communism

The President surrounds himself with like-minded people to assist with the giant task of leading a country.  President Barack Obama took praise and criticism alike with the length of time it took to appoint his cabinet and various advisors.  Many critics from the right claim that many of Barack Obama’s advisors are known communist and socialists.  In fact, Van Jones [...]

Benjamin Franklin once said, “those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”  Glenn Beck recently talked with some former National Security Agency (NSA) employees and discussed how the NSA is gathering information on citizens, illegally, across the country. Since the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the [...]

Nobel Prize recipient in economics, Paul Krugman, embraces the idea that more money printing can save the world stating, “Higher expected inflation would aid an economy.”  Barack Obama embraced this philosophy with his 2008 Keynesian  800 billion dollar stimulus package.  The hope was to sacrifice inflation and government debt for the promise of 4 million jobs.  [...]

The Labor Department released the April 2012 employment statistics that show unemployment falling to 8.1% and an economy that only created 115,000 jobs in the month.  The portion of the working-age population participating in the job market is now at its lowest level since 1981.  Even with such obvious indicators that the economy is not [...]

Since its creation in 2001 Wikipedia has become one of the largest and most trusted reference websites, attracting 400 million unique visitors every month. As more and more people look toward the internet to learn and to teach, it is imperative that the internet stays “free” and the best way to accomplish that is to keep [...]

Two more Illinois coal-fired power plants are closing to the delight of Greenpeace and Sierra Club activists, but what does this mean for Chicagoans?  Rahn Emanuel pressured Chicago’s Fisk and Crawford plants to close earlier than previously scheduled.  These two power plants represent over 200 years of Chicago history and coal historically provides the city and the state [...]

Barack Obama’s latest campaign video totes what many believe will be the 2012 slogan: Forward.  Remember, another recent Obama video was entitled “The Road We’ve Traveled”.  It is awfully similar to a classic progressive book entitled “The Road We Are Traveling”, written in 1942 by Stuart Chase who admired the “planned” economy of the Soviet [...]

May Day is celebrated by left-wing and labor movements as a commemoration of the 1886 Haymarket Massacre in Chicago.  The Haymarket incident began as a labor demonstration and general strike on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square (Randolph Street and Desplaines Street) in Chicago and culminated in a crowd of an estimated 3,000 people throwing a [...]

Al Armendariz, a top EPA administrator, described his agencies philosophy of enforcing draconian regulations on oil companies as “crucifying” them.  These comments are just another example of the current administrations war on fossil fuels.  The current battle field seems to be on the oil and gas industry, illustrated by record gasoline prices and the blocking of the Keystone pipeline [...]

Allen West ruffled a few feathers recently when he suggested that 78 to 81 Democrats in Congress are Communists.  He has been berated by the mainstream media since he made the claims.  Watch CNN anchor Soledad O’Brien ridicule West while he calmly restated his case. What is a Progressive and who are these Democrats Allen [...]