[NOTE: This is an updated repeat of a previous post.] Today is the seventy-second anniversary of the December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor attack. The generation that reacted to it by mobilizing and fighting World War II is on its last … Continue reading →
The assassination of JFK has been fading slowly from memory, becoming ever more the stuff of legend because no one under fifty personally remembers anything about it, and everyone over fifty has probably said almost all there is to say … Continue reading →
I like to think I have some small ability, after five years of close study, to predict or at least understand many of Obama’s moves. But I’m puzzled by this one: In nine days, this town [Gettysburg] will commemorate the … Continue reading →
…that we wish had happened, because then it would make Republicans look really really bad. And lets only indicate way down towards the end that it almost certainly didn’t happen. Or something like that, if you’re Todd Purdum at Politico. … Continue reading →
This essay by George F. Will reminds me that in about six weeks we’re going to be commemorating the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy’s assassination. I’ve been dreading it for quite some time, in no small measure because the usual … Continue reading →
Instead of exerting a calming influence, Obama ramps up the fear connected with the shutdown. Watch his demeanor, too; chilling: But actually this is nothing new, it’s how Obama rolls. Why do I say that? It was also his reaction … Continue reading →
This Wednesday Obama plans a twofer, donning the mantle of two previous American giants: President Barack Obama will make remarks on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Aug. 28 as part of a ceremony commemorating the 50th anniversary of … Continue reading →
Of course he does. What’s more, at least when Nixon was around the press noticed and acted as a check on him. This was apparently due to no special reverence on their part for the Constitution, as we’ve since learned. … Continue reading →
Did William Tecumsah Sherman foresee the future?: Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster. But his words seem archaic and bloodthirsty to most non-Jacksonian modern liberal ears: War is the remedy that our … Continue reading →
The poet Yeats often wrote about how dreadful old age was, especially its physical manifestations. In the poem “Among School Children“, he describes himself as having looked pretty nifty in youth and terrible at sixty: And I though never of … Continue reading →
Here’s the story: “The Clintons are upset with the comparisons that the Weiners seem to be encouraging ”” that Huma is ”˜standing by her man’ the way Hillary did with Bill, which is not what she in fact did,’’ said … Continue reading →
I often agree with editorials in the Wall Street Journal. But this one seems to hit a flat note, to wit [emphasis mine]: The result [of Morsi’s overreach in Egypt] was political polarization, with the opposition and military uniting against … Continue reading →