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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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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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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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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