By Alan Caruba Pundits and experts of every description love to predict and pontificate. That they are often famously wrong doesn’t get the attention it deserves. The Great Depression began on October 29, 1929 with the stock market crash. On October 17th, Irving Fisher, a professor of economics at Yale University, said, “Stocks have reached…
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Eco-Communism Celebrated Annually on Earth Day
Eco-Communism Celebrated Annually on Earth Day By Alan Caruba I came of age in the 1950s during a period when Joe McCarthy was raising hell about communists in the federal government. He was spectacularly inept, often made intemperate and inaccurate charges, but for the most part he was right. He managed to alienate his fellow…
Overthrowing Environmentalism
By Alan Caruba In 1517 Martin Luther set off the Protestant revolution against the Catholic Church that led to the spread of the then-new movement as a response to the corruption of the Church. It took time for it to establish itself as an alternative and was greatly aided by the invention of printing and…
Karl Marx Preached “Fairness” Too
By Alan Caruba My father was a Certified Public Accountant and dinner time throughout my youth was filled with horror stories about the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) as he struggled to keep up with a tax code that just kept growing. According to Nina Olsen, the National Taxpayer Advocate for the IRS who heads a…
The U.S. is on a Suicide Watch
By Alan Caruba In 1991, the Soviet Union, arguably the greatest experiment in Communism, collapsed. After Mao Zedong died in 1976, his successors moved to shift its Communist economy to one that embraced Capitalism while retaining centralized government control. Following World War Two, the recovering nations of Europe were rescued from Communism by the Marshall…
Time to Rid the Streets of the “Occupy” Movement
By Alan Caruba Is there any doubt left in the minds of observers of the Occupy Wall Street movement tends toward violence and is in need of control? The mayors of the cities—some seventy at last count—that are being occupied need to crack down on it. Not all agree, of course. Among the list of…
Occupy Wall Street: Communism’s Clueless Foot Soldiers
By Alan Caruba Norman Thomas, a U.S. Socialist Party candidate for president, once famously said, “The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But, under the name of ‘liberalism’, they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” Thomas ran for…
America’s Communist President
By Alan Caruba In his extraordinary book, “Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century”, the historian, Dr. Paul Kengor, stated in his introduction that “We now know that American Communists and their masters in Moscow were acutely aware that they could never gain the popular support they needed to enlist the support…
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