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A song for Mother's Day, 1968 -- in deep appreciation for Cheri Honkala and the great organizing work of the Poor People's Army, the heir to the spirit of Resurrection City, who are organizing marches to both the RNC and the DNC this summer.

For many years now we hear a lot on the news about "the culture wars."  But there's another war that's been going on for decades:  the war against culture itself.

If Cointelpro were still active today, what would the modern G-Men be doing?

One more chapter in the tragic story of the League of Canceled Cheerleaders.

It's wonderful to see significant and dedicated fractions of the population take to the streets, or at least the campuses.  But where is everybody else?

"Antisemitism" is the new "communism" -- have you ever said anything that could be construed in someone's convoluted mind as somehow anti-Jewish? Iran is the new USSR, Elise Stefanik is the new Joe McCarthy, and the House Un-Israeli Activities Committee is going strong, ruining one life at a time, and striking fear throughout academia and beyond.
The House Un-Israeli Activities Committee
If you imagine when considering a sloganThat it could have various interpretationsIf you believe in understanding the other sideThen you’re clearly much too vulnerable, open wideIf you don’t want to be grilled by the InquisitionIf you’d rather avoid such a prone position
If you run a university and you act the way you oughtIf you think there’s a place for nuanced thoughtIf it’s hard to boil it all down to yes or noIf you think context matters and you dare say soYou’d best be out of town when you’re the one they pickTo go get grilled by Elise Stefanik
You'd better tow the line or else you know what they’ll doThe House Un-Israeli Activities Committee will be coming after you
If you’re fond of notions like free discourseIf you think dialogue might be better than brute forceYou’re thinking isn’t nearly black and white enoughAnd in the halls of Congress they’ll be talking toughShowing those bureaucrats who knows bestMaking sure who knows they could be their next guest
If you want to keep your job and your donor baseYou don’t want to have to come face to faceYou’d better call in the police and salute your leaderBenjamin Netanyahu, the prime ministerMake sure they crack the heads of all those Jew-hatersSo says the queen of the new red-baiters