After a GOP member of Congress publicly revealed a letter from Gen. Douglas MacArthur, then commanding U.S. and UN forces in Korea, that stated, “There is no substitute for victory,” President Harry Truman on April 11, 1951, fired MacArthur for…
Progressives are much more upset than conservatives over Jane Fonda’s suggestion last Friday on The View that abortion opponents should be murdered. Even conservative-bashing harridan Joy Behar nervously tried to pass off the comment as a joke, with no support…
Triumph Regained: The Vietnam War, 1965-1968 By Mark Moyar (Encounter Books, 732 pages, $50) Scholars and writers who challenge conventional accounts of history are often courageous and invaluable seekers of truth. They don’t always find the whole truth, but their…
Leopard or Abrams? Ukrainian freedom fighters need tanks, these are the types they need, and the Free World dallies and bickers. The bickering is papered over with the announcement that the U.S. is sending 30 of these mighty war-making machines…
With Americans across the political spectrum increasingly skeptical of massive aid to Ukraine while domestic woes mount, staunch Ukraine supporters in Washington must explain more convincingly why Ukraine deserves continued financial support from America. The Ukrainians have fought with admirable…
Last Summer Boys: A Novel By Bill Rivers (Lake Union Publishing, 285 pages, $14.95) Last month, eminent yet overrated feminist author Joyce Carol Oates tweeted a link to a surprising New York Times op-ed criticizing the woke publishing world’s hostility to…
It’s been a strange time to be a freethinking rock fan. Counterculture legends Joni Mitchell and Neil Young — the very man who once taught us to “keep on rockin’ in the free world” — led the charge to deplatform…
Saturday–Beverly Hills Another perfect day here. Blue skies. Slight breeze. No clouds. Temperatures in the mid-70s. I’ve been blown to pieces by the truth that it’s President’s Weekend and almost no attention is being given to the greatest American President…
Winston Churchill once remarked that history would treat him well because he intended to write the history. And he did. Churchill’s histories of the first and second world wars — 17 volumes in all — frame those conflicts to place…