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‘Give Credit to the Activists’: ‘The Nation’ Lists the 20th Century’s 50 Most Influential Progressives

The Nation Lists the 20th Centurys 50 Most Influential Progressives

Saul Alinsky

The Nation has just compiled a list of the “Fifty Most Influential Progressives of the Twentieth Century.”

They introduce the list, which excludes elected officials, by saying:

A hundred years ago, any soapbox orator who called for women’s suffrage, laws protecting the environment, an end to lynching, workers’ right to form unions, a progressive income tax, a federal minimum wage, old-age insurance, the eight-hour workday and government-subsidized healthcare would be considered an impractical utopian dreamer or a dangerous socialist. Now we take these ideas for granted. The radical ideas of one generation are often the common sense of the next. When that happens, give credit to the activists and movements that fought to take those ideas from the margins to the mainstream. We all stand on the shoulders of earlier generations of radicals and reformers who challenged the status quo of their day.

The list recognizes known progressives from Margaret Sanger to Saul Alinsky, but also includes men like Martin Luther King.

The Nation Lists the 20th Centurys 50 Most Influential Progressives

Margaret Sanger

The Nation describes Margaret Sanger as “a nurse among poor women on New York City’s Lower East Side and [an] advocate for women’s health. In 1912 she gave up nursing and dedicated herself to the distribution of information about birth control (a term she’s credited with inventing), risking imprisonment for violating the Comstock Act, which forbade distribution of birth control devices or information…”

Sanger’s description does not include the fact that she believed in eugenics and wanted to eliminate “undesirables” from society.  However, The Nation precipitated such objections, and wrote in the list’s introduction, “They made mistakes, which may be understandable in historical context, but which should be acknowledged as part of their lives and times.”

Other recognizable names on the list included W.E.B. Du Bois, Upton Sinclair, Eleanor Roosevelt, Woody Guthrie, Ella Baker, Jackie Robinson, Thurgood Marshall, Malcom X, and Michael Moore.

At the end of the slide show, The Nation asked for readers to select eleven figures whom they believed made the biggest difference in the twentieth century.  The results showed Howard Zinn to be number one, followed by Naom Chomsky.

The Nation Lists the 20th Centurys 50 Most Influential Progressives

Eleanor Roosevelt (Photo: The Nation)

See the first slide show here, and the second, here.

Comments (187)

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  • sasquatch08
    Posted on March 19, 2012 at 1:07am

    I LOL’d at this.

    Just finshed Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power by Niall Ferguson.

    Yet another book that should be more popular than it is.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 1:46am

      Fantastic! Let’s get all these old creeps out into the public arena and trace who is affiliated with them. Hey Obama, we know who you are and you will not be elected again. You might declare martial law but you will never be elected again.

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    • TSUNAMI-22
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 2:03am

      @ the monk

      Interesting stuff here quite often, if you’re interested.

      http://barnhardt.biz/index.cfm

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    • LibertarianRight
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 6:17am

      Justification for empire should not be popular. Such a thing flies in the face of the ideal of freedom.

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    • 9111315
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 8:06am

      @LIBERTARIANRIGHT

      Did you read the book? The shallowness of your comment makes it look like you are simply judging the title, not the book.

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    • Bum thrower
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 8:09am

      name the Pols; I bet they are all DEMOCTRAT!!!

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    • Ruler4You
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 9:41am

      IMHBLO, we should stop calling them by a ‘camouflage’ moniker (progressives) and call them what they REALLY are: Communists.

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    • black9897
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 10:26am

      Dr. King?? really? That’s insulting. Not surprising, but very low. Dr. King was a great Christian man, who was nothing of progressive.

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    • FoxholeAtheist
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 10:38am

      When you get your history from Niall Ferguson, no wonder you are all so misinformed. Was it written in crayon?

      FoxholeAtheist  
    • stogieguy7
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 10:42am

      @BLACK9897: I am sorry, but you are wrong about Dr. King. He was a big-time liberal/progressive who very much belongs on that list. Just last week, I was perusing some newspaper archives from 1968 and found an article dated March 5, 1968 which quoted King as saying that he was deliberating whether he would endorse Eugene McCarthy or Robert F. Kennedy. He added that LBJ was unacceptable because of the Vietnam War (remember that LBJ hadn’t bowed out yet) and that Nixon was simply unacceptable and would never be considered.

      King was very much a hard-core lefty. After his death, he was made into a martyr and then into a national hero. But his actual statements and thoughts have been cherry-picked to mislead a public who “wants to believe” in his legacy. However, the facts are what they are. If you are a liberal, then none of this disturbs you in the least. But, for many, MLK has been portrayed as someone who was a politically moderate guy. Nothing could be further from the truth. Look at Jesse Jackson and you get an idea of MLK’s mindset.

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 10:47am

      A feast of trouble makers, statists and delusionals through the last two centuries culminating in the humanitarian disasters that were Stalin’s Russia, Nazi Germany, Khmer Rouge, Maoist China and host of others. I’m sure the hundreds of millions of dead and incarcerated as a result of marxism enjoyed this trip through memory lane.

