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		<title>A Life Transformed: &#8216;The Black Book of the American Left&#8217;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why David Horowitz's new collection should be read by every American who loves his country.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/tbb.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-215281" alt="tbb" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/tbb.jpg" width="231" height="350" /></a><strong>To order David Horowitz’s “<em>The Black Book of the American Left, Volume I: My Life And Times,” </em><a href="https://secure.donationreport.com/productlist.html?key=DBERMFBVMXYH">click here</a>.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Reprinted from <a href="http://www.wnd.com/">WND.com</a>.</strong></p>
<p>David Horowitz’s <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Black-Book-American-Left-Conservative/dp/1594036942/?_encoding=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;keywords=david%20horowitz&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;qid=1389649809&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1&amp;tag=worldnetdaily-20">“The Black Book of the American Left: Collected Conservative Writings”</a> should be read by every American who loves his country. This book is a unique wake-up call to the truth that America is being infected by the bubonic plague of Marxism, which once contaminated the author himself.</p>
<p>In the 1970s, David climbed to the very top of the American leftist movements. Later he understood that Marxism was a lie – the first step toward stealing and killing – and after that he dedicated the rest of his life to warning others that Marxism was endangering American freedom and democracy. A Rasmussen Reports poll shows, indeed, that now <a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2009/04/socialism-gaining-ground-in-america.html">only 53 percent of Americans prefer capitalism to socialism.</a></p>
<p>One of the most popular night clubs in New York City is the Soviet-themed KGB Bar. The place, adorned with the Soviet flag and a picture of “Comrade Lenin,” is jammed by a new generation of Marxist writers who read from their work. Just weeks ago this giant city overwhelmingly elected (73 percent of the votes) an openly Marxist mayor, and Seattle got a new council member who proudly stated that she wore “the badge of socialist with honor.” Russia’s post-Soviet newspaper Pravda, which knew that socialism was just a smiling mask for Marxism, chafed: “It must be said that like the breaking of a great dam, the American descent into Marxism is happening with breathtaking speed, against the backdrop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.”</p>
<p>America is still not really aware that Marxism is infecting the country because our main media have gone to great lengths to hide this truism, and because neither the Republican Party nor the tea party has called attention to the looming dangers of Marxism. Our main media are also deep-sixing the fact that the only thing Marxism ever left behind it is countries that ended up looking like trailer camps hit by a hurricane, and Marxist leaders roasting in Dante’s Inferno – all of them, from Trotsky to Stalin, from Khrushchev to Brezhnev, from Tito to Enver Hoxha, along with Mátyás Rakosi, Sékou Touré, Nyeree, Ceausescu and Hugo Chavez.</p>
<p>David Horowitz was born into a family of devoted Marxists, had Marxism in his blood and pursued a successful career as a Marxist activist, writer and journalist. In 1974, some of his Marxist comrades – leaders of the Black Panther Party – murdered a bookkeeper whom David had recruited to keep the accounts of a Panther school he had helped create. That horrible crime hit home and persuaded David to forsake his highly successful leftist career and to move over onto the other side of America’s political barricade.</p>
<p>The David Horowitz Freedom Center and its FrontPage Magazine, created by David in 1988, marked the beginning of his anti-Marxist crusade, which has never stopped. His book “The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America” (2006) and his Academic Bill of Rights (ABR) marked another milestone in his life: the beginning of his still-vigorous campaign against Marxist indoctrination at American universities. (Full disclosure: Although I have never met David, I do collaborate with his FrontPage Magazine, and I have repeatedly expressed my admiration for his break with Marxism. David had also publicly praised my split with communism.)</p>
