Noam Chomsky, America’s Most Boring Public Intellectual, on the Death of Osama bin Laden


Noam Chomsky doesn’t like corporations, but the only one He doesn’t seem interested in exposing is al Qaeda. Since its inception, al Qaeda and its recently expired figurehead, Osama bin Laden, have essentially operated as a multinational importer-exporter of murder, fear, hatred, nihilism, and racism.

Has the Ayn Rand “Cult” Brainwashed the Tea Party?


Leftist Rule for Engaging Conservative Ideas #1: conservatives’ motives are never what they claim. It must be rigorously asserted that right-wingers are invariably driven by impulses more sinister than making people better off or trying to find solutions to the problems we face. New Republic senior editor Jonathan Chait knows that lesson by heart—on the Daily Beast, he argues that from the lowliest Tea Partier all the way up to Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), the Right is animated by a view of “the poor as parasites” and “the rich as our rightful rulers,” a dogma we’ve picked up from philosopher Ayn Rand.

This Country Needs a Few Good Communists—Full Marx to Chris Hedges


In an era when the budding Van Joneses of this world are “dropping the radical pose” and concealing their truly dreadful, intellectually bankrupt ideas beneath layers of hopey-changey gauze it is refreshing to read a lefty who actually says what he means.
Thus, Chris Hedges and his post This Country Needs a Few Good Communists, a [...]

La Raza Violent Threats Ignored, Tea Party Protesters Considered Dangerous Threat to America


The media refuses to acknowledge racist violence in America – unless they can falsely accuse the Tea Party movement of it, that is. They have insinuated that tea party protesters are anti-black, Obama-hating racists, attempting to start violent revolutions.  These accusations are false. Tea parties are about preserving the Constitution, America’s founding and heritage, [...]

Oops! Media Forgot to Cover Left-wing Anti-Semitism


Oh darn. Well, it’s not as important as Sarah Palin’s Facebook page anyway. 
Shortly before the controversial Tea Party rally in Harry Reid’s hometown of Searchlight, Nevada there was a nationally organized anti-war rally on March 20th to mark the 7 year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. It took place in cities across the country [...]

The Books that Change Us


How does a “progressive” college student end up working at the Freedom Center?

The Future of Capitalism


Ira Stoll surveys the economic scene.

The Olympics and the Spirit of Capitalism


The winter Olympics may seem an odd occasion to celebrate the virtues of entrepreneurial capitalism and economic decentralization, but a front-page piece in today’s New York Times provides an appropriate opportunity to do just that.
As the winter games conclude, the U.S. leads all competing countries in total medals won – 36 and counting – and [...]

Joseph Stack: Disillusioned Leftist, Not “Racist Right-wing Teabagger”


Despite the leftist ideology revealed in Joseph Stack’s manifesto, shortly after he crashed his plane into the IRS building in Austin, TX, progressive media lept to align him with the Tea Party movement, describing him as right-wing, racist, anti-tax, patriot, or militia. Sensing the danger the average American citizen in the Tea Party movement represents to Democrats in 2010 and 2012, they [...]

“The Coming Insurrection,” Joe Stack and Anarchy


Sadly, though I spent my entire life trying to believe it wasn’t so, but violence not only is the answer, it is the only answer. – Joe Stack
When Glenn Beck  brought up the book “The Coming Insurrection” on one of last week’s shows once again, expressing his grave concern about its’ content, I never expected [...]