Archive for the 'Communism' Category
Danny Lemieux on Dec 16 2012 | Filed under: Communism, Crime and punishment, Lefties on Parade, Leftist morality, Morality, Norway, Second Amendment, Socialism
We won’t change what appears to be happening with increasing frequency to our society until we decide that we will stand up and dare to speak out against the increased depravity of our culture. Definitely “uncool”, but we must do it…for all families, for the kids and for our future. Otherwise, it can only continue to get much, much worse. It is the age of the wolf.
Bookworm on Sep 24 2012 | Filed under: Communism, Education
Tweet So now we know what historical ignorance looks like: A Pennsylvania high school marching band is raising eyebrows with a halftime performance that commemorates the Russian revolution, complete with red flags, olive military-style uniforms, and giant hammers and sickles. “St. Petersburg: 1917” is the theme for the New Oxford High School Marching Band. Ironically, [...]
Bookworm on Apr 30 2012 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Communism, Lefties on Parade, Mitt Romney
Tweet One of the most startling features of Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, a book that examines the killing fields that Stalin and Hitler created in the lands between Germany and Russia proper, is the way in which these socialist leaders were so willing to kill people in the millions to make reality accord [...]
Bookworm on Apr 26 2012 | Filed under: Communism, Democrats, Socialism
Tweet To date, I haven’t been paying that much attention to the Obama administration’s Big Government effort to keep America’s young down on the farms, now that they’ve seen TV. Or can see TV . . . or should see TV, since the Obama administration is barring farm kids from actually working on the farm: [...]
Bookworm on Sep 21 2011 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Capitalism, Communism, Liberal Fascism
Tweet My mother, who gets a lot of her news from the MSM, is nevertheless slowly becoming aware of the Solyndra scandal — not just the fact that a big solar panel company went bankrupt, but that it went bankrupt at great cost to her, because the Obama administration had bet the farm (or should [...]
Danny Lemieux on Jan 09 2011 | Filed under: Activism, Communism, Democrats, Republicans, Sarah Palin, Tea Parties, Uncategorized
Tweet “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.” – President Barack Hussein Obama I posted this as a comment to Book’s previous post, but have now posted it independently as a challenge to all of us Bookworm salon aficionados. Here’s the premise: virtually all the political violence that has happened in [...]
Bookworm on Nov 20 2010 | Filed under: Communism, Liberal Fascism
Tweet My liberal friend and I were talking about having pizza for dinner. I suggested Round Table. My friend was appalled. Liberal Friend: “Round Table is awful.” Me: “I like it.” Liberal Friend: “It’s awful. Just go on Yelp.” Me: “Why should I go on Yelp? That’s helpful if I haven’t been some place and [...]
Bookworm on Oct 25 2010 | Filed under: Communism, Media matters
Tweet Juan Williams breached PC, group-think protocol by giving voice to a personal feeling, which is the fear of Muslims on airplanes. This is not an irrational fear. While the percentage of Muslims who will be threats on airplanes is small, the percentage of mass murderers who board airplanes and happen to be Muslims is [...]
Bookworm on Sep 23 2010 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Communism, Freedom
Tweet Yesterday I staged an imaginary Obama/Churchill match-up. Today I want to add a little commentary. As you had probably already figured out, I greatly admire Churchill. I understand that he was a difficult person (often); that he could be nasty; that he was more willing to let his own people die in the fight [...]
Bookworm on Sep 20 2010 | Filed under: Britain, Communism, England, Taxes
Tweet The British government has proposed stealth communism: all paychecks go to the government first, which then doles out to the wage earner whatever amount the government feels is the wage earner’s due. Think about it. As Pat Sajak wrote yesterday, withholding is bad enough, because it deprives the worker of a sense of ownership [...]
Bookworm on Sep 18 2010 | Filed under: Capitalism, Christians, Communism, Military, Tea Parties
Tweet I know this will come as a surprise to all of you, but I was not born wise or well informed. I blush to think of some of the behaviors in which I indulged, and the ideas that I held, when I was younger. When I was a very little girl, I picked up [...]
Bookworm on Jul 08 2010 | Filed under: Communism, Crime and punishment
Tweet Last year, an Oakland transit police officer, Johannes Mehserle, killed Oscar Grant, in a BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) station. Grant was being, to put it mildly, obstreperous. Mehserle’s defense is that he meant to taser Grant but, instead, shot him. Video footage made at the time indicates that Mehserle did indeed make a [...]