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    • Unix
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 10:48am

      All of these people worked and lived for Lucifer, IMO, they strove to take God and morals out of our lexicon. These people were and are vile human beings, who care more about self than anything else. The worst of the lot is Alynski, as he dedicated his Rules for Radicals to Lucifer, as the very first radical. No my friends, these people are to be reviled and sent to the dustbin of history as brain-washers, liars and hypocrites. They brought destruction to the American dream, welfare state; they brought infanticide, abortion; they brought secularism, anti-Godliness to our country!

      These maniacs didn’t care about people, they only cared about power and glory. Anyone who stands up for these misfits is a mush brain, devoid of logic and critical thinking abilities. They are anti-American, and should be treated as traitors to the American way. The road to hell is paved by good intentions, is it not?

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    • SavvyCowboy
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 12:47pm

      This statement pulled from this article should send shivers up and down your spine: “The radical ideas of one generation are often the common sense of the next. When that happens, give credit to the activists and movements that fought to take those ideas from the margins to the mainstream.”

      These communists (not socialists, not activists) will not stop until they win. We must be stronger, faster, better than them or our grandchildren and great grandchildren will suffer tremendously!

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    • PlowMan
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 12:51pm

      UNIX, I completely agree! We need to understand this fight is a spiritual one and not of this world.
      STOGIEGUY7, Your wrong, MLK wanted people to look past skin color and only endorsed candidates based on how they viewed his cause. I don’t think he thought the politicians of his day would want to push God out of the lexicon as they are trying to do today. I think King would not approve of Jackson as he is today.

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    • jzs
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 1:26pm

      Imagine that, people who wanted to give women and minorities equal rights, end childhood slave labor, help the poor, stop lynchings, have employers provide a safe workplace where you wouldn’t be maimed or killed (and then fired). You know, those things everyone now takes for granted.

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    • ddkites
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 1:30pm

      The-Monk: “You might declare martial law but you will never be elected again.”

      It’s a done deal election or no election, Obama will NOT leave office no matter who wins, one way or the other. This Republic is also a done deal also! Just my personal opinion!

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    • stogieguy7
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 3:36pm

      @Plowman: How am I wrong? Which part of the history lesson that I gave you above isn’t true? Martin Luther King, Jr. was politically VERY liberal. I wasn’t stating supposition above, I am telling you what the man said for himself with respect to the 1968 presidential elections. See: http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=IT5EXw6i2GUC&dat=19680328&printsec=frontpage&hl=en

      Right on page 18 are the man’s own words. He was a liberal, not a moderate. And this nonsense of saying that “he would be a Republican today” shows a total lack of historical understanding about who Martin Luther King, Jr. was. If you want to reduce the history of MLK to a Rorschach test then fine. But don’t tell me I am wrong because I am not.

      It’s not just a river in Egypt my friend. Your hero was a very liberal man who would be pleased that Obama is our president now.

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    • robert
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 3:41pm

      This Alinsky, with his beer bottle bottom glasses, and every other freak, flake, oddball and kook that wants a totalitarian system has to foist their perverted, demented schemes on the public using subeterfuge, obfuscation, deceit and outright lies, or they couldnt get a single mind-conditioned robot to believe their politically correct drivel, and it is only the weak-minded and fools they finally do propagandize effectively.

      Oh, how they love to be thought of as “intelligent” when in fact they’re no more than underhanded deceivers who are beset with various kinds of mental disorders and to a person they should be neutralized by any means necessary.

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    • jlcook
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 8:38pm

      @JZS your profile pic tells it all faceless drones, everyone equally sucky, your a moron troll, you spend a lot of time on here, making fun of people. I can’t figure out people like you, I’ve never gone to a communist blog and poked at them, your an instigator, all of you fool libs are. I suppose your stupid comments get us going cause we like to slap you ignorant asses down. You stupid commies, think you have this communism thing down and will do it better than everyone else. Well I have news *****, it wont happen here NO MATTER what it takes. WE WILL weed you slimy snakes out of our gvmnt and our streets, one way or the other, you indoctrinated POS. Factuall conversations with you are a waste of time, that goes for all you libs who troll here.

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    • jzs
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 10:50pm

      jlcook, no all the people aren’t faceless. There‘s one that isn’t. I thought that appropriate for this website. Any any case, here’s the post you responded to: Imagine that, people who wanted to give women and minorities equal rights, end childhood slave labor, help the poor, stop lynchings, have employers provide a safe workplace where you wouldn’t be maimed or killed (and then fired). You know, those things everyone now takes for granted.

      What part of that do you not like? Where’s the communism? Where is the “slimy” stuff you don’t like. Which of those things to you take issue with?

      You’re not a troll are you? Someone who simply insults anyone who doesn’t firmly stand in line and wear the same uniform as suggested by any thread here? You don‘t like it when people don’t line up like good soldiers and accept anything their told? Who’s the communist jlcook, who is mindlessly following the flock?

      If you’re not, make an response to what you disagree with about my post. You don’t like women or black people voting? What is it you disagree with?

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 2:55am

      Hey JZS,

      If you have not noticed yet, you’re being made a fool of over in the DOJ / S.E. Cupp story.

