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Saturday, November 11, 2017
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ILLEGAL ALIENS CAUGHT TRAFFICKING HEROIN IN NORTH CAROLINA
UNION COUNTY, NC (WSCO) – Union County deputies seized more than four ounces of heroin Wednesday afternoon near Indian Trail after two interdiction stops.
Cesar Ibanez Castaneda, 40, of Charlotte, is charged with two counts of trafficking in opium or heroin and maintaining a drug vehicle after more than 2 ½ ounces of heroin.
Israel Baez Figueroa, 25, of Monroe, and Pedro Gonzalez Viera, 19, of San Diego, Calif., are charged with two counts of trafficking in opium or heroin and maintaining a drug...
Cesar Ibanez Castaneda, 40, of Charlotte, is charged with two counts of trafficking in opium or heroin and maintaining a drug vehicle after more than 2 ½ ounces of heroin.
Israel Baez Figueroa, 25, of Monroe, and Pedro Gonzalez Viera, 19, of San Diego, Calif., are charged with two counts of trafficking in opium or heroin and maintaining a drug...
November Democrat Politician Horoscopes
Sagittarius Replenish your campaign coffers by sending out a fundraising email accusing the republican majority of taking away entitlements even though they are working on cutting taxes for the working class. Tonight, deny that Hillary used Fusion GPS to defraud the American People and helped her enrich herself with Russian Uranium One Money.
"Hey, Democrat, what's your sign? Oh. Right. Duh."
Capricorn Today you'll get the urge to express your opposition to legal immigration by accusing anyone opposing illegal immigration of racism. If someone voices skepticism, tell the story of how Julio of El Salvador's life was saved, if someone points out that he is a member of MS-13, accuse them of hating "brown" children.
Aquarius Count your blessings as a Democrat, such as unfettered love and adoration from the media, newspapers, periodicals and supporting Hollywood movies that allows you to get away with lies, murder and keeping "the constituency" poor and voting for you. Tonight: Block access to a National Monument for veterans just for fun.
Pisces Don’t take no for an answer. Give no for an answer. The 5th amendment is your and your friends friend.
"Hey, Democrat, what's your sign? Oh. Right. Duh."
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Aries A good day to use children as props for any leftist project you are looking to promote, Global War...errr Climate Change is a good one. Hug the children as you sell their futures to Socialism and suck their souls from them.
Taurus Discuss how to steal err.. redistribute income from the middle class with your caucus by using class warfare to justify your zeal to destroy hope. Tonight: keep your manicure scissors nearby in case your mistress gets her braces caught in your hair again.
Gemini Practice saying into a mirror: "I just found out about it on TeeVee" Then check on the progress of your shredding crew.
Cancer Sad thoughts may bedevil you today. Clear them out of your head by thinking of destroying capitalism. Tonight: party like it's Kim Jong Un Day.
Virgo A good day to lawyer up. Not that you did anything wrong! Still, a very, very good day to lawyer up. Tonight: practice saying "I hate mid term elections, I hate mid term elections in the mirror.
Libra Accuse your opponents of playing the blame game. When they accuse you of playing the blame game by accusing them of playing the blame game, call them racists, sexists, misogynists, and homophobes until they give up on logic and walk away...
Scorpio Replenish your campaign coffers by sending out a fundraising email defending a cop killer because hey, he's a communist, we gots to stand together! Add a P.S. suggesting he should get into politics.
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Today We Recognize The Sacrifices Our Veterans Have Made For Us...
BOMBSHELL: Judge Roy Moore Accuser Worked for Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden Campaigns, Part of the ‘Resistance’
The Washington Post hatchet job, conveniently produced a month before the Alabama Senate election on December 12, wants us to believe that Christian constitutionalist Judge Roy Moore, 70, a former member of the Alabama Supreme Court who stood up to vicious leftist attacks for his fight for real marriage and the Ten Commandments, sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl when he was 32, in 1979, and that somehow — after 40 years in public service — (judges are elected in Alabama where Moore served on the Alabama Supreme Court) this “news” never before surfaced.
