Sleeping With the Enemy

If Martha Dodd Stern had been a minimally important or competent Soviet spy, her story would make a rip-roaring Hollywood movie. But despite Brendan McNally’s effort to inflate the damage she did to American interests—Traitor’s Odyssey: The Untold Story of Martha Dodd and a Strange Saga of Soviet Espionage—the fact remains that her career as a spy was relatively brief and largely unsuccessful. Soviet intelligence agencies had high hopes for her, mostly because of her society connections, but were disappointed enough that they eventually tried their best to fob her off on other communist countries.

Even calling her a traitor vastly misstates what she did. Martha never gave aid and comfort to enemies of the United States. Her most sustained assistance to the Soviet Union came in the mid-1930s when she regularly ransacked the Berlin office of her father, William Dodd, FDR’s ambassador to Nazi Germany, and handed confidential memos and letters to her lover, a low-level Soviet diplomat and KGB foot-soldier named Boris Vinogradov. It was surely espionage, but hardly treason. The Soviets were impressed, however. Lavrenti Beria sent news of her recruitment to Stalin himself.

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What They Learned From the Last War

When the First World War broke out, Joseph Stalin was as far from the corridors of power as it was possible to be. Exiled in Siberia, this penniless middle-aged Marxist with a flair for bank heists and political assassinations was a failure and he knew it. Likewise, in Germany, another nondescript and undistinguished misanthrope was scraping a living together as an artist. Adolf Hitler greeted the eruption of war with ecstasy, exploiting the chaos to transfer his allegiance from Austria-Hungary to Germany and marching off to the front. In Italy, an enigmatic socialist editor also used the outbreak of war to switch identities. After initially fulminating against the fighting, Benito Mussolini quickly flipped, emerging as an impassioned cheerleader for Italian intervention. When Italy joined the fray, Mussolini was enlisted and witnessed first-hand the catastrophic conflict that he had helped embroil his country in.

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Sixty Years Later, Reagan’s ‘A Time For Choosing’ Speech Casts Enduring Vision Of Conservatism And Freedom

Ronald Reagan's 'A Time for Choosing' envisions a principled conservatism that triumphs over tyranny and undergirds a lasting freedom.

When Lindbergh’s Dark Visions Took Flight

Abraham Lincoln had a ready rejoinder for wartime critics who accused him of shredding the Constitution. To the contrary, said Lincoln; confronted with domestic rebellion he was willing to temporarily suspend part of the nation’s organic law in order to preserve the entirety, and the nation with it. "Often a limb must be amputated to save a life," he observed drolly, "but a life is never wisely given to save a limb." Lincoln’s pithy logic recurred to me while reading America First, H.W. Brands’s timely reassessment of the fierce debates preceding Pearl Harbor and the United States’ formal entry into World War II.

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The Art of Mixing Business and Politics

Prolific author, historian, and former senior government official Tevi Troy is out with a new book about politics. This one takes a close look at 18 iconic CEOs—men like Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, Bill Gates, Lee Iacocca, and Elon Musk—and their interactions with multiple presidents.

Troy (a friend) is the author of several insightful presidential books, including "Shall We Wake the President?", "Fight House," and "What Jefferson Read, Ike Watched, and Obama Tweeted." His latest effort, "The Power and the Money: The Epic Clashes Between Commanders in Chief and Titans of Industry," carries on the tradition of excellence while introducing new characters (business leaders) into his oeuvre.

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Proof the Democrat Party is just an 'organization for the American Marxist movements'



Joe Biden and the Democrat Party may say they care, but their actions only prove otherwise.

Mark Levin isn’t sure how any Americans can still support the party that hates America — especially right now.

“These people who are rioting in the street and violently attacking people and carrying signs talking about exterminating Jews,” Levin says, “they’re not voting Republican.”

All the Democrat Party really is, he explains, is a “protection racket,” an “umbrella organization for the American Marxist movements,” and the “infiltration in our country — in multiple ways — of Islamists.”

The Democrat Party is also behind our open border, which is fueling drug cartels and a fentanyl crisis that is killing thousands.

“This is intentional. This is man-made, the disaster, the inhumanity on the southern border,” Levin says.

Meanwhile, the people Democrat policies hurt are still voting Democrat.

“What has the Democrat Party done for them other than besmirch them? Other than smear them? Nothing. They’ve made their wages. They’ve made their lifestyles. They’ve made their finances poor and are in a very, very difficult situation in this country right now,” Levin continues.

While the Democrat Party supports groups with “fancy names” like Students for Justice in Palestine, they’re simply using them to “cover up their true purposes.”

“This is a Democrat Party that even in the face of what’s taking place in the Middle East and Israel,” Levin says, “keeps our border wide open.”

This leaves America open to terrorist attacks, but Joe Biden and his party don’t care.

“He doesn’t care about the well-being of the American people. He doesn’t care about the well-being — and I’ll say it — of the Jewish people, particularly in Israel,” Levin says, adding, “remember, Biden’s background is as a racist and a segregationist.”

“The Democrat Party does hate America, and that’s why America is losing its spirit,” he says.


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D.C.’s Cherry Blossoms Illustrate The Beauty And Fragility Of Spring

D.C.'s cherry blossoms serve as both a harbinger of spring and a reminder that spring, as with all seasons of life, does not last forever.

Democrats weaponizing the IRS against political opponents is nothing new



Weaponized bureaucrats are nothing new in politics. There is a history of Democrats using the IRS for political gain. Franklin Roosevelt used the IRS against Andrew Mellon, who'd been the treasury secretary under Coolidge and was a public servant. There was nothing on Mellon. Roosevelt tried for 10 years to put Mellon in jail, and even ordered his Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau to go after Mellon. At the end of the trial, the federal judge said, "you don't have anything [on] him." John Kennedy used the IRS to go after conservative groups. Lyndon B. Johnson used the IRS to go after his political opponents, and he used the FBI to tap the phones of civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King. LBJ sent the FBI into the democratic convention in Atlantic City to monitor King and other civil rights leaders.

According to the Washington Post, the richest 1% are hiding more than 20% of their income from the IRS. "If they are hiding it," Mark Levin asked, "then how does the IRS know about it?" Why doesn't it tax the hidden funds? Watch the clip for more from "LevinTV" on BlazeTV.


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