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A number of anti-communist films were made in Hollywood during the late 40s through the 50s, many of them featuring well-known names and of high quality. Almost none are available today. This is no accident, comrades. We owe a nod of thanks to Thomas Lifson for alerting us to yesterday's rare showing of the anti-communist thriller, The Woman on Pier 13 (AKA, I Married A Communist). Pier 13 is far from unique. It's easy to understand why Man on a Tightrope (1953) went down the memory hole, directed as it was by the Joe McCarthy of the film world, that...

The veteran New York Times foreign correspondent Alan Riding has written a fascinating report "Cameras Were Ready; The Revolution Wasn’t" http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/movies/03ridi.html?_r=1&ref=movies&oref=slogin on Corneliu Porumboiu's new film " “12:08 East of Bucharest,”" which depicts the downfall of Ceaucescu's Communist regime in one provincial town. It shows a fictional commemoration of the revolution on its 16th anniversary in which locals are asked to recount their "own revolution."

WARSAW (AFP) - France on Friday condemned moves by Polish authorities to strip former foreign minister Bronislaw Geremek of his European parliament mandate for refusing to say whether he collaborated with the communist era secret police. Geremek himself said in a newspaper interview that Poland under President Lech Kaczynski and his twin brother, Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski, was turning into a George Orwell novel. French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy called on the European Union and the European parliament to make official approaches to the Polish government over Geremek's case. Geremek, a former Solidarity union and anti-communist activist, has become the...

Attack of the MoonbatsPart I Evaporating rain spattered the hot Tucson asphalt as I drove along pothole-riddled streets toward the public library on October 5, 2006. I had some books on reserve to pick up before heading out to the "World Can't Wait" (WCW) rally at the University of Arizona Main Mall at noon. It was one of two by WCW scheduled for that day; the other was at 4:30 pm in front of the Federal Building. It seemed a good strategy: get middle school, high school and college students fired up with radical speeches, then bring them downtown...

"Drive out the Bush Regime, the world can't wait" is their chant, but I chant with them saying SADDAM can't wait. This group will be having anti-Bush, anti-war, anti-American protests all over the nation on Thursday, October 5th, 2006. Click here for the list of where World Can't Wait will be in your city.

On October 5th, 2006, there is a planned walkout from public high schools across the nation. The walkout and subsequent rally is being requested of students by an organization called World Can't Wait... This week my column is in the form of an informational PDF flyer about World Can't Wait's High School Walk Out Plan. It should be emailed to high schools, school districts, city government and police truancy departments. Faxing is also recommended. This is a link to the PDF Version of the column called "Worrisome Walkout" which can be right clicked on and saved to your computer then...

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How liberals lost their way Robert Fulford National Post Saturday, July 01, 2006 In 1949 Arthur Schlesinger Jr., then the young intellectual-in-chief of American politics, announced that anti-communism had become an essential part of liberalism. That might seem obvious. Surely the more liberal you are, the more you oppose communist tyranny, no? Still, it needed saying. Schlesinger and his friends had recently beaten back communist sympathizers in the Democratic Party and the unions. In his much-quoted book, The Vital Center, he said communism's challenge had forced American liberals "to take inventory of their moral resources" and decide they couldn't...

Faina Yefimovna Kaplan (1883–September 3, 1918), a.k.a. Fanny Kaplan (born Dora Kaplan), was a political revolutionary and an attempted assassin of Vladimir Lenin. Kaplan was born into a Jewish peasant family, one of seven children. She became a political revolutionary at an early age and joined a socialist group, the Socialist Revolutionaries. In 1906, Kaplan participated in an attempted assassination of a government official. The plot failed and Kaplan was arrested and sentenced to life of katorga works in Akatui, Siberia. She was released when the February Revolution overthrew the imperial government. As a result of her imprisonment, Kaplan suffered...

Moonbat Mysteries by Wayne Boettcher Posted: 05/05/2006 It was another sunny but breezy Spring day in Tucson as I rambled toward the Military Recruitment Center at 2302 E. Speedway on May 3rd, 2006. Birds were chirping, rabbits hopping and turtles harmonizing. No, wait. That was the Turtles on the radio. All in all, a happy relaxed morning in America. The "anti-war" protesting moonbats seemed a little late on their Daylight Savings Time switchover and were only now changing their weekly start time from 9:00 am to 8:00 am. I arrived at 8:05 am to find both sides already there....

"Something I hold so dear" by Wayne Boettcher Posted: 03/24/2006 It was a cool day in the desert on March 18, 2006, happy grey clouds scudded across the sky. The brisk wind rocked my truck, promising a sand-filled day as I ricocheted through the crazy Tucson streets toward the Military Recruiting Center at 2302 E. Speedway. In this town, many citizens seem to have replaced the gas and brake pedals of their vehicles with a simple toggle switch where up is full power, down is full brake. When I arrived at the Center at 8:00 am, at least ten...

