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Che Guevara: PC Icon by Larry Pratt July 12, 2007 02:00 PM EST Che Guevara's image graces many a T-shirt worn in the US. Wearing one of these seems to be intended as a statement that it is good to be free of the crushing norms of a civilization tricked up by dead white men. The T-shirt image depicts a long-haired 1960’s hippy gazing steadfastly into the future. The truth is, Ernesto "Che" Guevara, the one-time number three in Fidel Castro's thugocracy, would have had a guy looking like Guevara's resemblance arrested and sent to a concentration camp known by...

Chinese officials break "one-child" policy Jul 8 11:56 AM US/Eastern Nearly 2,000 officials in central China have violated the nation's "one child" family planning policy, further revealing difficulties in implementing population controls. Family planning departments have exposed 1,968 officials in populous Hunan province who have breached the law, Xinhua news agency said Sunday. One "national" level official surnamed Li even went so far as to sire four children with his four different mistresses, the report said. The local family planning commission caught 21 national and local legislators, 24 political advisers and 112 businessmen violating the birth control policies in the...

June 19, 1953 : Julius and Ethel Rosenberg executed Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, a married couple convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage in 1951, are put to death in the electric chair. The execution marked the dramatic finale of the most controversial espionage case of the Cold War. Julius was arrested in July 1950, and Ethel in August of that same year, on the charge of conspiracy to commit espionage. Specifically, they were accused of heading a spy ring that passed top-secret information concerning the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. The Rosenbergs vigorously protested their innocence, but after a...

Filmmaker Michael Moore's production company took ailing Ground Zero responders to Cuba in a stunt aimed at showing that the U.S. health-care system is inferior to Fidel Castro's socialized medicine, according to several sources... The trip was to be filmed as part of the controversial director's latest documentary, "Sicko," an attack on American drug companies and HMOs that Moore hopes to debut at the Cannes Film Festival next month. Two years in the making, the flick also takes aim at the medical care being provided to people who worked on the toxic World Trade Center debris pile, according to several...

CHINESE President Hu Jintao has defended China's slow political reforms overnight, at the end of a US tour, as hundreds of protestors tried to drown out his speech at Yale University. Mr Hu has been dogged by the Falun gong movement and human rights protesters throughout his four days in the United States. More than 200 protestors, mainly from Falun gong, pounded drums and shouted into bullhorns the auditorium where Mr Hu spoke at the prestigious university. "Falun Dafa is good!" the protestors screamed. Other protestors demanded the release of dissidents including a jailed New York Times researcher, Zhao Yan....

Greetings. I have a piece of text I'd like to copy and paste from a topic on another forum (known as Marble Garden, which is where political, philosophical, and sociological threads and debates are posted). I had started a topic (username: Ultra Sonic 007) about health care, asking which system would be better; socialized or private? One of the forumers there is TheCycle, a Canadian. He just recently posted a long post on the universal health-care system and why it would be a good idea for the US to make the switch to such a system. It was in response...

Was just watching Fox & Friends. There were two communists(by the looks, radical feminists as well) on it who support Michael Schiavo, and they had some telling things to say about us "radical" conservatives: Communist1-"President Bush, Jeb Bush, (the courts) are all looking to get totalitarian control..." F&F- "What do you think about Jesse Jackson's recent statements?" Communists1&2-"It's a very complicated" -snip- Communist2-"These people won't allow stem cell research, which could save lives. These people don't even support abortion." -snip- F&F-"Can you ever see yourselves in power?" Communist1-"We're looking to liberate the entire world from oppressive regimes." -------------------- If anyone...

The People's Republic of China, after more than a decade of efforts which saw the cancellation of an intital Israeli project to provide them with the capability (at the behest of the United States), have now produced their own first modern AWACS aircraft and placed them in service. The aircraft are based on the Russian Beriev A-50 Mainstay airframe but use wholly Chinese created phased array radar components housed in a non-rotating dome, providing 360 degree coverage. Two aircraft have been built and two more are rapidly being completed for placing in service. Capabilities of the Chinese phased array system...

Pictures of North Korean ruler Kim Jong Il are being removed from public places in Pyongyang and other parts of country. No word so far on who gave the order or its meaning. =================== Russia’s state-run communication agency ITAR-TASS reported from Beijing quoting a diplomat in North Korea yesterday that pictures of the chairman of the DPRK National Defense Committee Kim Jong Il are being removed from public places in North Korea. The news reported that foreigners who were recently invited to the People’s Palace of Culture in Pyongyang noticed that only the late President Kim Il Sung’s picture remains...

SEOUL, South Korea - When it comes to inventing honorifics for North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, the communist nation's propagandists know no bounds. From mountain cliffs and village walls to school textbooks and television newscasts, Kim is hailed as the "Great Leader," "Heaven-sent Great General," "Guardian of Our Planet" — 1,200 titles in all, according to North Korea's state radio. He's most commonly known as the "Dear Leader," but among his other sobriquets are "The Illustrious General of All Illustrious Generals," "The Saint of All Saints" and "The Lodestar of the 21st Century." It's all part of the personality...

WASHINGTON -- I was sitting down in my room the other day, reflecting. I was on the verge of breaking down and crying. Sometimes, it all adds up and it eats away at you. The last month has been depressing to say the least. First, we heard the tragic news that Senator Paul Wellstone (D-Minn.) died. One of the last great men in the senate, Wellstone was part of a dying breed -- a politician who stood by his beliefs no matter what the cost. Then, the Republicans took over Congress in what was a humiliating defeat for the Democrats....