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CARACAS, Venezuela — They don't call him President Bush in Venezuela anymore. Now he's known as "Comrade." With the Bush administration's Treasury Department resorting to government bailout after government bailout to keep the U.S. economy afloat, leftist governments and their political allies in Latin America are having a field day, gloating one day and taunting Bush the next for adopting the types of interventionist government policies that he's long condemned. "We were just talking about that this morning on the floor," said Congressman Edwin Castro, who heads the leftist Sandinista congressional bloc in Nicaragua. "We think the Bush administration should...

You bet your babushka, baby. But now, the red menace is kind of green. NEW YORK - The decor inside the national headquarters of the Communist Party USA, or CPUSA, is more Macy's than Marx. Glass walls rise from the floor to form state-of-the-art work spaces, nontoxic linseed oil burnishes the work surfaces, and biodegradable blue carpet is underfoot. Colorful paintings by the renowned artists Boris Taslitzky and Alejandro Romero, depicting the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps and working-class struggle, dot the walls of the expansive open-plan office. Inside their transparent cubicles, the 21-strong staff tap away on Apple...

BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan, Jan. 4, 2008 – One airman’s commitment to a fallen comrade came full circle Jan. 1 with the dedication of a road in his honor here. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Blaine Arsenault, 455th Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron, stands by a sign dedicating a road near the fuel farm at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, to the memory of fallen Air Force Master Sgt. Randy Gillespie, Jan. 1, 2008. Gillespie was Arsenault's first supervisor and a career fuels specialist who died July 9, 2007 near Herat, Afghanistan. Photo by Capt. Mike Meridith, USAF  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution...

Speaking in 2004 to a crowd of wealthy democratic supporters during a fund raising event in San Francisco, Hillary Clinton spoke the very words that illustrate the intentions of the government so very well. "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." While those words were spoken three years ago, they are just as important today. They represent not just the Democrat party's strong commitment to the redistribution of wealth rightfully earned by the American people, it provides insight into the focus that our politicians have in running our nation. It highlights the precise...

Last week, Seattle PI columnist Susan Paynter said that calling her "Hillary", or "Mrs. Clinton" is unfairly dismissive. (That column got enough reactions so that Paynter wrote this follow-up.) We should, said Paynter, call her "Senator Clinton". [snip] What's missing is her surname. Someone has apparently decided that Mrs. Clinton will be the first major single-name candidate since 1952, when Ike's P.R. gurus realized that "Eisenhower" was tough to fit on a bumper sticker.[snip] Mrs. Clinton announced her intentions via the Internet on a Web site called "Hillary for President. Incredibly, on the day of her announcement, the name "Clinton"...

FORT HUACHUCA — When Wendy stood at attention, she was perhaps 3 feet tall. But within that short package was a tough soldier, a four-footed battle buddy. On Wednesday, Staff Sgt. Wendy, a decorated Belgium Malinois who helped protect American forces in Afghanistan, was laid to rest in a small cemetery for military working dogs behind the kennels she called home during her nine-year military career. With her before she took her last breath was her sixth handler, Sgt. Garrett Davison, of the 18th Military Police Detachment. He and other dog handlers took Wendy to the post veterinarian clinic, where...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Saddam Hussein's trial on charges of genocide in connection with a crackdown on Kurds has begun. MORE...

The New York Times is giving a lecture on the Middle Class. None other than Comrade Barbara Ehrenreich, a leader of the Democratic Socialists of America, will be one of the panelists. The Times doesn't want you to know that Comrade Ehrenreich is a living, breathing, socialist so they just say Barbara Ehrenreich-author of 13 books, including the bestselling “Nickel and Dimed”. That way you will not get confused on what's the difference between the "progressive editorials" of Gail Collins and socialism. No word yet on whether Comrade Ehrenreich wants to share her personal wealth with the people.

