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Ike and Tail Gunner Joe

Tom Alderman | Posted 04.13.2012

Several people report they cannot forgive Eisenhower's moral and political failure to speak out and repudiate McCarthy. That is not how it went down with Ike, according to Jim Newton's excellent new biography, Eisenhower: The White House Years.

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Elevating Ike: An Audiobook Review

Tom Alderman | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Eisenhower, Jim Newton, Russian, Gop, The Presidency, Teddy Roosevelt, President Obama, Vision Critical/Angus Reid, Dwight D. Eisenhower, D-Day, Little Rock-Arkansas, Chief Justice Earl Warren, Los Angeles Times, 22nd Ammendment, Random House Audio, Bay of Pigs, West Point, C-Span, Communist, The White House Years, The Cold War, The New York Times, Audiobooks, Martin Van Buren, Zane Gray, The White House, Democrats, France, Five-Star General, Ike, Suez Crisis, Oval Office. Golf, Israel, The U.K., Republicans, James Reston, Cuba, Books News

If you're a hardcore Democrat, this audiobook could turn you around about the man.

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North Korea: Behind the Veil (VIDEO)

Thor Halvorssen | Posted 02.20.2012

Read More: Barbara Demick, Human Rights, The Aquariums of Pyongyang, Kim Il-Sung, Park Sang-Hak, Communist, Repressive, Kim Jong Il, Dictatorship, Oslo Freedom Forum, Kang Choi-Hwan, North Korea, Nothing to Envy, Totalitarianism, Kim Jong Un, Video, Korea, World News

Hear from two of the world's most prominent North Korean dissidents and one of the world's most prominent North Korea experts.

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Christopher Hitchens: Reason in Revolt

Robert Scheer | Posted 02.15.2012

Read More: Robert Scheer, Obituary, Christopher Hitchens, Vanity Fair, Communist, Iraq War, Trotsky, Media News

Sadly, a life force that I had assumed as an indissoluble part of our political and literary landscape, as well as my own close circle of friends, has ended, and with it an indispensable element of our collective moral code.

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Marilyn Monroe: Still Dead. Still Selling. How Come?

Tom Alderman | Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: Michael Jackson, President Obama, Nate Heller, Derek Jacobi, Marilyn Monroe, Dan John Miller, Diana Dors, John Kennedy, Kenneth Branagh, The Misfits, Jayne Mansfield, Jfk, CIA Sam Giancana, My Week With Marilyn, Peter Lawford, Propofol, 20th Century Fox, Communist, James Dean, Oliver Stone, Joe DiMaggio, Jean Harlow, Judi Dench, Angelica Houston, Brilliance Audio, Arthur Miller, Mae West, Amazon.com, Max Allen Collins, Smash TV, Forge Books, Youtube, Debra Messing, Shakespeare, Frank Sinatra, Audiobook, Fbi, Robert Kennedy, Books News

Marilyn Monroe lives on as the last of an archetype we cling to from our innocent past but is now gone forever -- or until a future generation invents her again.

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China Says Cooling Surging Prices Still Top Priority

AP | By JOE McDONALD | Posted 11.12.2011

Read More: Floods, Video, China Central Bank, Beijing, Inflation, Communist, Crops, Bank Lending Boom, Consumer Price Index, China, Investors, Business News

BEIJING -- China's central bank said Monday that cooling surging prices still is its top priority even after inflation eased slightly in August. Th...

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What Motivates Extremists? The True Believer, Eric Hoffer's 168-Page Classic, Has Some Answers

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 09.24.2011

Read More: Communist, True Believer, Joseph Stalin, Nazi, Eric Hoffer, Book Reviews, Books News

Hoeffer's condemnation is a bitch slap to all those who believe so strongly in a cause that they want everybody else to believe in it. That single-mindedness is the core question of Hoffer's book: what kind of people become fanatics?