<p><strong><em><a href="http://superstore.wnd.com/books/Disinformation-Former-Spy-Chief-Reveals-Hardcover">Order Lt. Gen. Pacepa’s eyeopening book, “Disinformation: Former Spy Chief Reveals Secret Strategy for Undermining Freedom, Attacking Religion and Promoting Terrorism.”</a> or get both <a href="http://superstore.wnd.com/books/Disinformation-Hardcover-Disinformation-DVD-BUNDLE">the book and DVD, “Disinformation: The Secret Strategy To Destroy The West” together – and save!</a></em></strong></p>
<p>In the preface to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Black-Book-American-Left-Conservative/dp/1594036942/?_encoding=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;keywords=david%20horowitz&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;qid=1389649809&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1&amp;tag=worldnetdaily-20">“The Black Book of the American Left,”</a> the first of a nine-volume memoir, David Horowitz wrote that “for better or worse, I have been condemned to spend the rest of my days” fighting Marxism, “from which I have separated myself.” In May 1989, he and two other former prominent Marxists, Ronald Radosh and Peter Collier, went to Poland to attend a conference calling for the end of Communism. There, David told the Polish dissidents: “For myself, my family tradition of socialist dreams is over. Socialism is no longer a dream of a revolutionary future. It is only a nightmare of the past. But for you, the nightmare is not a dream. It is a reality that it is still happening. My dream for the people of socialist Poland is that someday you will wake up from your nightmare and be free.” A few months later, the Roundtable talks between the Polish government and the Solidarity-led Polish dissidents led to the first semi-free elections in the Soviet bloc.</p>
<p>On Nov. 9, 1989, when I watched on television as the Berlin Wall was being torn down, my eyes were misty. I was so incredibly proud to be an American. The whole world was expressing its gratitude to the United States for its 45 years of successful Cold War against the Soviet evil. “Communism is dead!” I heard people shout. Indeed, Communism was dead as a form of government. But it soon proved that Marxism, which had just celebrated its 141st birthday, had survived.</p>
<p>French philosopher Jacques Derrida, who once claimed he had broken with Marxism but confessed to still being choked with emotion whenever he heard the Internationale, reminded us that the first noun in Marx’s “Communist Manifesto” is <em>specter</em>: “A specter is haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.” According to Derrida, Marx began “The Communist Manifesto” with <em>specter</em>, <a href="http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/fr/derrida.2htm">because a specter never dies.</a> David Horowitz concurred. “After Stalin’s death,” he writes in his memoirs, his parents – who had dedicated their whole lives to Marxism – learned that “they served a gang of cynical despots who had slaughtered more peasants, caused more hunger and human misery, and killed more leftists like themselves than all the capitalist governments since the beginning of time. … I was 17 at that time, and at the funeral of the Old Left I swore to myself I would not repeat my parent’s fate. … But my youth prevented me from comprehending what the catastrophe had revealed. I continued my fantasy of the socialist future. When a New Left began to emerge a few years later, I was ready to believe that it was a fresh beginning and eager to assist at its birth.”</p>
<p>David Horowitz now documents that a new generation of Americans, one that is not being taught history anymore and knows little if anything about our country’s long fight against Marxism, is giving this heresy – which killed over 90 million people – another lease on life. In 2008, the Democratic Party portrayed the United States as <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us%1F%1F%1F_and_americas/us_elections/article3248449.ece.">a “decaying, racist, capitalist realm,” unable to provide medical care for the poor, to rebuild her “crumbling schools,” or to replace the “shuttered mills that once provided a decent life for men and women of every race,”</a> and it pledged to change it by drastically increasing taxes on the American rich, American businesses and their owners, in order to finance programs for the poor. This is Marxism at its best. In “The Communist Manifesto,” Marx painted capitalism as “a decaying, racist realm,” and pledged to eradicate it by advocating 10 “despotic inroads on the rights of property,” which became known as the “Ten Planks of the Communist Manifesto.” Among them: <a href="http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/manifest.pdf">a heavy progressive or graduated income tax; abolition of all rights of inheritance; abolition of property.</a></p>
