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The younger generation probably doesn't realize that the word socialism means and connotes a system that is profoundly un-American. Socialism has virtually disappeared from our national lexicon since the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) collapsed because of Ronald Reagan's policies and the National Socialist (Nazi) Party was destroyed by the United States in World War II. The American Heritage Dictionary defines socialism as a system of social organization in which the means of producing and distributing goods are owned by a centralized government that plans and controls the economy. Both Webster and Random House identify socialism as a "Marxist...

<p>Sadly, the 3rd Quad-Annual Free Republic Inaugural Ball in DC has been cancelled due to lack of interest. There will be no refunds (seeing as how no tickets were sold - and none offered).</p> <p>However, now is the time to begin planning a conservative offensive movement.</p>

Today is the 100th Birthday of Senator Joe McCarthy of Wisconsin, a great American patriot who was vilified and condemned for his warnings of Communist infiltration of our government. Today, his warnings ring just as true.

To some Czechs, it was the greatest escape of the cold war. As Czech fugitives, the three men ended up on wanted posters across East Germany. But here in central Europe, where history is often rewritten, there are many others who view the five young Czechs as reckless murderers, even though they dodged 24,000 Soviet soldiers and the East German police for 28 days through snow-covered forests to reach the freedom of West Berlin in 1953. ... The current Czech prime minister, Mirek Topolanek, a liberal, decided in March to honor the three survivors as heroes, no doubt expecting some...

To some Czechs, it was the greatest escape of the cold war. As Czech fugitives, the three men ended up on wanted posters across East Germany. But here in central Europe, where history is often rewritten, there are many others who view the five young Czechs as reckless murderers, even though they dodged 24,000 Soviet soldiers and the East German police for 28 days through snow-covered forests to reach the freedom of West Berlin in 1953. ... The current Czech prime minister, Mirek Topolanek, a liberal, decided in March to honor the three survivors as heroes, no doubt expecting some...

The long-term implications of Buckley's stands were enormous. By remaking the conservative movement in his own image, in which the emphasis was on anti-communism and a libertarian skepticism of government power, he ensured that it, and the Republican Party, which it came to dominate, would be a place where Jew-haters were unwelcome. That enabled liberal Jews, such as Commentary editor Norman Podhoretz, to feel comfortable making common cause with the right on a host of issues as he began his own journey away from the left. Though expectations that the Jews would ditch liberalism en masse were always unrealistic, the...

WALKING THE ROAD THAT BUCKLEY BUILT By Michael Johns It can be said that modern conservatism knows only two times. There was the time before him and there was the time after him, and those two times could not be more contrasting. In this stark contrast lies his larger-than-life legacy, and let there be no mistake: It is a legacy that will endure the ages. As word of William F. Buckley, Jr.'s passing reached his many students, admirers and colleagues late last week, it seemed each had an account (some grand, some small) of how this intellectual giant memorably impacted...

A number of anti-communist films were made in Hollywood during the late 40s through the 50s, many of them featuring well-known names and of high quality. Almost none are available today. This is no accident, comrades. We owe a nod of thanks to Thomas Lifson for alerting us to yesterday's rare showing of the anti-communist thriller, The Woman on Pier 13 (AKA, I Married A Communist). Pier 13 is far from unique. It's easy to understand why Man on a Tightrope (1953) went down the memory hole, directed as it was by the Joe McCarthy of the film world, that...

The veteran New York Times foreign correspondent Alan Riding has written a fascinating report "Cameras Were Ready; The Revolution Wasn’t" http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/movies/03ridi.html?_r=1&ref=movies&oref=slogin on Corneliu Porumboiu's new film " “12:08 East of Bucharest,”" which depicts the downfall of Ceaucescu's Communist regime in one provincial town. It shows a fictional commemoration of the revolution on its 16th anniversary in which locals are asked to recount their "own revolution."

WARSAW (AFP) - France on Friday condemned moves by Polish authorities to strip former foreign minister Bronislaw Geremek of his European parliament mandate for refusing to say whether he collaborated with the communist era secret police. Geremek himself said in a newspaper interview that Poland under President Lech Kaczynski and his twin brother, Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski, was turning into a George Orwell novel. French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy called on the European Union and the European parliament to make official approaches to the Polish government over Geremek's case. Geremek, a former Solidarity union and anti-communist activist, has become the...

