… otherwise known as Obamatrade, I trust Jeff Sessions far more than I would trust Ryan. Sessions claims: If, as promoters amazingly suggest, the President had more powers without fast-track, he would veto it. The authority granted in “Trade Promotion … Continue reading →
Vincent Bugliosi, the prosecutor who gained fame with the Tate murder prosecutions of Manson and his gang, and who wrote an excellent book on the subject, has died at the age of 80. The obituary mentions many books that Bugliosi … Continue reading →
[NOTE: The following is a repeat of a post from the 65th anniversary of D-day. I have added a small amount of new commentary to update.] Today is the 71th anniversary of D-Day, the Normandy landings in WWII. Here’s a … Continue reading →
I thought I’d highlight this observation by commenter “Caedmon” in the “Free speech on campus” thread: I wonder how much influence high tuition fees have on this?… When the high costs of tuition fees in the US are discussed the … Continue reading →
I have continued to read Victor Klemperer’s two-volume diary I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years (I’ve written about the book before, here and here). Klemperer was in an unusual position in Germany. Although born a Jew, … Continue reading →
Here’s a stirring story of another courageous rescuer during World War II and the Holocaust: In an emotional ceremony on Tuesday, the Holocaust memorial Rabbi Lau now chairs posthumously granted Feodor Mikhailichenko Israel’s highest honor for non-Jews. “This closes a … Continue reading →
I’m not sure whether the question is rhetorical or not: The Obama administration apparently believes that only after a nuclear agreement is signed can the free world expect Iran to stop its attempts at regional domination, improve its human rights … Continue reading →
Wednesday was Holocaust Remembrance Day. Netanyahu gave a speech in honor of the occasion: Israel reserves the right to defend itself against a nuclear Iran, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday night as he compared its regime with that … Continue reading →
Here’s a book that sounds tremendously interesting. Disclaimer: I haven’t read it. But I was in the car last night and happened to catch an interview with its author, Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, and was impressed. From a review … Continue reading →
Remember this? It’s one of the few papers that Obama wrote while in college or law school that is available; the rest seem to have disappeared. It is a 1983 article in the Columbia campus paper, and it constitutes pretty … Continue reading →
Most people know about concentration camps and the Holocaust; the words have come to be nearly synonymous, although they’re not. But most people are far less aware of how the whole thing began: that it didn’t start with mass murder … Continue reading →
Recently I wrote a post that featured the Yeats poem “The Second Coming.” Today I decided to look up more about the poem’s background, and came up with this: Modernists read the poem as a dirge for the decline of … Continue reading →