New anti-Obama themes: 'European socialism' and 'Saul Alinsky'

Saul Alinsky's name is not just one of a long list of villains cited by Gingrich as scheming role models or disciples of the president; he stands alone. And as one who was quite familiar with Alinsky's ideas in the 1960s, I would

By Pierre Tristam The majority of Americans were not alive when Saul Alinsky died in 1972, when he was 63 (and Barack Obama was 10). Fewer Americans than could fit in a minor league baseball stadium had heard of Alinsky when Newt Gingrich revived the

It was Bill Maher who summed up what a lot of Americans have been thinking when he said, “Who the f— is Saul Alinsky?” Alinsky was the Chicago activist who employed controversial, radical methods to organize and empower the voiceless.

Hello, European socialists and Saul Alinsky. "We will run an American campaign," Newt Gingrich proclaimed to Republicans in Palm Beach, Fla., on Saturday night, framing this distinction with Obama: "I am for the Declaration of Independence;

George Romney — a liberal Republican — met the radical organizer Saul Alinsky to discuss the grievances of the urban black poor. Now Romney's son is fighting for the Republican nomination, and his main rival, Newt Gingrich, has made Barack Obama's