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The left has staged a coup.
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ISIS and the Nazis: atrocities paraded and hidden
In connection with the ISIS beheading of American journalist James Foley, Ace points out something I’ve often thought: As far as I know this is the first war where our enemies are so demonic that they proudly walk up to … Continue reading →
Hiroshima: 69 years ago
[NOTE: The following is a slightly changed version of a post of mine. If you follow the links in the second paragraph, you’ll find three other pieces I’ve written about the decision to drop the bomb on Hiroshima.] Once again … Continue reading →
Democrats vs. Republicans: the history of Jim Crow
Try sending this article on the history of Jim Crow to every liberal Democrat you know who claims that Republicans are the racist party: Here is the heart of the issue, where the left has hijacked the true history of … Continue reading →
Kerry and the “peace plan”
There’s a long, long article in TNR that purports to be “The Explosive, Inside Story of How John Kerry Built an Israel-Palestine Peace Plan””and Watched It Crumble.” It’s worth reading, but maybe not for the reasons the author intended it … Continue reading →
Did the Founders foresee this?
Commenter “J.J.” wrote a comment that has much in it with which I agree. But I question this: The Founders never envisioned that the citizens would elect a man with no ethics. A man who would not follow the law. … Continue reading →
You know that things have completely degenerated…
…when the administration trots out excuses as stupendously preposterous as the idea that the emails of Lois Lerner and six other IRS higher-ups have disappeared in perfectly-timed crashes. That’s a tale that literally no one believes. One can only conclude … Continue reading →
D-day: 70 years
[NOTE: The following is a repeat of a previous post from the 65th anniversary of D-day. I have added some new commentary in brackets to update.] Today is the 70th anniversary of D-Day, the Normandy landings in WWII. Here’s a … Continue reading →
The president and the enablers
Chuck Schumer warns Republicans in Congress that if they don’t give the Democrats what they want regarding immigration reform, President Obama will take it anyway. Excuse me, did I say “will take it anyway”? What Schumer actually said was [emphasis … Continue reading →
David Horowitz on his lifelong subject: the left
David Horowitz has devoted his entire adult life to the left. First, working for it. And then for the last three or so decades, fighting against it. One of the many ways to fight it is to inform people about … Continue reading →
This evening is the start of…
…Holocaust Remembrance Day. Bookworm writes: Back in the 1930s, no one could believe that the Germans, considered the most civilized and advanced of all Europeans, could become so bestial. The tragedy today is that, when we look at the Islamists, … Continue reading →
Cultural Amnesia: on the Nazis vs. the Soviets
From the Nadezhda Mandelstam chapter of Clive James’ excellent Cultural Amnesia [in the following excerpts I have Americanized the British spelling): The main difference [between the Gulag and Hitler’s Reich] was that in Nazi Europe the victims knew…who they were, … Continue reading →