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OPINION: How the Soviets Replaced Christmas with a Socialist Winter Holiday

December 24, 2025 Ryan McMaken

Leftist revolutionaries have long been in the habit of reworking the calendar so as to make it easier to force the population into new habits and new ways of life better suited to the revolutionaries themselves. The French revolutionaries famously abolished the usual calendar, replacing it with a ten-day week system with three weeks in each month. … Read more

Russian Puppetry – From Wilson to Obama to Biden

March 9, 2025March 8, 2025 Hal Shurtleff

Long before Donald Trump entered the political scene (and was repeatedly and wrongly accused of being “Putin’s Puppet”), 100 years before, actually, forces in the United States, including Wall Street financiers and both Republicans and Democrats, had been involved in aiding and abetting the communists in Russia. Leon Trotsky lived in exile in New York … Read more

Is Capitalism Evil?

September 20, 2021 Op-Ed

The cover page of the July 4th Union Leader read, “Poetry Returns with a Slam,” headlining the return of Slam Free or Die, a poetry club that had not met in person since the beginning of the COVID lockdowns.

Woke Culture’s Marxist Roots

May 3, 2021April 17, 2021 Op-Ed

Hey, all right? I’m NOT! It’s clear to me that the “woke culture” movement was born in Marxism and is pushing our country to Marxist totalitarianism!

Pasha’s Dignity

January 28, 2021 Op-Ed

A friend of mine recently urged me to watch Doctor Zhivago, the film based on Boris Pasternak’s book. He stated that it had been on the American Film Institute’s top 100 list and was inexplicably removed recently.

The Hubris of Socialism

November 30, 2020
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Socialists say often that socialism has never failed because it has never been tried. That is incorrect. The truth is socialism has failed in every country in which it has been tried. Just saying, from the Soviet Union to Israel, India, and the United Kingdom, socialism is an object lesson in failure.

Promoted from the Comments – “Ah, yes. The return of the “Five Year Plans””

September 3, 2020 Skip

OldNHMan decided to just about write a standalone post in the comments under my post on how central planning of an economy is FAR worse than millions of people making decentralized decisions on their own.

Nashua BLM Leader Urges Audience to Emulate Radical Communist

July 28, 2020July 27, 2020 Stephen Scaer

Black Lives Matter Nashua leader Jordan Thompson urged supporters to take their lead from activist Angela Davis, a member of the Communist Party and a supporter of terrorism, at Sunday’s Black Lives Matter Rally in Hollis.

Notable Quote – Jim Buchanan

April 6, 2020 Skip

Frank Knight could never have joined those of the self-selected elite who, in idea or practice, seek to plan, steer, or direct the lives of those who are excluded. He was a classical liberal, not because he predicted that only with widespread individual liberty would desired results be generated, but because the liberal order is … Read more

AOC’s Green New Deal Looks Exactly Like the Old Red Deal

September 2, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Every Marxist endeavor needs propaganda posters. Imagery that, to quote Comrade Ocasio-Cortez, mimics “Federal One, a US project that employed 5,300 artists that created & taught art to envision America’s future” for FDR’s New Deal.