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Sing, America, Sing

Jennifer Ketcham | Posted 08.31.2011

Read More: Lynyrd Skynyrd, Freedom, 4th of July, Communist, Superbowl, Christina Aguilera, China, Tom Petty, Singing, National Anthem, Bruce Springsteen, Los Angeles News

Why don't we sing in America? Why don't we have awesome drinking songs? Or sports songs? Why is our "go to" chanting U.S.A.? I feel like our capabilities far exceed these three letters.

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WATCH: Victoria Jackson Launches Her Own Web Show

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Victoria Jackson, Victoria Jackson Impression, Victoria Jackson Impersonation, Communist, Jenn Dodd, Obama Communist, Snl, Victoria Jackson Obama, Saturday Night Live, Victoria Jackson Glee, Video, Comedy News

If it's good enough for Charlie Sheen, it's good enough for Victoria Jackson. New York comedian Jenn Dodd created this video featuring a spot-on im...

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Obama Is A 'Communist,' 'Socialist' And 'Anti-American Extremist,' New Book By Aaron Klein Claims

Media Matters for America | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Extremists, Anti-Obama, Aaron Klein Book, Obama Book, Barack Obama, Communist, Manchurian President, President Obama, Aaron Klein, Klein Book, Socialist, Obama, Anti-Obama Book, Books News

In his book, The Manchurian President: Barack Obama's Ties to Communists, Socialists and Other Anti-American Extremists, Klein -- who has distinguishe...

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Exclusive: French Director Carion Bids Farewell to Russian Spy

Brad Balfour | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, French, Russian Spies, Espionage, Russia KGB, Leonid Brezhnev, Mikhail Gorbachev, Angelina Jolie Salt, Communist, Anna Chapman, Angelina Jolie, Anna Fermanova, Cold War, Entertainment News

L'affaire Farewell tells the riveting true tale of a disenchanted KGB colonel who gives state secrets to a French businessman working in Russia.

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I'm Old Enough to Remember When the Epithet 'Fascist' Had Meaning

Saul Friedman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Noam Chomsky, Dwight Eisenhower, Communist, New Deal, Mike Huckabee, Ron Paul, Fascist, Grapes of Wrath, Faux Populism, Tea Party, Fdr, Politics News

Never mind that fascists and communists are at opposite ends of the political spectrum, those who hurl these words like curses at the president diminish their value much like the overuse of the F-word diminishes its worth.

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Christians: "Run As Fast As You Can" From The Church Of Glenn Beck

Peg Chemberlin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Communist, Economic Justice, Prophets, Scripture, Jesus, Bible, Social Justice, Glenn Beck, Church, Nazi, Ncc, Religion, Glenn Beck Church, Run as Fast as You Can, Glenn Beck Faith Fleeing, Glenn Beck Churches, Christians Should Flee From Glenn Beck, Religion News

Glenn Beck's recent statement that people should leave any church that mentions "social or economic justice" is nothing short of a call for his listeners to disregard central tenets of their faith because they do not conform to his own political ideology.

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2009 Was Not the Senate's Finest Year

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011

It was in the Senate this year where the goal of meaningful health care reform gave way to a bill that feels as if it was written by the insurance company lobbyists.

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Afghanistan: The American Experience (New York Review)

The New York Review of Books | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jihad, Cia, Communist, Nyr, Afghanistan, Washington Post, September 11th, Barack Obama, Woodward, Osama Bin Laden, Soviet Union, New York Review of Books, Afghanistan History, Book Reviews, Afghanistan Book, Books News

Amy Hertz, Huffington Post: Two major powers have struggled for control of Afghanistan over the last few decades, The Soviet Union and the US. Facing ...

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Berlusconi Blames Political Woes On "Communist" Enemies

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Communism, Communists, Berlusconi, Silvio Berlusconi, Communist, Berlusconi Gaffes, Berlusconi Scandal, Berlusconi Gaffe, World News

ROME, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi gave a foretaste of how he may defend himself when he goes back on trial for corrupt...

