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President Obama Shuns Lech Walesa Rory Cooper National Review Online 6/1/2012 Lech Walesa was once a trade-union activist. He was often arrested for speaking his mind against Communist oppression behind the Iron Curtain in Poland and for defying the Soviet Union. He was an electrician who, with no higher education, led one of the […] June 1st, 2012 | Tags: Democratic Socialists of America, Dolores Huerta, Jan Karski, Lech Walesa, Medal of Freedom, Nobel Peace Prize, Poland, Solidarity, Soviet Union | Category: Barack Obama, Communism, Marxism, Politics, Russia, Socialism, World War II | Comments are closed
“Don’t know much about history…” 29 May 2012 And you thought awarding the cherished Medal of Freedom to a well-known socialist was the indignity of the day. It might be, but this runs a close second: “The president referred to ‘Polish death camps’ while awarding a posthumous Medal of Freedom to Polish professor Jan Karski, […] May 29th, 2012 | Tags: Chicago, concentration camps, Jan Karski, Medal of Freedom, Minister of Foreign Affairs Radek Sikorski, missile defense, NATO, Poland, President Bronislaw Komorowski, Soviet Union, Tommy Vietor, Twitter, voters | Category: Barack Obama, Europe, History, Illinois, Nazis, World War II | Comments are closed
Photo by J. Emilio Flores/La Opinion (Newscom) Click on the image to enlarge. Lachlan Markay The Foundary Heritage.org 5/29/2012 President Obama awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Tuesday to Dolores Huerta, an 82-year-old labor activist and co-founder of the United Farm Workers union. Huerta is also an honorary chair of the Democratic Socialists […] May 29th, 2012 | Tags: 'social justice', Democratic Socialists of America, Dolores Huerta, Hugo Chavez, Medal of Freedom, United Farm Workers | Category: Barack Obama, Politics, Socialism, Unions | Comments are closed
Anti-Americanism and anti-Israel activism win Obama’s approbation. By JOHN BOLTON AUGUST 10, 2009 Barack Obama’s decision to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Mary Robinson has generated unexpected but emotionally charged opposition. Appointed by then-U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan as high commissioner for human rights in 1997-2002, Ms. Robinson had a controversial but ineffective […] August 10th, 2009 | Tags: Durban, Human Rights, Mary Robinson, Medal of Freedom | Category: Israel, Racism | Comments are closed
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