Now we are learning — not shockingly — that the false accusations against Judge Roy Moore are politically motivated.
Deborah Wesson Gibson, one of Roy Moore’s accusers, is a member of Progressive Politics Alabama and is someone who worked on the political campaigns of both 2016 Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and former Obama regime Vice President Joe Biden, providing sign language services.
Moreover, as the leading newspaper in Alabama reports, Gibson also provides services to leading Democrats like Sen. Patrick Murphy and Bill Nelson and shared campaign fliers of Roy Moore’s Democrat opponent, Doug Jones, for the Alabama election slated for December 12.
Gibson did not respond to texts or email messages seeking a comment from AL.com about her politically-charged accusations. Other reports indicate that the accusers, Leigh Corfman and Gibson, have a history of making false allegations. Further social media posts show that Deborah Gibson was a member of the pro-Communism “Resistance” movement and was vehemently opposed to the Trump agenda, which Judge Roy Moore has vowed to support. So much so that Moore’s win, in the face of fervent establishment opposition, was called a win for the Trump agenda.
Like much of the radical left, “Resistance” member and Roy Moore accuser Deborah Wesson Gibson referred to President Trump as “Hitler” and...
Now we are learning — not shockingly — that the false accusations against Judge Roy Moore are politically motivated.
Deborah Wesson Gibson, one of Roy Moore’s accusers, is a member of Progressive Politics Alabama and is someone who worked on the political campaigns of both 2016 Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and former Obama regime Vice President Joe Biden, providing sign language services.
Moreover, as the leading newspaper in Alabama reports, Gibson also provides services to leading Democrats like Sen. Patrick Murphy and Bill Nelson and shared campaign fliers of Roy Moore’s Democrat opponent, Doug Jones, for the Alabama election slated for December 12.
Gibson did not respond to texts or email messages seeking a comment from AL.com about her politically-charged accusations. Other reports indicate that the accusers, Leigh Corfman and Gibson, have a history of making false allegations. Further social media posts show that Deborah Gibson was a member of the pro-Communism “Resistance” movement and was vehemently opposed to the Trump agenda, which Judge Roy Moore has vowed to support. So much so that Moore’s win, in the face of fervent establishment opposition, was called a win for the Trump agenda.
Like much of the radical left, “Resistance” member and Roy Moore accuser Deborah Wesson Gibson referred to President Trump as “Hitler” and...
The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #72
You have come across a mystery box. But what is inside?
It could be literally anything from the serene to the horrific,
from the beautiful to the repugnant,
from the mysterious to the familiar.
If you decide to open it, you could be disappointed,
you could be inspired, you could be appalled.
This is not for the faint of heart or the easily offended.
You have been warned.
Friday, November 10, 2017
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US Air Force official: Missile targeting Saudis was Iranian
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – The ballistic missile fired by Yemeni rebels that targeted the Saudi capital was from Iran and bore "Iranian markings," the top U.S. Air Force official in the Mideast said Friday.
Lt. Gen. Jeffrey L. Harrigian, who oversees the Air Forces Central Command in Qatar, made the comments at a news conference in Dubai.
Harrigian said authorities were investigating how the missile was smuggled into Yemen amid a Saudi-led coalition controlling the country's airspace, ports and borders.
After the Nov. 4 strike near Riyadh, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Ministry said investigators examining the remains of the rocket found evidence proving "the role of Iranian regime in manufacturing them." It did not elaborate, though it also mentioned it found similar evidence after a July 22 missile launch. French President Emmanuel Macron similarly this week described the missile as...
Lt. Gen. Jeffrey L. Harrigian, who oversees the Air Forces Central Command in Qatar, made the comments at a news conference in Dubai.
Harrigian said authorities were investigating how the missile was smuggled into Yemen amid a Saudi-led coalition controlling the country's airspace, ports and borders.
After the Nov. 4 strike near Riyadh, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Ministry said investigators examining the remains of the rocket found evidence proving "the role of Iranian regime in manufacturing them." It did not elaborate, though it also mentioned it found similar evidence after a July 22 missile launch. French President Emmanuel Macron similarly this week described the missile as...
