It's Something to Build On: Socialism Viewed Positively by 36% of Americans

A new Gallup poll reveals: More than one-third of Americans (36%) have a positive image of "socialism" ...with a majority of Democrats and liberals saying they have a positive view of socialism, compared to a minority of Republicans and conservatives.

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Lex Was Here – Till She Got Hauled Off in Cuffs

In the most recent instance of excessive force by police in New York's public schools, a 12-year-old girl was hauled out of school in handcuffs after doodling on her desk. Last month, the NYCLU filed a class action suit on behalf of five students physically abused and arrested. Alexa Gonzalez was suspended from school and has been throwing up a lot. She must do community service and write an essay on what she learned. "I definitely learned not to ever draw on a desk. They told me with a pencil this could still happen."

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Not If We Can Help It

Looking determinedly backward, the opening speaker at the Tea Party wing-ding blasted the U.S. "cult of multiculturalism" and suggested a return to a Jim-Crow-era "literacy test" to protect us from presidents like "Barack Hussein Obama." As my multicultural people would say: Oy. "This is our country," said former Congressman Tom Tancredo. "Let's take it back."

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