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Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by George Bernard Shaw. Click puzzle (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. George Bernard Shaw is one of history's original communist thugs, his writings and plays a mere denouement on his violent view on pacifists and non-progressives. All hints, along with the answer, are provided in the first reply comment below, using filtered font to prevent accidental spoilers. Please refrain from disclosing the full answer in comments to prevent spoilers.To solve the puzzle: Enter the letters in the top half (letter columns) of the puzzle into...

This challenging Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by George Bernard Shaw. Click image (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. George Bernard Shaw was one of Ireland's greatest playwright. He wrote more than sixty plays, and was uniquely honored by being awarded both a Nobel Prize (1925) for his contribution to literature and an Oscar (1938) for "Pygmalion."Politically, he was a fervent Fabian socialist in the progressive era, but gravitated toward dictatorships in the thirties and forties. However, this particular quote could be assigned to today's Democrats snowflakery in general. All hints, along...

During my transcription process of the book Fabian Freeway, I would sometimes go through the footnotes and see what I could verify, when one thing in particular caught my eye. (Chapter 17) The fact that an old-line southern Democrat had been induced to sponsor the basic legislation so ardently desired by all spokesmen of gradual Socialism was an early and notable example of success for the Fabian technique known as permeation. This concept is actually used extensively throughout the book, but for whatever reason, it caught my eye in the current context. The Fabians turned "Permeation" into a policy because...

TORONTO, ON (The Interim) - There is nothing right or left-wing about pro-life, but pro-lifers are repeatedly and ridiculously condemned and dismissed as being on the right. Life, however, is more important than political labels.

It is a sad fact that, whatever its merits in other respects, Irish independence has been a disaster for Irish drama. Since casting off the shackles of their English oppressor, the auld sod’s playwrights have been mired in a mawkish parochialism from which they seem barely able to lift their eyes to the broader horizon before slumping back to the comforting emerald glow of stage Irishness. This can be very lucrative, of course, but it owes more to Tin Pan Alley’s synthetic shamrock ballads of a century ago (“Did Your Mother Come From Ireland?”, etc.) than to any living dramatic...

SOCIALISM BURIED BY BERNARD SHAW High Priest of Fabianism Pronounces Eloquent Funeral Oration JESTS AS SOVIET Insists That Nothing Now Left But Communism or Capitalism