consuming population growth.” That same year, he and professor of population studies Paul Ehrlich jointly [...]

Joe Biden

 
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Selected highlights from the Joe Biden profile:
On November 4, 2008, Joseph Biden, Jr. became Vice President of the United States on the Democrat Party ticket headed by Barack Obama. Prior to that, Biden had been a U.S. Senator from Delaware for 36 years….
Shortly after he was first elected to the Senate, Biden voted against funding to help the South [...]

Cass Sunstein

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Selected highlights from the Cass Sunstein profile:
… After Obama’s 2009 inauguration, longtime attorney Cass Sunstein was appointed to head the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs….
On April 14, 1999, Sunstein published an opinion piece in The Chicago Tribune titled “Why We Should Celebrate Paying Taxes.” He wrote:
“In what sense is [...]

Mark Lloyd

 
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Selected highlights from the Mark Lloyd profile:
In July 2009 Mark Lloyd was appointed to be Diversity Chief of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)…. In June 2007 Lloyd co-authored a report titled “The Structural Imbalance of Talk Radio,” commissioned jointly by the Center for American Progress and the Free Press. This publication states [...]