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The strangest State of the Union ever

Coronavirus live updates: WHO says cases surged over 24 hours; Singapore confirms infant with virus

Van Jones warns Dems: Trump helping African-Americans ‘in real life’

Nadler: Bolton subpoena ‘likely’

China trade deficit shrinks as deficit with EU hits record high

Private payrolls surge in January, the best monthly gain in nearly 5 years

Biden’s poor [Iowa] showing rattles establishment ...

Poll: Bernie’s New Hampshire lead widens as Joe Biden falls

The Trump-Pelosi feud spirals out of control

What 4G did for mobile devices, 5G will do for everything around us

China unveils electronic trackers for suspected virus carriers ...

AOC rips Rush Limbaugh as a ‘virulent racist’

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Grassley, Graham want the FBI's Russian surveillance warrants

Sen. Durbin's office won't release emails with GOP baseball shooter

Susan Rice suggests 'sexism', 'racism' in unmasking probe

CNN has 17 million fake Twitter followers

Trump accepts invitation for Bastille Day visit to France

Undercover video reveals CNN's Van Jones calling Russian story a 'nothing burger'

CA's Sierra region rattled by more than a dozen earthquakes ...

Report: Google generates as much ad revenue as the rest of the world print ad revenue

Trump on healthcare: Schumer doesn't seem like a 'serious person'

Bob Woodward chides NYT, mainstream media 'fair mindedness is important'

Boston streets overrun with bunnies ...

Joy Behar feels 'sorry' that Melania had to sleep with Donald

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Hollywood melts down over Trump

Trump will skip White House Correspondences' Dinner ...

Woodward tells media: Stop whining ...

Top Democrat has 'grave concerns' about Trump-Russia investigation

Sources: U.S. considers quitting UN Human Rights Council

Electric car makers on battery alert ... as hedge funds stockpile cobalt ...

NASA tests supersonic jet ... 1,354 MPH ...

Van Jones at University of Chicago: Safe spaces are a 'terrible idea'

GWB daughter, Barbara to keynote Planned Parenthood fundraiser

Trump wages war on Chicago

German police shoot fleeing driver who mowed down three

Exclusive: Leaked GOP Obamacare replacement shrinks subsidies, Medicaid expansion

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Can judges now issue immigration visas?

Poll: Americans trusts Trump more than news media

Report: Wall to take 3.5 years

Geraldo Rivera: 'Nordstrom's stabbed Ivanka in the back'

Scientist says that people can live to 1,000 ...

Oldest American dies at 114 ...

Army lifts ban on dreadlocks

Van Jones: Liberals too knock-kneed about standing up to Islamic fundamentalism

Limbaugh: Black Robes Matter ...

Kellogg's CEO: Massive layoffs at time of massive boycott total coincidence

Study: 1 in 5 illegal aliens live in NYC, LA

Mexicans vow to fight Trump by jamming courts ...

What’s in A Name?

Would a rose still look so red?  Hillary Clinton wrote her mini-opus, It Takes a Village,  propounding her political meme that self-determination is bad and collectivism is good. And I just re-read the poem, “No Man is an Island” by John Donne (see: The Poem ) in an e-mail by a “progressive” thinker of a close friend … as a way of showing the way to his nirvana (“It tolls for thee”).  

Now Van Jones, one of Obama’s original Socialist henchmen (and now a MSNBC contributor no less) has coined a new portmanteau term “communitarian” as a way of camouflaging his hard-leftist theology … see: Breitbart Story.  Even Obama’s inaugural address dances around the notion that rugged individualism in the United States is now passé:

Through it all, we have never relinquished our skepticism of central authority, nor have we succumbed to the fiction that all societies [sic] ills can be cured through government alone. Our celebration of initiative and enterprise, our insistence on hard work and personal responsibility, these are constants in our character. [Hey, sounds good!} 

[But, wait!] For we have always understood that when times change, so must we, that fidelity to our founding principles requires new responses to new challenges, that preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action. [The ideological curtain is raised]

I am constantly awed by how persistent a failed political movement can be.  Thirty years ago, we thought Communism was dead.  It had proven itself to be a precursor to totalitarianism over and over again (Pol Pot, Stalin, Castro, Mao, Sukarno, etc.).  Yet on-the-make politicians seem continually to trek back to drink from this tainted trough so as to rally their naive proletariat to a cause that seems so magnanimous and Christ-like.  And, only when the hook in firmly planted in the tender mouths of these fish, do they realize, too late, that they are not to be fed, but to feed.