Liberty
Western media echo Soviet-era Pravda
Andrea Widburg writes for the American Thinker about the regrettable decline of legacy media outlets. “In the Soviet Union, there is no truth in Pravda and no news in Izvestia.”…
Soviet
political organizations and governmental bodies, primarily associated with the Russian Revolutions and the history of the Soviet Union, and which gave the name to the latter state
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Democrats Use Unusual Definition of ‘Democracy’
Editors at Issues and Insights explore an odd take on the word “democracy.” “The meaning of peace,” Karl Marx said, “is the absence of opposition to socialism.” To the Soviets,…
Research Brief
Budget, Taxation & Economy
“Need”? Health Consumers Don’t Need So Much Time Wasted, Money Spent on CON Shenanigans
In 2018, the state Division of Health Service Regulation determined that the people of North Carolina "needed" one — and only one — new mobile PET scanner. Three years and…
Liberty
High-profile presidential firings
Tevi Troy reminds us in a Washingtonian column that President Trump is not the first American chief executive to generate massive news by dismissing a top staffer. [W]hile Trump might…
Education
A defense of literature
Northwestern University professor Gary Saul Morson offers Commentary readers excellent observations about the value of teaching literature. We all live in a prison house of self. We naturally see the…
Energy
The return of the ‘useful idiots’?
Though Wikipedia tells us there’s no confirmed source within Lenin’s published works, the Soviet Union’s first chief bad guy is often credited with inventing the term “useful idiots” to describe…
Liberty
Geraldo Rivera comes out against the right to vote
This morning on Fox and Friends, Geraldo Rivera said that he thinks voting, Soviet style, should be mandatory. In other words he believes that the failure to vote should be…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Barnes says Republicans have flubbed during fiscal-cliff talks
Fred Barnes assesses the federal fiscal-cliff discussions for the latest issue of The Weekly Standard. Obama’s conciliatory get-togethers with House speaker John Boehner—they met twice last week—have been all for…
Liberty
Federal meddling and the quality of medical care
The more of the former, the lower the latter, argues Dr. Constance Uribe in this op-ed. She observes correctly that this meddling has been bipartisan. The Bush administration was bad…
Liberty
Obama recovery mimics Soviet Union in 1990
When I went to the Soviet Union in 1990 I was told to take a bunch of those little Kleenex packs to keep in my camera bag. Why? Because the…
Liberty
Coming Soon: The Ministry of Silly Jobs?
In a very creepy nod to Soviet-style central economic planning, the Senate Education/Higher Education Committee said “da” to SB 1198 today. Initiated by the JOBS Commission, the bill states that…
Liberty
Judge Manning is an idiot
Judge Manning is frustrated here that failing schools are not making more progress and so am I. Unfortunately, his orders will have little lasting impact on a Soviet style, centrally…