Category Archives: Originals

Late Night With Conan O’Brien: Norm MacDonald & Courtney Thorne Smith (1997)

“This is an interview with a girl from MELROSE PLACE… Thank GOD, Norm Macdonald cannot resist giving her the business.” From Bruce Illest You can also see this post at The Daily Times, on Blogger. You can also see this post … Continue reading

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Hoover Institution: Uncommon Knowledge- Peter Robison Interviewing Harvey Mansfield: The New Left on Campus

“Ivy League institutions as well as most colleges and universities in America today lean categorically to the left. Why? If academia cares so much about ethnic and gender diversity, why does it overlook intellectual diversity? Harvey Mansfield responds. He also … Continue reading

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The Week: Ryan Cooper: Why Self-Respecting Atheists Should Ditch The New Atheists

“I grew up in a conservative small town, where there was the strong belief that evangelical Protestantism was the only route to the good life, and that I was going to be tortured for eternity for not signing up. It’s … Continue reading

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The National Interest: Jack Matlock: The House That Stalin Built

Source:The National Interest I saw a show on Book TV on C-SPAN last weekend with Stephen Kotkin who just wrote a book about Joe Stalin perhaps the most evil and worst dictator that at least Russia has ever produced if … Continue reading

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The Washington Post: ‘Venezuela & Cuba: Partners in Repression’

Source:The Washington Post– the paper of record. You can also see this post at FRS FreeState, on WordPress. Just as Cuba has started to move away from Castro Marxism/authoritarianism and have opened up their economy and at least to a small … Continue reading

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Politics & Prose: James Mann On President George W. Bush

Just to state out first George W. Bush is the worst U.S. President in my entire thirty-nine-years on Earth. And that includes Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush’s father, who is G.W.’s father of course and Barack Obama. And … Continue reading

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Salon: Bill Curry: ‘We Can Stop The Neo-Cons: Here’s What a Truly Progressive Foreign Policy Would Look Like’

Source:Salon Magazine I hate to break it to anyone who calls them self a Progressive today, but the Progressives gave us the U.S. Department of Defense. They gave us the national security state. Which includes things like the CIA, FBI, … Continue reading

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Jeff Spross: Why Reform Conservatives Should Join The Democratic Party

Source:The Week I wonder 20-25 years ago when the New Democrats started emerging in the Democratic Party did someone from lets say The Nation on the Far-Left or National Review on the Center-Right write a piece with the title something … Continue reading

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The American Mind: Charles Kesler Interviewing Francis Fukuyama: The Final Form of Human Government

. At risk of sounding insulting, wasn’t Frank Fukuyama a Neoconservative 10-15 years ago and one of the big backers of the Iraq War? I liked his first line about “democracy will only survive if the people want democracy.” I … Continue reading

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Celebrity Universe: Politically Incorrect With Bill Maher- Christopher Hitchens, Whoopi Goldberg & Communism

“Christopher Hitchens On Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher discussing Vietnam and Communism.” Source:Celebrity Universe  The Vietnam War was an obvious mistake at least looking back it lets say 40-45 years later, but the U.S. Government knew it was an obvious … Continue reading

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