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Along with Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, the Freedom Center is co-sponsoring “An Evening with Diana West” in Los Angeles this Wednesday night. Click here for details.

Seven weeks ago at FrontPage Mag I reviewed Stalin’s Secret Agents, M. Stanton Evans’ and Herbert Romerstein’s book which demonstrated that widespread government infiltration by Soviet spies sabotaged our foreign policy and molded the post-WWII world in favor of the Soviet Union. Now comes a brand new book that serves as a sort of companion piece to that work, while being an even deeper, more detailed exploration of that infiltration and its consequences.

The author of American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character is the fearless, incisive columnist and blogger Diana West, who also wrote The Death of the Grown-Up: How America’s Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization, and who is the co-author of Shariah: The Threat to America. With her characteristic fierce passion, West argues in her new book that the Communist infiltration led to a successful “assault on our nation’s character” during the Cold War that left us the “heirs to a false and hollow history” and “unwitting participants” in “a secretly subverted pageant.” In other words, perhaps we didn’t win the Cold War after all.

For West, one of the clear indications that something in the American consciousness had changed is the fact that, thanks not only to Soviet propaganda but also to domestic peer pressure, many Americans were more outraged by Ronald Reagan’s unapologetic phrase “evil empire” than by the evil empire itself. This is the result of “the hocus-pocus transformation of liberty-loving anti-Communism into a force of repression to be reviled” and its flip side: “the hocus-pocus transformation of totalitarian Communism into a force of liberalism.”

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This week’s Glazov Gang had the honor of being joined by Tiffany Gabbay, National Development Director for the David Horowitz Freedom Center, Dwight Schultz, a Hollywood actor, and Jennifer Serrano, the Newest California PolitiChick.

The Gang members gathered to discuss Zimmerman on Trial. The dialogue started at the 9:30 mark of Part I and the guests dissected the case and the potential violence ahead. The discussion was preceded by an analysis of Bye Bye Morsi, as the gang members shed light on the fall of the Muslim Brotherhood and why Obama is upset about it.

The episode also focused on the ObamaCare setback, the failure of Republicans to fight political war, and much, much more.

To watch both parts of this two part series, see below:

http://frontpagemag.com/2013/stephenbrown/africas-sorrow-obamas-shame/print/ It was another devastating blow for black Africa’s most powerless from the world’s most powerful black American. Like in his 2009 African visit when he visited a former European slave depot in Ghana, during his recently concluded 2013 African tour U.S. President Barack Obama again deemed that the defunct trans-Atlantic slave trade was the […]

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3842/tinker-tailor-snowden-spy By that time, there was no point for China to give Snowden a Beijing palace where he could pet phoenixes. “Ask yourself: if I were a Chinese spy, why wouldn’t I have flown directly into Beijing? I could be living in a palace petting a phoenix by now.” So wrote Edward Snowden in the […]

http://www.thecommentator.com/article/3923/a_new_generation_must_survive_britain_s_fallen_heroes Two years ago, on the sixth anniversary of the 7/7 bombings in London, we posed the question, “Why are we already forgetting?” This year, the Evening Standard reported how shamefully, the memorial to the victims of the terrorist attack was falling into disrepair. Could you imagine such a thing happening to the 9/11 memorial […]

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ Egypt is never going to get any better. And that’s the good news. If your job involves waiting for some outbreak of Arab Spring to fix the country or the region, you can give up now. Or you can do what most government employees already do and phone it in. Master Sudoku. Learn to […]

http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2013/07/07/world-order-and-islamism/?print=1 I’ve been meaning to say something here about Charles Hill’s brilliant book Trial of a Thousand Years: World Order and Islamism [1].  Published in 2011, Trial is a profound meditation on one of the most pressing questions facing the world community: whether Islam can integrate itself into the secular international order of states. There […]

http://pjmedia.com/victordavishanson/nemesis-after-all/?print=1 Like a broken record, for the last five years I have invoked [1] the Greek concept of Nemesis, or divine retribution for unchecked hubris, to explain what was in store for the Obama administration. Most readers have sighed, “OK already, but where’s the divine retribution, given this president’s overweening arrogance and the damage that […]

http://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2013/07/08/interview-diana-west/?print=1 On the back cover of American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character, Diana West’s new book, is a blurb from Amity Shlaes, the author of the 2007 book The Forgotten Man, a brilliant look at how FDR’s policies devastated the nation, turning the Depression into the lengthy and protracted Great Depression. Shlaes’ book begins […]

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HELP IS ON THE WAY….THE VERY REVEREND AL SHARPTON OS MOVING THERE…”The Rev. Al Sharpton has said he plans to live in Chicago for a few months to work with neighborhood leaders on the problem.” RSK

The Windy City reached a grim milestone over the long Fourth of July weekend as the city’s homicide rate surpassed 200.

The city logged its 200th homicide of the year on Saturday when a 24-year-old man was shot to death in the 1000 block of West Maxwell Street on the Near West Side, according to RedEye Chicago.

On Saturday alone, at least seven people were injured in a single drive-by shooting that left a 48-year-old man dead. The Sun-Times reports police believe the 6 p.m. shooting in Lawndale was gang-related and connected to an earlier attack on July 4.

The weekend’s littlest victims included 5-year-old Jaden Donald and 7-year-old Christian Lyles, both shot late night on July 4 in separate incidents.

A judge denied bond on Sunday for the man accused of shooting Jaden Donald; the boy reportedly lost three organs as a result of the incident.