Reflections of An Uncommon Common Man

 Karl Marx was a racist who cast freely with choice epithets aimed at blacks and even at Jews----ironic given that Marx was an ethnic Jew. Jonathan Sperber notes that Marx's correspondence is "filled with contemptuous remarks about Jews" Even his admiring biographer Francis Wheen, who habitually defends the worst in Marx, admits that he "sprayed anti-Semitic insults at his enemies with savage glee." Of one contemporary Marx blasted his "cynical, oily-obtrusive, phony-Baronial Jew-manners." His fellow German socialist and labor organizer Ferdinand Lassalle, Marx referred to as a "greasy Jew" "the little Kike", "water-polack Jew", "Jew Braun", "Yid", "Izzy", "Wily Ephraim", "Baron Itzig", and "the Jewish N*gger", Referring to Lassalle in a July 30, 1862 letter to Engels, Marx discerned with a sense of confident pride, "It is now perfectly clear to me that, as t...

    Toward the end of Jimmy Carters's term of office Vice President Mondale landed at the Nashville airport on two separate occasions. One of these times was to watch his daughter perform in a horse show at M.T.S.U. Whenever Air Force One, or Air Force Two, landed in Nashville the planes were parked on the Air National Guard side of the airport. We were tasked to guard both planes, along with augmenting the Secret Service and local law enforcement. There was only one problem. We were carrying empty weapons. National Guard troops had shot 13 Kent State University students, killing four of them, during an anti-war riot on May 4, 1970 while I was home leave before going to Turkey. The state of Ohio did not insure their Guard troops and they were held personally liable in civil court. Since Tennessee also did not insure it's troops against personal liability we were not allowed to carry loaded weapons after the Kent State fiasco. Regardless, our commander wanted us to carry empty ...