<p>If you know the “Manifesto,” as David does, you will think Marx himself wrote the Democratic Party’s economic program, which contains all of the above planks of Marxism. If you don’t know the “Manifesto,” glance through “The Black Book of the American Left.” Young people, as David was when he ignored Stalin’s unprecedented crimes, believe in free lunches. No wonder that during the 2008 election campaign, the U.S. Democratic Party easily filled entire stadiums with young people who demanded that the wealth of the United States be redistributed. Some of those electoral gatherings looked to me like Ceausescu’s revival meetings – over 80,000 young people were gathered in front of the now-famous Greek temple resembling the White House that had been erected in Denver, to demand that America’s wealth be redistributed. The Democratic Party won the White House and both chambers of the U.S. Congress.</p>
<p>People have come to look kindly upon the “redistribution of wealth,” but David Horowitz convincingly demonstrates that this is the quintessence of Marxism, and that Marxism always ended in economic collapse. I concur. “Stealing from capitalism is moral, Comrades,” I heard Khrushchev say during the 1959 “six-day vacation” he spent in Romania. “Don’t raise your eyebrows, Comrades. I intentionally used the word <em>steal</em>. Stealing from our enemy is moral, Comrades.” “Stealing from capitalists is a Marxist duty,” Romania’s president, Nicolae Ceausescu, sermonized during the years I was his national security adviser. “Capitalists are the mortal enemies of Marxism,” I heard Fidel Castro preach in 1972, when I spent a vacation in Cuba as guest of his brother, Raul. “Killing them is moral, comrades!”</p>
<p>In my other life I rose to the top of a Marxist entity – the Soviet empire – which was created by redistributing the wealth of its people, and I had to start my life from scratch, as David did, to escape its tyranny. Redistribution of wealth is disguised stealing – the next step toward killing – and stealing and killing became national policies on the day Soviet Marxism was born. Immediately after the revolution of November 1917, the Soviet Marxists confiscated the imperial family’s wealth, seized the land owned by the rich Russians, nationalized Russian industry and banking, and killed most of the property owners. In 1929, by forcing the peasants into collective farms, the Soviet Marxists stole away their land, along with their animals and agricultural tools. Within a few years, virtually the entire Soviet economy was running on stolen property. When people began protesting the theft, the Marxists transformed the Soviet Empire into a tyrannical police state. Over 20 million people were killed to keep that gulag empire quiet. In the long run, however, theft and crime do not pay even when they are committed by a superpower. The 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union is strong proof to that.</p>
<p>On Feb. 7, 2009, the cover of Newsweek magazine proclaimed: “We Are All Socialists Now.” That was also what Ceausescu’s newspaper Scînteia proclaimed when he changed Romania into a monument to Marxism. Two years after seizing power, the U.S. Democratic Party’s Marxism produced the same results as the Ceausescu’s Marxism did – at a U.S. scale. Over 14 million Americans lost their jobs, and 41.8 million people went on food stamps. GDP growth dipped from 3-4 percent to 1.6 percent. The national debt rose to an unprecedented $17 trillion, and it is projected to reach $18 trillion by 2019. Scînteia went bankrupt. Newsweek was sold for one dollar.</p>
<p>So, let call a spade a spade: it is Marxism we are talking about. Marxism in America!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Black-Book-American-Left-Conservative/dp/1594036942/?_encoding=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;keywords=david%20horowitz&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;qid=1389649809&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1&amp;tag=worldnetdaily-20">“The Black Book of the American Left”</a> could not have come to life at a better time. Understanding that Marxism is a lie, and that lying is the first step toward stealing and killing, is what America needs right now.</p>
