One thing socialists are good at is overlooking the deficiencies of the socialist model, wherever that model is put into practice. The world, unfortunately, is full of examples of those failed models. In our own hemisphere, for example, we can study how socialism has failed Cuba, that tropical island-nation run by the autocratic Castro brothers, [...]
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A crucial element in the worldview of American radicals is the belief in American omnipotence – the ability of America’s leaders to control the circumstances of their international policies without regard to the interests of allies or the threats of adversary powers or the constraints imposed by domestic political forces. [...]
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The Tea Party is Coming to Town
Robert A. Hall
You better watch out
You better not try
To spend us broke
I’m telling you why
The Tea Party is coming to town.
We’re making a list
And checking it there;
Gonna find out
Who’s for ObamaCare.
Tea Party is coming to town.
We sees you when you’re earmarking
We know that you’re a fake,
We knows if you voted [...]
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French public intellectuals have a reputation—well-deserved—for being socialists, Marxists, or Trotskyists. One thinks in this regard of popular figures like Jean-Paul Sartre, Pierre Bourdieu, Jacques Derrida, and Simone de Beauvoir, all with fan clubs on American campuses. Some French thinkers, however, have carried forward another intellectual tradition, that of classical liberalism—pro-democracy and pro-market—and running from [...]
My grandfather used to tell my mother as she was growing up (in the Depression) that she and her siblings were lucky — they had a Sears catalog for the necessary paperwork in the out-house. He, on the other hand as a child, had to use two corn cobs. First, he would explain, you used [...]
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After Betty’s murder, I ceased to be politically active. I couldn’t even think about politics apart from these events. In my heart, I knew that it would not be possible for me to work for a cause again until I had resolved the issues of her death. As New Leftists, we felt ourselves immunized from [...]
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