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July 23, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

COMMUNISM VERSUS SOCIALISM – In Cuba, the reforms consists of trying to get the definitions right: A draft of Cuba’s new constitution keeps the Communist Party as its leading political …

Politics

July 13, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

THE REVERSE COWBOY – Another university mascot can’t get any love: When you think of hotbeds of progressive activism, the University of Wyoming probably does not appear on your list. …

Politics

July 1, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

PEOPLE DON’T KNOW THEIR DAMNED HISTORY – Warning: Ignorance of history is harmful to the health of political debate (and to your mental health): Nearly one third of Americans think …

Politics

The myth of political civility

June 29, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

The two statements below are equally true: 1. The Left’s Trump Derangement Syndrome, from screaming at the sky to the now routine comparisons with Nazi Germany, seems particularly hysterical and …

Politics

The Kim and Don Show

June 12, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

As the Good Book says, by their fruits ye shall know them. Summits mean nothing, their consequences everything. We should resist the impulse of many of Trump’s supporters to instantaneously …

Politics

June 4, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

THE THIRD REICH AS A SPECK OF BIRD SHIT – An Alternative for Germany politician gets into trouble: In remarks reported by Deutsche Welle and the German news agency DPA, …

Politics

May 27, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

THE SECOND GUNMAN – Having just finished watching the adaptation of Stephen King’s “11.22.63”, this is quite fascinating: Just before Christmas, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pulled up to the massive …

Politics

May 20, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

DEEP ROOTS – In case you were wondering, Thomas Jefferson owned a copy of Koran: Muslims arrived in America as early as the 17th Century. pic.twitter.com/4rn3vLNSM6 — Al Jazeera English …

Life / Politics

Shooting epidemics and other deadly memes

May 19, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Another day, another school shooting in the US – though contrary to CNN, it wasn’t the 23rd this year, unless you count, as CNN does, events like robbery attempts outside …

Politics

May 8, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

THE MYTH OF THE 100 MILLION – What’s the left wing equivalent of the Holocaust denial? The express goal of the bogus "Black Book of Communism" is to whitewash the crimes …

Politics

May 5, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

THE WILD ANTI-COLONIAL BOYS (AND GIRLS (AND OTHER 36 GENDERS)) – In the dispatches from the front of the culture wars: Students at The George Washington University (GWU) have launched …

Politics

Dear Karl Marx, happy birthday from The New York Times

May 1, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Karl Marx will be celebrating his 200th birthday on 5 May (as much as you can celebrate in hell), but “The New York Times” opinion pages have already presented the …

Politics

April 25, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

DEVENY DOUBLES DOWN – What’s the best way to follow up your Anzac Day eve tweets in which you insult past and present servicemen and women, ridicule the risks they have …

Politics

April 25, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

SELLING THE GENOCIDE – Once in a while (actually, quite often nowadays) a story pops up that makes you question whether seemingly intelligent people have lost moral compass or historical …

Life

ANZAC Day repost: Dreams from my Grandfather at the Bridge Too Far

April 25, 2018April 25, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Note: I have originally published this long post a year and a half ago, and since then it has become one of my and my readers’ favourite TDC stories. Today …

Politics

April 16, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

ROBOCAPITAL, OR DO COMMUNISTS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? – A warning from the Bank of England via your friendly neighbourhood tabloid: Mark Carney warned the automation of jobs currently done by …

History / Politics

Guest Post: Nazism and Fascism: Left or Right?

April 13, 2018August 2, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Today’s guest post is by another friend of The Daily Chrenk, Dr Lee Cox, who sheds more light on the ideological tar baby that is fascism/Nazism, unwanted by both sides …

Politics

Syria: There is no happy endings

April 12, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

The world stands poised on the edge of an abyss, just a few wrong moves away from another world war, all over a large and unattractive expanse of sand on …

Politics

April 10, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

“KREMLIN AIDE: RUSSIA’S CENTURIES-LONG ROMANCE WITH WEST OVER” – As they say, in Russia the past is never certain: Russia has abandoned its centuries-long aspirations of integrating into the West …

Politics

April 3, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE CONFEDERATE GENERALS – To the left, a slippery slope is not a logical device, it’s their business model: Over the decades, this quiet coastal hamlet …