Jonah Goldberg, back in 2009: …what really interests me is the question of what the most dangerous legacy of the Cold War really was, if it wasn’t the existence of nukes. Some might say the military-industrial complex or the national-security state. But not me. To me, the most obvious dangerous legacy of the Cold War would have to be the damage the Soviets did to the world. I don’t mean

Kurtz: In Radical-in-Chief, I describe the “inside/outside” or “good cop/bad cop” strategy favored by Obama and his organizing mentors. The idea is that a seemingly moderate “good cop” politician works on the inside of government, while coordinating his moves with nasty Alinskyite “bad cops” on the outside. Reports that Obama’s own organizers helped put together the Madison protests fit the model. That coordination is necessary to achieve Obama’s real goal:

Kurtz, pp 382-386: The most important clue of all to what the Obama administration may be up to comes from a fascinating analysis by Huffington Post political editor Thomas B. Edsall. Published in April 2010 by The Atlantic, Edsall’s article, “The Obama Coalition,” argues that the electorate is shifting toward a form of class-based political conflict unseen in America for decades.54 As a rule, says Edsall, economic growth reduces competition

From the Blaze (h/t Pablo) and Naked Emperor News: Cloward-Piven 2.0. What we’re witnessing is an organized attempt at initiating a soft coup in the United States by way of a socialist cabal. Michael Medved might not like to hear this; Bill O’Reilly and Bernie Goldberg likely won’t, either — concerned, as they both are, about the “rightwing” “bash Obama” industry (which isn’t helping “the folks”); Jeb Bush surely doesn’t,