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Patrick Gaspard, ACORN, and Obama -- By: Stanley Kurtz

With the revelation that White House Director of Political Affairs, Patrick Gaspard, has close ties to Bertha Lewis and to ACORN, Matthew Vadum and Erick Erickson appear to be onto something significant. While the Gaspard matter needs further ...

From STANLEY KURTZ, The Corner,  28 Sep 2009
Related Topics: ACORN,  Barack Obama,  White House,  NPR

Calling Glinda -- By: Stanley Kurtz

John McWhorter does some wonderful work, but I’m afraid he’s got the Van Jones affair quite wrong. We do have power here. The administration’s been pulling a Glinda for months now, which is exactly why the president’s own power is rapidly waning. "Be ...

From STANLEY KURTZ, The Corner,  8 Sep 2009

The Meaning of Van Jones -- By: Stanley Kurtz

This Van Jones business is about more than one poorly vetted czar, or even the disturbing new "czar system." In light of all we now know, this gauzy January 12 profile of Jones in The New Yorker is well worth a read. What do you see? I see the ...

From STANLEY KURTZ, The Corner,  5 Sep 2009
Related Topics: White House,  U.S. Democratic Party

Re: Interesting Van Jones Essay -- By: Stanley Kurtz

Regarding the Van Jones essay I linked earlier (short and easy to read), I suppose the "Comic Relief" section, about six pages in, will be the most controversial, but I find the general antipathy to capitalism both disturbing and revealing. Clearly ...

From STANLEY KURTZ, The Corner,  4 Sep 2009

Interesting Van Jones Essay -- By: Stanley Kurtz

An essay in the edited volume, Globalizing Liberation: How to Uproot the System and Build a Better World, gives us a fascinating glimpse into the political thinking of Van Jones. The piece is called "Behind Enemy Lines: Inside the World Economic Forum" ...

From STANLEY KURTZ, The Corner,  4 Sep 2009
Related Topics: World Economic Forum

Obama and Single Payer in Illinois

This revealing video shows Obama in 2007 acknowledging a long-term strategy to undermine employer-based private medical insurance coverage, and in 2003 affirming his support for a "single-payer" government-run health-care system. Obama’s support for a ...

From STANLEY KURTZ, The Corner,  3 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama

Obama on the Right to Be Mediocre

We’ve been hearing a good deal lately about Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s views on racial preferences, but what exactly is President Obama’s own position on this issue? Obama’s electrifying address to the 2004 Democratic National Convention led many to think ...

From STANLEY KURTZ, The Corner,  31 May 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Sonia Sotomayor

Title VI Reform At Last

Long-time NRO readers will know that ever since 9/11, I‘ve been advocating reform of Title VI of the Higher Education Act, the system of federal subsidies to programs of Middle East Studies. In 2003, I testified before a House subcommittee on the issue. ...

From STANLEY KURTZ, The Corner,  3 Mar 2009
Related Topics: NIC Inc.

Higher Ed Debate

An upcoming conference on higher education is going to be filled with fascinating debate. The conference features prominent critics of higher ed, like Abigail Thernstron, FIRE’s Greg Lukianoff, and NAS Executive Director, Peter Wood. But there will be ...

From STANLEY KURTZ, The Corner,  8 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Peter Wood,  Ward Connerly

Damaging Obama Revelation

Of all the articles I’ve published on Barack Obama, arguably the single most damaging revelation can be found in "Senator Stealth." Yet the piece is relatively unknown. Fortunately, you can now read "Senator Stealth" here on NRO, with a new ...

From STANLEY KURTZ, The Corner,  1 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama

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