You Cannot Pivot From Commucare

#GetCovered is not going away

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(via "Tweet from Ted Cruz" at iowntheworld.com)

Ridicule is man's most potent weapon - Saul Alinsky

Bonus links:

• Summary of Saul Alinsky's 'Rules for Radicals'
• Rules for Radicals at amazon.com

Obama More Leninist Than Marxist

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin remains an icon of Progressivism

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(via "A Dramatic Poetry Reading By Mr. B. H. Soetero" at directorblue.blogspot.com)

Woodrow Goes Galt, Ebonics Yes, Deep Throat Dead

On this day: December 18

President Woodrow Wilson marries Edith Bolling Galt (1915)

President Richard Nixon announces that the U.S. will engage North Vietnam in Operation Linebacker II, a series of Christmas bombings, after peace talks collapsed with North Vietnam on the 13th (1972)

The Islamic Development Bank is founded (1973)

The Oakland, CA school board passes a resolution officially declaring "Ebonics" a language or dialect (1996)

President B. Hussein Obama attends a United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (2009)

b: Joseph Stalin (1878), Robert Moses (1888), Douglas Fraser (1916), Randi Weingarten (1957); d: Alexei Kosygin (1980), W. Mark Felt (2008)

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