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Type in Socialists.com, and Guess Where You'll End Up?

Evann Gastaldo — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:05:05 CDT

Some wily jokester apparently got ahold of socialists.com and communists.com and set them to redirect … to President Obama's campaign website. Some Republicans have apparently fallen for the prank, fueling existing speculation that Obama is a socialist or a Communist, the New York Times notes: One user tweeted...

China Vows Not to Ditch Socialism

Mary Papenfuss — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 04:04:29 CST

In case anyone was unclear, China is not planning to ditch socialism. Despite officials' apparent capitalistic canniness when it comes to issues like trade deficits, market competition, global investment, and ravenous retailing, China plans to stay true to its socialist principals, and will eschew Western capitalist systems, said Wu Bangguo,...

Waterboarding, Paris Hilton Liked More Than Congress

Matt Cantor — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:50:05 CST

A Gallup poll released Wednesday finds that Americans' approval of Congress has hit yet another record low: 10%. There aren't many institutions Americans have liked less over the last 50-or-so years, according to Gallup: Only Fidel Castro, Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, and OJ Simpson detective Mark Fuhrman have ever...

Tea Partier's Protest Plan: No More Hiring

Evann Gastaldo — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:59:46 CDT

Well, here’s one idea for small businesses to help get us out of this economic mess we’re in: Stop hiring people! That’s the proposal from Tea Party Nation member Melissa Brookstone in a manifesto picked up (and derided) by Gawker and Wonkette . Brookstone’s post accuses the Obama administration, the “progressive...

Steve Wynn: Businesses 'Frightened to Death' of Obama

Kevin Spak — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:31:05 CDT

Why aren’t businesses hiring more people with the piles of cash at their disposal? Casino magnate Steve Wynn thinks it’s because they’re scared of Barack Obama. “I'm telling you that the business community in this company is frightened to death of the weird political philosophy of the president,” Wynn said...

Were the Smurfs Nazis?

Tim Karan — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 16:21:46 CDT

Things might have been a little smurfed up in Smurf Village. The friendly blue creatures were socialists and "the embodiment of a totalitarian utopia, steeped in Stalinism and Nazism," says one French sociologist in the new book, Le Petit Livre Bleu , or The Little Blue Book. The author claims the...

What We Can Learn from Mauritius

Kevin Spak — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 13:31:36 CST

Imagine a nation that provided free health care and a college education for all its citizens while maintaining a nicely balanced budget. Sound impossible? Well, they’ve managed it in Mauritius, a small island nation off the east coast of Africa with no "exploitable" natural resources to speak of. The country...

Palin: America on 'Road to Ruin'

Polly Davis Doig — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 06:31:11 CST

Sarah Palin thinks the nation's headed to hell in a handbasket, and the only way to save it is to get back in line with Ronald Reagan's policies, she said in a speech last night kicking off centennial celebrations of the Gipper's Feb. 6 birth. "This is insane," she said...

The Most Socialist US State Is...

aarontco — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 11:10:25 CST

The term "socialism" gets thrown around a lot in American politics, but what does it really mean? Greg Bocquet of mainstreet.com says you can measure it by how much a state government spends on its social programs as a percentage of GDP. However, "the results may surprise you," he...