Franklin D. Roosevelt

Did FDR Engineer Pearl Harbor?

As a history buff, I have tried to come to terms with the “surprise” Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor. That lugubrious anniversary"€”December 7th"€”is fast ...

Have Condoms Penetrated the Catholic Church?

The pope said that condom use to prevent the transmission of HIV is "€œa first step in a movement toward a different way, a more humane sexuality."€ This admission is the ...

Arthur

Who Killed The New York Times?

When William McGowan finished his award-winning book Coloring the News: How Political Correctness Has Corrupted American Journalism, the New York Times Book Review refused to ...

No Child’s Fat Behind: Palin Dumps on Michelle Obama’s Youth Obesity Scheme

Last week, in her inimitably cornpone, hokey, chipper, toothy, gosh-darnit, you’re-darn-tootin’ manner, Sarah Palin slammed Michelle Obama's scheme to slim the ...

Ignoring What Caused the TSA Pat-Down Controversy

I can vaguely remember a time when there were no security checks whatever before getting on a commercial jet. You showed your ticket and walked onboard. When was that? I’m ...

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U.S. Intelligence Falls for Make-Believe Mullah

Sometimes a story brings an era into focus, and that story now is the saga of fake Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour. He was ostensibly a senior Taliban official, and American ...

10 Unbelievable Things I Was Taught in College

It used to be a big deal to have a college education. Back in 1960, about 8% of the population had one, and this chosen few deserved their popularity in the job market. The baby ...

Dwight Eisenhower

Why Are We Still in Korea?

This writer was 11 years old when the shocking news came on June 25, 1950, that North Korean armies had crossed the DMZ. Within days, Seoul had fallen. Routed U.S. and Republic ...

Standing Up to the Oligarchs

Much ink has been spilled scapegoating the various newfangled nerdy types known as "€œquants"€ for the financial apocalypse. As a journeyman member of the breed, I"€™m ...

Bailing Out Ireland

Otto von Bismarck is said to have proposed the following solution to the Irish Question: Move all the Irish to Holland and all the Dutch to Ireland. With their industriousness, ...

Who Fed the Tiger?

Missiles fired from the Chinese mainland could destroy five of the six major U.S. air bases in the Far East. So states a new report of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review ...

Is a Left-Right Antiwar Coalition Possible?

In The American Conservative's September issue, spirited libertarian journalist and antiwar.com editor Justin Raimondo offers his opinions about how Obama lost the left. Raimondo ...

Don”€™t Tread on My Junk

Two months after the second WTC tower collapsed, George W. Bush started the Transportation Security Administration. A month later, some British douchebag who called himself ...

Ray LaHood: Obama’s Power-Mad Cell Phone Czar

America is in debt past its eyeballs. Unemployment remains stuck near double digits. Small and large businesses, unions and insurers are clamoring for Obamacare waivers in droves. ...

Nick Boles: England’s Arch-Modernizer

Boles, Nick. Which Way's Up?: The Future for Coalition Britain and How to Get There. London, Biteback, 2010, 133 pages, £8.99. Nick Boles not only belongs to the new generation ...

Tea Party’s Winning Hand

Other than being the highest-profile Republican victims of Tea Party candidates, what do Mike Castle, Charlie Crist and Arlen Specter have in common? Other than being tea party ...


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