BREAKING: Washington Post Reporter Behind Roy Moore Hit Piece Has History Of Writing Fake Checks
Washington Post reporter Stephanie McCrummen, who co-wrote today’s hit piece on Judge Roy Moore, has a history of writing fake checks, according to a 2011 report reviewed by GotNews.
According to left-leaning New York Magazine, McCrummen has an extensive criminal record, committing four infractions in three different states.
The original 2011 report details how McCrummen’s criminal career began with her writing a fake check in North Carolina:
“Ms. McCrummen’s criminal history began with North Carolina Case # 1992 CR 00654, a violation of the Article 19 – False Pretenses and Cheats section of the North Carolina Criminal Code. Ms. McCrummen was convicted of a crime punishable by...
According to left-leaning New York Magazine, McCrummen has an extensive criminal record, committing four infractions in three different states.
The original 2011 report details how McCrummen’s criminal career began with her writing a fake check in North Carolina:
“Ms. McCrummen’s criminal history began with North Carolina Case # 1992 CR 00654, a violation of the Article 19 – False Pretenses and Cheats section of the North Carolina Criminal Code. Ms. McCrummen was convicted of a crime punishable by...
Canadian Judge in Marital Sexual Assault Case Places Islamic Practices Above Canadian Law
“The man was part of an arranged marriage in Gaza. His wife, a Palestinian who grew up in Kuwait, lived in Ottawa and the family settled in this city.”
And these are the attitudes they brought with them: “Your wives are a place of sowing of seed for you, so come to your place of cultivation however you wish and put forth for yourselves. And fear Allah and know that you will meet Him. And give good tidings to the believers.” (Qur’an 2:223)
He’s not guilty according to Islam. In Islam, women are chattel and men can force their wives to have sex anytime. So apparently Canada is now a sharia state. It used to be that “ignorance of the law is no excuse.” No more. Now if you’re ignorant of the law, or pretend to be, and follow sharia instead, in Canada you will have no problem.
“Canadian Judge in Marital Sexual Assault Case Places Cultural Practices Above the Law,” by Scott Newark, IPT News, November 8, 2017
And these are the attitudes they brought with them: “Your wives are a place of sowing of seed for you, so come to your place of cultivation however you wish and put forth for yourselves. And fear Allah and know that you will meet Him. And give good tidings to the believers.” (Qur’an 2:223)
He’s not guilty according to Islam. In Islam, women are chattel and men can force their wives to have sex anytime. So apparently Canada is now a sharia state. It used to be that “ignorance of the law is no excuse.” No more. Now if you’re ignorant of the law, or pretend to be, and follow sharia instead, in Canada you will have no problem.
“Canadian Judge in Marital Sexual Assault Case Places Cultural Practices Above the Law,” by Scott Newark, IPT News, November 8, 2017
Thanks to excellent reporting by Andrew Duffy of the Ottawa Citizen, Canadians recently learned of a disturbing decision from Ontario Superior Court Justice Robert Smith that acquitted a man of sexual assault against his former wife because the man and his then wife believed that their religion and culture entitled him to have sex with her whether she consented or not.
The decision is especially alarming as it is based on a presumption that Canada’s clear criminal law that requires actual consent to sexual contact is somehow superseded by a cultural or religious belief. Further, the ruling undermines specific protections enacted in Canadian law that protect women, including those who are married, from non-consensual sexual contact.
The ruling also ignores the long standing Canadian legal principle that ignorance of the law is not a criminal defense. In summary, the ruling appears to place religious and cultural beliefs above the laws of...
Leftists Are Engaging in Impeachment Fan Fiction
Liberal billionaire Tom Steyer recently announced that he will be spending about $10 million on an ad campaign for Congress to impeach President Donald Trump.
On top of the violation of many progressive policy goals, Steyer said that Trump should be removed from office because “people in Congress and his own administration know that this president is a clear and present danger who is mentally unstable and armed with nuclear weapons.”
