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  • I don't think the CIA were part architects of the Sovietesque horrors of the EU, but people close to them were.

    Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege 2009

  • And if this were so, is there any doubt you would be forcefully making these very points on Clinton's behalf as reasons the superdelegates must side with her, must affirm the "voters 'choice," and must avoid like the plague choosing the second-place finisher in the electoral contests because such would appear to millions of primary/caucus voters as undemocratic, disenfranchsing, and Sovietesque backroom kingmaking?

    Simon Woods: Can The Superdelegates Afford To Say No To Clinton? 2008

  • So they're either punching above their weight or, as you clearly suspect, and so do I, the government is telling Sovietesque-style lies to their masters, the electorate.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • Not the Sovietesque NHS of a creaking 70 years ago.

    Political Adverts Should be Allowed on TV 2007

  • Britain has been reduced to being led by a Sovietesque nomenklatura in Brussels whose legislators the bureaucrats are unelected by us or anyone else, who are dedicated to flattening out national characteristics under the lie of trying to ensure that we never go to war against each other again.

    Book Review: Where the Eagle Landed 2007

  • Closing libraries never “saves money,” certainly not the Sovietesque purge that is going on here!

    Science Is Taking Another Beating « UDreamOfJanie 2006

  • In this case, the script called for Ashton to be taken into federal custody under the terms of the Sovietesque PATRIOT (sic) Act. "The standard that they used to arrest and detain my son was not ` probable cause, 'as the Constitution requires, but rather ` good faith,' as specified in the PATRIOT [sic] Act,"

    Infowars 2009

  • In this case, the script called for Ashton to be taken into federal custody under the terms of the Sovietesque PATRIOT (sic) Act. "The standard that they used to arrest and detain my son was not ` probable cause, 'as the Constitution requires, but rather ` good faith,' as specified in the PATRIOT [sic] Act,"

    Infowars 2009

  • Ms. Narochnitskaya insists that the panel's brief is to study the problem and make recommendations, not to impose a Sovietesque party line.

    Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories 2009

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