A co-worker today was telling everyone to send non-perishable food items and hygiene products to the Salvation Army, and they'll get them to Haiti, for the relief effort. It's truly terrible, what has happened there; it's always terrible, when disaster strikes  anywhere, but especially a Third World country , which can't fend for itself, anyway. This situation brought to mind a blog article I wrote years ago, about Africa, an entire continent of "Haitis", which is unendingly m...

There’s a trend I’ve noticed among many of the people on the Far Left, especially those who claim to be Socialists or Communists, that I think bears noting here. I love how the Lefties and Far Lefties are seemingly without a clue (or perhaps they just don’t want to admit it), as to why Communism's cradle collapsed like the fragile house of cards it was, in the face of real, pro-active, honest Capitalist opposition. The fact that it took the most conservative US president in over a century t...