It would have been right to remove Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein even without evidence that he had weapons of mass destruction, Tony Blair has said.

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"War is peace" was one of the memorable slogans on the facade of the Ministry of Truth, Minitrue, in "Newspeak," the language invented by George Orwell in 1948 for his dystopian novel 1984.

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No need for "corrections" or "editor's notes" when you have a memory hole.

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"Arizona's Supreme Court chief justice has agreed to enforce the Hispanic Bar Association's demands of banning the terms "illegal" and "aliens" in all of the state's courtrooms.

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The 2001 audio tape of Barack Obama describing the Constitution as a document of "negative liberties" reveals an utterly Orwellian Obama. How can liberty be anything other than negative? Liberty is the absence of external control.

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Ann Coulter, that bastion of good taste and rational thought, spewed a piece with the catchy title "If we could talk to the Animals", in which she praised Bush's Knesset speech last week, paints Ahmadinejad as McHitler and Barack Obama's comment that he would speak with Iran as a …

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"Newspeak": What Obama actually said...and what he now says he said.

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The 2008 Lexicon: A guide to contemporary Newspeak "Political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness." – George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language", 1946

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Oh, really? They were ardent socialists? Gosh, I guess that would explain why the first prisoners rounded up and sent to Dachau -- the first Nazi death camp -- were socialists and communists:

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It is 1,200 miles from the coastline where Hurricane Katrina touched land two years ago to the neat colonial-style home here where James Gray, a retired public relations consultant, and his wife, Ann, live.

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If computers remember everything you say, does that make you more likely to think before speaking or less likely to speak at all?

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We look upon authority too often and focus over and over again, for 30 or 40 or 50 years, as if there is something wrong with authority. We see only the oppressive side of authority. Maybe it comes out of our history and our background.

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NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim May 1, 2007, as Loyalty Day.

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Brussels officials have confirmed the existence of a classified handbook which offers "non-offensive" phrases to use when announcing anti-terrorist operations or dealing with terrorist attacks. Banned terms are said to include "jihad", "Islamic" or "fundamentalist".

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Political Correctness and Loaded Words

These are two things I deeply, deeply despise. To me, both are tools of propaganda and both obscure rational thought.

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Where Orwell Was Right

When contemplating similarities between our current western culture and George Orwell's 1984, most discussions quickly turn toward debating the slow decline of personal privacy, the standards of government intervention, or a discussion of rat phobias.

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Thus, in the first media controversy of the 2008 campaign, two of the leading candidates find themselves forced to respond to allegations lacking a single named source.

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It was not long ago when my naivete showed me a distorted vision of the world and how my country's leaders conducted their affairs. My family and I had always thought that the President of the United States was working in the best interests of America.

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Pro Abortion or Pro Choice -- The Power of Frames

Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Tax-Relief, Progressive, Right-Wing -- you've probably seen these words in use a few dozen times today already.

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