Steyer said in one of these commercials that Trump “brought us to the brink of nuclear war, obstructed justice at the FBI, and in direct violation of the Constitution, he’s taken money from foreign governments and threatened to shut down news organizations that report the truth.”
Steyer may just be using the impeachment campaign for publicity to run for office, but he’s tapping into the feelings of a larger movement.
Progressives are hoping that some kind of deus ex machina, some out-of-the-blue miracle, will bail them out of the Trump presidency.
So they’ve cooked up half-baked resignation scenarios, divined obscure constitutional solutions, and have even called for what amounts to a military coup.
Actress Chelsea Handler actually suggested on Twitter that the “generals” should overthrow Trump.
To all the generals surrounding our idiot-in-chief...the longer U wait to remove him, the longer UR name will appear negatively in history.
It’s sometimes hard to keep this straight.
Yet it’s not just anonymous Twitter activists and uninformed celebrities who are concocting these wild theories. It’s prominent members of the intellectual left.
Fairy Tales and Miracles
Cass Sunstein, former President Barack Obama’s drug czar and another Harvard professor, recently released a book making the case for a more expansive reading of the impeachment clauses of the Constitution that extends beyond “high crimes and misdemeanors.”
As with much of Sunstein’s work, he combines the outward appearance of adherence to the Constitution while insinuating that the Founders just couldn’t understand the issues of our day.
“Once we combine party loyalties with the Constitution’s procedure, it becomes reasonable to fear that a tyrant won’t be booted out of office,” Sunstein wrote in a Bloomberg editorial. “For all their prescience, the Constitution’s founders did not quite foresee the problem. That’s worth worrying about.”
While Sunstein has denied that the work is specifically about Trump, it is clear he is attempting to create the illusion of...
The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #71
You have come across a mystery box. But what is inside?
It could be literally anything from the serene to the horrific,
from the beautiful to the repugnant,
from the mysterious to the familiar.
If you decide to open it, you could be disappointed,
you could be inspired, you could be appalled.
This is not for the faint of heart or the easily offended.
You have been warned.
Thursday, November 9, 2017
Dozens of illegal aliens removed from stash houses in Texas
EDINBURG, Texas – U.S. Border Patrol agents found 32 illegal aliens being held in multiple stash houses within the last week.
Tuesday, October 31, Rio Grande Valley Sector agents received assistance from the Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office and the Hidalgo County’s Constable Precinct 4 Office to conduct a consensual search of a suspected stash house in Mission, Texas. Agents located 18 subjects kept inside the house. The smuggled migrants were from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Mexico.
Next day, Brownsville agents worked with the Cameron County Constables Office in apprehending 14 subjects at an apartment complex. The smuggled aliens were from...
Tuesday, October 31, Rio Grande Valley Sector agents received assistance from the Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office and the Hidalgo County’s Constable Precinct 4 Office to conduct a consensual search of a suspected stash house in Mission, Texas. Agents located 18 subjects kept inside the house. The smuggled migrants were from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Mexico.
Next day, Brownsville agents worked with the Cameron County Constables Office in apprehending 14 subjects at an apartment complex. The smuggled aliens were from...
Why the Left Has Been So Wrong About the Trump Boom
Time magazine’s cover story for the week of Nov. 6 is a classic. It blares: “The Wrecking Crew: How Trump’s Cabinet Is Dismantling Government As We Know It.”
The New York Times ran a lead editorial complaining that Team Trump is shrinking the regulatory state at an “unprecedented” pace.
Meanwhile, last week the stock market raced to new all-time highs; we had another blockbuster jobs report with another fall in the unemployment rate; and housing sales soared to their highest level in a decade.
Are the editors at Time and the Times so ideologically blinded that they are incapable of connecting the dots?
The U.S. economic revival of 3 percent growth has already defied the predictions of almost every Donald Trump critic.
I vividly remember debating Hillary Clinton’s economic gurus during the campaign: They accused Trump and advisers such as myself of “lying” when we said that pro-growth policies would speed up economic growth to 3 to 4 percent.
Jason Furman, who chaired the Council of Economic Advisers under President Barack Obama, told reporters earlier this year that the chances of reaching 3 percent growth over a decade were about 1 in 25—which is what many political experts said was Trump’s chance of winning the election.
