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<p>Fifty years ago this month in Moscow, Josef Stalin died. He and his Red Army had been our allies (not formally but informally) in defeating Nazism and Fascism. Winston Churchill thought well of "old Joe" for a time. During the war American propaganda referred to his armies as "Our Heroic Soviet Allies," and President Roosevelt joshed that he was "Uncle Joe." Then we had a falling out with the mustachioed Georgian.</p>

Songs, like poetry, are an important component of my teaching. The lyrical metaphors, rhythms, and stories in many songs motivate and educate students. It's amazing what my fifth graders will remember from a song, as compared to what they forget from my talking. I introduce a new "song of the week" each Monday and the students receive a copy of the lyrics to keep in their three-ring binder that collects much of my alternative curriculum. We start each morning with the song, and usually within a day or two the children are singing along — regardless of musical genre. Sometimes...

Thousands of Americans want to oust their president. The anti-war one, that is Duncan Campbell in Los AngelesTuesday March 4, 2003The Guardian Pressure is growing for the president to lose his job because of his uncompromising stance on the war. That's President Bartlet, as played by Martin Sheen in the hit television series, The West Wing. Sheen has been one of the leading figures in the anti-war movement, addressing rallies and spearheading the "virtual match" on Washington last week in which legislators were deluged with a million emails, phone calls and faxes. NBC is under pressure to sack him from...

New York's Hate FestBy John PerazzoFrontPageMagazine.com | February 18, 2003 My day in New York City began in much the same way as it would end several hours later. Around 11 a.m. Saturday, I arrived at the First Avenue site of the massive “anti-war” rally organized by the Communist peace-front organization United For Peace and Justice (UFPJ). The expressed sentiments that I heard and read within my first three minutes there, would be echoed time and again by the many guest speakers addressing the crowd that day. As I headed toward a suitable vantage point from which to observe...

CONSERVATIVE TRUTH.ORG The "Peace Movement" February 17, 2003 by Bruce Walker So now - again! - patriotic Americans confront the so-called "Peace Movement". Leftists accept at face value the name of any leftist organization. So they consider the "Peace Movement" to be serious people interested in peace. Christians take war seriously. Human life is sacred. Shedding blood requires vital reasons. Some Christian denominations believe nothing justifies violence. These genuine pacifists often choose to live in their own communities apart from society. They rely upon love as a substitute for government. When asked if they would use violence to protect their...

World antiwar rallies delight Iraq Largest gatherings reported in London, Rome Sunday, February 16, 2003 Posted: 9:15 AM EST (1415 GMT) SPECIAL REPORT BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Iraq was gloating Sunday over the global outpouring of opposition to a possible U.S.-led war against the country, saying the rallies by millions of people signaled an Iraqi victory and "the defeat and isolation of America." In cities from Tokyo to Baghdad, Istanbul to Paris and New York to Wellington, the demonstrators Saturday called for peace a day after U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell told the U.N. Security Council that Iraq was...

Phil Craig marched against cruise missiles, but now believes that Bush will be vindicated We were there for peace. We were there to confront the American cowboy warmonger. We were there to watch Emma Thompson on a lorry. Actually, of the day I marched against cruise and Pershing missiles what I remember best is the bemused look on the faces of a group of NUM men as Emma performed her mobile political cabaret. Anyone remember cruise and Pershing? Or Greenham Common? How about Frankie Goes to Hollywood? You only catch them on television archive shows now, but back in the...

My daughter belongs to a very good website, but one problem the majority of the youth their have had their minds poisoned by their parents, media etc. They are holding a protest that is completely UnAmerican and I was hoping maybe some Illinois Freepers may want to Freep. From one of the young men read the following: The buggest insult is they use a religious song to do this: a nice little tune my english teacher of all people gave me "bush's proposal for a revised national anthem" sung to the tune of if your happy and you know it...

<p>Bad-boy actor Sean Penn says his opposition to a war in Iraq cost him a lucrative movie role - but the film's producer, Steve Bing, calls the claim "extortion." The feud over "Why Men Shouldn't Marry" erupted yesterday amid dueling lawsuits in Los Angeles.</p>

In the 2000 presidential election, I was a stalwart supporter of Ralph Nader. A disgruntled volunteer for the Bill Bradley campaign, I was so riled at the former senator's loss to Al Gore in the primary that I made the leap to the Green Party. I gathered nomination signatures for Nader at my town's dump, represented him in my high school mock presidential debate and enthusiastically cheered him on from the front row at his "Super Rally" held at the Fleet Center in Boston. So I did not feel totally out of place last Saturday at the New Haven County...

Add actor Dustin Hoffman to the list of celebrities denouncing President Bush for his Iraq policy and arguing it's all about oil. After winning a lifetime achievement honor last week at the Empire Film Awards in London, the British news service Ananova quoted Hoffman as accusing the Bush administration of "manipulating the grief of the country" after the events of September 11 and charging that "this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil." In his "Best of the Web" column for OpinionJournal.com (www.OpinionJournal.com/best ), James Taranto on Friday highlighted the story in Ananova, a...

YAHOO CAPTION: About 30 naked women lay down in the snow in Central Park forming the words 'No Bush' in an event described as a 'nude political action photo shoot' in New York on February 7, 2003. The protestors are opposed to U.S. President George Bush's policies and possible U.S. led war against Iraq. REUTERS/Peter Morgan

Wednesday morning, decorated war hero and current Secretary of State Colin Powell – a man who has fought in or helped lead his military in a half dozen more wars than all the politicians he now works for, combined – went before the United Nations and global television viewers and delivered what the Bush Administration has withheld for half a year: the firm evidence that, it says, justifies war. Or not. Powell's lack of rhetorical grandstanding was welcome, as was the specificity of his charges. That being said, they still fail to justify launching a war. The first and most...