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Diamond Does Annenberg
The Corner on National Review Online —
... ] Steve Diamond, our key source for information on the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, is at it again over at his Global Labor and Politics blog. Diamond has put together what looks to be an important summary of the information he obtained earlier from Annenberg national headquarters. This is so hot-off-the-presses that I haven t yet had a chance to carefully read through it myself. But it will surely tell you some very important things about the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, and will also bring home how important the records I am seeking could be. ...
Speaking of Cover-Ups...
The Discerning Texan —
... And Steve Diamond, the main man on this story, has also gone though some of these missing documents and posts his thoughts. Some highlights: ...
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FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog —
... Annenberg Challenge records, to prevent them from being returned to their original donor, and to preserve them from tampering. (For background, see my piece, "Chicago Annenberg Challenge Shutdown?") The Associate Press has reported on the story. Over at JustOneMinute, Tom Maguire makes note of the fact that the AP story fails to mention the contradiction between Obama’s Annenberg connection and his claim that Ayers was just "a guy who lives in my neighborhood.
Global Labor and Politics: Behind the Annenberg Gate: Inside the Chicago Annenberg Challenge ...
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FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog —
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Global Labor and Politics: Behind the Annenberg Gate: Inside the Chicago Annenberg Challenge Records
As Global Labor readers are now aware, the University of Illinois is blocking access to the ...
Annenberg Challengers
Gateway Pundit —
... Steve Diamond at Global Labor was able to view Annenberg Challenge documents before he wrote a post about what he found. He has since been banned from viewing the documents. ...
Update: Still No Movement on Ayers-Obama Annenberg Papers
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... Fortunately, Kurtz is not entirely alone in his pursuit of the truth. Santa Clara law professor, Steve Diamond, has done his own research on the matter. Though he did not have access to the key documents housed at the U of I, he did survey the material related to the national Annenberg Challenge. ...
Steve Diamond - lawyer/blogger hot on the Obama-Ayers trail His Annenberg Challenge story
Flopping Aces —
... Diamond has a very complete analysis of the CAC (Chicago Annenberg Challenge) in his post yesterday, “Behind the Annenberg Gate: Inside the Chicago Annenberg Challenge Records”. ...
“In a Sense, All Education is About Power.” -William Ayers
Say Anything —
... ...My analysis of the history of the CAC can be found here. The key to understanding the CAC is its political context. The CAC was established to shore up support for the Local School Councils established in 1988. The LSCs were a new power center set up to watchdog teachers, principals and school administrators. While Ayers celebrates it as a form of battling “bureaucracies” and as a democratic reform, in fact it has disturbing authoritarian overtones… ...
Editors: Barack Obama, Aspiring Commissar
Articles on National Review Online —
... that distributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to their ideological allies. Most significant, they worked closely together on the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC). The CAC was a major education reform project, proposed by Ayers, which was underwritten by a $49.2 million grant from the Annenberg Foundation, complemented by another $100 million in private and public funding. The project ran for about five years, beginning in 1995. As the liberal researcher Steve Diamond has recounted , Ayers ran its operational arm, the Chicago School Reform Collaborative. Obama, then a ...
Brave New Wor(l)ds
protein wisdom —
... that distributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to their ideological allies. Most significant, they worked closely together on the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC). The CAC was a major education reform project, proposed by Ayers, which was underwritten by a $49.2 million grant from the Annenberg Foundation, complemented by another $100 million in private and public funding. The project ran for about five years, beginning in 1995. As the liberal researcher Steve Diamond has recounted , Ayers ran its operational arm, the “Chicago School Reform Collaborative.” Obama, then a ...
High Risk
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... first ran for the Illinois State Senate. Ayers, Dohrn, Obama, and Ayers' late father Thomas G. Ayers, a longtime civic and business leader and the chairman and CEO of Chicago Con Ed (now Exelon), served on mutually reinforcing - and entirely above-board - Chicago non-profits and philanthropies, ranging from the Developing Communities Project (DCP), which hired Obama, at 24, as an organizer on Chicago's economically depressed South Side, to the Woods, Joyce, and Gamaliel foundations 40 odd years after the Weather Underground "flamed out". ...
Deep secrets of campaign 2008
Power Line —
... on FOX News, Obama asserted that Ayers was just one of the thousands of acquaintances he's made over the years. Obama's description of his relationship with Ayers is simply deceitful. Thanks to the work of Steve Diamond and ...
Obama And Ayers - What's The Story?
JustOneMinute —
... charity? Silent Running wonders whether Google has canceled Marc Ambinder's subscription: CY points out a classic lefty response - toss out a bunch of simple questions already answered in the material they don’t like, avoid the (repeat of the just as simple) answers, then hope something else comes along to change the subject. My guess is that Google probably is blocked, since Ambinder resolutely misspells "Ayers" as "Ayres". Steve Diamond, who has been advancing this story for months, has a summary here and a full paper ...
The Obama-Ayers TKO punch McCain should use… Linking radical ties to BHO’s failed educational & economic leadership
Flopping Aces —
... The CAC structure is adeptly explained in full by Steve Diamond, and I suggest you read all from the horse’s mouth. But to summarize, the CAC had three divisions in it’s structure - the Board, the Collaborative, and Consortium of Chicago Schools Research (CCSR). ...
McCarthy: Why Wont Obama Talk About Columbia?
Articles on National Review Online —
... as adults; prisons should eventually be replaced by home detention; American justice is comparable to South Africa under Apartheid. Obama s reaction? He described the book as a searing and timely account a take even the Times concedes was a rave review. Obama and Ayers shared all kinds of views. That is why they worked so well together at the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), funding the likes of Mike Klonsky, a fellow SDS and Maoist associate of Ayers who, as Steve Diamond relates , used to host a social justice blog on Obama s campaign website. With Obama heading ...
Investigating Obama: Career Path Toward a Neo-Marxist Presidency
MY Vast Right Wing Conspiracy —
... “ community organizations ” fitting the terrorist Weathermen’s model . The goal? “ Raise political consciousness ,” chiefly among black school kids. (Historically, an SDS and Weathermen objective has been to piggyback upon any black revolt in America, for their Marxist ends.) What “political consciousness?” One attractive to Ayers, a self-proclaimed anarchistic Marxist . Ayers secured the purse , thus presumably played a responsible role in setting up young Mr. Obama as chairman. They apparently formed a small circle of ...
