American History

THE SOUL OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY MACHINE

June 23, 2012 Its dominant interest groups have done to Obama what they did to Carter. By JAY COSTMr. Cost is a staff writer for the Weekly Standard and the author of “Spoiled Rotten: How the Politics of Patronage Corrupted the Once Noble Democratic Party and Now Threatens the American Republic” (Broadside Books, 2012). EXCERPT

THE SOUL OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY MACHINE Read More »

THE REAL REAGAN IN HIS OWN WORDS

Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The Real Reagan In his own words. Fred Barnes June 25, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 39 When I interviewed President Reagan in the Oval Office in 1987, I took with me a photograph of him with two dozen women at the Presidio of Monterey in California 50 years earlier.

THE REAL REAGAN IN HIS OWN WORDS Read More »

THE REAL STORY ABOUT HERBERT HOOVER

THE WEEKLY STANDARD Misunderestimating Herbert Hoover June 11, 2012 The Scrapbook will go to great lengths to avoid being pedantic, but sometimes we are so astonished by the ignorance—the sheer bricks-for-brains philistinism—of certain journalistic celebrities that we feel constrained to set the historical record straight. We are thinking, among other instances, of the Washington Post’s

THE REAL STORY ABOUT HERBERT HOOVER Read More »

ROMNEY’S MASSACHUSETTS GREEN ENERGY FUND

June 15, 2012 Romney Green Energy Fund Draws Fire From Democrats By SARA MURRAY Mitt Romney reiterated this week his belief that government shouldn’t be “picking winners” in the private sector, and his campaign is pounding away at the argument that the Obama administration did exactly that in its failed investment in the Solyndra solar

ROMNEY’S MASSACHUSETTS GREEN ENERGY FUND Read More »

WOULD HARRY TRUMAN BLAME PARIS?

June 14, 2012 Here’s pro-growth advice no one in Europe will take: Stop listening to the IMF bleeders and the Obama spenders. By DANIEL HENNINGER The Europe of Charlemagne, Marco Polo and Churchill, after millennia of undoubted achievement, has finally spent itself to the verge of collapse and irrelevance. Witnessing this historic catastrophe, Barack Obama,

WOULD HARRY TRUMAN BLAME PARIS? Read More »

THE COMING AMERICAN COUNTERREVOLUTION

ROBBINS: The coming American counterrevolution A divided nation is facing down fundamental change By James S. Robbins– James S. Robbins is senior editorial writer for foreign affairs at The Washington Times and author of the forthcoming, “Native Americans: Patriotism, Exceptionalism, and the New American Identity” (Encounter, August 2012 The Washington Times Tuesday, June 5, 2012

THE COMING AMERICAN COUNTERREVOLUTION Read More »

DELTA FORCE: ARMY’S ‘QUIET PROFESSIONALS’

WASHINGTON TIMES Operate in shadows — not in spotlight By Rowan Scarborough– The Washington Times Sunday, June 3, 2012 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:  By comparison, when Delta Force and conventional ground troops hunted down Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in 2003, found him a spider hole and flew him to Baghdad in a special ops “little

DELTA FORCE: ARMY’S ‘QUIET PROFESSIONALS’ Read More »

BOOK REVIEW: POLITICAL WOMAN – JEANE KIRKPATRICK

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Political Woman’ By Gary L. Larson – Special to The Washington Times Wednesday, May 30, 2012 POLITICAL WOMAN: THE BIG LITTLE LIFE OF JEANE KIRKPATRICK By Peter Collier Encounter, $25.99, 368 pages Quintessential American and true intellectual, she brought common sense to the crazy-quilt world of international politics. She gave no quarter to

BOOK REVIEW: POLITICAL WOMAN – JEANE KIRKPATRICK Read More »

Scroll to Top