Everyone should read the Freedom Charter at least once; just to get some insight into how far the ANC has strayed from its core principles. I intent to write a few articles on the Freedom Charter – for no particular reason other than that the ANC is know

Sometimes the simplest ideas carry with them, when thought through, such a powerful taste of how the future could be that they are quite irresistible. One such idea has led me to spend the last couple of days immersed in trying to find out as much as I c

For a person from the educated middle class who is going to pieces spiritually from lack of employment, the hardest thing is maintaining appearances. Practically every cent and reserve of dignity is diverted into the illusion of gentility. Your clothes,

The word ‘Orwellian’ has become over-used to the point of cliche. Yet there is really no other way to describe the deeply sinister, upside-down onslaught upon common sense that has extended even into the school playgrounds of politically correct Britain.

I'm Rick Santorum and I'm running for president because I'm deeply concerned about our country's future, which I believe is deeply tied up with our sexual values. When people think of a cultural conservative like me, especially one who's Roman Catholic,

Outrageous and unlawful. This is Canada not North Korea. I have absolutely no problem with that. If you are a law-abiding citizen, then what's the worry. I'm all for allowing the police full rein on those who use the internet, including me. There are too

Have you heard about the “food police” incident in North Carolina where a small child’s brown-bag lunch was deemed unworthy by a USDA lunch inspector in the school system? Yes, the turkey sandwich, banana, potato chips and juice packed by a mother was de

Winston Smith works quietly and diligently in the Records Department in the Ministry of Truth. What is he doing? Rewriting history. If 'Big Brother' doesn't like the sound of the past, they change it to suit them. If they have underproduced a crop, they'

The radio on board HMCS Charlottetown crackled with the news. The Canadian warship’s boarding party had struck pay dirt — a vessel in international waters loaded with weapons and ammunition trying to sneak into Libya. It was May 2011, three months into L

“How the hell would I know – I don’t know much about college players” "Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them."

Mitt stays on message in a spot marking the third anniversary of the stimulus bill: And the DNC uses John McCain to question Romney's "private-sector experience": "To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle" — George Orwell

Curtis Dahlgren "The civil rights of none shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the full and equal rights of conscience, be in any manner, nor on any PRETEXT, infringed."

I think of George Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant" (1936) as an almost perfect example of the essayist's art, despite the fact that there is some question as to whether the events it describes took place as Orwell recalls — or even if they took place at a

Col. Mustard is very impressed with Pat Buchanan’s claims that he has been “censored” and “blacklisted” by liberals who “stigmatize as racist, homophobic, or anti-Semitic any who contradict what George Orwell once called their ‘smelly little orthodoxies.

Whereas Ayn Rand viewed capitalism as an historical plateau for human civilization, Karl Marx viewed capitalism as inherently flawed and merely a temporary period in history. Unfortunately, owing to the fates of the USSR, Cuba, and China, much of Marx's

It always seemed odd that MSNBC, the far-left network, employed one of the most fringey, controversial, anti-Semitic figures on the right. But then again, there was probably a good reason for it. The left still wishes all conservatives were as easy to de

You choose to be a public figure Vic, suck it up! Now you know how the rest of us feel about other people poking into our affairs on the internet Transparent as long as its not applicable to them.. I for one believe ALL Parties should be transparent as p

The modus operandi of these thought police at Color of Change and ADL is to brand as racists and anti-Semites any writer who dares to venture outside the narrow corral in which they seek to confine debate. All the while prattling about their love of diss

The Spanish Civil War resonated for decades in the lives of those who lived through it - for some, it impacted the rest of their lives. It infused the works of Ernest Hemingway, Laurie Lee and George Orwell, but the majority of those involved were just o