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Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) goes on the Glenn Beck Comedy Hour, and repeats her contention that the government might use census data to round people up and put them in internment camps. Beck closes his eyes and shakes his head when she says this, and almost immediately cuts her off ...
Michele Bachmann, Census, Barack Obama, Acorn, Internment, World War II, Loopy, Glenn Beck
In an interview on Fox News, Rep. Michele Bachmann says she’s taking a stand against the US census because it was used to round up Japanese Americans and put them in internment camps during World War II. [Video] (Hat tip: Killian Bundy.)
Michele Bachmann, Census, Barack Obama, Acorn, Internment, World War II, Loopy
Bill Whittle takes Jon Stewart to school: Jon Stewart, War Criminals & The True Story of the Atomic Bombs.
World War II, Japan, atomic bombs, History, Jon Stewart, Bill Whittle
Counterknowledge’s Michael MacConnell has an excellent takedown of Pat Buchanan and his latest hobby horse, a sort of squishy Holocaust revisionism: ‘For the six years before Britain declared war, there was no Holocaust’: Pat Buchanan flirts with revisionism. If the option had been available to him, would Hitler, instead ...
Pat Buchanan, Antisemitism, World War II, WWII, Hitler, Holocaust, Holocaust Denial
Today is the anniversary of one of the most devastating sneak attacks ever launched against the United States. National Geographic has a site dedicated to the memory of Pearl Harbor, featuring stories from survivors and relatives: Remembering Pearl Harbor. UPDATE at 12/7/08 11:18:03 am: Meanwhile, at the Grauniad, we find ...
Victor Davis Hanson and Christopher Hitchens discuss the execrable World War II revisionist book by Pat Buchanan. Moderated by the Hoover Institution’s Peter Robinson. [Video] [Video] Part 3. Part 4. Part 5. (Hat tip: Primetime Politics.)
LGF, VDH, Hitchens, Christopher Hitchens, Victor Davis Hanson, Pat Buchanan, WWII, World War II
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
Fox has an interesting article on the pervasive fear that gripped the islands of Hawaii in the days after the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, at a time when war touched the personal lives of all Americans: Survivors Recall Living in Fear After Pearl Harbor Attack. HONOLULU ...
Documents from the British National Archives show that in World War II, Nazi Germany sent weapons to the Palestinian Arabs, by way of our friends the Saudis. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) A British Foreign Office report from 1939 reports of “news of a consignment of arms from Germany, sent via ...