Category Archives: history
Obama the Great?
If the Siena Poll proves anything, it’s the folly of trusting “presidential scholars” to make objective judgments about presidents. Continue reading
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The Lunacy of Our Retreat from Space
Next week marks the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing. We say we will return in 2020. But that promise was made by a previous president, and this president has defined himself as the antimatter to George Bush. Continue reading
The Obsolete New York Model
Where a tax-eating majority votes itself a permanent income Continue reading
McNamara and the Liberals' War
He deserves better from his liberal critics, since his real misfortune was to be the architect of their failed visions. Continue reading
The Purple Prose of Cairo
The media purred over the “credibility” that Obama enjoys in the Muslim world. If so, it is a credibility based on either cluelessness or cynicism: perhaps Muslims don’t know about Obama’s turbo-secularism, or, if they do, they just don’t care, figuring that they at least share a common enemy –Christianity. Continue reading
Reagan’s real legacy is the man himself
Any budget hotel down the road has more comfortable accommodations. Reagan, who with his wife was pilloried for having a plutocrat’s taste, in fact enjoyed a level of simplicity beyond what most vacationing Americans would accept. Continue reading