<p><strong><em>Lt. Gen Ion Mihai Pacepa is the highest-ranking Soviet bloc official ever to defect to the West. In 1989 Romanian president Nicolae Ceausescu was executed at the end of a trial whose main accusations came out of Pacepa’s book “Red Horizons,” republished in 27 countries. His latest book, <a href="http://superstore.wnd.com/books/Disinformation-Former-Spy-Chief-Reveals-Hardcover">“Disinformation,” co-authored with professor Ronald Rychlak, was published last June by WND.</a></em></strong></p>
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<p><em>Don&#8217;t miss <strong>David Horowitz</strong> discussing <a href="https://secure.donationreport.com/productlist.html?key=DBERMFBVMXYH">The Black Book of the American Left</a> in <strong>The Glazov Gang&#8217;s</strong> two-part video series below:</em><br />
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		<title>High Noon for America</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Sep 2013 04:15:30 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><strong>Originally published at <a href="http://www.wnd.com/">WND.com</a>.</strong></p>
<p><strong>To order Jamie Glazov&#8217;s <em>High Noon</em>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/High-Noon-America-Coming-Showdown/dp/0986941433">click here.</a></strong></p>
<p>Once in a while, a great book – like a great red wine – becomes better over the years. <a href="http://superstore.wnd.com/books/High-Noon-for-America-The-Coming-Showdown-Paperback">“High Noon for America,”</a> by the managing editor of FrontPage Magazine, Jamie Glazov, is such a rare book.</p>
<p>This breathtaking work was published in 2012, soon after our military intervention in Libya, and it rightfully starts with an in-depth analysis of our administration’s Middle East policy. We are now facing a similar intervention in Syria, and I strongly recommend that anyone even slightly interested in foreign policy and long-term peace go back to this book.</p>
<p><a href="http://superstore.wnd.com/books/High-Noon-for-America-The-Coming-Showdown-Paperback">“High Noon for America”</a> is not Jamie Glazov’s book. It is America’s book, conceived and developed over several years of roundtable dialog between Jamie and some of the most authoritative experts in foreign policy, intelligence, political affairs, economics and religion of our day. Among them: Robert McFarlane, President Reagan’s national security adviser; Richard Pipes, former member of the National Security Council, one of the world’s leading authorities on Soviet history; Natan Sharansky, former Soviet prisoner, later member of the Israeli cabinet; Roger L. Simon, prize-wining screenwriter, founder and CEO of PJMedia; Vladimir Bukovsky, former leading Soviet dissident and candidate for president of the post-Soviet Russia; and Michael Ledeen, America’s foremost authority on Iran. Full disclosure: I also contributed to Jamie Glazov’s book, and I have been a longtime contributor to FrontPage.</p>
<p>We all want to see democracy succeed in Libya. Our precipitate intervention in that country, however, generated chaos and the horrific assassination of our ambassador to Libya, J. Christopher Stevens, and it should not be repeated in Syria. There are few people who wanted to see Gadhafi removed from power more than I did. He set a $2 million bounty on my head because I had revealed his secret efforts to arm international terrorists with bacteriological and other weapons of mass destruction. But personal animus against Gadhafi – and now against Bashar al-Assad – should not have anything to do with the policy of the U.S.</p>
<p>The recent temporary closing of 21 U.S. embassies for fear of terrorism, a historical first, shows that we do not need more Libya-style interventions. They generate hatred, not peace. We need a coherent foreign policy aimed at protecting our country from the evil of terrorism. Former CIA Director James Woolsey just warned us that our Congressional Electromagnetic Pulse Commission and the Congressional Strategic Posture Commission have established that detonating a small nuclear weapon high above any part of the U.S. mainland would generate a catastrophic electromagnetic pulse. <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324482504578455451910706908.html">Just one small nuclear explosion</a>, one the terrorist dictator of North Korea is already capable of causing, could collapse the whole U.S. electric grid and the infrastructure that depends on it – communications, transportation, banking and finance, food and water – necessary to sustain modern civilization and the lives of 300 million Americans.</p>
<p>I do not know what our anti-terrorist policy should be. I have no access to classified information and no wish to play the armchair general. The know-it-all talking heads in the American media are no wiser than I am. I do, however, have good reason to suggest that our administration and Congress take a serious look at President Truman’s NSC 68/1950.</p>
