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Nice little show you got there... In Boston, a bizarre extortion trial involving movie-stereotype union Teamsters and celebrities from the hit television show Top Chef resulted in a verdict of not guilty for the Teamsters. Interestingly, "at least three witnesses testified that a top [mayoral] aide sought to withhold city permits for 'Top Chef' unless the show hired union members."

Why is the Times so obsessed with communism? At reason, Marian Tupy deconstructs the recent NYT articles fawning over communism. Especially the bold claim that women "had better sex"... Tupy wryly observes: "The Western sexual revolution passed the communist bloc by, and ex-communist countries remain much more patriarchal than their Western counterparts to this day."

Lawyers without borders: The American Bar Association is urging Congress to vote to allow illegal immigrants to practice law in the United States. There's an old movie trope about immigrants having to take jobs in the U.S. that would have been beneath them in their old life. "In my country, I was attorney general." It's odd, given that state bars strenuously check the background of lawyers for crimes and good moral character that they now want people who've broken our immigration laws (and continue to do so) to be able to practice law.

Paul Ryan's going to win his primary: His opponent, Paul Nehlen, who lost to him in the last primary by nearly 70 points, has revealed that he believes in the thoroughly debunked Pizza Gate conspiracy promoted by alt-right shock jocks. Alex Jones, presumably under the very real threat of litigation, renounced his Pizza Gate remarks earlier this year. When you're nuttier than Alex Jones, well, congratulations Speaker Ryan on your primary win.

The stupid "Border Adjustment Tax" is dead. But could a tax on advertisements be its replacement? Critics contend that such a measure would probably not survive a court challenge, as advertising is a commercial form of speech. They're right. However, if it results in the extinction of misleading ads like "Language Professors Hate Him!" and "Diabetes Breakthrough Leaves Doctors Baffled (Try It Tonight)," maybe it wouldn't be that bad...

Jeff Lord is the man for the job! While he's not personally a fan of Jeffrey Lordtweeting "Sieg Heil!" at people is classless and never ironicthe recently fired CNN contributor, my colleague Jim Antle at our sister magazine, the Washington Examiner, makes a compelling case for President Trump to hire Lord as communications director. Here's the nutgraf: "Have you ever seen Lord seem the least bit flustered when it comes to defending the president in public? No matter how tough the case or how many liberals and Never Trump Republicans are trying to shout him down, Lord would plunge forward." A loyalist without the baggage of the Mooch. Minus the whole Nazi tweet. Bad timing! Sad!

Never Invite Milo: At National Review, Elliot Kaufman pillories thoughtless College Republicans for bringing alt-right provocateur Milo Yiannapoulos to campus. College Republicans are worthless. (I know because I was one, once ... before I took a job on a campaign and had the wool lifted from my eyes.) Kaufman is critical and fair: "They are always broke, their leaders are always about to graduate, and nobody on campus ever cares about what they have to say." Milo? "He charges no speaking fees and, with minimal effort and planning from the students, guarantees them attention and controversy. He gives conservative student groups everything they could want." Except the real price is their souls. Because Milo Yiannapoulous is the devil.

Commentary has snagged Sohrab Ahmari, and it's a great hire. His latest today on how President Trump will always disappoint his conservative apologist defenders is a must-read. Here's a taste: "The president reversed himself again in classic Trumpian fashion. Late Monday evening, he tweeted: Made additional remarks on Charlottesville and realize once again that the #Fake News Media will never be satisfied truly bad people! Which made the afternoon statement look like a begrudging concession to an ungrateful press corps rather than a genuine expression. As if to validate the impression, Trump retweeted an alt-right figure a few hours later."

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Latest NY Times 'Red Century' Entry: Women Under Communism 'Had Better Sex' NewsBusters (press release) (blog) The competition for the worst "communism wasn't all that bad" entry was pretty close until Saturday (seen in Sunday's print edition), when Kristen R. Ghodsee, a University of Pennsylvania professor of Russian and East European studies, told readers ...

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15 August 2017 | by Jonathan Luxmoore A total of 422 Catholic priests were executed, murdered or tortured to death during the Great Purge

Russias Catholic Church has appealed to Western Christians to remember martyrs of Communist rule during the upcoming centenary of the 1917 Russian revolution, rather than just helping commemorate the countrys better-known dissidents.

The sufferings in Soviet prisons and labour camps remain an issue for the whole of society here, not just religious communities, said Mgr Igor Kovalevsky, secretary-general of the Catholic Bishops Conference. But stories of witness and martyrdom are universally known and respected. Churches have been built to those who died for their faith, who deserve to be compared to the martyrs of Christianity's first centuries.

The priest was speaking amid preparations for the hundredth anniversary of the 1917 October Revolution, which heralded more than eight decades of communist rule.

