American History

WHY HOLDER MUST RESIGN

By PETER KING April 7, 2011 On Monday, as Attorney General Eric Holder stood at the podium at the Justice Department headquarters in Washington to announce that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other 9/11 terrorists would be tried by military commissions at Guantanamo, he still insisted that he’d much prefer to try them in civilian courts.

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HOLDER – VINDICATING GUANTANAMO

APRIL 5, 2011 Eric Holder adopts the Bush anti-terror architecture. The Obama Administration did a full spinning reversal with a triple twist yesterday on its plans to prosecute terrorists, announcing that it will now try September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay after all. We were going to applaud

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JIMMY CARTER LOBBIES FOR CUBAN SPIES

APRIL 4, 2011 Why lend legitimacy to the Castro brothers? By MARY ANASTASIA O’GRADY They say that Cuba is a place where time stands still and it certainly seemed that way last week when Jimmy Carter arrived in Havana to fraternize with the Castros. The image of the 86-year-old American ex-president wearing a wide smile

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BEYOND THE WELFARE STATE

FROM ISSUE NUMBER 7 ~ SPRING 2011 Beyond the Welfare State YUVAL LEVIN EXCERPT FROM  THIS ARTICLE: But what seemed like the long-awaited triumph of the liberal agenda in America may actually prove to be its unraveling. When historians consider it in retrospect, the economic crisis of 2008 might well be seen as having marked

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SAMANTHA POWER’S POWER OVER OBAMA

NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com April 5, 2011 4:00 A.M. Samantha Power’s Power On the ideology of an Obama adviser by Stanley Kurtz Stanley Kurtz is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and the author of Radical-in-Chief. A member of the president’s National Security Council who shares Noam Chomsky’s foreign-policy goals? An

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BOOK REVIEW – DECONSTRUCTING OBAMA: THE LIFE, LOVES, AND LETTERS OF AMERICA’S FIRST POSTMODERN PRESIDENT

April 02, 2011 Simon & Schuster’s Revenge By Douglas Hackleman In 1993, thirty-three-year-old Barack Obama stiffed Poseidon Press, then an imprint of Simon & Schuster — producing absolutely nothing for the publisher that in November 1990 had given the new graduate of Harvard Law School a $125,000 advance to write a book about race relations

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CONGRESSMAN MIKE PENSE AT CAPITOL HILL TEA PARTY RALLY

March 31, 2011 Washington, DC—U.S. Congressman Mike Pence delivered the following speech today at a Tea Party rally at the U.S. Capitol: “I’m Mike Pence. I’m from Indiana. “To the Tea Party Patriots, Americans all, welcome back to your nation’s capitol. “With a deficit this year of $1.65 trillion and a national debt of $14

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THOMAS SOWELL – MEASURING FORCE

March 30, 2011 Measuring Force By Thomas Sowell You don’t just walk up to the local bully and slap him across the face. If you are determined to confront him, then you try to knock the living daylights out of him. Otherwise, you are better off to leave him alone. Anyone who grew up in

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A REQUIEM FOR DETROIT

MARCH 29, 2011 A once-great American city today repels people of talent and ambition. By WILLIAM MCGURN If only Detroit could point to some natural disaster for its misfortunes. Within hours of the earthquake that devastated northeastern Japan, for example, President Obama called the prime minister to offer “whatever assistance is needed.” Likewise, when Hurricane

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