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An astounding gaffe from Barack Obama, who grew up in Hawaii but apparently never learned the history of the attack on Pearl Harbor: Obama Ignorance Watch. Throughout our history, America’s confronted constantly evolving danger, from the oppression of an empire, to the lawlessness of the frontier, from the bomb ...
LGF, Election 2008, Barack Obama, Pearl Harbor, Gaffes, History
The Washington Post “Fact Checker” has been going very easy on Barack Obama, but today they’re actually asking the pertinent question about Obama’s “Auschwitz” tale: Where in the world is Auschwitz? - Fact Checker. Granted, it is getting late in the campaign. The candidates are tired, and prone to ...
History, Auschwitz, Election 2008, Barack Obama, Media Bias, Washington Post, LGF
Rand Simberg points out that Obama’s “Auschwitz” story is nothing new. He was telling similar stories about his grandfather back in 2002, in his now-famous Iraq speech, which I’d never previously read: My grandfather signed up for a war the day after Pearl Harbor was bombed, fought in Patton’s ...
LGF, Election 2008, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, History, Veterans, Opportunism, Auschwitz
Is there a point at which the media will start calling Barack Obama out for his absolutely stunning lack of historical knowledge, and his willingness to lie at the drop of a hat? Obama Talks of Family’s Military Service. Obama also spoke about his uncle, who was part of ...
Opportunism, Veterans, History, Foreign Policy, Barack Obama, Election 2008, LGF
Last week we noted the bizarre arguments of Seattle Times editorial writer Bruce Ramsey, who tried so hard to defend Barack Obama against President Bush’s “appeasement” speech that he actually ended up defending Hitler for annexing Austria. His exact words were: “What Hitler was demanding was not unreasonable.” If you ...
LGF, Pat Buchanan, World War II, WWII, Hitler, Poland, Austria, History
Victor Davis Hanson takes a year-end look at the Iraq War: A Long War In a Nutshell.
NRO is conducting a video interview with Victor Davis Hanson on War and History: Chapter 1 of 5.
The Siege of Constantinople (718). (Hat tip: bbcrackmonkey.)
It’s no secret that I think George Tenet was one of the most incompetent blithering idiots ever to run the CIA. In 2004, when he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, I wrote this: Undeserved Medal for Tenet. Now Tenet, with his absolutely terrible record of failure and weakness, has ...
I hope this doesn’t turn into another religious slapfight, but I suppose we need a post to discuss James Cameron’s new documentary, in which he claims to have uncovered the burial place of Jesus Christ and his family (that’s right), verified by “DNA tests” (whatever that could mean): Jesus: Tales ...
Iowahawk has discovered the first draft of Professor David Bell’s piece on America’s knuckle-dragging overreaction to 9/11: Historically Speaking, Sh-t Happens. [Found in a dumpster behind the Encino Galleria: first draft of historian David Bell’s gripping L.A. Times OpEd] by David A. Bell IMAGINE THAT on 9/11, six hours after ...
Here’s an interesting perspective on presidential politics by James Burkee at the LA Times: Anyone but a Bush or a Clinton. HAVING REFUSED a third term as president, George Washington offered the nation a farewell address in 1796, urging Americans to cherish the Union and to avoid the “baneful effects” ...
Michael Oren says the foreign policy “realists” arguing for negotiations with Syria and Iran are ignorant of American history in the Middle East: Apple pie and the Middle East. (Skip the LA Times registration by following the link from this page: ‘Apple pie and the Middle East’ - Google News.) ...
At Eugene’s Blog: How my grandad invented the Holocaust.
Here’s an excellent piece by Efraim Karsh on Islam’s Imperial Dreams, pointing out the obvious fact that is usually lost in a sea of misrepresentation and misdirection—that Muslim political ambitions are not a reaction to Western encroachments. When satirical depictions of the prophet Muhammad in a Danish newspaper sparked a ...
Several readers emailed over the weekend about an article in Britain’s The Independent, telling us “How Islamic inventors changed the world.” It’s the standard pro-Islam fare, recounting inventions such as coffee and fountain pens without dwelling much on the fact that all of the inventions took place in the Middle ...
At The American Thinker, James Arlandson has a harrowing look at the life of Mohammed, and what happened to those who failed to show him the proper submissive attitude: Muhammad’s Dead Poets Society. (2) March 624: Uqbah bin Abu Muayt A similar story as that of Nadr can be told ...