      And you wonder why you have no credibility.

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  • REVerse
    Posted on March 19, 2012 at 1:03am

    It all comes down to “Reparations.” .. Whitey will pay out his arse until everybody is broke. Level the playing field. Blacks suffered, so by god we’re all gonna suffer together. We got ours and now it is their turn. BH0 will see that wealth is re-distributed. Whitey is the devil.

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    • MammalOne
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 2:59am

      Black people? Really?

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    • Proud Stray Dog
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 6:40am

      Racist much? The black people were traded into slavery by their own. Most slaves were from the losers in tribal warfare. They don’t teach the black people their true history to keep them dumbed down.

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    • socialism.rocks
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 6:43am

      that is totally hilarious blue states been paying for welfare red-staters white people for the last sixty years

      the blue states could afford generous welfare healthcare if they didnt have to pay for rural white states

      The more conservative a state is the more poor it is….what the hell

      you are a bigot a racist and a fool

      socialism.rocks  
    • dakz
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 7:46am

      @Socialism.Rocks

      You need to put the weed bowl down and learn how to use Google before making uninformed statements.

      http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Economy/story?id=8016634&page=1

      The top 10 most broke states are all blue states. Broke as in they do not have any money, or are having such huge budget shortfalls, from paying out to much of their own money in their own states, that they are looking to the fed to help them out. Or in the case of NJ they elected a R to come in and clean up what the Ds have created over the last sixty years.

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    • bhelmet
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 7:46am

      At least Socialism.rocks admits states are broke due to the welfare state.

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    • teresa2010
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 7:59am

      @socialism.rocks…… Blue states ran by Democrats for decades are the poorest and in debt….That is just common knowledge….CAN YOU SAY MICHIGAN, DETROIT, CALIFORNIA…….THEY ARE GOING BANKRUPT BECAUSE THEY BEEN RAN BY LIBERALS FOR DECADES

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    • jcldwl
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 8:21am

      You are way off base. Go crawl back under your rock. This is a global movement to destroy America. Not an attack on any race. Grow up.

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 8:50am

      @socialism.rocks
      Something wrong with your computer? It just seems to keep repeating things over and over again.
      You posted this EXACT same message 3 or 4 months ago, on several different stories. You could at least come up with something different to earn your Soros bucks and Obama points.

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    • michael48
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 9:49am

      socialpath=meaningless …enjoy serfdom , comrade. it suits you well…

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    • Seventys America
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 9:52am

      Ground Control to fellow patriots…

      Useful idiots are not drawn to an oasis of truth to take a drink…they come to defecate in it from behind the protective veil of anonymity like everything else they hate in hopeless envy. It‘s WHAT they’re instructed to do by their Marxist masters under the guise of “activism.” It’s WHY the public grounds scattered around Manhattan still smell like urine and feces.

      Reasoning with them is like trying to pick up a turd by it’s clean end.

      Feeding them is cruelty to animals.

      http://www.facebook.com/groups/282272918507933

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    • samurai2112
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 10:17am

      @Socialism.Rocks

      Riddle me this. If blue states that are run by the brightest and full of those who want to pay their fair share how come for example does California not raise taxes for the “rich” living in their state to the levels needed to balance their budget without making any cuts in spending? Show us how its done comrade. All those hollywood libs and silicon valley metrosexual “men” who are often quoted they want to pay more in taxes should be demanding to pay more themselves and their companies to make California into the utopia that could be the Peoples Democratic America.

      Besides I thought you are all for redistribution of wealth right? Ask any of the Governers of those red states and they would be all for block granting welfare so they can determine the need in their own state and not have the Feds dictate the levels of spending.

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    • Icnivad
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 10:27am

      I wonder where they get their liquids. Oh yeah, they lick up the pee of the masters, and with relish, almost as if it’s Kool-Aid! Wait…

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    • PPMStudios
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 11:27am

      @ socialism.rocks

      What is really “totally hilarious” is that you’re completely ignorant to facts! Liberal states are the ones in serious hurt; California and Michigan for instance. Ever heard of them?

      But, like a typical socialist moron, you’re not going to let the TRUTH or FACTS get in the way of the leftist propaganda…..

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    • loveliberty83
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 1:59pm

      If I was black I would wonder if there was no slavery & my ancestors still lived in Africa -what would my life be like guess what unless you were in the rich tribes like Obamas family ,you would be living in the jungle barely making ends meet -no Jordon shoes, it is about time to thank your ancestors for a better life & even those eivil what ever culture trade dealers

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  • kickagrandma
    Posted on March 19, 2012 at 1:01am

    Where are the leaders of the JESUS Movement of the 70‘s which swept through our nation and brought revival from the disaster of the 60’s drugs, free sex “culture” (the left over-drug-satiated-soul dead people from the 60‘s who didn’t die then are now the “leaders” of the current disaster)? Where are the real AMERICANS who pray almost 24/7/365 for this country and always have? Where are the lists of the wounded and dead who gave everything so we could be free?

    Most importantly, where is JESUS WHO gave it all just for us so we could live now and forever in HIS presence?

