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Bonus links:

• Summary of Saul Alinsky's 'Rules for Radicals'
• AlinskyDefeater's Blog
• Rules for Radicals at amazon.com
Individual liberty anywhere is a threat to the Progressive-Collectivist Cause everywhere.
Obama said that Republicans have "one message and that is, we're going to make sure that we cut people's taxes even more -- so that by every objective measure our deficit is worse and we will slash government investments that have made this country great," he argued, "not because it's going to balance the budget, but because it's driven by our ideological vision about how government should be. That's their agenda, pure and simple."(full story at washingtonexaminer.com)
Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Brazil are established (1945)
Charlie Chaplin returns to the U.S. for the first time since being labeled a communist during the Red Scare in the early 1950s (1972)
U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs the Crude Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act in an effort to help the U.S. economy rebound (1980)
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in Havana, Cuba to meet with Fidel Castro in an attempt to mend strained relations (1989)
b: Émile Zola (1840), Ferenc Puskás (1927); d: Franz Halder (1972)