I've a friend, Oleg, who is slightly younger than I. He was born in the Soviet Union, and educated as a communist. He was a believer in the Big Lie, then a doubter, then a skeptic, and now he's an enemy. He moved to America to write without government control; he found here that most of the press was just as left-wing as the Soviets. So he, like other people, has taken to the web.

This from a sidebar, News from 2100:

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Dan Brown publishes new installment of The Obama Code , in which Tom Hanks discovers that Barack Obama's mother was African-American and her alleged 'whiteness' was a ploy concocted later by Fox News revisionists

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Bethesda, Maryland community welcomes new 100-acre palatial complex to house the 89 czars and their 800,000 staff members

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It's Ramadan time and British Prime Minister Jacqui Smith* once again prepares to be raped in the House of Lords by Muslim peers as a manifestation of their grievances

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Iceland declared pariah nation for failure to live up to UN racial diversity standards

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As Iran resumes missile bombardment of European cities, EU intensifies pressure on Israel to dismantle settlements

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White House: Air Force prepared to nuke random American city to show Iran we're serious about peace

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Airlines show profit as crashes with affirmative-action pilots down 20% from last decade

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Native population of Paris grows from 8 to 9 percent; chief imam of France warns of Muslim backlash

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Junior school teacher found guilty of abuse for failing to educate students on dangers posed by heterosexual relations between consenting adults

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Code Pink denounces Stalin as 'insufficiently progressive' due to 'lack of interest in the plight of the transgendered'

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Court faces hate-crime quandary as Hispanic teen attacks gay man protesting construction of mosque

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Former CEOs of tobacco companies executed; hunt is on for mayonnaise manufacturers

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Chicago Olympics threatened by advancing glaciers; police rounds up local global-warming deniers as a preventive measure

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60-member Congressional Muslim Caucus sets new time record of 'uninterrupted seething' by remaining in this state for a period of three months

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Court rules to dismantle US beef industry, convert barns and pens into rest homes for elderly cows, bulls, and the transbovined

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Northern Minnesota community refuses to accept Maoist history textbook; National Security battalion moves in to "restore tolerance"

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* She is the British Labour Loon who agreed, when pressed by the Muslims, not to use the words "Muslim extremists" or "terrorists" but "anti-Islamic activity," on the basis that Islam was a religion of peace and that anything which said otherwise, even if done by a Muslim wanting to cash in on his virgins, is anti-Islamic.

Yes, she really is that stupid.