This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Monday, February 10, 2020: 

Is Bernie Sanders a communist? The president thinks so. At a rally in Richmond, Virginia, on Wednesday night, Donald Trump railed against Democratic hopeful Bernie Sanders, calling him a “socialist-slash-communist” and saying that his tax plan would “take everything.”

On Fox News Sunday Sanders had a chance to respond: “Obviously, I am not a communist. I presume the president knows the difference. Maybe he doesn’t.”

As French enlightenment philosopher Voltaire said, “If you wish to converse with me, define your terms.” Confucius warned of the danger: “When words lose their meaning, people lose their liberty.”

In his monumental Overview of America, John F. McManus defined the terms “fascism,” “Nazism,” “socialism,” and “communism.” He said they are all forms of total government, ranging from the least obvious, fascism, to the most obvious and blatant, communism. Fascism allows individuals to believe they are still free to run their businesses while operating under rules and regulations that tell them under what conditions they may operate — hiring, firing, advertising, selling, pricing, and so forth.

Nazism is more obvious:

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Friday, February 7, 2020: 

Unless former Vice President Joe Biden pulls off a miracle, there will be only three serious candidates left vying for the Democrat Party’s nomination to face the president after tonight’s debate. One of them won’t even be on the stage tonight at Saint Anselm College in Manchester.

Of the seven debate participants — Pete Buttigieg, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, Andrew Yang, Tom Steyer, and Amy Klobuchar — two are serious contenders. The third — Michael Bloomberg — will be eyeing the expected brawl from the sidelines.

Buttigieg has declared himself the victor in Iowa’s botched results while Sanders is so close behind that the media are calling them the “twinners” in that contest.

According to the New York Times the “steel bar” rule is this:

This article was published by The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Friday, February 7, 2020: 

In 1945, 35 percent of U.S. workers belonged to a union. Today, less than eight percent do. In order to keep from becoming totally extinct, unions are pushing the House to pass what the National Retail Federation (NRF) calls “the worst bill in Congress.” It’s a “compilation of dozens of extreme labor policy proposals from the past several years lumped into one disastrous bill,” according to Lizzy Simmons, NRF’s Vice President.

Not only does the bill – H.R. 2472, “Protecting the Right to Organize Act” or PRO Act – have the support of Democrat presidential candidates Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobuchar, Pete Buttigieg, and Joe Biden, it has 218 co-sponsors in the House. Which means that the bill, expected to be voted on within days, will easily pass over Republican resistance.

The bill threatens all of the gains the president crowed about during his State of the Union message on Tuesday, including wage growth among the lower-paid workers and a thriving economy pushing unemployment down to levels not seen in 50 years.

This summary includes the most egregious of the 30 provisions of the bill: