Question the Truth at Your Peril

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George Orwell devised the word ‘unperson’ to describe someone who had so offended official thought, he or she was vaporised — not just liquidated but wiped from the record for eternity.

That way the unperson couldn’t set a bad example. All memory of the impertinence would be forgotten, Comrades! Orwell was satirising Stalin’s Russia, where such practices were all too common.

When a Politburo member called Nikolai Yezhov, People’s Commissar for Water Transport, fell out of favour with Joseph Stalin in 1940, he was not just killed. He was not the only one.

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Rand Paul: Obama “Unqualified” For Office

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After Obama’s press secretary claimed that Donald Trump has lost all legitimacy and has been “disqualified” from running for office, Senator Rand Paul who is also running for the GOP nomination, blasted back at the arrogance of the Obama White House, suggesting that President Obama should address his own “disqualifying” characteristics.

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Corruption For Charity?

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As the holidays approach and Canadians dig through their pockets to support charitable causes, The Huffington Post Canada has learned several Quebec MPs — mostly New Democrats — have been using their office budgets to support third-party organizations.

The rules officially state that MPs cannot use any of their budgets for third-party fundraising, events, groups or causes.

Montreal-area Liberal MP Emmanuel Dubourg told HuffPost he doesn’t know how the NDP MPs could donate to charities.

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