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    • AmericanFightingMan1
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 1:33am

      I have a different take. Christianity was highjacked in the 60′s by the hippie movement. Since a person would be a conscientous objector on religious grounds, the cowardly took up a facade position in Christian churches, posing as Christians, when in fact they were marxists, commies, bolsheviks and cowards.

      This is why Christianity today is dominated by leftists. They figured out it was a good gig. Infiltrate the churches, free from taxes, indoctrinate by convincing people of the new “hippie” Jesus Christ. A bunch of the new converts have no idea they have been fooled.

      So now we have men who proclaim Jesus and also let another man ram them up the tailpipe or take a bunch of throat yogurt. Shame. It‘s a fool’s game.

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    • Laus Deo
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 2:26am

      I‘m glad I wasn’t eating a bowl of cereal after reading the end of your post, AFM1… I would have shot milk and flakes across the room, laughing my a$$ off.

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    • LibertarianRight
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 6:22am

      @American: “This is why Christianity today is dominated by leftists.”

      Christianity is not dominated by leftists – not since the rise of the “Religious Right” in the 80s. It is, however, dominated by bigots and warmongers that have abandoned the message of the Prince of Peace in their blind quest to conflate political power over individual’s actions and morality.

      “Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed.” – Barry Goldwater

      “On religious issues there can be little or no compromise. There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this supreme being. But like any powerful weapon, the use of God‘s name on one’s behalf should be used sparingly. The religious factions that are growing throughout our land are not using their religious clout with wisdom. They are trying to force government leaders into following their position 100 percent. If you disagree with these religious groups on a particular moral issue, they complain, they threaten you with a loss of money or votes or both.” – Barry Goldwater

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    • MrButcher
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 8:24am

      We sure could use another Barry Goldwater instead of another Ronald Reagan.

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    • Git-R-Done
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 4:44am

      Libertarianright – So being against homosexuality makes someone a bigot?

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  • Snidely
    Posted on March 19, 2012 at 1:00am

    Anyone else notice that Margaret Sanger is Sandra Fluke’s doppelganger?

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    • rambosharley
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 5:57am

      They do favor!

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    • AndiAndiAndi
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 6:52am

      Something else about Sanger is that it’s never put front and center what she made clear in her book. She believed in getting rid of the undesireables. She was the worst kind of racist. She pushed abortion among black women. Her writings show her for who she really was and what she believed. She was a Hitler! Self proclaimed Socialist, racist, self righteous, evil woman. No doubt she lives in a space that is void of Christ.

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  • waspanglosaxon
    Posted on March 19, 2012 at 12:47am

    Rather than bemoaning this list, why doesn‘t someone compile the ’50 Most Influential Right-wingers’ of the last 50 years? This would, if nothing else, be much more interesting.

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  • waspanglosaxon
    Posted on March 19, 2012 at 12:41am

    Here are some other names that should have been added: Geo. W. Bush – for (1.) wrecking the US economy, (2.) starting not one but two senseless wars, (3.) outlawing certain low-end jobs once he’d ruined the economy, (4.) wanting an ‘open borders’ policy to allow illegal aliens to break the law with impunity.
    Nert G(ett)ingrich – for Numbers 1, 2 & 4 above, plus his unabashed advocacy of ‘open marriage’.
    Marco Rubio – for Numbers 1, 2 & 4, plus wanting to destroy Social Security to toss out all those old, ‘racist’ (read: White) folks into the street to make room for more of his brown cousins, both legal and illegal.
    Like George Wallace said about the two parties so long ago: There‘s not a dime’s worth of difference.

    waspanglosaxon  
    • voodoolife
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 1:09am

      I don’t normally feed the trolls… But that was one of the worst posts I have ever seen on here…

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    • phil1765
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 3:57am

      waspanglosaxon
      Moron where in the hell do you get your facts from? How the hell did Rubio start two wars while serving in the Florida house of represenatives? I don’t think the Florida house has much pull with the federal government on military actions. Please do yourself and everyone else a favor and actually look things up before you remove all doubt what a fool you are. BTW Rubio wasn’t a US senator until 2009, pretty sure we had been in Iraq and Afghanistan for over 7 years by that time. Good post your credibility is shot, try the MSLSD website they don’t care if you actually know anything about the topic you are discussing.

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    • chalkdust
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 4:08am

      This is a great example of what is wrong with this country. If you can’t be bothered to look behind the rhetoric and form a cogent opinion based in reality, you deserve all of the accolades that are associated with ignorance. Most everything you wrote is not even remotely true in a junkies pipe dream. One man, G. W. Bush, was not responsible for wrecking the economy. That honor belongs to many, and for a much longer period of time than his two terms. Senator Rubio actually had courage to try to fix social security. You can’t wreck something that is already broken. Without intervention, per social security trust fund manager, they will not be able to meet their obligations in the near term.
      Opinions are one thing but they should be based on facts and this means you must be able to recognize rhetoric when you see it. I recognize someone elses rhetoric in your post.

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    • drago
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 6:59am

      @waspanglosaxon aka encinom.
      I see the pharmacy was out of your meds again, f-n idiot……..

