The original Cloward-Piven Strategy, born in a 1966 article in The Nation magazine, was to overwhelm the welfare system by flooding the rolls with new recipients. The government would not be able to keep up (this was a time when
Frances Fox Piven, honorary chair of the Democratic Socialists of America, can arguably be considered the mother of ACORN. At least, her ideas and theories set ACORN, and its parent, the National Welfare Rights Organization, onto a path of creating
Throughout much of 2009, Glenn Beck extensively covered the “Cloward-Piven Strategy” that was first brought into the public domain in a May 1966 article in The Nation magazine. In the article, Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, two Columbia professors,
ACORN founder Wade Rathke has been gloating on his blog about the recent arrest of James O’Keefe in Rathke’s hometown of New Orleans. Andrew Breitbrat and his www.biggovernment.com site stopped pretending that James O’Keefe, bungler-in-charge, was not his boy, and
Every time I hear a politician say he’s going to end tax breaks for companies that export jobs overseas, I just laugh. It’s transparent pandering to the UAW and other labor unions and a great talking point, but the Democrats
Let me first say, if what is being reported in the media is accurate, a dumb prank was attempted in the New Orleans office of Sen. Mary Landrieu by James O’Keefe and his comrades. There should be zero tolerance for
Now President Obama tells us he’s going to take the economy seriously. God help us. As the war on the economic recession grew bleak and the unemployed body count grew, Obama and the Democratic Congress were bogged down in the
Suddenly, all the condescending ‘tea-bagger’ jokes must not be quite so funny in liberal circles. Serves them right. Losing the seat formerly held by the champion of socialized medicine – in the bluest of states – apparently hasn’t phased the
Martha Coakley’s campaign team began leveling charges against DC Democrats as it became increasingly apparent the wheels had fallen off her campaign wagon well before Election Day. DC operatives, including those in the White House, of course, couldn’t withhold return
Consider this irony: Democrats and their special interest allies are in the fight of their lives to keep the seat formerly held by the champion of socialized medicine in the bluest of states. Democrats should be tap dancing on the
It seems the Democrats have the art of poor taste down to a science. Who else would think to use an image of the World Trade Center, destroyed by terrorists in 2001 because the towers were a symbol of American
It’s amusing to watch President Obama try to stick it to his friends in organized labor by proposing a tax on union-negotiated health care benefits. If it weren’t for the fact that the tax proposal would have a devastating effect
Like a phoenix released to spread it wings, ACORN founder and former chief organizer Wade Rathke has been letting it all hang out on his lively, but troubling blog. He recently attacked no-nonsense Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, lamented the continuing
I distinctly remember the placards in the windows of the union hall in my union-stronghold Michigan city: “Show Us the Jobs.” It was a thinly-veiled campaign against the Bush administration for what the AFL-CIO saw as a failure to create
We’re accustomed to strange political phenomena rising out of Minnesota. We can accept the occasional Jesse Ventura or Al Franken winning statewide office, because the state’s voters obviously like to be different. But we doubt even the most offbeat citizens
Here’s a concept I never thought we’d be exporting: governments taking over markets to act as the “competition.” News is Venezuelan brute Hugo Chavez has created a “new chain of government-run, cut-rate retail stores that will sell everything from food
ACORN’s friends, with a fresh court ruling backing the organization, are finding new ways to send taxpayer dollars to it. The Weekly Standard exposed an amendment offered by Sen. Rolland Burris (D-IL), President Obama’s replacement in the Senate, to the
The Obama-Pelosi-Reid regime marched into office pledging to provide the most transparent federal government in American history. I was looking forward to that. On Inauguration Day, President Obama told his senior staff: The way to make government responsible is to
We know how liberals, particularly those in the education establishment, like to say that Corporate America dictates public policy through campaign contributions. A new report, prepared by the Center for Responsive Politics and the National Institute on Money in State
The socialist wing of the Democratic Party must have thought the brass ring was within its grasp when Barack Obama was elected president, a larger Democratic majority was returned to the House and a filibuster-proof majority was secured in the
To me, one of the most disturbing – and starkly honest – one-liners that came out of the 2008 campaign was this: “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” It was delivered by Sen.
File this one under the category of Predicable News of the Year: A Brooklyn federal judge, appointed by former President Bill Clinton, adopted the argument of hometown Congressman and ACORN apologist Jerrold Nadler that Congress’s efforts to “defund” ACORN amounted
Professor Peter Dreier, an ACORN apologist who portrays himself as an independent analyst, is really anything but. As Andrew Breitbart articulated on BigGovernment November 25th, regarding a “study” Dreier produced critical of media coverage of ACORN: At the end of
AFT President Randi Weingarten may have inadvertantly put her finger on one of the major problems with public education today. During an Oct. 28 forum at the Center for American Progress, Weingarten told the assembled panel that teachers unions, along
The “independent” investigation of ACORN has been completed, and the final report is in. The verdict? ACORN has done nothing illegal, and most of its problems stem from the subpar leadership of its founder and former “chief organizer,” Wade Rathke.