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Glenn Beck: Van Jones Is a Radical Commie Intent On, Um, Creating Private Sector Jobs

David Roberts | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Black Nationalism, Van Jones, Communist, Green Jobs, Community Organizer, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Radicalism, Green News

The shadowy Apollo Alliance want the government to provide incentives to businesses to invest in green technologies. This kind of Stalinistic, top-down central planning leads only to disasters like the internet, the polio vaccine, and velcro.

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The Chinese Come Calling

Robert Scheer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert Scheer, Deficit, Geithner, Clinton, Communist, Economy, Treasury, Marxist, China, Business News

The Chinese Communists invaded Washington on Monday demanding not that we sacrifice our freedoms but rather that we balance our budget.

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Think Again: Chiller, Socialist Theater

Eric Alterman | Posted 05.25.2011

In conservative world, this administration is leading a march on socialism. Just last week alone, Media Matters counted more than 143 mentions of the word "socialism" on the cable news shows.

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Senator Sessions, Judge Sotomayor, And Racism

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Latina, Sessions, Kkk, Ronald Reagan, David Gregory, Jeff Sessions, Boy, Scotus, Better, Republican, Reagan, Marion Three, Ku Klux Klan, Latino, Sexism, Gross Insensitivity, Racism, Sotomayor, Confirmation, Naacp, Communist, Reverse Racism, Judiciary Committee, Tancredo, Charles Pickering, Racist, Voting Rights, Alabama, Pickering, Tom Tancredo, Un-American, Meet the Press, Chris Weigant, Sonia Sotomayor, Republicans, Nominee, Aclu, Senate, Politics News

In all the hoopla over Judge Sonia Sotomayor being nominated to the Supreme Court, there is one interesting side story that the media is largely ignor...

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Europe's Last Ruling Communists

Amb. Swanee Hunt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Charles Ansbacher, Communist, European Elections, Former Soviet Union, Romania, Moldova, Veronin, Chisinau, Greceanii, World News

Today is election day in Moldova, Europe's poor step-sister in the southeast corner, near the Black Sea.

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Oh, The Humanity! Godless Huffington Post Commenters Wickedly Destroying Conservatism

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Liars, George Bush, Andrew Breitbart, National Review, President Obama, Leftist, Communist, Free Speech, Moral Relativism, Obama, Liberal, Jed Babbin, Cold War, Lunatic Ravings, Republican, Bush, Reality-Based, Internet, Goons, Cold War Is Over, Irony, Dirty Tricks, Vandalism, Irony-Impaired, Rush, Socialist, Moveon, Huffington Post, Limbaugh, Totalitarianism, Ends Justify the Means, Marketplace of Ideas, Boycott, Ideologue, Rush Limbaugh, Blog Readers, Commie, Propaganda, Hugh Hewitt, Conservative, Right Wing, Blog Commenters, Ironically-Challenged, Election, Wicked, Barack Obama, Ironic, Fair Play, Media Matters, Blog, Chris Weigant, Instapundit, Dogma, Humanity, Nixon, Censorship, Breitbart, Crazytown, Crazytalk, Media News

Due to a genetic deformity among conservatives, they are seemingly born without being able to spot irony in all its delicious forms.

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The Shovel or the Sickle

Susie Bright | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Bush, Gop, Pelosi, Financial Bailout, George Stephanopoulos, Communist, Financial Crisis, Banks, Obama, Democrats, Red-Baiting, Nationalization, Politics News

The most unsettling element of Obama's inauguration address wasn't Ricky Warren or Dopey Roberts -- it was the President's soft-pedal of our economic nightmare.

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Books That Reveal China's Cultural Constitution

Tom Doctoroff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jonathan Spence, Confucianism, Communist, Ha Jin, China's Topography, Chinese Culture, Jonathan Fenby, Elizabeth Scurfield, Learning Chinese, Chinese Immigrants, World News

While no book can replace on-the-ground experience, several have been instrumental in shaping my view of Chinese values, social structure and cosmological beliefs.

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Paint McCain a Red-Baiter

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011

The "small government" Bush and Republican Congress increased spending, thus replacing the budget surplus bequeathed them with deficits.

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