This year is an especially poignant year to remember 9/11. Each year I write something about 9/11—or reprint something—on the anniversary of this terrible event. Here’s an excerpt from one of my previous posts, updated to reflect the passage of … Continue reading →
Today commenter “Artfldgr” asked the following question, “anyone else realize that what happened in germany took 12 years to go from start to finish?” Coincidentally, last night (before that comment was posted) I had spent some time reading “The Rise … Continue reading →
Commenter “Wandriann” asked recently [emphasis mine]: How in earth is it possible that ”˜Middle America’ combined with the solid US institutions does not make this weird kind of thing [the current Democrat agenda and methods] impossible?…Is this still the bill … Continue reading →
Metaphorically speaking, that is, according to the NY Post: Congressional plans to fund a massive health-care overhaul could have a job-killing effect on New York, creating a tax rate of nearly 60 percent for the state’s top earners and possibly … Continue reading →
Some in Obama’s camp seem to think that the protests in Iran were precipitated, or at the very least encouraged, by Obama’s words in his Cairo speech. Not the actual living breathing example of the dawn of freedom and democracy … Continue reading →
Today is the 65th anniversary of D-Day, the Normandy landings in WWII. Here’s a video with a few grainy clips of the Allies wading ashore: I wonder how many people under forty, either here or in Europe, now know or … Continue reading →
I’ve been slowly plowing through Allan Bloom‘s dense but nevertheless wonderful 1987 book The Closing of the American Mind. It’s an indictment of alarming trends in higher education that took hold in the 60s and have only accelerated since. I … Continue reading →
The wheels of justice grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine. Over forty years after the fact, documents have been unearthed that turn on its head the common understanding of a seminal event in German history: The killing in 1967 … Continue reading →
[NOTE: I decided it was high time for a repeat of this series (first posted in December of 2006) on how the press came to consider its function to be changing popular opinion rather than informing the public. Here’s the … Continue reading →
[NOTE: I decided it was high time for a repeat of this series (first posted in December of 2006) on how the press came to consider its function to be changing popular opinion rather than informing the public. Here’s the … Continue reading →
Yesterday I wrote a post about President Obama’s recent press conference use of the Churchill quote, “We don’t torture.” I mentioned that I’d Googled to find the article Obama mentioned, the one he’d been reading “about this,” but could find … Continue reading →
Several have pointed out that Obama’s use in last night’s press conference of an anti-torture quote by Winston Churchill is highly suspect, in that there’s a great deal of evidence that the British did exactly that—used torture—during World War II. … Continue reading →