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Why President Obama Is Really No Worse than el Presidente Chávez

September 26th, 2011

By Dan Miller Here are some of the contrasting great leaps forward made or promised by these two astonishing leaders. This article by James Petras, a former professor of sociology at Binghamton University who claims “a 50-year membership in the class struggle,” appeared on September 17 in the Dissident Voice — a remarkable publication with [...]

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: capitalism, Chavez, el Presidente, housing, Obama, oil, satire, socialism
Categories: Economics, Politics | Comments (0) | Home

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.

Articles written by Trevor Dane
Tags: Bukharin, communism, Gregory, interview, Larina, socialism, Soviet Union
Categories: Education, History, Politics | Comments (1) | Home

Random Thoughts

August 7th, 2010

By Brianna Aubin As many of you may have noticed, I haven’t been around much this last week.  This is because, as I told Tom, I was taking a couple of weeks off in order to give myself some time to cool off, regroup, and actually do some work with my thesis and my day [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: Arab, Arizona, climate, immigration, Israeli, regulation, socialism, taxes
Categories: Life, Politics | Comments (11) | Home

Going on Vacation to Venezuela? What Could Go Wrong?

June 16th, 2010

By Dan Miller Venezuela was once a beautiful but generally laid-back and therefore often relaxing tourist destination. My wife and I spent well over a year there off and on between 1996 and 2001. We enjoyed it so much that we thought of settling there permanently, probably up in the Andes not far from the [...]

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: Hugo Chavez, satire, socialism, tourism, Venezuela
Categories: Humor, News, Politics | Comments (6) | Home

Europe’s Apocalypse

May 29th, 2010

By Brianna Aubin Last week, the New York Times published an article saying that the European welfare state would quickly become unsustainable due to high levels of debt, decreasing birthrates, and overly generous benefits.  And in other news, pigs are flying over my window, the sun has risen in the west, and the temperature in [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: capitalism, debt, EU, euro, Europe, freedom, Greece, Islam, socialism
Categories: Economics, News, Politics | Comments (3) | Home

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 [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: communism, democracy, Founders, republic, Social Democrat, socialism
Categories: Politics | Comments (10) | Home

Inequities and Morality

March 29th, 2010

By Tom Carter An article in The Washington Post today made me start thinking about inequities in American society and the moral responsibility we have, if any, to help those of our fellow citizens who have the least. The article focuses on proposed Metro fare increases in Washington, D.C. and suburbs in Virginia and Maryland.  [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: costs, public services, redistribution, socialism, transportation, wealth
Categories: Life, News, Politics | Comments (2) | Home

Why I Write

March 18th, 2010

By Brianna Aubin Last summer, I entered a period of intellectual transition. No, it wasn’t over health care and it wasn’t over politics.  Ironically enough, this period began completely by accident and had absolutely nothing to do with anything going on in the world today.  In essence, what happened was that I was talking to [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: Ayn Rand, Objectivism, philosophy, research, rights, socialism
Categories: Economics, History, Life, Politics | Comments (12) | Home

Like It or Not

January 24th, 2010

By Larry Ennis The election of Scott Brown to the Massachusetts Senate seat previously held by Ted Kennedy marks the beginning of a major turn-around in our political system. This reversal didn’t come about overnight. There were ample warning signs, but the Washington crowd has long ago stopped fearing the voters. Many of them (both [...]

Articles written by Larry Ennis
Tags: Democrats, FDR, liberal, progressives, Scott Brown, socialism, tea parties
Categories: History, News, Politics | Comments (4) | Home

Never Forget (Update)

January 23rd, 2010

By Brianna Aubin (This article was originally published on January 21, 2010. The update includes videos at the end of the article.) In It Can Happen Here I pointed out that socialism, along with its brother doctrines of fascism and communism, have killed too many people in too many revolutionary seas of blood to be [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: collectivism, freedom, Glenn Beck, Holocaust, mass murder, socialism
Categories: History, News, Politics | Comments (6) | Home

Never Forget

January 21st, 2010

By Brianna Aubin In my last post I pointed out that socialism, along with its brother doctrines of fascism and communism, have killed too many people in too many revolutionary seas of blood to be regarded as anything but pure, naked evil.  Unfortunately, with the notable exception of the Holocaust, a lot of this past has been [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: collectivism, freedom, Glenn Beck, Holocaust, mass murder, socialism
Categories: History, News, Politics | Comments (3) | Home

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 [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: communism, conservative, fascism, liberal, progressive, socialism
Categories: History, Politics | Comments (7) | Home

The Pressure Group Plan

January 17th, 2010

By Brianna Aubin In Ayn Rand’s We the Living, one of the ways in which Rand points out that health care in Communist countries is really free only in theory is when she details the desperate search of her main characters Kira and Leo for help with Leo’s incipient tuberculosis: In the first State hospital [Kira] [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: Ayn Rand, SEIU, socialism, taxes, unions
Categories: Economics, Politics | Comments (6) | Home

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 [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: communism, economy, free market, money, productivity, socialism
Categories: Economics, Politics | Comments (15) | Home

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 [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: Aristotle, Ayn Rand, communism, fascism, Plato, socialism, The Republic
Categories: History, Life, Politics | Comments (3) | Home

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 [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: America, communism, Marxism, Pravda, socialism
Categories: Media, News, Politics | Comments (7) | Home

Dystopian California

September 10th, 2009

In his column today George Will does a good job of describing the dystopia* that has been created in California by years of progressive solutions to social problems and by politicians’ obeisance to unions.  Here’s what has resulted: Having institutionalized envy in a steeply progressive income tax, California depends on 200,000 wealthy taxpayers for 25 percent of [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: California, socialism, taxes, unions
Categories: Economics, News, Politics | Comments (9) | Home

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