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The Crusades, Reconsidered
From an excerpt of Jonah Goldberg’s new book, Tyranny of Cliches’: …Until fairly recently, historically speaking, Muslims used to brag about being the winners of the Crusades, not the victims of it....
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Liberty and Prosperity
“A government big enough to give you everything you need, is a government big enough to take away everything that you have….” This quote is often mistakenly attributed to Thomas Jefferson. In fact it...
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Dystopia–In His Own Words.
Just prior to the 2008 elections, Barack Obama boldly stated, “We are 5 days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America” (October 30, 2008) Many among my conservative friends...
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Columbus Day
I wasn’t planning on writing anything to mark Columbus Day, but having been around the ‘net a bit this morning and seeing the ignorant comments about Columbus, I feel I just have to say something....
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Finished? I Don’t Think So.
As Rush Limbaugh asserted on his radio show Wednesday, the Obama presidency is far from over. The events to which we are witness presently– world unrest, trampling on personal property rights and State...
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Best of Enemies
Nearly 50 years ago William F. Buckley and Gore Vidal squared off in a series of debates that cemented the divide between conservatives and progressives, a divide that continues today. There is a very...
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May 10th, 1940
I’m bringing this up for two reasons. First off, because I saw this – click the link and you’ll see a series of “person in the street” interviews where they ask some basic questions about World War Two...
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Winning and Losing Wars
Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. – Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington Got into a little bit of a Twitter scrape with Tom Nichols...
View ArticleThey Hate America
I wasn’t going to write about politics on Easter, but this came up in my Twitter feed today: No other city has taken down a monument to a president for his misdeeds. But Arcata is poised to do just...
View ArticleSmart and Dumb
Lots of discussion of late about smart and dumb – mostly Progs and Never Trumpers saying they are smart while Trump and we Deplorables are dumb. Let’s examine that a bit. Real genius is rare. So rare,...
View Article9/11 Plus 17 Years
It doesn’t seem that long ago, does it? On the other hand, one of the youngsters I work with is 23…and, so, was 6 when it happened. At most, there is some vague memories in there, but no real...
View ArticleDefending Colonialism
Which is actually a defense of civilization. Interesting article at The Political Hat which links to a video talk about colonialism. You only need know that the left wanted the talk banned – and the...
View ArticleThe Anti-War Poison
I had never seen Journey’s End before last night, when I watched the most recent version of it. It is considered the archetype of the anti-war play – the way it is supposed to be presented. And I have...
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America the Uniquely Free
Just at the moment we don’t, perhaps, feel as patriotic as we might like. We probably feel that things have gone very wrong and we wonder about the long term survival of our Republic. It is, after...
View ArticleHow Did We Get Black Nazis?
Kanye West pretty much ended his career today by speaking up for Hitler. Pro tip: not a good idea. But we shouldn’t just condemn Kanye and move on. This needs to be thought about. Why would any person...
View ArticleYou Can’t be Half Bad
Someone tweeted out “what President would you make a movie about?” and this in relation to the excellent Lincoln which covered a short span of time where Lincoln ushered the 13th Amendment through the...
View ArticleThink About What You Know
The thing about history and biography is that what is in any particular book about them is whatever the historian or biographer thought important and then their interpretation of the subject. A really...
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