Another Obama economist, Alan Krueger, called the 3 percent growth forecast “extremely rosy.”
Larry Summers, a top economic adviser to Obama, questioned the “standards of integrity” of the Trump economic team’s forecast for 3 percent (or more) growth. “I do not see how any examination of U.S. history could possibly support the Trump forecast as a reasonable expectation,” he wrote in The Washington Post.
Congress weighed in, too. “This budget relies on absurd economic projections and pretend revenues that no credible economist would validate,” Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., announced at a House budget hearing.
The sharp-penned Paul Krugman of The New York Times declared Trump’s growth forecast an act of “economic arrogance.” He said the productivity improvement necessary for faster growth was as likely as “driverless flying cars” arriving “en masse.”
Admittedly, we shouldn’t read too much into six months of very good economic data (with 3 percent growth) or the booming stock market. These trends can always reverse course quickly. Trump’s more restrictive policies on trade and immigration could harm growth potential.
But so far the Trump haters have missed the call on the economy’s trajectory. Doubly ironic is that the same Obama-era economists who are trashing Trump’s increasingly realistic forecast of 3 percent growth are the ones who predicted 4 percent growth from the Obama budgets.
Obama never came anywhere near 4 percent growth, and at the end of his second term, the economy grew at a pitiful 1.6 percent.
Under Obama, free enterprise and pro-business policies were thrown out the window. What was delivered was the weakest recovery from a recession since...
The New York Times ran a lead editorial complaining that Team Trump is shrinking the regulatory state at an “unprecedented” pace.
Meanwhile, last week the stock market raced to new all-time highs; we had another blockbuster jobs report with another fall in the unemployment rate; and housing sales soared to their highest level in a decade.
Are the editors at Time and the Times so ideologically blinded that they are incapable of connecting the dots?
The U.S. economic revival of 3 percent growth has already defied the predictions of almost every Donald Trump critic.
I vividly remember debating Hillary Clinton’s economic gurus during the campaign: They accused Trump and advisers such as myself of “lying” when we said that pro-growth policies would speed up economic growth to 3 to 4 percent.
Jason Furman, who chaired the Council of Economic Advisers under President Barack Obama, told reporters earlier this year that the chances of reaching 3 percent growth over a decade were about 1 in 25—which is what many political experts said was Trump’s chance of winning the election.
Another Obama economist, Alan Krueger, called the 3 percent growth forecast “extremely rosy.”
Larry Summers, a top economic adviser to Obama, questioned the “standards of integrity” of the Trump economic team’s forecast for 3 percent (or more) growth. “I do not see how any examination of U.S. history could possibly support the Trump forecast as a reasonable expectation,” he wrote in The Washington Post.
Congress weighed in, too. “This budget relies on absurd economic projections and pretend revenues that no credible economist would validate,” Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., announced at a House budget hearing.
The sharp-penned Paul Krugman of The New York Times declared Trump’s growth forecast an act of “economic arrogance.” He said the productivity improvement necessary for faster growth was as likely as “driverless flying cars” arriving “en masse.”
Admittedly, we shouldn’t read too much into six months of very good economic data (with 3 percent growth) or the booming stock market. These trends can always reverse course quickly. Trump’s more restrictive policies on trade and immigration could harm growth potential.
But so far the Trump haters have missed the call on the economy’s trajectory. Doubly ironic is that the same Obama-era economists who are trashing Trump’s increasingly realistic forecast of 3 percent growth are the ones who predicted 4 percent growth from the Obama budgets.
Obama never came anywhere near 4 percent growth, and at the end of his second term, the economy grew at a pitiful 1.6 percent.
Under Obama, free enterprise and pro-business policies were thrown out the window. What was delivered was the weakest recovery from a recession since...
Is Justice Ginsburg Leaking Fake News About Justice Gorsuch To NPR?
