Showing posts with label socialism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label socialism. Show all posts
Monday, January 5, 2026

Unkillable

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     It’s been said innumerable times that “you can’t kill an idea.” It’s true, even if the notion of “killing” is only metaphorically appli...
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Friday, November 7, 2025

The Terrible Power Of ‘If’ Part 2

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     Writer R. G. Ryan deposeth and saith:      New York just elected a communist as mayor. OK fine. What if instead of running around with...
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Thursday, November 6, 2025

The Terrible Power Of ‘If’

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     Good morning, Gentle Reader. I hope you got more sleep than I did. Anyway, here we are, with Hallowe’en and Guy Fawkes Day comfortabl...
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Saturday, December 19, 2020

A Consumer, Not A Creator

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     C’est moi, when it comes to what are currently called memes. However, I enjoy the clever ones, and am always happy to come upon one t...
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Monday, February 24, 2020

The Socialist Front In The Lexical Wars

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     Good morning, Gentle Reader. It’s yet another unnaturally wet and foggy day here on the fabled Island of Long. As noted social commenta...
Thursday, January 30, 2020

Quickies: Once Bitten, Twice Shy

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     If there are any hard and fast, entirely reliable rules in the realm of geopolitics, this would be one: Never trust an avowed socialist...
Saturday, October 19, 2019

No Hiding

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     When a politician proposes to “give” you something, he’s lying to you. There are no exceptions. Americans once knew that at a visceral ...
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Monday, February 4, 2019

Who Was Gramsci? - Part 1

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From Wikipedia:      The man pictured above is Antonio Gramsci, an Italian Marxist, who died at age 46, in 1937. His influence on current...
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Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Quickies: What To Expect From A Socialist

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     Some of it, of course, is utterly obvious. Consider this old saying:      Capitalism and Communism stand at opposite poles. Their esse...
Monday, October 15, 2018

Social Justice, Social Democracy, Democratic Socialism...?

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     It’s been said, and truly, that to insert the word or particle social into a phrase negates its prior meaning. Now that averred social...
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Tuesday, July 10, 2018

“But This Time It Will Work!”

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     Kurt Schlichter has penned a bitingly funny column about the Democrats’ embrace of socialism. As usual, it’s worth your time. However,...
Saturday, June 30, 2018

Quickies: Socialists’ Habitual Defense

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     American socialists have been in the news recently, starting with the 2016 presidential campaign of U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT)....
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Friday, March 9, 2018

The Heartbreak Of Socialism

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     (Not to be confused with its predecessor, “the heartbreak of psoriasis.” )      According to her Washington Post online resume:     ...
Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Embracing The Faith

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     The world abounds in ironies. The more striking ones get a lot of air time and column-inches – not because of the irony, but because t...
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