People I Don't Like

People I Don’t Like

  By Alan Caruba.    People I don’t like At the end of every year it is customary to offer up lists of all kinds—the best this, the worst that—and it is a brief, generally amusing exercise. I don’t usually make lists, [...]

What is the Difference Between the DNC and CPUSA?

By Alan Caruba On the home page of the Communist Party USA it says “A better and peaceful world is possible—a world where people and nature come before profits. That’s socialism. That’s our vision. We are the Communist Party USA.” No, [...]
America Spirals Down the Socialist Sinkhole

America Spirals Down the Socialist Sinkhole

  By Alan Caruba. America for its first century and a quarter was home to a capitalist system and philosophy that took it from a largely agricultural economy to one that saw the rise of its vast industrial base. In 1913 that changed with [...]
From Prohibition to Obamacare

From Prohibition to Obamacare

    By Alan Caruba.   “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s [...]
China! China! China!

China! China! China!

By Alan Caruba. “Doom is one of the oldest stories of mankind,” says Josef Joffe in his excellent new book, “The Myth of America’s Decline: Politics, Economics, and a Half Century of False Prophesies.” As long as I can remember I [...]
Fukushima Reactor Re-Opens

My Cold War and Now Yours

By Alan Caruba. I spent the better part of my life during the Cold War that began at the end of World War Two in 1945 and did not end until the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991. It was replaced by the Russian Federation. On February [...]
Living in a Communist Economy

Living in a Communist Economy

    By Alan Caruba. In the former Soviet Union, the joke was “They pretend to pay us and we pretend to work.” It took over four decades of the Cold War to finally put an end to the lie that Communism as an economic system works. [...]
It Can Happen Here

It Can Happen Here

      By Alan Caruba. “How the Jews Defeated Hitler” is the title of a new book by Dr. Benjamin Ginsberg PhD, subtitled “Exploding the Myth of Jewish Passivity in the Face of Nazism.” The title is counter-intuitive because, [...]
Just How Awful with 2013 Be?

Just How Awful with 2013 Be?

By Alan Caruba. Pundits and experts of every description love to predict and pontificate. That they are often famously wrong doesn’t get the attention it deserves. The Great Depression began on October 29, 1929 with the stock market crash. [...]