The Red Scare Returns

Today, from the floor of town-hall meetings and the heights of the Republican Party, alarmed Americans fret about secret socialists and denounce the president as a dictator. They make plans to pull their children out of school rather than have them exposed to his hypnotic oratorical powers. They quail at imaginary death panels, storm at imaginary threats to gun rights, and froth at an imaginary birth-certificate scandal. And it has required only eight ... Full Story »

Posted by Kaizar Campwala - via Opinion Source, Wall Street Journal (Opinion), AllTop
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Paul Belle-Isle
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by Paul Belle-Isle - Sep. 11, 2009

This is an opinion piece, but a valuable one grounded in fact.

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Patricia Blochowiak
3.8
by Patricia Blochowiak - Sep. 15, 2009

Interesting opinion. No balance, but such is generally the nature of opinions. Gives a historical context on the new McCarthyism.

Lots of 1's and 5's in my rating. My gut says this is terrific, but my head says that it wouldn't convince anyone very far to the right of me.

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Jim Lang
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by Jim Lang - Sep. 11, 2009

This is a well written and insightful piece that notes the right's invocation of the "red scare" just weeks into Obama's term without any provocation or supporting evidence. After noting the phenomenon with incredulity, the writer seeks an explanation.

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Lynn R. Willis
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by Lynn R. Willis - Sep. 12, 2009

This is entertaining journalism, exploring the absurdity a a modern-day "Red Scare" in an age when communism as an ideological ideal disappeared with the Soviet Union.

Will we EVER be freed from Glen Beck's smarminess?

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Cynthia Gilbert
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by Cynthia Gilbert - Sep. 12, 2009

A thoughtful list of useful questions to be asking ourselves right now, and from the Wall Street Journal no less.

This commentary certainly hits home in terms of trying to understand the mass disassociation from reality that is being delivered to and acted upon by a significant group of Americans.

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Kaizar Campwala
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by Kaizar Campwala - Sep. 10, 2009
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Doug Greer
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by Doug Greer - Sep. 15, 2009

Frank makes the connections between the tea-bagging protesters and the Ayn Rand financial elites by examining the roots of their rhetoric.

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William Hughes-Games
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by William Hughes-Games - Sep. 18, 2009

Good provocative piece to get people to apply some critical thinking about what is happening

When you read that about 40% of Americans believe that the world and the universe was created by a being in a nighty living up in the clouds of our tiny speck of a world and that he did this some 5000 years ago despite a humungous amount of evidence to the contrary, nothing else they believe in comes as a surprise. There is a very good chance that you have the best president that has ever being in office. He can't do it alone.

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Patrick McGuire
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by Patrick McGuire - Sep. 11, 2009

It is a well written opinion that does not any extremes. It is an insightful observation.

There is a stark contrast to American thought since the election of Obama and many democrats. For some reason in this country it seems that the right can can make an issue out false allegations about fellow Americans by calling others commies, reds, socialists, Nazis. When a democrat get elected to the White House the sales of guns goes way up and people start believing they will lose some of their rights and privileges. Instead what really happens is when the right goes too far is ... More »

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