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Former Alaska GOP Gov. Sarah Palin on Friday encouraged her supporters to read an article comparing the BP escrow fund to Nazism. “This is about the rule of law vs. an unconstitutional power grab,” Palin tweeted, urging her followers to “Read Thomas Sowell’s article.” The article Palin points to was published on Monday and was widely criticized for writing that, like Adolph Hitler, President Barack Obama is stripping away the freedom of his citizen without mass protest. “When Adolf Hitler was building up the Nazi movement in the 1920s, leading up to his taking power in the 1930s, he deliberately...

Andy Barr of Politico today writes a column blasting a Thomas Sowell article that criticizes how Adolph Hitler came to power through a combination of public apathy, ignorance, and systematic Socialization and Nationalization. Sowell warns Americans not to ever become like the "useful idiots" who helped Stalin create the Soviet Union, or like the German Public who saw their freedoms taken away piecemeal by a creeping, growing central government. To read Barr's attack on Sowell's Column criticizing Hitler's rise to power, go to this address: http://dyn.politico.com/members/forums/thread.cfm?catid=1&subcatid=70&threadid=4199146 To read Thomas Sowell's article blasting Hitler's rise and warning against ever letting it...