Russians Mull Burying Soviet Leader Lenin
The corpse if V.I. Lenin has been awaiting burial since the
Soviet Union was thrown on the ash heap of history during the administration of
President Ronald Reagan.
Comments by Russia’s new culture minister suggest, according
to a report in the Washington Times,
that Mr. Lenin is, finally, on his way out:
“But recent comments by Russia’s new culture
minister have brought closer the possibility that the father of the Bolshevik
Revolution could finally be laid to rest, signaling an end to the cult of Lenin.
“’Many things in our life would symbolically change for the
better after this [burial],’ Mr. Medinsky
said, adding that he thinks Lenin should
be buried with full state honors and his Red Square
mausoleum turned into a museum of the Soviet
era.”
Nancy Pelosi Rakes In The Dough
Borrowing a page from the 1912 election featuring socialist
Eugene Debs on the far left, William Howard Taft in the center, Woodrow Wilson at left of center and Bull
Moose candidate Teddy Roosevelt, the archangel of progressivism, Democrats this year have chosen to belabor
Wall Street -- not that there’s anything wrong with that.
The boiler-plate assaults by President Barack Obama, in full
campaign mode for the past three years, and former Speaker of the U.S. House
Nancy Pelosi have been typical.
Unfortunately, financial disclosure statements are readily
available; and Mrs. Pelosi’s statement shows she has been priming the
outsourcing pump she has condemned from sea to shining sea, according to theDaily Caller:
“According to Pelosi’s 2011 financial
disclosure statement, the Democratic House Minority Leader received between
$1 million and $5 million in partnership income from ‘Matthews International
Capital Management LLC,’ a group that emphasizes that it has a ‘A Singular
Focus on Investing in Asia.’ A quick
trip to the company website reveals a featured post extolling the virtues of
outsourcing.”
When the Pullman’s strike was finally put down and a combine
of Big Business, Big Government and Big Union ( represented by Samuel Gompers)
finally destroyed Deb’s railroad union,
the unflinching Debs refused ever again to ride in a Pullman car.
If the Democrats this year wish seriously to embrace
progressivism, they must dress in sackcloth and ashes and refrain from decking
themselves out in Wall Street baubles.
Obama A No Show At NAACP Convention Disappoints
Some, But Not Malloy
At the NAACP Convention, Governor Dannel Malloy of
Connecticut was honored for having played a major role in abolishing thestate’s death penalty.
As he was acknowledging the plaudits,
Mr. Malloy took a swipe at Texas Governor Rock Perry,
a no-show at the convention.
But Perry was not the only MIA politician, according to anaccount in Buzzfeed:
“Convention organizers said the president's office cited a
‘scheduling conflict’ as the reason he
couldn't attend. (Obama spent today in Washington D.C., and has no major public
events.) And the president did make an effort to ensure the convention that he
hadn't forgotten them, appearing in a brief, pre-taped video praising the
organization that aired before Biden's address.”
The Progressive Calls
Dodd Loathsome, Depraved
The Progressive magazine was hatched in 1909 by Mr.
Progressive himself, Senator Robert M. La Follette Sr. of Wisconsin, the founder
of La Follette’s Weekly, renamed in 1929 The Progressive.
It’s current issue takes aim at despicable lobbyists
and finds former senator Chris Dodd, now a Hollywood mogul, abhorrent. Dodd is
rated as the 9th most depraved lobbyist money can buy:
“The former Connecticut Senator, and
internationally renowned eyebrow-haver, isn’t the most prodigious scum in the
Beltway swamp, but he may be the most hypocritical. When asked in 2010 what
would follow his thirty-year legislative career, which ended amid financial
scandal, Dodd bluntly said, “No lobbying, no lobbying.” He then promptly
became, as The Hill put it, “Hollywood’s leading man in Washington, taking the
most prestigious job on K Street,” as chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture
Association of America. The gig comes with a $1.2 million annual salary, and
complimentary tickets to the Academy Awards.
“Dodd’s most
public, and ultimately ill-fated, advocacy was in pushing two potentially
disastrous bills: the Stop Online Piracy Act, and its Senate counterpart,
Protect IP Act—both of which would’ve given the federal government the right to
shut down any website that was merely being accused of copyright infringement.”
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