Via Althouse comes a parable of class warfare.
Legend has it that during a brutal contract bargaining session, Harry Bennett, Henry Ford’s enforcer, attempted to break the tension by passing around snapshots taken during a visit to Maxon Lodge, a gorgeous hideaway in the woods of northern Michigan.Walter Reuther, architect of the United Auto Workers’ rise, […]

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Tom Friedman, Again - Jonah Goldberg - The Corner on National Review Online
Not everything in Tom Friedman’s latest column is wrong or stupid, but where it isn’t that, it’s terribly boring. And I should be clear, it’s not boring because what he says is so conventional. It’s boring because he says the same […]

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Michael Moore is so sure that Cuba has better healthcare. Maybe he should read the news. Cuba investigates psychiatric hospital deaths
Cuban authorities are investigating the deaths of 26 patients at a psychiatric hospital linked to a spell of unusually cold weather.
Human rights activists blamed the deaths on negligence and the dilapidated state of the hospital.
The […]

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Schwarzenegger Seeks Obama’s Help for Deficit Relief (Update4) - Bloomberg.com
“The problem is that there are no easy solutions left,” said Jean Ross, executive director of the California Budget Project, a Sacramento-based research group concentrating on issues facing the poor. “Where do you go to cut that doesn’t permanently compromise the level of public services that […]

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You Can’t Make It Up — Or Si, Se Puede! - Andy McCarthy - The Corner on National Review Online
You Can’t Make It Up — Or Si, Se Puede! [Andy McCarthy]
The White House has announced that Mari Del Carmen Aponte will be nominated by the President to become the U.S. ambassador to El […]

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Mary O’Grady: In Elections, Honduras Defeats Chávez - WSJ.com
The fact that the U.S. has said it will recognize their legitimacy shows that this reality eventually made its way to the White House. If not Hugo Chávez’s Waterloo, Honduras’s stand at least marks a major setback for the Venezuelan strongman’s expansionist agenda.
The losers in this drama […]

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Momentum grows for Copenhagen climate deal | Reuters
PORT OF SPAIN (Reuters) - World leaders on Friday rallied to a diplomatic offensive to forge a U.N. climate deal in Copenhagen next month and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said an agreement was “within reach”.
Ban, and Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen who will host the December 7-18 […]

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China executes two over tainted milk powder scandal
Zhang Yujun was convicted of endangering public safety by dangerous means, for selling more than 770 tonnes of the tainted milk powder from July 2007 to August 2008, the official Xinhua news agency said.
Geng Jinping, who managed a milk production centre, was convicted of supplying milk containing […]

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Goldman Sachs boss says sorry over financial crisis | Business | guardian.co.uk
The head of Goldman Sachs has apologised for the Wall Street titan’s role in helping to create the financial crisis.
I wonder which one of his Washington masters demanded he prostrate himself in this manner?
What’s next? Commie-style self-criticism circles?

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Reuters AlertNet - Chavez asking Cubans to ‘bomb clouds’ amid drought
*Government criticized for poor planning in drought
CARACAS, Nov 15 (Reuters) - Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez says he will join a team of Cuban scientists on flights to “bomb clouds” to create rain amid a severe drought that has aroused public anger due to water and […]

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The Associated Press: The Chavez Diet: Venezuelans urged to lose weight
CARACAS, Venezuela — Call it the Bolivarian battle of the bulge.
President Hugo Chavez said in a televised speech Friday that “there are lots of fat people” in Venezuela and advised his supporters to exercise and eat healthy to trim their waistlines.
I’m not worried. Commies […]

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Reuters AlertNet - Cuba orders extreme measures to cut energy use
HAVANA, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Cuba has ordered all state enterprises to adopt “extreme measures” to cut energy usage through the end of the year in hopes of avoiding the dreaded blackouts that plagued the country following the 1991 collapse of its then-top ally, the […]

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Chavez’s Economic Problems Turn Nasty - Megan McArdle
The government announced some emergency measures this week, including limits on imports of air-conditioning systems, rate increases for consumers of large amounts of power and the building of new gas-fired power plants, which would not be completed until the middle of the next decade.
In other words, Commie […]

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Twenty years and they’re still with us.

