“Remember Pearl Harbor!” was the great World War II rallying cry. The sneak Japanese attack, designed to cripple the U.S. Navy’s Pacific fleet, would be labelled by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as a “date which will live in infamy.” And…
President Joe Biden’s allies have repeatedly claimed that his presidency is a historic success in the mold of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Ron Klain, Biden’s former chief of staff, said that Biden has “delivered the largest economic recovery plan since Roosevelt.”…
Commentators such as Victor Davis Hanson have called the “coronation” of Vice President Kamala Harris as presumptive Democrat presidential nominee a coup coming upon another coup: the 2020 primary when front-runner Bernie Sanders was pressured by shadowy party bosses to…
The New York Times is back with another hit piece on another conservative donor guilty of the grave sin of giving money to fellow conservatives. It drives liberals barking mad to imagine an America in which not every billionaire philanthropist…
Biden’s weakness propels the Left and they drive him to extremism. This is the simple, self-reinforcing cycle that has put Biden in a box from which he cannot escape. By turning left at the outset, Biden has eroded his majority…
Thurston Howell III went off on Gilligan now and then. In one episode the fictional tycoon got so mad he referred to the sailor as “probably not even a Republican.” That was when many pre-literate boomers got their first inkling…
The World That Wasn’t: Henry Wallace and the Fate of the American Century By Ben Steil (Simon & Schuster, 704 pages, $40) When you arrive at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum on the grounds of the Roosevelt…
The New Deal’s War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR’s Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance By David T. Beito (Independent Institute, 404 pages, $27) James MacGregor Burns, one of the old school New Deal giants…
Just when Ronald Reagan seems to have survived a Nationalist Right charge that his philosophy was a kind of zombie Libertarianism, here comes Henry Olsen promoting his 2017 The Working Class Republican book theme saying that Reagan was a Franklin D….
