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 »

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Lynn R. Willis
4.7
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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