Tag Archives: Iron Curtain

YOUR RETIREMENT MONEY REDISTRIBUTED (RERUN)

Posted on July 20, 2012 by

I thought I’d rerun this rant from November 2011. I have been thinking about a couple of progressive concepts that the Obama regime is likely to employ as a temporary way to feed its spending addiction.  (I say “temporary” because … Continue reading →

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OBAMA’S SUPREME SACRIFICE

Posted on July 19, 2012 by

On Friday, the 13th of this July, thus spake Obama in Roanoke, Virginia: “And when I think about that first campaign, what strikes me is no matter where I went, no matter who I was talking to, I could see … Continue reading →

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YOUR RETIREMENT MONEY REDISTRIBUTED

Posted on September 25, 2011 by

I have been thinking about a couple of progressive concepts that the Obama regime is likely to employ as a temporary way to feed its spending addiction.  (I say “temporary” because the Obama regime, like other “progressive” regimes, has no … Continue reading →

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THE JOYS OF LIVING IN A SOCIALIST SOCIETY

Posted on September 18, 2011 by

On September 11 (!) 1951, a Czechoslovak train engineer with several other accomplices managed to “kidnap” his whole train to West Germany – and freedom.  The three chief co-conspirators were Jaroslav Konvalinka, the engineer, Jaroslav Švec, a dentist from Karlovy … Continue reading →

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ARIZONA SHOOTINGS

Posted on January 12, 2011 by

So many words expended, so much hatred unleashed, so little said.  In case anyone wonders, these kinds of media feeding frenzies were typical for Iron Curtain countries.  Castro’s little rant on the subject (remarkably mild for a good socialist) illustrates … Continue reading →

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THE ESCAPE, PART 11

Posted on January 5, 2011 by

FREEDOM AT LAST That evening, Dad instructed me in the fine art of pretending that I had appendicitis.  I had to learn how doctors probe for it, when I’m supposed to yelp with pain, where pain starts and where it … Continue reading →

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THE ESCAPE, PART 10

Posted on January 3, 2011 by

BELGRADE AND THE ADRIATIC COAST Belgrade was a complete disappointment.  Dad visited the Greek, Turkish and Israeli embassies, where people empathized but could do nothing to help. To say that we were disappointed and discouraged is to understate the thing … Continue reading →

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THE ESCAPE, PART 9

Posted on January 1, 2011 by

ON TO BELGRADE No, this is not a reference to the heady days of 1914 when Austro-Hungarian armies expected an easy victory over the Serbs.  Nor does this refer to the equally heady days of 1995 when the Serbs, unjustly … Continue reading →

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THE ESCAPE, PART 8

Posted on December 31, 2010 by

THE MINEFIELD Once back in the campground for dinner and the night, we began to plot the next step.  We were all quite tense, because we knew that meant tackling the border proper. The next subject on the agenda was … Continue reading →

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