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 [...]
For the entire John Holdren profile, click here. Selected highlights from the John Holdren profile: … 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 [...]
For the entire Joe Biden profile, click here. 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 [...]
For the entire Cass Sunstein profile, click here. 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 [...]
For the entire Mark Lloyd profile, click here. 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 [...]
For the entire Barney Frank profile, click here. Selected highlights from the Barney Frank profile: … Upon joining the House of Representatives [in 1980], Barney Frank developed a reputation for consistently voting to slash funding for the CIA, the FBI, and the U.S. military. He also advocated the loosening of immigration-law exclusions that previously had served to prevent people holding totalitarian or anti-American ideologies [...]
