Hubby just pulled out a book he read once, In My Father's Name, written by Mark Arax.
It's about how Arax's father was murdered, probably by the Mafia.
So, despite his protestations to the contrary, his father subscribing to the Daily Worker and being a Unionist were not such benign historical items as this lib would have us believe, as he mentions these facts in passing in this long article that wraps all this cozy local color around a hard core anti-war and anti-Bush and anti-conservatives position in order to sell it better.
He sheds crocodile tears about the young men who died in Iraq and tries to talk their fathers out of believing in the war they died for and into hating the commander-in-chief who sent them to the war, while his own father was gunned down in Fresno in 1972, and he hasn't disavowed the communism or unionism that got his father mixed up with organized crime in some way.
The writer is a propagandist, nothing more.