In a Tablet interview, he said the work of dissidents such as Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and Nadezhda Mandelstam (1899-1980) had become well known worldwide, but should not overshadow the tens of thousands of Christians who died for their beliefs.

At least 21 million people are believed to have died in repression, persecution and terror famines after 1917, including 106,000 Orthodox clergy shot during the 1937-8 Great Purge alone, according to Russian government data. A total of 422 Catholic priests were executed, murdered or tortured to death during the period, along with 962 monks, nuns and laypeople, while all but two of the Catholic Church's 1240 places of worship were forcibly turned into shops, warehouses, farm buildings and public toilets.

In his Tablet interview, Mgr Kovalevsky said the Catholic Church was ready to help commemorate all those who died, but was particularly concerned to preserve the memory of the Soviet Unions Christian victims. Speaking earlier this year, Patriarch Kirill blamed the revolution's violence on "horrible crimes committed by the intelligentsia against God, the faith, their people and their country", and urged citizens to mark the centenary with deep reflection and sincere prayer.

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The Endless Bizarre Allure of Socialism, Part II CNSNews.com Socialism has a technical definition involving government ownership of the means of production and central planning of the economy. But most people today think socialism is big government, with business still privately owned but with lots of ...

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And The War On Trump

I am increasingly of the opinion that the basis for the inflamed, visceral hatred of President Donald Trump in some quarters is neither his occasional vulgarity nor his propensity to toss out un-presidential insults, nor the misogyny and sexism that the left pretends to see in his every word.

Rather, its that his presidency has torn the veil off of the lefts inexorable and until recently largely obscured march toward a socialist America.

Trump has exposed and discredited many of the institutions and mechanisms the left uses to execute its fundamental transformation: The media, the entertainment industry and academia.

Furthermore, he is an unabashed capitalist, a walking manifestation of American achievement through commerce.

And for this, they despise him.

Health care is a pristine example of the battle being waged. Obamacare is collapsing. The GOP is too terrified to repeal it. Democrats know that its failure, particularly in the absence of legitimate free-market alternatives, will virtually ensure the single-payer system theyre now openly pushing.

Single-payer is a recipe for failure and abuse. (Exhibits 1 and 2: The Department of Veterans Affairs and the Indian Health Services.) Except in relatively small, largely homogenous populations, collectivism fails because in the absence of financial incentives, more people want to receive things than want to make or provide them. The government must therefore insert itself into every transaction: You must make X. You can only charge $Y. You only get so much of Z.

Thus does single-payer health care morph from being a provision system to a rationing system. And those who control the rations control the people.

There is plenty historical evidence of socialisms disasters, most recently in Venezuela. Detractors will scoff: The Venezuelan government took over most private enterprise; theres no indication that such a thing would ever happen here.

However, socialist and communist regimes tend to expand not because they succeed, but because they fail.

Instead of admitting the collapse of a failing business model, the lefts impulse is to take it larger: We just need more money. We need higher taxes. We need the government to take control of more.

This produces larger, systemic failure, and more widespread misery. Then cometh the political oppression. To preserve the regime, it becomes necessary to silence anyone who complains or dares to point out the painfully obvious truth that these ideas destroy whatever systems they infect.

When no one in power will face reality, there are few options left, and they are almost always catastrophic: Civil war, revolution, anarchy. Failed policies. Collapsed economies. Political repression.

The examples are so numerous as to strain credulity: Venezuela, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos, North Korea, China, Cambodia, East Germany, Angola, Somalia, the former Soviet Union. Hellholes created under siren promises that government would provide everything for free.

So much suffering, and so avoidable.

But were not supposed to know any of that. Our educational system is supposed to be indoctrinating children to think that capitalism is greed and collectivism is compassion.

The media willingly conspires to keep us ignorant. (The New York Times is running a series that The Federalist author Robert Tracinski rightly decries as an effort to rehabilitate Communism. Lenin and the Bolsheviks were well-intentioned people trying to build a better world out of a crisis?) Millionaire entertainers dutifully spout politburo propaganda in exchange for escaping the accusations of hypocrisy that should accompany their sky-high incomes and royal lifestyles.

As middle-class voters are realizing, Democrats have been pushing their party in this direction for decades. Republicans (at least at the congressional level) suck their thumbs and pretend it isnt happening, whilst falling for the bipartisanship ploy that makes them ineffectual fools even when as now they hold political power.

Donald Trump may not have intended to be the man who pulled down the curtain, but pull it he did. He has become the face of the opposition to the plans of the cultural elite. For that he must be destroyed.

Ultimately, however, the lefts war isnt with Trump. It is with those of us who see socialisms failures, and who refuse to sit back and watch while our freedoms are dismantled and our country is destroyed.

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LAURA HOLLIS

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