While it has largely been out of the public eye, big things are happening in Burma. After decades of war and military dictatorship, the government and rebel groups have signed a series of ceasefires and have begun to release political
The great Ronald Radosh is sounding another warning about Oliver Stone’s latest upcoming atrocity: “The Untold History of the United States.” “Untold”, of course, is more of the same of what we have come to expect from Hollywood “Historians” –
I hope that title caught everyone’s attention. Now, before the hysterical spamming starts, let me explain. As a proud and dedicated member of the Heritage Foundation, I agree that a strong defense must be the primary objective of our politicians.
Person of the Year: The NAVY SEALS!!! – and our intelligence personnel who make what they do possible. Rock on! “The Only Easy Day Was Yesterday” Commenter of the Year: Cowboy Logic – for all his brilliance. Talk Show Host
I was an Air Force Flight surgeon on active duty from about 1963. One personal experience I had that really made me start to think about the war was that I was doing many physicals on Army warrant officers who
As we look back on the life of the brutal North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il, there are many myths and much propaganda to sort through before we find the truth about him. For starters, he wasn’t actually “Kim Jong-Il;” his
Dear Rush, On Thursday’s program (12/15/11) you told me and your other listeners: “Now, I talked to some people here during the break. In both New Hampshire and Iowa, Ron Paul’s in second place. Where is his support coming from?
Excerpt from “The Persian Night: Iran Under the Khomeinist Revolution,” by Amir Taheri: Mohammed Mossadeq By 1953, it had become clear that Mossadeq had reached a political impasse of his own making. He had rejected every offer extended to him
Now that the circus has returned to try and take down another one of our serious candidates (Unless, as Rush pointed out, you’re Romney and the regime/media wants to run against you, or you’re Ron Paul because, as he once
What is happening in Greece should come as no surprise to anyone. And it certainly comes as no surprise to me, as I am family to Greece’s last truly conservative, free-market Prime Minister, Constantine Mitsotakis (1990-1993). Other than attending a
Over at the American Thinker, Professor Paul Kengor recounts the story of the Communist Party USA’s plot for their own version of Southern Secession. Based on information from sources ranging from the FBI to the records of the Comintern (the
Maybe it was good karma: I recently had the opportunity to talk to one of my favorite models, German-born bombshell Jordan Carver. Not long ago I noticed on her blog that she had done something nice for a military unit
The “Lord’s Resistance Army” is probably not the main target for Obama’s recent military action in Uganda. Stanley Kurtz may be right that Samantha Power and her brand of militant humanitarianism has such a strong hold on President Obama, which
While the term “well meaning liberal” is increasingly laughable, there are a few good apples in the bunch – and one of the best is My Professor, Robert Cohen. In accordance with his position as a leading scholar of student
On the 40th birthday of her daughter, one of the bravest freedom fighters in the world, Laura Pollan, founder and leader of the Cuban dissident group Ladies in White, died this week of a mysterious “illness”. Sound strange? Her friends
Ron Paul’s plan for Iran: Just think of how many nuclear weapons surround Iran … The Chinese are there. The Indians are there. The Pakistanis are there. The Israelis are there. The United States is there. All these countries …
Today (October 5th, 2011), I took a trip to see the “Occupy Wall Street” protests and ran into this sign on the steps of the Federal Courthouse in downtown Manhattan.
Get a load of this! According to the Telegraph, Al Gore and Mikhail Gorbachev – “keen environmental campaigners” – are “fighting over the right to own and run the new domain name, .eco, which is an alternative ending to web
Of all people to be taken in by the “we can’t win – all is lost!” talk, why you, El Cid? You have been fighting the Jihadists since the 1050s, and now that you have a chance to take them
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), the union which last week took baseball bats to windows and train carts at a new grain terminal at the Port of Longview, Washington, is not a household name for most people who
I grew up in Orange County, New York. West Point Military Academy was about 15 minutes away, New York City about 40 minutes in that same direction. The Military and commuting New Yorkers were the core of the community. I
I once had a conversation with a prominent and influential New Left-era individual about what the possible roots of our vast ideological differences between the two of us. I reasoned that my conservatism is more then anything else a product
Just this once, I want to respond to the anti-Israel obsessed idiot who does nothing but troll the comments section with his/her nonsense. From Bibi Netanyahu’s 5/23/2011 AIPAC speech: “I know these are tough economic times. So I want to
He might be getting around to it, finally. It may seem like just proper politics – wait until one government is gone to endorse another. But, as usual, it’s more complicated then that. For people who don’t know who South
You saw it here first, folks! Clueless? Over at the American Spectator, the great Jeffrey Lord writes that “almost to a person … prominent pre-Ron Paul non-interventionist “Paulist” politicians of the 20th century were overwhelmingly not conservatives at all. They
Unbeknownst to him, President Obama is doing Rush Limbaugh a favor. By participating in the multinational operation against Gadhafi, Obama is undercutting a longtime ally and moneyman behind Rush’s most persistent nemesis – Jesse Jackson. In 2001, investigative journalist Ken
The conspiracy-minded John Birch Society, long ago expelled from the conservative movement by Ronald Reagan and William F. Buckley, Jr., is abuzz over Congressman Ron Paul’s “Blame America First” performance at Thursday night’s Republican presidential debate. Oddly, it was Paul’s