Ya gotta love the, as it were, gall. Or maybe make that “gaul.” News reports are reporting headlines like this one from USA Today: “French lawmaker says US should return Statue of Liberty. White House says ‘absolutely not.’” The story reports:…
After the failure of British General Bernard Montgomery’s 21st Army Group in September 1944 to capture key bridges at the Rhine River in Operation Market Garden — a single thrust airborne and infantry assault designed to pave the way to…
I despair — I really do despair. Over the past several years, I’ve tried again and again to point out the sheer unadulterated idiocy of the left’s obsession with Hitler. And yet, here we go again. A demonstrably innocent gesture…
In the early 1990s, I visited Chartwell, Winston Churchill’s former home in the countryside of Kent in southeast England. Entering the house and traversing the grounds, I had a sensation of walking the footsteps of history, of imagining the great…
For years now we’ve heard that even moderately conservative Republicans are “far right” and deserving of the “Nazi” label. And Republican presidential candidates routinely are tagged with the “Hitler” label. The only time the label is removed is when the…
Conservatives believe in the institutions shaped by the accumulated experience of humanity. We know we may be very small, but by standing on the shoulders of those who came before, we can reach very high. Our constitutional law heritage stretches…
I’ve just watched the movie Bonhoeffer, slated for release this November. Filmed in Ireland and Belgium, it enjoys and features a great pedigree. It was written, produced, and directed by Todd Komarnicki — the screenwriter for Sully and producer on Elf….
Ezra Pound was an extraordinary and original poet who was emulated by T. S. Eliot and a hero of modernists of all sorts. Yet for all his genius — or perhaps because of it — he fell under the spell…
Churchill and the Necessity of Victory Winston Churchill was an advocate of diplomacy. As leader of the opposition, he spoke in Parliament in December of 1950, offering strong but qualified support of Prime Minister Clement Attlee’s foreign policy: Appeasement in…