In recent weeks, a steady stream of gossip has appeared throughout the world of legal news about supposed conflicts at the Supreme Court between the justices. Curiously, the leaks have been fed to Nina Totenberg, NPR‘s legal affairs correspondent, who happens to be close personal friends with liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
In every case, Totenberg has presented anonymously sourced – but supposedly legitimate – claims about feuds involving Justice Neil Gorsuch, President Trump’s nominee, and one of President Obama’s nominees, Justice Elena Kagan. Specifically, Totenberg has alleged that Justice Kagan has embarrassed Justice Gorsuch in conference in duels of wit over the law.
Justice Clarence Thomas denied this fake news about Gorsuch to his former clerk and Fox News host Laura Ingraham earlier this week, definitively stating that Totenberg’s allegations are false:
Totenberg, despite lacking a law degree, has a close professional and personal relationship to Justice Ginsburg. It is possible that the comments dripping out of the conference are courtesy of the embittered Ginsburg, a Clinton appointee.
According to a 2015 article in the Washingtonian titled “Supreme Court Justices Officiate A Lot Of Weddings,” Justice Ginsburg officiated Totenberg’s wedding in 2000. The article describes Totenberg as...
In every case, Totenberg has presented anonymously sourced – but supposedly legitimate – claims about feuds involving Justice Neil Gorsuch, President Trump’s nominee, and one of President Obama’s nominees, Justice Elena Kagan. Specifically, Totenberg has alleged that Justice Kagan has embarrassed Justice Gorsuch in conference in duels of wit over the law.
Justice Clarence Thomas denied this fake news about Gorsuch to his former clerk and Fox News host Laura Ingraham earlier this week, definitively stating that Totenberg’s allegations are false:
See Video HEREPerhaps most critically, they are damning evidence of a serious problem: leaks at the Supreme Court.
Totenberg, despite lacking a law degree, has a close professional and personal relationship to Justice Ginsburg. It is possible that the comments dripping out of the conference are courtesy of the embittered Ginsburg, a Clinton appointee.
According to a 2015 article in the Washingtonian titled “Supreme Court Justices Officiate A Lot Of Weddings,” Justice Ginsburg officiated Totenberg’s wedding in 2000. The article describes Totenberg as...
President Trump is NOT Pandering to the United Nations
The United Nations is hosting its latest “climate change” meeting in Bonn, Germany, November 6-17. This 23rd Conference of the Parties of the UN Climate Change treaty is different than others I’ve attended since 1997 in Kyoto, Japan. The difference is that America’s President Trump is leading, rather than pandering and acquiescing to radical environmentalists as I’ve watched Presidents Clinton, Bush and especially Obama do.
President Trump’s leadership began as a campaign promise to remove the U.S. from the Paris Agreement, a promise he kept when he announced last June 1st that while the U.S. will remain in the Agreement’s negotiations for the time being, he plans to withdraw altogether after four years, in 2020.
The 2015 Paris Agreement was largely negotiated by then Secretary of State John Kerry and constituted Obama’s “Clean Power Plan,” a radical environmental scheme that was to be imposed on Americans by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Mr. Trump was elected on the second day of last year’s meeting in Marrakech, Morocco, which caused great angst among delegations that fully expected Hillary Clinton to be elected. If she had been, she was expected to continue and even surpass Obama’s radicalism. In Marrakech, Secretary John Kerry spun Trump’s victory as if one election could not stop the progress that he had worked for so passionately since 1992. The plan’s lack of scientific basis and its plot to rob Americans of...
President Trump’s leadership began as a campaign promise to remove the U.S. from the Paris Agreement, a promise he kept when he announced last June 1st that while the U.S. will remain in the Agreement’s negotiations for the time being, he plans to withdraw altogether after four years, in 2020.
The 2015 Paris Agreement was largely negotiated by then Secretary of State John Kerry and constituted Obama’s “Clean Power Plan,” a radical environmental scheme that was to be imposed on Americans by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Mr. Trump was elected on the second day of last year’s meeting in Marrakech, Morocco, which caused great angst among delegations that fully expected Hillary Clinton to be elected. If she had been, she was expected to continue and even surpass Obama’s radicalism. In Marrakech, Secretary John Kerry spun Trump’s victory as if one election could not stop the progress that he had worked for so passionately since 1992. The plan’s lack of scientific basis and its plot to rob Americans of...