Attack of the MoonbatsPart I Evaporating rain spattered the hot Tucson asphalt as I drove along pothole-riddled streets toward the public library on October 5, 2006. I had some books on reserve to pick up before heading out to the "World Can't Wait" (WCW) rally at the University of Arizona Main Mall at noon. It was one of two by WCW scheduled for that day; the other was at 4:30 pm in front of the Federal Building. It seemed a good strategy: get middle school, high school and college students fired up with radical speeches, then bring them downtown...

"Drive out the Bush Regime, the world can't wait" is their chant, but I chant with them saying SADDAM can't wait. This group will be having anti-Bush, anti-war, anti-American protests all over the nation on Thursday, October 5th, 2006. Click here for the list of where World Can't Wait will be in your city.

On October 5th, 2006, there is a planned walkout from public high schools across the nation. The walkout and subsequent rally is being requested of students by an organization called World Can't Wait... This week my column is in the form of an informational PDF flyer about World Can't Wait's High School Walk Out Plan. It should be emailed to high schools, school districts, city government and police truancy departments. Faxing is also recommended. This is a link to the PDF Version of the column called "Worrisome Walkout" which can be right clicked on and saved to your computer then...

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How liberals lost their way Robert Fulford National Post Saturday, July 01, 2006 In 1949 Arthur Schlesinger Jr., then the young intellectual-in-chief of American politics, announced that anti-communism had become an essential part of liberalism. That might seem obvious. Surely the more liberal you are, the more you oppose communist tyranny, no? Still, it needed saying. Schlesinger and his friends had recently beaten back communist sympathizers in the Democratic Party and the unions. In his much-quoted book, The Vital Center, he said communism's challenge had forced American liberals "to take inventory of their moral resources" and decide they couldn't...

Faina Yefimovna Kaplan (1883–September 3, 1918), a.k.a. Fanny Kaplan (born Dora Kaplan), was a political revolutionary and an attempted assassin of Vladimir Lenin. Kaplan was born into a Jewish peasant family, one of seven children. She became a political revolutionary at an early age and joined a socialist group, the Socialist Revolutionaries. In 1906, Kaplan participated in an attempted assassination of a government official. The plot failed and Kaplan was arrested and sentenced to life of katorga works in Akatui, Siberia. She was released when the February Revolution overthrew the imperial government. As a result of her imprisonment, Kaplan suffered...

Moonbat Mysteries by Wayne Boettcher Posted: 05/05/2006 It was another sunny but breezy Spring day in Tucson as I rambled toward the Military Recruitment Center at 2302 E. Speedway on May 3rd, 2006. Birds were chirping, rabbits hopping and turtles harmonizing. No, wait. That was the Turtles on the radio. All in all, a happy relaxed morning in America. The "anti-war" protesting moonbats seemed a little late on their Daylight Savings Time switchover and were only now changing their weekly start time from 9:00 am to 8:00 am. I arrived at 8:05 am to find both sides already there....

"Something I hold so dear" by Wayne Boettcher Posted: 03/24/2006 It was a cool day in the desert on March 18, 2006, happy grey clouds scudded across the sky. The brisk wind rocked my truck, promising a sand-filled day as I ricocheted through the crazy Tucson streets toward the Military Recruiting Center at 2302 E. Speedway. In this town, many citizens seem to have replaced the gas and brake pedals of their vehicles with a simple toggle switch where up is full power, down is full brake. When I arrived at the Center at 8:00 am, at least ten...

I've never done a dedicated website-pimping post, so please bear with me if I fumble it. There is simply no way to give an adequate description of The People's Cube. - It is savagely anti-Leftist - For those of us who grew up during the Cold War and have some knowlege of the hell of life behind the Iron Curtain, it is poignantly accurate in its satire - The humor is simply brilliant (though it could be argued that mocking the communists, socialists, and leftists makes for rather easy jokes and parodies... all that is required is to be *slightly*...

Minor Mediator by Wayne Boettcher Posted: 02/10/2006 February 8th, 2006 was another great day to be an American in the snarled byways of Tucson as I slowly drove toward the Military Recruiting Center on 2302 E. Speedway. The Tucson City government, paralyzed by indecision, bickering politicians, special interests and bizarre traffic theories, has long been unable to figure out how to get cars to travel efficiently through the sandy city. Although I had planned to be early, I arrived at 8:30 am. Speaking of the bizarre, an unusual happenstance had occurred the week before, on a day I was...