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Category Archives: History
Trying to “Hack” an Election in 1984
From The Federalist: According to Soviet documents unearthed in the early 1990’s, [Ted] Kennedy literally asked the Soviets, avowed enemies of the U.S., to intervene on behalf of the Democratic party in the 1984 elections. Kennedy’s communist communique was so secret that it was … Continue reading
Dear Generic Higher Power
While it’s not terribly funny, it is nice to see the axioms of Political Correctness get skewered on mainstream cable entertainment:
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Donald Trump and Andrew Jackson
On a recent trip to Tennessee, I stopped by The Hermitage, the home and plantation of Old Hickory himself, Andrew Jackson, located about 15 miles south of Nashville. It’s a wonderful house and property, complete with gardens, leisurely strolls around … Continue reading
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Long Hot Summer – 1964 Edition
The other night, I watched about 20 minutes of a PBS documentary on “1964”. Amidst The Beatles conquering America and Cassius Clay’s conversion to militant black power Islam, was a segment on the Harlem Riots of 1964. With the most … Continue reading
Hannah Arendt: Self-Hating Jew (?)
Jeremy Adelman (ahem), Professor of History at Princeton University, has a piece in The Wilson Quarterly on Hannah Arendt (“Pariah: Can Hannah Arendt Help Us Rethink Our Global Refugee Crisis?”). He attempts to situate, morally, the current Million Muslim March … Continue reading
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Subversives Jews & American Culture
When Jews write about their race’s tradition of subversion, separatism, and attempts to undermine the Christian morality prevalent in the host countries they live in, they usually do so with a mark of pride. When a Gentile makes the same … Continue reading
95 Year Old Medic
In the aftermath of genocidal situations, once the enemy is defeated, a form of reconciliation is the norm. Not so when The Guardians of Holocaust, Inc™ are running the post-war environs: NEUBRANDENBURG, Germany — The trial of a former SS … Continue reading
Fairytales Much Older Than Previously Thought
The Guardian has a story on a fascinating new study about the presumed age of fairy tales. Bottom Line: Tales such as Beauty and the Beast and Rumplestiltskin can be traced back to the emergence of the major western Indo-European … Continue reading
The Gothic Thesis
In “Are We All German Now?“, Samuel Goldman (assistant professor of political science at George Washington University) discusses the ‘Gothic thesis’: We like to think of Jefferson drafting the Declaration of Independence with Locke or Cicero at his elbow. But … Continue reading
The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise
Roger Kimball is, in my humble opinion, one of the best conservative wordsmiths out there, unparalled when it comes to culture. Via the weekly email newsletter from The New Criterion comes Kimball’s brief review of a new myth-busting book about … Continue reading