As Communism Turns 100, a Brief Look at the Death and Destruction It Has Wrought
President Franklin D. Roosevelt called Dec. 7, 1941, “a day that will live in infamy,” and with good reason.
The date that Tojo’s Japan launched a surprise attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor heralded America’s entrance into the bloody fighting of World War II.
But there are other dates that live in infamy, and many of them aren’t nearly as well known. But they deserve to be. Take Nov. 7, 1917.
Anything come to mind? One hundred years ago this month, Bolsheviks under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin overthrew the Russian government and established a communist dictatorship. “The world has never been the same since,” writes foreign policy expert Kim Holmes in a recent article for the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
How many perished in the wake of this “revolution”? It depends on which historian you ask. According to Richard Pipes, it was 9 million. Robert Conquest says at least 20 million, and likely as many as 30 million, died in the “Great Terror.”
If you include “unnatural deaths,” the number who died could be as high as 50 million. For perspective, consider that more than 60 million died in World War II—roughly 3 percent of the world’s population at the time.
In short, when looked at in terms of human carnage—of lives lost—the Russian Revolution was essentially another world war. So why isn’t Nov. 7, 1917, as notorious as Dec. 7, 1941?
This discrepancy becomes even more blatant when one considers the wider cost of communism. The Russian experience, after all, inspired other “revolutions,” and its record of mass genocide “is exceeded only by another communist dictatorship, Maoist China, which destroyed between 44.5 to 72 million lives (according to Stephane Courtois). And let’s not forget the ‘killing fields’ of Cambodia in the 1970s.”
Why isn’t this history better known?
“[Soviet leader Josef] Stalin kept most media out, so few Americans knew that millions were starving,” writes John Stossel in a recent column. And he had help. “Even as the Russian regime killed millions, some journalists and intellectuals covered up the crimes.”
But it isn’t just the loss of life that stains the history of communism. Its legacy is also one of grinding poverty.
Most of the 88 countries that score “repressed” or “mostly unfree” on The Heritage Foundation’s Index of Economic Freedom are either communist, former communist, or...
The date that Tojo’s Japan launched a surprise attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor heralded America’s entrance into the bloody fighting of World War II.
But there are other dates that live in infamy, and many of them aren’t nearly as well known. But they deserve to be. Take Nov. 7, 1917.
Anything come to mind? One hundred years ago this month, Bolsheviks under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin overthrew the Russian government and established a communist dictatorship. “The world has never been the same since,” writes foreign policy expert Kim Holmes in a recent article for the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
How many perished in the wake of this “revolution”? It depends on which historian you ask. According to Richard Pipes, it was 9 million. Robert Conquest says at least 20 million, and likely as many as 30 million, died in the “Great Terror.”
If you include “unnatural deaths,” the number who died could be as high as 50 million. For perspective, consider that more than 60 million died in World War II—roughly 3 percent of the world’s population at the time.
In short, when looked at in terms of human carnage—of lives lost—the Russian Revolution was essentially another world war. So why isn’t Nov. 7, 1917, as notorious as Dec. 7, 1941?
This discrepancy becomes even more blatant when one considers the wider cost of communism. The Russian experience, after all, inspired other “revolutions,” and its record of mass genocide “is exceeded only by another communist dictatorship, Maoist China, which destroyed between 44.5 to 72 million lives (according to Stephane Courtois). And let’s not forget the ‘killing fields’ of Cambodia in the 1970s.”
Why isn’t this history better known?
“[Soviet leader Josef] Stalin kept most media out, so few Americans knew that millions were starving,” writes John Stossel in a recent column. And he had help. “Even as the Russian regime killed millions, some journalists and intellectuals covered up the crimes.”
But it isn’t just the loss of life that stains the history of communism. Its legacy is also one of grinding poverty.
Most of the 88 countries that score “repressed” or “mostly unfree” on The Heritage Foundation’s Index of Economic Freedom are either communist, former communist, or...