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“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”
― George Washington

Book Review: Beria — Stalin’s First Lieutenant by Amy Knight
“As Lavrenti Beria stood over Joseph Stalin’s deathbed in early March 1953, witnesses observed that he could barely contain his pleasure in watching the leader

The Encyclopedia of Revolutions and Revolutionaries: From Anarchism to Zhou Enlai by Martin van Creveld
The Encyclopedia of Revolutions and Revolutionaries: From Anarchism to Zhou Enlai by Martin van Creveld, Editor-in-Chief, is an essential reference book for those interested in

The Political Spectrum (Part III) — The Extreme Right: Anarchism
Let us now discuss the more arcane, extreme and revolutionary, right-wing philosophy, namely anarchism. You may ask when and where in recent history have anarchist

The Political Spectrum (Part II) — The Center: A Democracy or a Constitutional Republic?
The Founding Fathers of this great nation designed a Republican form of government. By this, they meant a government under the rule of law and

The Political Spectrum (Part I): The Totalitarian Left from Communism to Social Democracy
The “Right” versus “Left” convenient but capricious political arrangement came from the seating position of delegates to the National Assembly during the French Revolution, but

ObamaCare — Toward Free Market or Socialized Medicine?
In a recent letter to the editor published in my local newspaper, the Macon Telegraph (9/16/11), Jack Bernard, a self-described “Republican,” retired health care executive,