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    • stogieguy7
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 10:29am

      ….and the Ivory Tower intellectuals mock “redneck right wingers” as being ignorant? Yet every time I see a post here from a ******* like you, it reads like a letter from one of those “special” classes. More proof that you Obama supporters are either whacked-out on drugs, of sub-par intellect or both.

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  • Michael
    Posted on March 19, 2012 at 12:19am

    Hillbilly: Your mother was a very wise person. It doesn’t take a highschool education to see what these progressives are doing and what the are trying to do to us. She called it right. One thing that I can’t understand though. Why does the present administration think that their ideas and ideals are better than what our forfathers came up with. It the early days of our country they seemed to know what they were doing and what they wanted. Now I am very doubtful of any of it. It is just like the president and the rest of congress has horse blinders on. They don’t listen to the people and pay more attention to all the radicals that are out there. I wish more people would have listened to people like your mother. OMG

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  • hillbillyinny
    Posted on March 19, 2012 at 12:14am

    OK, . . . how can people read this list and NOT UNDERSTAND the the Democrat Party of today IS NOT THEIR GRANDFATHER’S PARTY, AND PROBABLY NOT THEIR FATHER’S PARTY?!

    The count goes, socialist, socialist, communist, communist, socialist, etc., etc., etc., Not surprized by this, always knew it, but gathered all in one spot, it’s mind-blowing!

    What a gathering of Godless minds, perverting our social history, who want something VERY DIFFERENT from what my ancestors, my parents or I want!!!

    May God have mercy on their souls, and work in the minds and lives of those who still have a chance to come to TRUTH!

    How could anyone question what’s going on anymore? It’s all in “black and white” (with the exception of Martin Luther King, a Minister and a man with a purpose for all, not just himself!).

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    • socialism.rocks
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 6:47am

      the puritans and pilgrims invented progressive politics they invented socialism and liberalism
      and they did flat out kill the original conservative party in america the torries~! during the american revolution

      another idiot who listens to limbaugh and he is gone in a month or so- limbaugh is a idiot

      so keep dreaming that dream that conservatives had anything to do with america at its founding~
      they were hated thats what the pilgrims and puritans were fleeing from in europe~
      the old conservative religious aristocracy

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    • matinva
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 7:31am

      @SOCIALISMROCKHEAD

      You are a liar and a fraud. The first attempt at Socialism in America was in the Plymouth colony and was a colossal failure, as has been the case with every Socialist experiment since.

      Here, since you apparently are completely clueless, you probably can’t read that well so have your mommy read this to you. It‘s an excerpt from William Bradford’s writings. He was the first Governor of the Plymouth Colony and he would know better than you how Socialism worked out.

      We have much to learn from the history of the Plymouth Plantation. For, in their first year in the New World, the Pilgrims conducted an experiment in social engineering akin to what is now contemplated; and, after an abortive attempt at cultivating the land in common, their leaders reflected on the results in a manner that Americans today should find instructive.

      William Bradford, Governor of the Plymouth Colony, reports that, at that time, he and his advisers considered “how they might raise as much corn as they could, and obtain a better crop than they had done, that they might not still thus languish in misery.” And “after much debate of things,” he then adds, they chose to abandon communal property, deciding that “they should set corn every man for his own particular” and assign “to every family a parcel of land, according to the proportion of their number, for that end.”

      The results, he tells us, were gratifying in the extreme, “for it made all hands very

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    • teresa2010
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 8:19am

      @socialism.rocks….Congratulations….YOU ARE THE BIGGEST IDIOT OF ALL TIME….. You can’t even make a correct sentence….OH YEAH…. You went to public school

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    • Chuck Stein
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 12:30pm

      If you read the slide show produced by The Nation, you will see a different “Wallace” highlighted. Wht The Nation leaves out is that he saw the light in the 1950′s about communism. He supported Nixon over Kennedy, for example.

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  • BJC
    Posted on March 18, 2012 at 11:57pm

    We all see what they’re doing. They’re repackaging these freaks and trying to make them main stream before the Presidential campaign. They know these names will come up so they’re attaching them to some good activist in hopes of fooling the dopes again.

    You‘ll be hearing people claiming they’re community organizers, and socialist more and more as the election nears.

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    • jackbauer
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 8:55am

      Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner!
      This is exactly what’s happening. A quick history rewrite to make Obummer look less anti-American. The progressive propaganda never ends!

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    • AmazingGrace8
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 12:11pm

      Yes…..you nailed it! While going through that list, took me back to the 50′s & 60′s and looking & reading about each individual it just confirms my alarms going off at the start of the 90′s. One woman, Jane Addams, caught my eye and it took me back to when I wrote a paper on her when I was in middle-school. It set-up my thought-pattern to trials & tribulations about people “having a tough time” and there was help. BUT I am “brain-wired“ to think it is all about the ”individual” and pressing-on and improving his or her life. Also, it DOES NOT matter whether you are very poor/middle income/well-to-do(& did it honestly)…..PAY IT FORWARD!…..but by your own “kindness & love for another human-being”….not the government telling you what or how your acts of kindness should go. Seeing the names etc….I have been fooling myself…I thought we had alittle more time in this country but I think there are about “3” nails left to seal our fate/coffin! I fear for this country! God help us. Thank you Blaze for this information…I have forgotten how this progression has been occurring. NO WONDER the schools are the way they are…Dumbing Down society! The Repub candidates better shape up & roll up their sleeves and the rest of Americans “Wake-Up”!!!

