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This installment continues by exposing how Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt was surrounded by Communists who put Americans in mortal danger for years. Once the Venona Papers were read all the phony pretenses about “McCarthyism” were proved false. Here’s a partial list of Roosevelt’s Communists. The web these Democrat Communists weaved was frightening. Marion Bachrach was a Democrat and a Communist. Bachrach was Abt’s sister and the personal secretary and congressional office manager to Representative John Bernard of the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party in 1937-1938.[48] Alger and Donald Hiss were Democrats and Communists. Alger Hiss was an assistant to Assistant Secretary of...

When Barack Obama takes office on Tuesday, his first order of business will be a stimulus package estimated to be close to $1 trillion, including $300 million in tax cuts and the largest new government spending program for infrastructure since Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Sages nod that replicating aspects of FDR's New Deal will help pull the country out of a recession. But the experience under FDR largely provides a cautionary tale. Mr. Obama's policy plans are driven by the conventional economic wisdom that the New Deal economic programs ended the Great Depression. Not so. In fact, thanks to New Deal...

It's no mystery why President Bush and his campaign aides have fought so hard to establish the legitimacy of their TV ads that include scenes from the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center. When the commercials came under criticism from survivors of some of those killed by the terrorists and also from some members of the firefighters union, Republicans rushed to insist that the visual references were well justified by the significance of that day for the country -- and for the Bush presidency... But is it, as supporters of John Kerry and other critics suggest, wrong for...