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Sowing the seeds of destruction

ACORN’s shady tactics made headlines last week. But their shocking radicalism is nothing new. Continue reading

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Van's Line

You can’t grasp the full craziness of Van Jones, Obama’s now-resigned “green jobs czar” (actual job title: “Special Advisor on Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation for the White House Council on Environmental Quality”), unless you watch his speeches on YouTube. Continue reading

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Destroyed By Communism

Two decades after the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing, everything in China has changed, and yet nothing has changed. Visible to all, China’s large cities have undoubtedly undergone great transformations. Largely invisible, China’s dirt-poor countryside seems unchanged, even immutable—as does the nation’s pervasive political repression. It is still forbidden to mention the Tiananmen massacre in China. Officially, nothing happened in the square on June 4, 1989. Government discourse and children’s schoolbooks mention some vague disorder that took place that year, immediately followed by the Beijing police’s restoring order. The Communist Party denies that there were any casualties. Even today, their number is unknown: according to the Red Cross’s estimate, the Chinese military killed about 3,000 students. Most of the bodies have disappeared, snatched away and burned by soldiers to destroy the evidence. Continue reading

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On This Rock

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The Rosenbergs, Always

A recent story in the Guardian confirmed my suspicion of a lingering liberal indulgence toward the former Soviet Union. Continue reading

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