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    • Tom K
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 3:54pm

      @ BJC: They are trotting out all of those evil-Godless progressives / communists to make Obama look good ( or less evil ). Obama is worse than most on the list, particularly when you add his tsars that were trained or strongly influenced by those on “ the list ”. Thanks BJC for getting these comments back on track. Anyone BUT Obama in November !

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  • styxman65
    Posted on March 18, 2012 at 11:49pm

    “And the grand prize goes to”,,,,,,,,,,,,, Obama !!!!

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  • BannedByHuffpo
    Posted on March 18, 2012 at 11:33pm

    Is it just me, or does Saul Alinsky look like that creepy nazi guy in Raiders of The Lost Ark who melted when he looked into the ark in the closing battle scenes?

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    • HorseCrazy
      Posted on March 18, 2012 at 11:53pm

      haha they look exactly the same

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    • rawmilker
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 1:56am

      Yes now that you mention it. How he ever got away without being arrested as a known commie back in the day is beyond me. I’m acually surprised he never got a noose tossed around his spiddley pencil neck and strung up to a good hanging tree. A process in which more than a few of our leaders in office deserve.

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    • AmazingGrace8
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 12:52pm

      He looks like Glenn’s favorite president (not!) W Wilson. Just as a side-note…I found it interesting that Wilson was a “buddy” to “The Cast-A-Way” character. Just saying! Noticed at the end of the movie, the character got a “new & improved” Wilson to ride with him in the front-seat to pursue “new beginnings”. I know, I do tend’ to go into the Twilight-Zone but movies, mostly done by liberals, just send-out a wealth of information or not!

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  • hillbillyinny
    Posted on March 18, 2012 at 11:32pm

    My mom was born during the flu epidemic of 1917-18. Sick as a child with Scarlet Fever and Rheumatic Fever she survived living in a bungalow in the woods of NJ, her head shaved and her return to school in this condition after “cure.” She left high school after finishing tenth grade, and went to work to help feed her family parents and extended farmily in the late thirties.

    She finally became a waitress at a private inn that housed and fed the male professors who taught in a highly respected all-girl college in the NE. In the late 50‘s into the 60’s she and my aunts and uncles, all older than she would talk about the “progressives,” socialists and communists of the early and mid 1900′s, and how they were changing the world. Christians all, they prayed against the possibilities.

    When I went to school in the mid 50′s, my mom said the school seemed to be “telling” parents, “Give us your children and get out of our way,” which hadn‘t been as strong a message in the early 50’s when my brother went to school.

    I didn’t understand all my farmily talked about as I was young, but my mind stored much of what they said. Listening to Glenn seven years ago to today, I recognized much he was presenting and more since then. I wondered why?

    I realized that my mom had learned much “inside information” just listening to those professors she waited on from that liberal, exclusive college! She said, “They’ll be back, they have a terrible goal, just wait. . . but p

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    • hillbillyinny
      Posted on March 18, 2012 at 11:48pm

      (con’t)

      She also said, “They’ll be back, they have a terrible goal, just wait. . . but pray against it.”

      Thank you Mom!

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    • AmericanFightingMan1
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 1:24am

      Well said Hill. That is right. The enemies of liberty know our weak spot, and that is our children. The poison their minds, they win.

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    • ProudConservativeinCA
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 3:14am

      ” We will defeat you from within without firing a shot. We will feed you small doses of Socialism until one day your children wake up to find they live under Communism. ” .Nikita Khrushchev 1959

      By the looks of things this prophecy appears to be on track. We raised 3 children here in Cali, and they have been indoctrinated with Liberal Socialist rhetoric since Elementary School.
      A High School Teacher often spoke to his class, that one day “ La Raza ” would take back California and there is nothing the White Man can do. He flew Mexican Flag in place of the American Flag.

      After several conversations with the Principle and School Board, nothing.
      Long story short, it came down to an economic decision and locating the right Lawyer. In addition my children were frightened beyond words with the possible spectacle this could have caused. Our family through the years have taught our children Conservative Values, Principles and the fact that this great nation was founded on Judea Christian Principles.

      My mother is Mexican and my father was Irish. My mother’s family were political refugees as Pancho Villa & Viva Sipata murdered my great grandfather & uncles. My father’s ancestors were Indentured Servants. The values I learned have been passed onto my children. We are very aware of true Bigotry, Racism & Prejudices. Because I / we disagree with the Liberal speak here in Cali, we are considered Christian Right Wing Racist’s. And we can live with that…!!

      God Bless

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    • TheBurningTruth
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 5:14am

      @AmericanFightingMan1: You’re right that they attack and poison our children against us. It’s pretty easy to do that with young kids that have been taught nothing is their fault and that the world owes them everything. Just look at the 20+ year olds (particularly in the OWS mess) that expect to have as good a life as we old-timers (I’m less than a decade behind you) earned over 30 years or 40 years.

