By: Alex Markovsky (Diary)  |  October 27th at 09:05 PM  | 

It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts….For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it. –Patrick Henry | Read More »

By: Alex Markovsky (Diary)  |  December 6th at 11:26 PM  | 

As I said in my previous post, “Anatomy of a Bolshevik,” history is never a carbon copy of the past but it does provide useful parallels. So when I looked through the pages of Gordon Woods’ brilliant book, American Revolution, I was struck by certain similarities between the past and present of our country. In the book’s preface, Woods writes: Unlike the French Revolution, which | Read More »

By: Alex Markovsky (Diary)  |  November 1st at 10:57 AM  | 

To say that Obama is a Bolshevik may sound extreme, but as someone who grew up in the former Soviet Union, and holds degrees in economics and political science from the University of Marxism-Leninism, the American political landscape reveals a scary reality: the United States elected a Radical Socialist Government committed to the transformation of the American capitalist free-enterprise system into an egalitarian society with | Read More »