Free Republic

On the eve of the 2016 Presidential election, Issue #464 of Revolution announced in its headline, “In the Name of Humanity, We REFUSE To Accept a Fascist America. . .Rise Up. . .Get Into The Streets. . .Unite With People Everywhere to Build Up Resistance in Every Way You Can. . .Don’t Stop: Don’t Conciliate. . .Don’t Accommodate. . .Don’t Collaborate”.Revolution is an online newspaper published by the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), a Maoist group descended from splinters of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). In 1969, RCP founder Bob Avakian and fellow Maoist H. Bruce Franklin had cofounded the...

New dog, old trick. Boise State University has brought back a fan favorite from the early 1990s: the football tee-retrieving dog. This year, Zamzows approached the university about sponsoring a new dog to retrieve the tees. BSU officials were all for it, as they were hoping to reinstitute the practice.

Is Zed dead? Those Bell Canada beavers are popping up all over town. One of their billboards gives me a shiver, so near to Canada Day. A poetic rodent tells us: From A to Z The calls are free I am about to call Bell and point out Zed does not rhyme with free. Then it hits me. Holy cow, that treasonous beaver is talking American. Canadian schoolkids know we say Zed, not Zee. Or do they? "You mean, it's not Zee?" says my 17-year-old son. No, Jackson. Not here or in Britain or Australia, Germany, Japan, France or Timbuktu....