Opinion Forum

An Evening With Daniel Pipes

October 14th, 2010

By Brianna Aubin Does the War on Terror still exist? What is the status of that war? Exactly who and what are we fighting? Our government officials frame the debate in very general terms, with the DOD calling the fight an “overseas contingency operation,” and Napolitano infamously referring to the problem of terrorism as a [...]

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Tags: communism, fascism, Islam, islamist, Pipes, terrorism, war on terror
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Interview with Dr. Paul Gregory

August 18th, 2010

By Trevor Dane Dr. Paul Gregory is the author of the newly released book Politics, Murder, and Love in Stalin’s Kremlin: The Story of Nikolai Bukharin and Anna Larina. Dr. Gregory was interviewed by Trevor Dane.

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Tags: Bukharin, communism, Gregory, interview, Larina, socialism, Soviet Union
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Truth Is the New Hate Speech

May 6th, 2010

By Brianna Aubin In a speech at a pro-Israel rally in New York on April 25, AtlasShrugs blogger Pamela Geller declared that “Truth is the new hate speech.” I do not always agree with Geller, but in this case she is absolutely right: truth has indeed become the new hate speech. The idea is that [...]

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Tags: communism, discrimination, evil, fascism, hate speech, liberals, Marxism
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Democracy and the Left

April 1st, 2010

By Brianna Aubin Has anyone else noticed the liberal left’s longstanding love affair with democracy? The common name for the more moderate European lefties (as opposed to the open communists and socialists) is “Social Democrats,” and their preferred form of government is referred to as the “social democratic” welfare state. Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez is on record as [...]

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Tags: communism, democracy, Founders, republic, Social Democrat, socialism
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It Can Happen Here

January 21st, 2010

By Brianna Aubin Right now, a lot of people are celebrating that Scott Brown was elected to the Senate in Massachusetts, thereby breaking the supermajority of the Senate Democrats who seem so utterly determined to shove “reform” down our throats whether we want it or not. These people span many viewpoints and both sides of [...]

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Tags: communism, conservative, fascism, liberal, progressive, socialism
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Cycle of Violence

December 17th, 2009

By Brianna Aubin It’s a commonly accepted fact that if a child is raised in an abusive household, there’s a good chance that he’ll turn out to be an abuser himself. If your parents beat you, it becomes more likely that you’ll grow up to beat your kids. Grow up with a drunk, it becomes [...]

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Tags: affirmative action, class warfare, communism, free market, national socialism
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The Value of Money

November 20th, 2009

By Brianna Aubin One of the stock complaints people make when they point out that there are individuals unable to pay the bills for the things they need, is that “a person’s value shouldn’t be judged by the amount of money they possess.” Now on the surface, this sounds like a reasonable and compassionate statement, and [...]

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Tags: communism, economy, free market, money, productivity, socialism
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The First Collectivist

November 18th, 2009

By Brianna Aubin When the Communists, Fascists, and Socialists started advocating their ideas around the turn of the 20th century, they billed them as completely new and radical ideologies. Little did they know that they had already been scooped… by a guy who had been dead for literally over two millenia. Their predecessor’s name? Plato [...]

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Tags: Aristotle, Ayn Rand, communism, fascism, Plato, socialism, The Republic
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Truth and Pravda

November 2nd, 2009

By Brianna Aubin Once upon a time the word “Pravda”, meaning “truth” in Russian, was a worldwide joke. Why? Because as a state-supported newspaper under a despotic Communist regime, the newspaper was telling anything but. So how bad do you think it has to get before Pravda is lecturing America on how its people are [...]

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Tags: America, communism, Marxism, Pravda, socialism
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