<p>In the words of the <a href="http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/coldwar/documents/sectioned.php?pagenumber=8&amp;documentid=10-1&amp;documentdate=1950-04-12">National Council Report 68, of 1950,</a> which set forth the strategy for wining the Cold War, “The issues that face us are momentous, involving the fulfillment or destruction not only of this Republic but of civilization itself.” Therefore, NSC 68/1950 focused on creating a “new world order” centered on American liberal-capitalist values, and it contained a two-pronged political strategy: superior military power and a “Campaign of Truth,” defined as “a struggle, above all else, for the minds of men.” Truman argued that the propaganda used by the “forces of imperialistic communism” could be overcome only by the “plain, simple, unvarnished truth.” The Voice of America, Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberation (soon to become Radio Liberty) became part of Truman’s “Campaign of Truth.”</p>
<p>The issues that face us are once again momentous, and we cannot solve them with more Libya-style shots across the bow. We need a new, coherent foreign policy and a new “Campaign of Truth” to deal with our contemporary problems. We also need to go back to Glazov’s book. Some of the most eminent intelligence and political experts involved in implementing NSC 68/1950 and in winning the Cold War are there, telling us how we can use that unique Cold War experience to protect our country today.</p>
<p><strong>Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa is the highest Soviet bloc official granted political asylum by the United States. His new book, “<a href="http://superstore.wnd.com/Search?search=pacepa">Disinformation</a>,” co-authored with professor Ronald Rychlak, is available in the <a href="http://superstore.wnd.com/Search?search=pacepa">WND Superstore</a>.</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s note: To watch a video interview in which Jamie Glazov discusses <em>High Noon for America</em> and his other works, see below:</strong></p>
<p><strong>Part I:</strong></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[I witnessed this strategy in the Soviet Union, and now I see it at Occupy Wall Street. It always fails.]]></description>
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<p>The chaotic Occupy Wall Street movement is the result of the  Democratic Party’s chaotic efforts to find villains for its chaotic  economic policy, which has put 14 million Americans out of a job. The  U.S. debt has now reached an unprecedented $15 trillion — greater than  the total debt accured by all 41 presidents from George Washington to  George H.W. Bush combined. That means a debt of $35,835 for every  American household. The GDP <a href="http://www.fm.co.za/Article.aspx?id=152050">fell</a> from 4.5%  growth in the first quarter of 2011 to 1.3% in the second quarter of 2011.</p>
<p>Instead of pulling up their socks and encouraging the production —  not redistribution — of wealth, the leaders of the Democrat-run White  House and U.S. Senate blamed former president George W. Bush for the  current economic calamity. No American really bought it. So then the  Democrats blamed the Japanese tsunami. No more luck. Blaming the Arab  Spring and the European economic crisis did not do the trick either. Now  the Democrats are blaming Wall Street — whatever that means — and  America’s rich. They are the real evil. They are sucking the people’s  blood, wrecking America.</p>
<p>In the <em>sanctum sanctorum </em>of the former Soviet empire, to  which I once belonged, finding a scapegoat for the mistakes of a  country’s leader was called “political necrophagy.” Although Marxism  proclaimed the deciding role in history to be played by “the people,”  the Marxists sitting on the Kremlin throne believed that only the leader  counted. From the lips of Khrushchev himself, I used to hear over and  over: “Change the public image of the leader, and you change history.”</p>
<p>The Kremlin’s secret “science” of political necrophagy was launched  into the world on February 26, 1956. On that day, Khrushchev exposed  “Stalin’s crimes” in a four-hour “secret speech” delivered at midnight  under a cloud of mystery during the highly publicized XX<sup>th</sup> Congress of the Soviet Communist Party, to emphasize its importance.</p>
