Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
What happened to Derek Chauvin has disturbing parallels to France’s famed Dreyfus affair 127 years ago. I wrote this essay for American Thinker and was a little disappointed that it didn’t get more traction, so I’m reprinting half of it here. If you like the first half, you can read
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Feast of St. Hilary of Poitiers, Afghanistan becomes the Graveyard of Empires, California in the Mexican-American War, Doctor’s Plot, Spanish slavery, NatGeo, Independent Labour Party, Hawaii and the Bayonet Constitution Holidays and Observances on January 13 Feast of St. Hilary of Poitiers is a memorial on the General Roman Calendar
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Today: Hannukah, Yule, (yesterday’s) Winter Solstice, the Dreyfus Affair, Mao’s Cultural Revolution, the Embargo Act, Beethoven, Battle of the Bulge, Lech Walesa, Richard Reid, Christmas Music, And More . . . Holidays and Observances on December 22 Happy Hanukkah, a Jewish holiday that celebrates the victory of the Maccabees over
Continue readingAt a military level, Hamas’s advantages in the war with Israel are minimal. Its rocket strikes were ineffectual against Israel because of the Iron Dome missile defense system. In the ground war, it is certainly able to kill Israeli soldiers (most recently, three died in a booby-trapped UN building), but ultimately Israel
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