Bookworm on Jul 03 2010 | Filed under: Communism, Government
Tweet The Anchoress posted at her blog a semi-animated video by a self-avowed Marxist explaining why Marxism, not capitalism, will save the world. I have to admit that I didn’t watch it. It wasn’t the content that drove me away, it was the choppy visuals, which trigger migraines. Having just beaten back a migraine, I [...]
Bookworm on Jun 20 2010 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Communism, Israel, Socialism
Tweet [Prepare yourself; this is a long one. Long-time readers may also recognize that I've cannibalized old posts in the service of a new point.] A friend sent me a link to a 1951 video, showing a popular American singing group celebrating the creation of the State of Israel, something that had happened only three [...]
Bookworm on Mar 24 2010 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Communism, Health, Socialism
Tweet I warned people close to me (mother, sister, etc.) that Obama was a socialist and they laughed at me and (quite lovingly, because they’re my mom and my sister) called me “extreme.” I wonder if they would have laughed at Al Sharpton too, now that he’s finally let the cat out of the bag: [...]
Bookworm on Mar 11 2010 | Filed under: Communism, Congress, Corruption, Democrats
Tweet As everyone should know by now, House Democrats are contemplating doing away entirely with a vote on the Senate bill, and simply announcing that they’ve passed it. After all, why shouldn’t the Constitution bow down before their overweening statism? Steve Schippert, a veteran, has unloaded both cannons against this attack on core American values [...]
Bookworm on Feb 08 2010 | Filed under: Communism, Socialism
Tweet The American intelligentsia has a love affair with Communism that will not die. The dead Soviets, the dead Hungarians, Czechs, Albanians, Poles, Bulgarians, etc., the dead Chinese, the dead Koreans, the dead Africans, the dead Cambodians, the dead Vietnamese, the dead Cubans, and the dead Latin Americans are all irrelevant. Those are just mistakes [...]
Bookworm on Dec 17 2009 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Capitalism, Climate change, Communism, Media matters
Tweet Since the beginning, climate change skeptics have said that the hysteria of the man-made global warming movement, aside from being based on manifestly shoddy and often dishonest science, was in fact a Leftist political gambit. The Communists, having failed to win the world over with a Cold War had regrouped and were seeking to [...]
Bookworm on Nov 06 2009 | Filed under: Communism, Democrats
Tweet There is a lot of talk about whether, looking ahead to the 2010 elections, we’re looking at 1980, or 1994, or 1932 or some other American political year that I can’t even think of right now. I actually think we’re looking at a different year altogether: 1989. As you may recall, 1989 was a [...]
Bookworm on Nov 04 2009 | Filed under: Communism
Tweet One of my favorite books, and one I highly recommend, is Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism. The title is self-explanatory, so I won’t belabor what you’ll find when you read it. I mention it here because I believe it was in that book that I read that, from the 1950s [...]
Bookworm on Jul 15 2009 | Filed under: Communism, Health
Tweet Tom Elia links to an utterly fatuous statement from a 25 year old Obama supporter (who nevertheless gets a bully pulpit in a WaPo blog), saying that killing the profit motive will have no effect whatsoever on pharmaceutical innovation. In the face of such stupidity, I have to drag out my family history once [...]
Bookworm on Jan 12 2009 | Filed under: Communism
Tweet If you want to be sickened by the nature of Hamas’ fellow travelers in the U.S., check out Zombie’s photographs from the rally in San Francisco to protest Israel’s war against Hamas. One photo, combined with Zombie’s comment, struck me with particular force: “Globalize the Intifada.” This is the fundamental message underlying all of [...]
Bookworm on Oct 26 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Communism
Tweet Traditionally, Americans conceived of taxes as a way in which citizens paid for basic government services that benefited all (such as defense, infrastructure, etc.). With socialism, the notion arose that the government was to take from the rich (as defined by the government) and give to the poor (as defined by the government). Since [...]
Bookworm on Oct 18 2008 | Filed under: Communism, Medicine
Tweet I carpooled to a soccer game today. The driver, who is someone I don’t know very well, is a very charming man who is quite obviously a potential Obama voter. He wasn’t quite sure about me and, since he was a very civil individual, he never came out and either insulted McCain or lauded [...]
Bookworm on Jun 16 2008 | Filed under: Children, Communism, Parenting
Tweet I never thought about it, but I was running my house like a commune. The kids had chores to do, of course, but the incentive was the greater good, my approbation, and an allowance that, in their minds, had no relationship to the tasks demanded. The kids did not find these incentives inspiring, and [...]