CARACAS, Venezuela Telesur has expanded to 17 Latin American countries in its first year on the air. Now officials with the T-V network financed by Venezuela and four other nations is eyeing U-S markets.Telesur today marked its first anniversary.The operation is touted by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez as an upstart and alternative to what he calls the Washington-friendly coverage of media giants such as C-N-N.Telesur hopes to make inroads in Hispanic communities in Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago, New York, New Jersey and Florida.Telesur president and former Venezuelan Information Minister Andres Izarra says the process has been uphill because he calls...

I have for many years now, been warning of the age old battle between the super rich and the middle class. Only in the usa during the 19th and 20th century, did the middle class win that battle. During the 19th and 20th century in the usa the power of the super wealthy was curtailed. Government enacted laws that protected the middle class and encouraged exspandsion of the middle class. Anti-trust laws prevented the super rich from gaining control over entire industries. Today these laws are ignored. Labor laws enabled workers to bargain for a living wage. Today these laws...

MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. – (March 24, 2006) -- Standing in front of a formation at the 2nd Marine Logistics Group amphitheatre, Gunnery Sgt. David L. Sutherland received the highest award of his 13-year career in the company of family, friends and fellow Marines March 23. The Vernon, Conn., native distinguished himself as the Force Protection Chief and Security Element Team Chief, 8th Communication Battalion, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward) from Jan. 2005 to Oct. 2005. Sutherland led the Marines in more than 85 convoy security missions, covering the entire Al-Anbar Province, Iraq, resulting in the safe transportation...

Fellow ProtestWarriors, Our war in Iraq has truly separated the wheat from the chaff, as we've seen the true agenda of the leftist mindset come to the fore. Loathe to admit that they hate freedom, they will desperately cling to their shopworn canards, about this war being at the behest of Halliburton, or Big Oil, or a shadowy cabal of neocons, rather than just admit that they don't want to see the Western values of freedom and individual rights spread. And since every society that has ever been run under socialist or Islamist precepts has degenerated into barbarism and tyranny,...

KIEV (Reuters) -- More than 12 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukrainian soldiers are once again "comrades." The Ukrainian parliament passed a law Wednesday banning the use of "sir" as an address in the country's armed forces. The law allows soldiers to only use "comrade" when addressing officers and fellow servicemen. The deputies gave no explanation for their decision. "Comrade" was a typical address in the army and throughout society in the Communist era. But Ukraine has tried to replace it with new terms since the end of Soviet rule in 1991.

Call me Miss September 16, 2003 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- by Amber Pawlik -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Before feminism, women were referred to based on their marital status. Single women were “Miss;” married women were “Mrs.” Feminists invented the term “Ms.” to refer to a woman independent of her marital status – much like “Mr.” I recently picked up George Orwell’s 1984 again, and came across a particularly insightful quote. I had to put the book down for quite some time after reading it; it had such an effect on me. This is when Winston visits his neighbor, goes to call her “Mrs.,” but then remembers:...

One of the scaries speeches I've ever heard. Quoted from a 1996 DNC speech by NY Governor Cuomo's thoughts on republicans: -------------------------------------- They are the real threat to our women. They are the real threat to our children. They are the real threat to clean water, clean air, and the rich landscape of America. They are the real threat to fairness. They are the real threat to equality. The Republicans are the real threat to an enlightened Supreme Court, and don't you remember that - don't you forget that - the Republicans. And this now is the most important idea...

Bowling For Columbine is the latest documentary from Michael Moore, the left-wing multi-millionaire provocateur in his usual cunning disguise as an all-American lardbutt loser – baseball cap, unkempt hair, untucked shirt. This time, the nominal subject is American violence, but, by now, connoisseurs of Roger And Me and Moore’s TV work know that, whatever the subject, the routine never varies: He turns up at company headquarters unannounced and demands to see the chairman. The receptionist says he’s not available, and Moore merrily films the stand-off before moving on to some other target. If he showed up to see me without...