<p><em>New York Times</em> journalist Harry Schwartz wrote: “Mr.  Khrushchev opened the doors and windows of a petrified structure. He let  in fresh air and fresh ideas, producing changes which time already has  shown are irreversible and fundamental.”</p>
<p>In actuality, Khrushchev’s “secret speech” was just a show intended  to distract attention away from the brutality of Soviet Marxism and from  his own image as “butcher of the Ukraine.” It was not Marxism’s fault  that 20 million people had been barbarically killed in the Soviet Union  in order to make Marxism the country’s only religion — it was all  Stalin’s fault. It was not Marxism’s fault that hundreds of thousands of  Ukrainians had been executed during the years Khrushchev was the  Kremlin’s viceroy in Kiev — that too was all Stalin’s fault.</p>
<p>A few days after Khrushchev had delivered his “secret speech,” his  brand new spy chief, General Aleksandr Sakharovsky (the former chief  Soviet intelligence adviser to Romania) slipped the text of it to my  Romanian foreign intelligence service, the DIE. “This is the most secret  document I have ever held in my hand,” Sakharovsky told us — with a  wink.</p>
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		<title>Standing Up for America</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new book restores faith in American exceptionalism.]]></description>
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<p><strong>Visit </strong><a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/"><strong>American Thinker</strong></a><strong>.</strong></p>
<p>From time to time, a book can change history. Dr. Jamie Glazov&#8217;s <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Showdown-Evil-Struggle-Against-Tyranny/dp/0973406550/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1293349135&amp;sr=1-1"><strong><em>Showdown With Evil</em></strong></a> is such a book, for it restores faith in American exceptionalism. Although its author was not privileged to be born in this country &#8212; or maybe for that very reason &#8212; he has dedicated his life to promoting America&#8217;s excellence. His new book tells us why millions of people from all over the world are willing to pay any price, even death sentences, to join this unique land of freedom &#8212; as he and I both did. It also proves that the Democratic Party&#8217;s portrayal of the U.S. as a &#8220;decaying, racist, capitalist realm&#8221; unable to provide medical care for the poor, to rebuild its &#8220;crumbling schools,&#8221; and replace the &#8220;shuttered mills that once provided a decent life for men and women of every race,&#8221;[1] is a self-serving lie designed to allow the leftist leaders of that party to steal America&#8217;s wealth and use it for converting this magnificent country into a monument to themselves. Finally, this book shows us, in great details, how to rebuild the U.S. as the leader of the world.</p>
<p><em>Showdown With Evil</em> is, in my view, a continuation of Dr. Glazov&#8217;s first book, <em>United in Hate,</em> which examines the behavior of political leaders who, feeling uncomfortable in their own country, have bought into such off-the-wall utopian schemes as Marxism. That book called them <em>believers</em>, because they believe there is something profoundly wrong with their own country and fantasize about changing it into one where they will finally fit in. <em>United in Hate</em> dealt with believers from all over the world, and documented how they &#8212; knowingly or not &#8212; brought Marxism to power in over a third of the world. <em>Showdown With Evil</em> focuses on the believers now leading the U.S. Democratic Party, who &#8212; knowingly or not &#8212; are spreading the virus of Marxism within the U.S. Those believers portrayed the U.S. as a rotten country, and ran the 2008 elections on a populist electoral platform of redistributing the wealth of the country in order to &#8220;change&#8221; it. Millions of young Americans who had no longer been taught real history in the schools, and most of the people belonging to the 38% of U.S. households exempted from paying taxes at that time (now the figure is 47%), became galvanized by the Democratic Party&#8217;s populist pledge to &#8220;tax the rich&#8221; in order to &#8220;change&#8221; that &#8220;rotting&#8221; capitalist America into a utopian country whose people are rewarded according to their need, not to their work, and they gave their votes to the Party of Change.</p>
<p><strong>To continue reading this article, </strong><a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/12/showdown_with_evil.html"><strong>click here</strong></a><strong>.</strong></p>
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