Several articles from Biggovernment.
The Fall of the Wall: A Resounding Victory for Freedom
Fall of the Wall: The Price of Liberty is Eternal Vigilance

Remembering the Berlin Wall: Chronicle of a Death Foretold
I think the articles say it better than I could.

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Even safe Democrats feeling at risk - Jonathan Allen - POLITICO.com
He said he learned the following lesson about incremental progress from his political mentor, Sen. Warren Magnuson: “Get your toe in, get your knee in, get your shoulder in, and pretty soon you’re in the room.”
With at least a few days before the bill hits […]

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Controversial New Video of Obama’s Pastor
As for Wright, he received some unwanted attention for saying earlier this year that he blamed “them Jews” for keeping him away from President Obama.
At the Monthly Review celebration, however, he went into more detail about his own personal and political philosophy. He said that “My work with liberation theology, […]

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NEA - Recommended Reading: Saul Alinsky, The American Organizer
Recommended Reading: Saul Alinsky, The American Organizer

In case you’ve ever wondered where the National Education Association (the far-left teacher’s union and huge Obama supporter) is really coming from.

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Instapundit » Blog Archive » JONAH GOLDBERG: “A lot of conservatives today are too quick to think that because liberals have som…
JONAH GOLDBERG: “A lot of conservatives today are too quick to think that because liberals have some affinity for Marxist sentiments that they are actual Marxists. Liberals often make the same mistakes as Marxists, […]

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Return of the Honduran Prodigal - Ray Walser - The Corner on National Review Online

Under intense pressure, the interim Micheletti government agreed to let Zelaya return to presidential office for the next three months. Exactly how that happens will be decided by the Honduran Supreme Court and Congress. Other terms of the deal include a […]

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I Say We Take Off and Nuke the Site from Orbit . . .
In 1917 a Marxist revolution did occur in Russia, but it failed to spread to Western Europe, again contradicting orthodox Marxist theory. At the war’s end, Marxist theorists had to confront the question, “What had gone wrong?” Antonio Gramsci of Italy and […]

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Required Reading
Steve cites Austin Bay:
Obama’s Nobel is the result of the Left’s “long march through the institutions,” a phrase encapsulating the route ’60s hard left political radicals took to gain control of universities, media, religious organizations, arts and literary associations, and businesses in order to break the chains of “bourgeois” hegemony and bring about “true […]

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If you’re known by the company you keep - or appoint to high office - what should we make of Anita Dunn’s worship of Chairman Mao Tse Dong?

Dunn claims that Fox is not a legitimate news network. I claim that Dunn, who worships at the Communist High Altar of Chairman […]

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The Unknown War - Reason Magazine
On August 23, 1989, officials from the newly reformed and soon-to-be-renamed Communist Party of Hungary ceased policing the country’s militarized border with Austria. Some 13,000 East Germans, many of whom had been vacationing at nearby Lake Balaton, fled across the frontier to the free world. It was the largest breach […]

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Michelle Malkin » This is what the thuggish redistribution of wealth looks like
A.M. Mora y Leon tipped me to this video last night of Chavista thugs confiscating farms across Venezuela. A.M. notes the parallels to what Lenin, Mao and Castro did: “But this time, some farmer had the presence of mind to turn on his […]

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Honduras police break up pro-Zelaya protest | World | Reuters
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Honduran troops and police clashed on Tuesday with hundreds of supporters of ousted President Manuel Zelaya outside Brazil’s embassy where he took refuge after slipping back into the country in a bid to return to power.
“Hundreds” probably means a couple dozen astroturfed professional […]

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