I've never done a dedicated website-pimping post, so please bear with me if I fumble it. There is simply no way to give an adequate description of The People's Cube. - It is savagely anti-Leftist - For those of us who grew up during the Cold War and have some knowlege of the hell of life behind the Iron Curtain, it is poignantly accurate in its satire - The humor is simply brilliant (though it could be argued that mocking the communists, socialists, and leftists makes for rather easy jokes and parodies... all that is required is to be *slightly*...

Minor Mediator by Wayne Boettcher Posted: 02/10/2006 February 8th, 2006 was another great day to be an American in the snarled byways of Tucson as I slowly drove toward the Military Recruiting Center on 2302 E. Speedway. The Tucson City government, paralyzed by indecision, bickering politicians, special interests and bizarre traffic theories, has long been unable to figure out how to get cars to travel efficiently through the sandy city. Although I had planned to be early, I arrived at 8:30 am. Speaking of the bizarre, an unusual happenstance had occurred the week before, on a day I was...

Communists Op Depressed by Wayne Boettcher Posted: 01/27/2006 It was a mild day in the Old Pueblo as I whizzed past cactus after spiny cactus in my quest to reach the Tucson Military Recruiting Center at 2302 E. Speedway on January 25, 2006. I had brought my coat but wasn't going to need it. The slight sprinkle this morning was not nearly enough to make a dent in our weeks long drought or chill the desert sands. I approached the target location at approximately 8:30 am as cheers and salutations resounded through my open window. At least ten Pro...

W. Cleon Skousen died Monday, January 9. Skousen was one of the leading anti-Communists of the day. His nephew, Mark Skousen, editor of the just-released Compleated Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin (Regnery) and editor of the financial newsletter Forecasts and Strategies, has written this tribute about the man he calls “ a giant in the land.” W. Cleo Skousen: 1913-2006 "There were giants in the earth in those days....the same became might men who were of old, men of renown." (Genesis 6:4)A giant has died! My uncle Cleon, age 92, died of natural causes Jan.9, 2006. He lived a vigorous...

I realize this is a rather selfish vanity, but after doing a search of the archives (by no means an exhaustive one, however), I am appealing for aid. I am trying to compile a list of books (not extensive, but decent) that are anti-communist or anti-totalitarian in nature to give to my students as a project when we reach the unit on the Russian revolution and the rise of communism to the Cold War. Obvious books are 1984, Orwell Animal Farm, Orwell Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury Brave New World, Huxley Do any of you know of good fiction books that I...

We Three Kongs by Edward Hudgins The Objectivist center & The Atlas Society If art holds a mirror to reality, the original 1933 King Kong, the 1976 remake and the latest version by Peter Jackson, show a culture that swung from a romantic optimism to cynicism and now perhaps is returning to a healthier sense of life. The original Kong very much reflected the values of its maker, Merian C. Cooper. As a six-year old a book his uncle gave him on “Adventures in Equatorial Africa” inspired Cooper’s imagination with tales of the jungle and strange animals, including gorillas. He...

http://dan-smoot.blogspot.com/ DAN SMOOT: "Conspiracy Expert" ? It probably is not much of an exaggeration to observe that, eventually, every right-wing conspiracy proponent gets around to quoting Dan Smoot as an expert witness about matters pertaining to the "Master Conspiracy" operating in the United States. Many conspiracy authors cite Dan's 1962 book, The Invisible Government, for its unique insights based upon his "inside knowledge" as a former FBI Special Agent. In late 1993 I read Dan's autobiography entitled People Along The Way. I was curious about Dan's explanation for why he decided to leave the FBI (pages 181-184 of his...

Saddam Can't Wait! Say No to Communism Part V By Wayne Boettcher Posted: 11/04/2005 Why is there a sun? And why must this nearby star concentrate its thermal forces in the direction of Tucson, Arizona like a demented laser beam on steroids, ignoring the season with callous brutality? Yes, it was another searing day as I neared the Military Recruiting Center on November 2, 2005 at 8:15 am for the weekly "anti-war" protest. A few military parents and veterans were already there joyfully supporting the troops and America. Pulling into a likely parking spot, (for which I later received...

Dude, Where's My Sign? Say No to Communism Part IV The blistering rays of the sun sizzled through the atmosphere, blazing their way past fall skies to strike Tucson with heated enthusiasm. Yes, it was another scorching day in the desert on Wednesday, October 26th as I neared the Military Recruiting Center at Speedway Blvd about 7:10 am. This time I was early as the other side had changed their time to 9:00 am. I was the first one there! Placing my homemade UN flag as a welcome mat, I held up my new computer printed sign: We Support...