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Hello, young people. What do you know about Communism?

On By rushbabe49In Authoritarianism, Crime and Punishment, Culture, Economics, government, History, Media and the Internet, Politics in the Age of Obama, Politics in the Age of Trump, Progressive "Thought", social mediaLeave a comment

What are you taught in school about the history of Communism and its primary promoters in Russia, China, North Korea, and East Germany? Did you read about and discuss the revolutions that brought about the Iron Curtain and the Holodomor in Russia and Ukraine? Did you see photos like this in your history textbooks? Let …

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The Natural Order of Things

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My hero, Rush Limbaugh, likes to point out that, through much of human history, the natural order of things in our world has been tyranny and misery.  Since humans  started to live in groups, the vast majority of people have led lives that were "nasty, brutish, and short".  Until very recently, human life-expectancy has been …

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