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In a recent Supreme Court decision, Justice John Paul Stevens wrote, “If the peasants sow the fields poorly, they should be helped—and this particularly applies to the poor peasants—by means of collective cultivation of the large estates. There is no other way of helping the poor peasants.” Therefore, “The landed estates must be confiscated immediately.” Actually, that was Vladimir Lenin writing in an issue of the communist publication Pravda on June 2, 1917. I’ve compiled a small list of quotes for use in this article, but at times it can be hard to remember who used which ones. It doesn’t...

People who packed the Union Theater on Monday night expecting to hear about the best-selling book "Fast Food Nation" were instead served a diatribe from the author about his thoughts since the presidential election."Three weeks ago . . . I went into a real funk," said Eric Schlosser, author of bestsellers "Fast Food Nation" and "Reefer Madness." "I really went into a depression. A really dark place."Schlosser unleashed his thoughts since the election to a crowd of about 1,100 as part of the university's distinguished lecture series. "My depression lasted until 9:30 or 10 the next morning," he said. "I...

Dude, Where's My Country by Michael Moore Warner Books, 249 pp, $25.00 Is Michael Moore a courageous political documentarist who unmasks the chicanery all around us — or just a charlatan in a clown suit? Is he an entertainment genius or a dangerous ideologue? The answer, of course, is all of the above. The problem is that you never know which of the four is doing the talking in Moore's movies and books. The end result is that the writer-filmmaker spreads a fog of misbegotten notions about America, politics, business, and international affairs among his youthful, left-leaning following at home...

Michael Moore on Israel: - Quotes from Michael Moore’s book, “Dude Where’s My Country?” (Warner Books, 2003) regarding the United States support for Israel: • Moore dedicated his book, “Dude Where’s My Country?” to Rachel Corrie, an International Solidarity Movement volunteer who was killed March 16 when she climbed in front of a Caterpillar bulldozer that was destroying tunnels used by Palestinian terrorists to illegally smuggle weapons from Egypt into Gaza • “Of course many Israeli children had died too, at the hands of the Palestinians. You would think that would make every Israeli want to wipe out the Arab...

(Note: this is the published, column length version of the article. To read the full version of the article, see Michael Moore, you used to be my hero. Back in the days of your pro-worker documentary Roger & Me (1989), I was working construction at a power plant in the South, and you were the one public figure who seemed to speak for working men. The one who questioned the right of a business to take what it wants from a community and then pull out in search of cheaper labor, leaving a trail of unemployment and broken lives behind....

MILLIONAIRE LEFTIST MICHAEL MOORE lives in an America different from yours and mine, and not just because wealth has given him an insular life of privilege on liberal Manhattan’s Upper West Side. In Moore’s myopia, the America he sees in Chapter 9 of his latest bestselling book Dude, Where’s My Country? is populated by Leftists like himself. In this "Liberal Paradise" 57 percent of his fellow citizens believe that abortion should be legal "in all or most cases," 86 percent say they agree with the "goals" of the Civil Rights movement and 83 percent agree with the "goals" of the...

<p>IF Michael Moore has an intellectual predecessor it's probably Jethro Bodine, Jed Clampett's hopelessly dimwitted nephew who thought that his "six grade edjeecashun" qualified him as a double-naught spy. Likewise, Moore, whose resume includes the ironic documentary "Roger & Me" and the bestseller "Stupid White Men," operates under a basic misconception - i.e., that being a professional wiseass qualifies him as a political analyst. To say he's out of his depth misses the point; he shouldn't be in the water.</p>