      Yet, some of our kids don’t learn that garbage and are immune from the “teachings” of the Progressive Liberals. It‘s unfortunate that we can’t figure out why one style of parenting tends to give more conservative (and realistic) results instead of this “the world owes me!” garbage.

      As long as kids think things should be free, the Progressive Left will thrive because that’s what their hook is: “Follow me for your Free Stuff!” It’s one step from the creep in the car asking kids if they want some candy!

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    • socialism.rocks
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 6:48am

      you are a flat out liar ~ thats what you are the orginal american christians invented socialism liberalism progressivism….

      dont lie- dont make up stories~

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    • teresa2010
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 8:05am

      @ProudConservativeinCA……. Right on….. We should all be home schooling our children if possible….

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    • dakz
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 8:14am

      @Socialism.Rocks – Go reread your history books. The Puritans did indeed believe in economic determinism, but their system is not the one that founded this country. The final product was our Constitution, and that is in no shape or form anything like what Karl Marx talked about…at all. It is quite the opposite, and the founding fathers (and the rest of America at the time) were afraid of creating a big, over-reaching government body like England, France, and Spain had at the time. What we have today (socialism-light) would have scared the bejeebees out of them. That information you can find by reading the Federalist Papers.

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    • AxelPhantom
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 9:01am

      It is amazing what wisdom can be recieved from the lives of our elders if only we turn down the media noise and listen to what they have to say to us.

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    • AmazingGrace8
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 12:32pm

      God has allowed us to be here at this time in history! Reading your post, you “nailed-it”..thank you. When I first heard Glenn & I think I posted this awhile back, when he played the Russian National Anthem & I felt chills & an uneasy feeling and I said out-loud, “Oh Crap”. I don’t care about myself, I have had a good life….but my heart goes out to future & present generations. My God, what have we done?…I have to stop for awhile..I can’t type through these “tears for America”. God Bless America!

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    • nolemming
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 4:07pm

      @amazinggrace8, you have hit my “special spot” right there, I also feel that we are here in this space and this time for a reason. That is what keeps me going and what will not let me give up the fight. I would rather go down fighting than give in to what is absolutely against my own moral principals and compass.
      The “others” don’t seem to be giving up their rhetoric or “beliefs”, even when they are confronted with the truth, because the truth means nothing to them they are already brainwashed and gone. They have become brainless skin, they cannot or will not speak for themselves and just spout the same lines over and over again. I pay them no mind anymore, they are like ventriolquist dummies just droning on and on in the background, there is nothing that can be done for them, even if you wanted to.
      One day they will find themselves in a hellish life, tormented by the very hands they serve today. Screaming for the ones they are tormenting today to save them tomorrow, but there will be no way because you reap what you sow, and this rule will always be the same and unchangeable.

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  • BannedByHuffpo
    Posted on March 18, 2012 at 11:30pm

    Just for the heck of it, let’s count the total number of Medal of Honor, Distinguished Service Cross, Silver Star, Bronze Star, Purple Heart, Air Medal, Army Commendation Medal or any other medal awarded for valor while serving in armed combat against enemies of the United States, among this silly group of malcontents and losers.

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    • AmericanFightingMan1
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 1:28am

      Manipulators and string-pullers always hide behind the brave and act against the honorable when their strength is sapped. Parasites they are. They feed off the strength of their host. Like morons, they kill the host, they kill themselves.

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    • Chet Hempstead
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 4:55am

      I believe that it would include only David Ross Brower, founder of the Sierra Club, who received the Bronze Star for service in Italy during World War II. Most of the people on the list couldn’t have if they had wanted to, either because they were women, or because they were born at the wrong time. Remember that during the whole twentieth century we only had two wars against actual enemies of the country, World War II and Korea, and that our involvement in each of them lasted less than five years. Also, bear in mind that back then the military was more classist. They generally did not put guys with college educations in combat positions.

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on March 18, 2012 at 11:23pm

    So they are trying to have MLK on the matter? Anyone want to make a good reason as to why they need to rewrite history with him as a Progressive?

    Can you say – minority voters.

    MLK fought for a just cause, to have all people equal and judged by the character of their heart; the Progressives want to continue making minorities as ‘victims, disenfranchised, etc’ and to the most part have succedded. To keep control, they have to rewrite history – to turn truth into a controlling lie.

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    • quiltgal
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 9:10am

      The Nation would have us believe all reforms have been good reforms, all radicals are wise radicals, any change is better than no change, government subsidized health care is in the same category as an “end to lynching,” and Martin Luther King is in the same progressive club as Saul Alinsky. And then it says “we” now take these ideas for granted, as if “we” are all satisfied with every idea and its implementation. Sorry, but I can’t seem to equate some these people and their ideas with others on the list. And I am not willing to accept that all radicals are a benefit to society. While I wholeheartedly support the end of lynching, I‘ve not stopped questioning workers’ right to form unions and minimum wage laws. Both appear to have metamorphosed into something destructive and out-of-control. Perhaps The Nation has an ulterior motive in putting a rosy glow on all reformers and lumping them all together as equals. A warm and fuzzy feeling about one radical, progressive, “hope and change” president perhaps?

