In a harrowing story describing the agonizing days of WWII, Martin Rubin writes that no matter how many books you’ve read on Winston Churchill and his relationship with his generals, you will want to read Churchill and The Generals: 1939-45. Well-known British historian Mike Lepine has written an informative, concise, lively account that make the […]
Happy 85th Birthday, Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell, adopted by a family of four adults, grew up in Harlem and attended New York City schools, which he says were the best in the country in those days. Although I was raised by people with very little education, they were people who wanted me to get an education. They praised my every […]
America “Disunited and Divided”
Pat Buchanan asks, “Are the ten commandments and Christian tradition and Natural Law as defined by Aquinas just fine for their time, but not for ours?” Pat continues: If what Justice Kennedy wrote Friday represents moral truth, what can be said in defense of a Christianity that has taught for 2,000 years that homosexual acts […]
A 2013 Type Shutdown Looming Ahead?
The WSJ’s Kimberley Strassel writes about a gridlock scenario that could lead to a government shutdown this fall. Senator Harry Reid is threatening to filibuster every spending bill until he gets a lot more dollars. President Obama is backing Mr. Reid by threatening to “veto pretty much any spending bill that hits his desk.” “If […]
John Steinbeck on California
From WSJ: John Steinbeck, writing about California’s Salinas Valley, where he grew up, in the novel “East of Eden” (1952): I have spoken of the rich years when the rainfall was plentiful. But there were dry years too, and they put a terror on the valley. The water came in a thirty-year cycle. There would […]
Escaping Poverty and Government Dependency
Read here from the WSJ, one man’s story of how hard it is to live in Baltimore. Jay Steinmetz is CEO of a Baltimore-based supply chain management company located 150 yards from the liquor store that was looted during last Monday’s rioting. Mr. Steinmetz, explains some of the challenges and failures he is forced to […]
Obamanomics—a Slow Rolling Crisis
The alarm bells should be clanging with the pitiful news of 0.2% economic growth for first-quarter 2015, writes economist Stephen Moore. We have a national crisis in the United States, and Baltimore is tied directly to what Mr. Obama called “a slow-rolling crisis.” Mr. Moore explains why the latest GDP numbers are worrisome and why […]
Baltimore Riots: City on Fire
From RT: Rock-throwing protesters have clashed with police at Mondawmin Mall in northwestern Baltimore following the funeral of Freddie Gray, a black man who died in police custody more than a week ago.
No Justice, Less Peace
For about nine hours, the country watched an urban riot as inner-city Baltimore burned. But out of this anarchy, came at least one positive thing, writes Daniel Henninger. “Baltimore neighborhoods have black leaders who know the difference between preening and progress.” Brandon Scott, a young city council member, spoke with blunt eloquence about being born […]
Deaths Due to a Violent Culture
Pat Buchanan lays out with clarity the underlying cause of the unending racial unrest in America’s black neighborhoods. The problem is the Great Society liberalism championed by the likes of Hillary Clinton. Buchanan writes: When black men and boys are shot to death, overwhelmingly, it is by other black men and boys. Their premature deaths […]
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