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You have to at least give the Colorado Education Association (CEA) points for brazen candor. At its 97th Annual Delegate Assembly in April, the state’s largest teachers’ union voted to formally oppose capitalism as an economic system. The announcement came as little surprise to Coloradans who’ve watched as the union has veered so far to the left in recent years it’s now off the road entirely. What should set off alarm bells for everyone, however, is that CEA believes its militancy no longer has to be denied or defended. A former Denver Public Schools teacher took to Twitter on April...

Nicolas Maduro Wins Venezuela Presidential Election (50.7%): Opposition Gets 49.1% Socialist candidate Nicolas Maduro has won a narrow victory in Venezuela's presidential poll. Mr Maduro, who was chosen by the late Hugo Chavez, won 50.7% of the vote against 49.1% for opposition candidate Henrique Capriles. The electoral commission said the results were "irreversible". There has been no comment from Mr Capriles, who earlier on Sunday has suggested there was an attempt to doctor the result. Mr Maduro told a rally of supporters in the capital Caracas that he had won a "just, legal and constitutional" victory. However, the margin of...

So, picture this... you are a refugee from the fall of Saigon, or, after it fell and in the midst of the many millions murdered by the communist oppressors that overtook the country in the 70s and 80s, you were lucky enough to escape with your life. Let's say you finally move to California to enjoy a communist free life in the United States. Paradoxically, though, there you encounter a newspaper that scolds you and says that you are just a fearmonger for getting upset that there is a communist art show in your new cmmunity. And all the while...

A new test of Milgram's obedience experiment asks if it can still happen here.Don't answer too hastily, but have you ever wondered what you would have done if you grew up in Nazi Germany? Of course, we all hope that we would have had the moral strength to stand against that monstrous regime, but can we be so sure? After all, times were tough and both important politicians and leading intellectuals supported Nazi theories and policies. And then there were the ordinary Germans, friendly neighbors like Karl and Lötte down the street. They had joined the Party and were sending...

Polish intelligentsia face post-communist vetting Tue Mar 13, 2007 5:17am ET145 By Chris Johnson WARSAW (Reuters) - Andrzej Krawczyk was arrested on a Warsaw street in 1982 with a backpack containing 1,000 pro-democracy leaflets protesting against martial law and the communist crackdown on the Solidarity trade union. In prison, he was forced to sign a document saying he would collaborate with the secret police, but later retracted it and insists he never helped the Soviet-era authorities in any way. Now, 25 years later, Krawczyk is one of thousands of senior Polish officials preparing to try to clear their name under...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Prime Minister Helen Clark called Tuesday for Zimbabwe to be expelled from the British Commonwealth and threatened tougher sanctions against President Robert Mugabe's regime. In a hardline speech Monday, Mugabe quashed hopes among white farmers for a reprieve from a government order to turn over the bulk of their lands to blacks. Clark - an outspoken critic of Mugabe - said she was "very, very shocked" by Mugabe's comments and angry the international community was being asked to help out an "outrageous" government. Zimbabwe "should have been suspended (from the British Commonwealth) quite some time ago...