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  • jungle J
    Posted on March 18, 2012 at 11:16pm

    they left out castro, che, pol pot, hitler, stalin, idi amin, most child molesters, nambla, and every other degenerate in society,

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  • vtxphantom
    Posted on March 18, 2012 at 11:01pm

    Hitler was a progressive. He almost ruled the world. What do the progressives fear? Truth

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  • nvnusman
    Posted on March 18, 2012 at 11:00pm

    “However, The Nation precipitated such objections” … Um, Erica, did you really mean: “1. to hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely, hastily, or suddenly: to precipitate an international crisis. ” as Dictionary.com defines “precipitated?“ Likely you were after ”anticipated.” (Yes, I’m a grammar naz … oops, a former editor!)

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  • Tigress1
    Posted on March 18, 2012 at 10:43pm

    Michael Moore made the list? Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! The only thing he could influence is a box of Twinkies.

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    • hillbillyinny
      Posted on March 18, 2012 at 11:03pm

      A list of those anti-God humans setting up the End Times (along with the One-World “religion,” Islam (with the help of the progressive “christians”–small “c” as they are not really Christians, but those who can “turn a book”), until enough heads are removed for Islam to take over!

      I don’t know that this is the REAL End Times Senario, but in my short 63 years existence, reading the Bible and watching human behavior, it all seems much more possible.

      Lets get busy working on the Great Commission, the spreading of the Gospel of Christ. We don‘t know when God’s patience wll run out on our depraved civilization, and God offers ALL His Salvation and His Love.

      Maranatha! Come quickly Lord Jesus, the Christ and the Messiah!

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  • TRONINTHEMORNING
    Posted on March 18, 2012 at 10:34pm

    What a group of evil, sick, arrogant, greedy, power hungry…etc…May they be studied and all found to be failures by true American standards. Each is guilty of destruction of some sort.

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    • TRONINTHEMORNING
      Posted on March 18, 2012 at 10:35pm

      And Martin L King, Jr. obviously should not be on the list. Libs do that dance all the time.

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  • TheReasonableLib
    Posted on March 18, 2012 at 10:28pm

    Before you neoons try once more to co-opt Dr. King I feel the need to inform you that he was for a “vast REDISTRIBUTION” of political and economic wealth. Socialism.

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    • Psychosis
      Posted on March 18, 2012 at 11:15pm

      no he wasnt

      nice try loser learn your history better then come back

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    • lwoot
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 1:08am

      He said Judge a man by the content of his character not the color of his skin. I don’t remember there being anything about judging him by his health care coverage, or the amount he gets in reparations, or how many of his children can be aborted, or how often he can have sex, or how many women he can have sex with, or if he sex with another man, or how much money he can get from taxing rich people…. if i forgot any of things that have been championed by the progressives, there are just so many, please feel free to add to the list.

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  • matinva
    Posted on March 18, 2012 at 10:22pm

    Shall we count the dead resulting from the philosophy of these monsters? I didn’t think so….

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  • Psychosis
    Posted on March 18, 2012 at 10:21pm

    lol a list of losers for the most part

    though there are some i could tolerate there is one we should all strive to promote

    marge sanger ………………….i think EVERY lib dem proggy commie should take her ideas to heart and fully participate in her eugenics planned parenthood program

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    • Chet Hempstead
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 4:27am

      Did you read the whole list? Do you really think Jackie Robinson is a loser? Or Earl Warren? Thurgood Marshall? Jane Addams? Rachel Carson? How much have you accomplished, how much have you contributed to turning your vision of what America should be into a reality that you can with credibility decide that John Kenneth Galbraith and Louis Brandeis and Muhammed Ali are losers?

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    • lobster
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 9:30am

      I know we can thank Rachel Carson for not having the ability to kill bugs. DDT was NOT a carcinogen. Hexachlorophene was the only bactericide that worked on Staph, we now have massive amounts of staph in the hospitals because of inability to kill bugs. Earl Warren was a lefty loser, and I’m not really convinced Cassius Clay has really helped the U.S. that much.

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  • mathwonk
    Posted on March 18, 2012 at 10:20pm

    rick santorum is gonna be pretty bummed that he didn’t make the list

     
  • LoneRanger
    Posted on March 18, 2012 at 10:18pm

    “At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it? Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest, with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years.

    At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, If it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us; it cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time, or die by suicide.” Abraham Lincoln – Lyceum Address 1838

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    • superpatriot2
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 1:37am

      Excellant post Ranger…But, you are not ALONE, I’ve got your six, three and nine also, along with others. We have been known as “The Silent Majority” for years. When the time is right, trust me, we will be heard from.

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    • SPQR_Rome_part2
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 2:06am

      Its already here. Its been here since the country was set aside for freedom. Its playing its hand and winning. But God doesnt play cards. Im not afraid (not implying you are), Im honored to be going through these times!

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  • lukerw
    Posted on March 18, 2012 at 10:17pm

    Mostly… a List of Perversion… and Satanic anti“Book Of Life”!

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