Much written history is an ideologically safe commodity. - Michael Parenti

Someone once said that Margaret Thatcher satisfied the average Englishman's longing for the perfect dominatrix. No doubt about it, she could deliver pain. The Iron Lady should best be remembered as the Leather Lady. Indeed, today Thatcherism leaves its dreary imprint not only on the Conservative Party but---thanks also to Tony Blair---on a Labor Party that accepts most of her regressive policies.

Our fear that Communism might someday take over most of the world blinds us to the fact that anti-communism already has.

The real danger we face is not from terrorism, but what is being done under the pretext of fighting it.