Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Observances: International Holocaust Remembrance Day Major Events: Henry Knox and the Noble Train of Artillery, Siege of Leningrad Notable Events: Trajan becomes Emperor, Pope Clement VI & indulgences, Univ. of Ga, Indian Territory, Boshin War, Thomas Edison, USAF attacks Germany, Nuclear Testing, Apollo 1, Outer Space Treaty, Paris Peace Accords,
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Today: The Boston Tea Party leads to a Revolution, King Henry VI of England . . .and France, English Bill of Rights of 1689, Hans Bol, Beethoven, Christmas Music And More . . . Major Events on Dec. 16 1773 – Boston Tea Party makes the American Revolution virtually inevitable
Continue readingTrey Gowdy conduct a masterful examination of MIT Prof. Jonathan “Stupid Americans” Gruber. What made it so good was that he had Gruber repeatedly offer the canned defense that he (Gruber) was arrogant, stupid, and ill-informed. That defense might have flown once but, when a formerly boastful MIT professor said it over
Continue readingToday is Erev Yom Hashoah, the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day. In Israel, it is a poignant moment honored by every citizen (or at least, every Jewish citizen). In the rest of the world, it is a moment to be forgotten, ignored, or denied. Back in the 1930s, no one
Continue readingThe photo above must be one of the most iconic images from the hippie, anti-war period. A youthful anti-Vietnam War protester, faced with a ring of National Guard troops pointing their rifles at him, carefully places a flower in each muzzle. He thinks, no doubt, that the flowers have magically
Continue readingToday’s news about yesterday: In honor of Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Day, marked in Israel on Thursday, Yad Vashem expanded its Internet presence this week by opening an online database containing nearly two-thirds of the 200,000 photos in its archives. [snip] Earlier this week, Yad Vashem launched two YouTube
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[I haven’t had the chance to think this busy weekend, let alone blog. For some reason, though, I can’t get out of my head the WWII stories of a few people I met, long after the war, when they were old and gray. I’m therefore resurrecting this post because I
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