No invasion of Poland was necessary. Communism was so weak from trying to keep up with the Capitalism in America that the Poles required no assistance, just the big brass cahones of Walesa to lead the charge. Just like Reagan, Thatcher, and Pope John Paul II were able to bring down the entire Soviet Union without firing a shot. What is interesting is the resurgence of dictatorial Communism under Putin while Obama gazes at his own reflection in the pool. This time, the communists will win - we have been sufficiently weakened by our own socialism.

Voter fraud on the part of the Democrats is not limited to blacks. White Democrats have been guilty of voter fraud since at least JFK's election in 1960. Dems are still upset about the 2000 election because they didn't get away with it in Florida. Had there been no voter fraud in Iowa, Wisconsin, and Michigan, however, Florida would have been moot. Holder is simply more blatant about his fraud.. He is as narcissistic as his boss, thus he believes that rules do not apply to him.

The sacrifices of men at arms, going back to the Revolutionary War, have allowed us to create an atmosphere wherein panty-waisted elitists like Chris Hayes can sit idly about, in comfort and ease, pondering the use of the word hero to describe the individuals who made the supreme sacrifice. He's an ungrateful SOB to say the least.

Government spending, even when it is the great Obama, stimulates the economy the same way taking water out of the deep end of the pool and pouring it into the shallow end fills the pool. With apologies to Dr. Walter E. Williams.

The political class - Rs as well as Ds - are destroying the middle class by making them dependent on the government. Massive student loans which will sap the earnings of college grads for years. High and perhaps higher FICA taxes to pay for their future. Mandated, very expensive health insurance which the employee earns regardless of who pays. All of this saps the earnings of the middle class so that they have no ability to save for their own future or have anything to pass on to their heirs. It's 21st century serfdom. The government will take care of you, but the government then owns you.

To add to your comment - it is only the weakness of other currencies in the world that is propping up the dollar. The dollar may be lousy but it is still perceived to be better than the rest.

The radical left has always manipulated terminology. At the 2nd COMINTERN, Lenin was outvoted on nearly every substantive issue. But, after a long harangue during which most of his opposition left, he called a procedural vote which he won. He then coined the term for his faction in the communist party as Bolshevik, or (loosely translated) Majority. He called his opposition (the much larger factions) the Mensheviks or Minority. Marxists haven't changed their tactics even a little bit, have they?

Unions exist not to help workers but for their own benefit. Race leaders do not care about individual members of their race or even the overall improvement of their race but only their own narrow self-interested benefit. Sounds exactly like government, doesn't it? Individual members of Congress may talk a good game but when push comes to shove, Congress votes in their own narrow self-interest and re-election. The taxpayers are exactly that - taxpayers whose needs and concerns are irrelevant to Congress. Welfare recipients must always be welfare recipients, otherwise they won't vote for the Congress critter they deem responsible for giving them all the goodies, but Congress critters care only about the votes, not the voters.

Where unions excel is in the PR game. For example, if you complain about high union costs, they will cry to the public that you want to deprive workers of a living wage. In reality, the union stewards, the grievance process, and all the non-productive time spent on union business while on the company clock costs even very small companies thousands, big companies millions. That money isn't going to the workers and companies get no benefit from those expenditures - they all go right to unions.

During my long working career, I was both a union member and, as management, I negotiated with several unions. What I know about unions and what I can state unequivocally, is that unions do not, in any way, shape, or form, care a tiny little bit about workers. They care only about their own power and self-aggrandizement. Unions are a cesspool of corruption, influence peddling, protection rackets, and (believe it or not) racism and bigotry. I have had the great good fortune of working with many wonderful, hard-working union workers, making excellent products and performing valuable services. The unions who represent them are beneath contempt.