Gingrich's shady Alinsky campaign

I suspect Saul Alinsky would nod with grudging admiration at the way GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich repeatedly injects his name into speeches and interviews. "The centerpiece of this campaign is American exceptionalism versus the radicalism of

Highlights from Saul Alinsky's 1972 interview with Playboy: When a community, any kind of community, is hopeless and helpless, it requires somebody from outside to come in and stir things up. That's my job — to unsettle

O'REILLY: In the "Barack and Hard Place Segment" tonight the name Saul Alinsky keeps popping up in the presidential campaign. He was a far- left social activist based in Chicago who died in 1972 but not before leaving all kinds of strategies for

A couple of years ago, in a "Tim's Light Reading" entry, I mentioned Saul Alinsky. At the time I expressed some surprise upon learning that Alinsky maintained a thirty-year correspondence with the French Catholic neo-Thomist philosopher

He can blame Saul Alinsky. On my first day in my first job as a conservative activist, I was handed a copy of Alinsky's “Rules for Radicals.” It was given in part as a how-to manual for organizing political operations and