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by | Mar 19, 2023

Gentleman Bandit: The True Story of Black Bart, the Old West’s Most Infamous Stagecoach Robber By John Boessenecker (Hanover Square Press, 376 pages, $32.99) Stagecoach holdups were a staple of those Western movies of the fifties that I so enjoyed…

by | Mar 17, 2023

Regarding “The Civil War I Grew Up With”: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. is one of the best contemporary conservative authors. I grew up with the Civil War, too! My grandfather was born in 1855, the youngest of my great-grandparents’ three…

by | Mar 14, 2023

WASHINGTON — With all the talk about the discovery of mass burial graves in faraway Ukraine, there is little thought of such graves being discovered here in America. Yet in recent weeks, archeologists have found their own mass grave in…

by | Mar 1, 2023

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene cannot help but make news. Her views are controversial. More importantly, the Left — along with its establishment and media acolytes — believe her opinions to be unpopular. The most recent kerfuffle involves her suggestion that…

by | Jan 10, 2023

On Sunday, China conducted yet another large-scale naval and air exercise around the island of Taiwan. CNN reports that 28 Chinese warplanes crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait, and a total of 57 Chinese planes — including Su-30…

by | Dec 29, 2022

History is a bit like Otto von Bismarck’s famous line about sausages and laws, which, he said, no one should watch being made. Think of all the people you’ve seen in pictures and statues or on coins and currency. Consider…

by | Dec 24, 2022

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom … The Republican-led post-Civil War Congresses acted on that resolve. They passed three constitutional…

by | Nov 24, 2022

There is a reason why William Manchester began his magnificent biography of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, American Caesar, with the fighting on Missionary Ridge during the Civil War’s Battle of Chattanooga on Nov. 25, 1863. On that date, as Union soldiers…

by | Oct 14, 2022

The Left is like a wild child. At times, it seems to have become civilized, but, as soon as it has the chance, it returns to the forest. And its own particular forest is resentment and violence. Maybe that’s why…

by | Oct 7, 2022

When we last left Marshall Armstrong — more famously known as Little Big Horn survivor George Armstrong Custer — in Armstrong Rides Again!, the Latin American island where he served as army commander was melting from volcano lava and sinking…

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