Category: History
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This Just In
Caesar completes conquest of Gaul.
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Against Iconoclasm and the Erasure of History
Muslims are well-known for their iconoclasm, hostility to the arts, and destruction of cultural artifacts. Leftists are like unto Muslims in this regard too. The trouble with iconoclasm is that all parties can play the game. Mass-murdering communist regimes are responsible for some 94 million deaths in the 20th century. Why not then destroy all the statues and…
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The Last Days and Words of Leon Trotsky
On this date in 1940 in Mexico City Ramon Mercader drove an ice axe (not an ice pick as some accounts have it) into the skull of Leon Trotsky. He died the next day. Here we read: Mercader later testified at his trial: I laid my raincoat on the table in such a way as to be able to…
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Chappaquiddick
Forty-nine years ago, yesterday. Rod Dreher comments on the event and the movie.
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Why Did America Fight the Korean War?
Victor Davis Hanson explains in less than five minutes. South Korea is a model global citizen and a strong ally of the U.S.—and stands in sharp contrast to the communist regime in the North that has starved and murdered millions of its own people and caused untold mischief in the world community. Had it not…
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The Tet Offensive Fifty Years Later
It was around the time of Tet that I received a letter from Uncle Sam ordering me to downtown Los Angeles for my pre-induction physical. I went, and flunked. Due to a birth defect I hear only out of my right ear. I was classified 1-Y, and that was later changed to 4-F. In any…
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The Rugged Routes of the Superstition Mountains
These are trails that try men's soles. …………………. Most of my erudite and esteemed readers will catch the allusion, but in case you don't.
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The Battle of Stalingrad 75 Years Later
Know your history. Despite the horrors of Soviet Communism, the Allied winners of World War II owed a great deal to the Russian people. Russia's male and female soldiers were most responsible for destroying Hitler's vast ground forces, having killed more than two-thirds of the German soldiers lost in the war. The Soviet Union lost…
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The Truth About Che Guevara, Mass-Murderer and Hero of the Left
50 years ago today: execution of Che Guevara by Bolivian government. Michael Totten: Che Guevara has the most effective public relations department on earth. The Argentine guerrilla and modern Cuba’s co-founding father has been fashioned into a hipster icon, a counter-cultural hero, an anti-establishment rebel, and a champion of the poor. As James Callaghan once…
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Was the British Empire Good or Bad for the World?
Can you spare five minutes? Was the British Empire a good or bad thing for the world? To put it another way, is freedom a good or bad thing for the world? Historian and author H.W. Crocker III explains why we may want to rethink the British Empire's bad rap.
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Kent State Shootings
On this date, in 1970. History lesson. Neil Young, Ohio.
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Is the Left Playing with Fire Again?
Pitchfork Pat gives us a history lesson.
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How Many Saw It Coming?
The collapse of the Evil Empire in December of 1991. The attack of radical Islam on the USA in September of 2001. The election of Donald Trump in November of 2016 and his destruction of the Bush and Clinton dynasties. Related articles What Explains the Left's Toleration of Militant Islam? Is He Your Prophet? Freedom…
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Fidel Castro was a Mass Murderer
Imagine having seven pints of your blood forcibly extracted prior to being executed for your political dissent. You are not allowed to face the firing squad with dignity, but murdered while dazed and confused from blood loss. And yet the Left sings the dictator's praises. Here: Castro’s body count varies depending on who you ask.…
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He Was a Friend of Mine
John F. Kennedy was assassinated 53 years ago today. Here is The Byrds' tribute to the slain leader. They took a traditional song and redid the lyrics. Here Willie Nelson does a great job with the traditional song. You Dylan aficionados will want to give a listen to young Bob's rendition of the old song. I…