The Republican ranks are divided as they go into the Iowa caucus battle on Tuesday, with no agreement on what it stands for and no obvious contender to take on Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama

Clad in an orange and grey hunting jacket and an orange cap, Mike Huckabee raised his 12-gauge shotgun, took aim and fired, bagging a pheasant for the benefit of watching reporters.

As another shot flew over their heads, it became too much for one journalist who cried: 'Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Don't shoot. This is traumatising.'

Huckabee the hunter had demonstrated himself a 'regular guy', hoping to consolidate his lead in the Republican polls before Thursday's Iowa caucus, the first step to gaining the party's nomination for President.   more »

Hillary's admiration for some Soviet Marxist communist writers and philosophers that have influenced her throughout her life is indicative of what is coming to this country if she is elected. She will indeed plant the seeds of worse things to come.

If women will vote for her just because she is a woman, and the liberal press elevates her candidacy because of its Hollywoodesque socialist view in which they perceive the poor, minorities, and illegal immigrants all as "victims", it says a lot about our collective ignorance.

There certainly will be a price to pay some day for this ignorance. It took 74 years and millions of victims in the Soviet Union who paid with their lives through dreadful social purges and dislocated government programs. Do we really want to start that here now?

And for those who say "it couldn't happen here," I say it already is happening here.   more »

This is only half-true. Of course there are certain crimes which are committed merely to stay alive.

But on top of these lies another layer of crimes that are not attributable just to poverty, but to what Marxists call "alienation."

In capitalism, the competitiveness built into society, not to mention the daily quest for survival, leaves individuals feeling alienated, with little concern for the community and people around them.

This state of alienation does not come just from poverty, but from the vast inequalities of class society.   more »

With the opportunism and creativity spawned by the loony ascendancy of free-and-easy capitalism, it seems that myths have never been so prolific or so determined to remain entrenched in the fabric of mass culture.

With so many goods being produced of questionable quality and utility, the ‘captain of industry’ is now, self-admittedly as much a culturist and psychologist as an economist (in the classical sense).

They have become the primary ‘myth-spinners’ and ‘perception managers’, the cut-throat creators of ‘imagined wants’ in a market that is becoming increasingly absurd.

A ubiquitous myth of the twenty-first century is bottled mineral water, a ‘positive’ icon of a post-McDonalds, health-conscious generation with unblemished complexions and youthful zeal.   more »

Benazir Bhutto is just the first

major casualty in the broader plan

of al-Qaeda leaders to stamp their vision

on Pakistan and its neighbor Afghanistan

The first task is to destroy the country's

political system by undermining US-backed elections

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