David Horowitz is the new Whittaker Chambers...

 and we owe them both a debt of gratitude.

Both Whittaker Chambers and David Horowitz know communism from the inside out since they became great patriots after defecting from the communist party. 

Chamber's became well known as the leading force behind the famous Alger Hiss trial that led to Hiss's conviction for perjury related to espionage in 1950.  

Chamber's died in 1961. In 1984 Pres. Ronald Reagan awarded Chambers the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Whittaker Chamber's book, Witness*, is available on Amazon and is a must read

Yesterday, David Horowitz posted an essay at Powerline.  It was powerful enough for Rush to read today on his show. I've read just about all of Horowitz's books. I like them all, but my favorite is Radical Son*, which points out the incredibly ugly under belly of communism - up to and including murder.  He has a new book coming out from Regnery next April titled The Enemy Within: How A Totalitarian Movement is Destroying America. You can be sure it will be on my reading list.

Please read all of his essay Fighting Words at Powerline, but pay special attention to his closing paragraph stating why democrats are able to get away with the havoc they are raining down on our country, the citizens, and the economy:

But the only reason Democrats are able to do this so successfully – even going so far as to justify the arson, looting and general destruction in more than 600 American cities this summer – is because Republicans, and conservatives generally, are too cowardly to confront them. This war will continue until patriotic Americans summon the courage to call Democrats the racists, liars, character assassins and aspiring totalitarians that they actually are. And to do so in so many words. Blowback works.

Today the sight of the majority of people all masked up at the Dollar Store, Wallyworld, and Ace Hardware signaled to me that they would gladly climb into a boxcar if ordered to do so. Don't be those people! 

Watch this 5:00 minute video of Michael Matt speaking at the Stuff Your Mandate Rally in Minnesota to see how it's done:

The day after Governor Tim Walz announced new lockdowns in the state of Minnesota, Michael Matt address the "Stuff Your Mandate" rally outside of the governor's mansion.

Michael touches on the questions of the Great Reset and the long term plan behind the lockdowns and ongoing war on civil liberties in America and around the world.

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You WILL care about the Academy Awards...

even if you don't.

We start our week with morning to night coverage of a bunch of hypocritical nobodies gathered together to applaud each other for being "woke."

Since the ratings were at an all time low, I guess their pontificating about guns, while being surrounded by 500 armed guards, didn't translate to the dirt peeps giving a good gosh darn.

Of much more interest is an article from 2015 about David Horowitz that was sent to me by very bright lady, frequent commenter, and friend of this blog, Joy Daniels Brower - and we thank her.

THE LIFE AND WORK OF DAVID HOROWITZ

From red-diaper baby to New Leftist to the Left's most formidable enemy.

Having forgotten that David was behind the wonderful resource of Discover the Networks, and having also forgotten that he founded FrontPage Magazine and Truth Revolt, it sent me scurrying to Amazon to peruse all his writings. As usual my next stop was our wonderful local library to see which of his books was available.  Whew - it's fully stocked with David Horowitz books. 

Of particular interest was his book Radicals: Portraits of a Destructive Passion, which will be picked up at the Liberty Lake, WA library and delivered to my branch in Post Falls, Idaho - and we thank them!

In 2012 Horowitz published what with one large exception was to be a final episode in the work of the second half of his life—to understand the pathology of the left, its hatred of America, and its destructive agendas. He gave it the title Radicals: Portraits of a Destructive Passion (2012). Among its six chapters is a portrait of his friend, Christopher Hitchens, whose incomplete second thoughts about his radical commitments becomes for Horowitz a measure of what it means to be of the left, and what it means to have left the left. This poignant rendering of both the man and his evolving ideology explores the seamless fabric joining radical ideas and lives, and the destructive consequences of both. (from the above linked article on David Horowitz)

I really have a burning desire to understand what makes a person a simmering cauldron of radical Commie/Marxist/Socialist thinking - which doesn't really appear to be thinking as much as "feeling."  Maybe Horowitz will give me some clues.

 While waiting for the book, I plan to do a re-read of Witness by Whittaker Chambers, already ensconced on my bookshelf. 

And later today I want to read  Why Intellectuals Fall for Socialism by Friedrich Hayek. I'm curious to see how Hayek defines an "intellectual" since the people I encounter who purport to be libtards do nothing more than spout borrowed ideas with not one wit of intellectualism to back up their claims to a future utopia. 

  More:

Virtual Mirage:  The Mob  

The Blaze:  Commentary: We don’t need gun control; we need another Great Awakening  (Amen)

Newsbusters:  Avalanche! Oscars Ratings Take Massive Tumble, Fall 15 Percent from 2017 (rejected by the dirt people)

David Dubrow:  The Ugly Truth About Gun Issues in America (excellent)

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