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.
Posts under ‘history’
The Obsolete New York Model
Where a tax-eating majority votes itself a permanent income
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.
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.
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.
How to Handle a Bully: Nixon vs. Khrushchev
by Jeffrey Lord
Fifty years ago it was the picture heard around the world.
