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A man sitting outside an Ohio gas station was beaten by a group of 12 teenagers in a brutal and unprovoked attack, Cleveland officials say. Surveillance video captured the group arriving at the gas station — on the city’s northeast side — in stolen Kias and Hyundais at about 12:30 a.m. on Tuesday, July 25, city officials said at a news briefing. Several teens walk up to a man sitting against a wall and unleash a flurry of kicks and punches, video shared by officials shows. The man tries to get away, but more of the group step in, surrounding...

Toogood Reports [Tuesday, March 4, 2003; 12:01 a.m. EST]URL: http://ToogoodReports.com/ Was communism ever a real threat to the nations of the world, or was it just a phantasm infecting the minds of the cold warriors who for so long supported Containment Theory? As my previous column noted, Containment Theory argued that America had to aggressively confront the power of the Soviet Union, wherever the latter made inroads, or threatened to make them. The main means of confrontation was in putting American troops in the Soviets' path. As omniscient Marxist academics now tell us, Containment Theory has "little or no intellectual...

Toogood Reports [Thursday, February 27, 2003; 12:01 a.m. EST]URL: http://ToogoodReports.com/ Cold War thinking was dominated in the West by "Containment Theory," one of whose implications was the Domino Theory. Containment Theory, as originally formulated by diplomat George Kennan, stated that America had to aggressively confront the power of the Soviet Union, wherever the latter made inroads, or threatened to make them. The main means of confrontation was in putting American troops in the Soviets' path. The "Domino Theory" held that the fall of any government to communism likely would topple neighboring governments. The Domino Theory began making a comeback regarding...