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Until a few days ago I had no idea that there was such a thing as Soviet chic, a fawning nostalgic bow to the land of the Gulag: elegant cocktail party invitations adorned with Red Stars, nightclubs in New York City named Pravda and KGB and decorated with Soviet flags and crowded with hip customers sporting CCCP t-shirts. I had no idea this was going on until Bernadette Malone, a columnist for the Manchester, NH Union-Leader brought Soviet chic to my attention. Ms. Malone rightly views with revulsion the 74 year Soviet "experiment" that slaughtered some 60 million of its...

Out with Homeland Security for 2004, in with Social Security, declared the liberal and silly Washington Post on the front page of its Style section on New Year's day. That kind of elitist foolishness — the ennui the chattering class holds for the War on Terror and the cat-and-mouse games that never seem to produce Osama Bin Laden, weapons of mass destruction, or terrorists on Air France flights — is exactly what typifies the Democratic Presidential field. Enough diddling around in Tikriti spider holes, they complain. Eighty-seven billion dollars for what, they ask? Bush is embarrassing Americans abroad with all...

Bernadette Malone: Planned Parenthood's abuse of ChristmasBy BERNADETTE MALONE IF THERE EVER were ever a Christmas card I was glad not to receive, it's the one circulating around the country that reads "Choice on Earth." I'd be embarrassed that the twisted sender even had my address. The sender of this "holiday" card (sold for $15 per package over the Internet, dressed up with lots of celebration and fanfare) is Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion provider in the country. Of course, "Choice on Earth," a mockery of the Christian gospel message of "Peace on Earth," is also a euphemism for "Abortion...