What did Jennifer Granholm do for an encore after entrusting a cross-dressing alleged baggage-claim thief with 100 employees and a $45 million budget? The secretary of energy with much hoopla vacated a 68-year-old decision by a 47-years-defunct commission regarding a…
Maria Katchmar was 7 when the troops came to her farm. The soldiers entered her home in Cherkasy Oblast — a region of Ukraine along the Dnieper River — and immediately began to break everything. Windows and doors. Paintings and…
We are approaching one of the horrible milestones in human history — the birth of the Gulag a century ago. Sometime during the autumn of 1922, Soviet officials decided to establish a system of forced labor camps for both political…
When I was a child at beautiful Parkside Elementary School next to Sligo Creek Parkway in Silver Spring, Maryland, we were taught that our worldwide rival, Bolshevik Communism, was a horrible, gruesome, cruel gift of death. It was barely better…
Russia: Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1921 By Antony Beevor (Viking, 600 pages, $38) Historians and international relations scholars use the terms “Stalinism” and “Stalinist” to distinguish the Soviet communist regime under Joseph Stalin from communist leaders in other periods of…
I grew up in Bucks County, a far suburb of Philadelphia. Back when I was a kid, the county was reliably Republican. A world-famous author, James Michener of Tales of the South Pacific fame, ran for Congress as a Democrat…
Dead Man Doddering doddered his way through the State of the Union, thanks to dosing Razadyne and Aducanumab, and I would pay good money to hear him try to get that word out of his mouth. He even managed…
Washington — There have been an abundance of essays of late about how we are to wage revolution in our comfortable society. All have been written by Woke Folk, I suspect. You would not expect such essays in praise of…
Three decades ago Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev made a long-overdue admission. He signed a decree to accelerate rehabilitation of Joseph Stalin’s victims. He recognized that the government he headed was, in fact, a long-standing criminal enterprise. The Evil Empire, as…