Category — History

Cuba — as we outlined in La Manzana de Havana — always plays an outsized role in U.S. presidential politics. What better time than now, as November looms, for Russia to once again deploy nuclear bombers to Cuba? The Russians just love these kinds of games. What with the Russian and U.S. economies respectively booming and busting (and U.S. missiles deploying to the Czech Republic) . . . they’re back!

Breitbart reports.

Trolling back through the stack of hyperbole and innuendo written in the immediate aftermath of YFZ Ranch invasion, I encountered (not for the first time) a screed by AP writer Todd Lewan. Lewan’s piece was republished in scores of papers around the country, including the Abilene Reporter News, on April 19, 2008, two weeks after Texas CPS kidnapped 450+ women and children from the FLDS ranch. First, take a look at the graphic below. What do you see? [Read more →]

Barack Obama’s affiliation with and endorsement by radical Marxists — like Bernadine Dohrn and William Ayers — is well documented in this blog and elsewhere. But some may ask, “What’s the big deal? Why should Americans be concerned by Obama’s willingness to befriend such people and ‘exchange ideas’ with them?” In a word, “inhumanity”.

These are the kind of people who, like Dohrn, laugh with glee at the thought of slicing up a pregnant mother and then sticking a fork in her stomach. Running with this crowd is no different than running with Adolf Hitler or Fidel Castro. No truly decent American would do so. Yet Barack Obama has persistently, actively sought out their support and friendship. In fact, the neo-Marxist New Party — with whom the New Party itself suggests Obama signed a contract in 1995 — played a key role in Mr. Obama’s first Illinois state senate victory.

A CNN interview of three Americans — Keith Stansell, Marc Gonsalves and Thomas Howes — recently rescued after 5 1/2 years as captives to Colombia’s notorious Marxists, the FARC “rebels” — illustrates how little has changed inside the Marxist mind since Bernadine Dohrn cackled with with joy over the Manson murders: [Read more →]

Today, Bernadine Dohrn is Director of the Children and Family Justice Center and Clinical Associate Professor of Law at Northwestern University Law School. This means, in part, that she trains young attorneys how to “collaborate” with CPS-like organizations to take children away from their parents.

But not that long ago, Bernadine had another vocation as a leader in a terror cult called Weatherman (later called Weather Underground) and, eventually, eleven-year resident on the FBI’s Most Wanted list. I don’t put much stock in FBI Most Wanted lists, but Weatherman plus “clinical professorship” in child-snatching gets my attention real fast. In 1995, Dohrn also hostessed at least one Barack Obama Illinois Senate campaign fundraiser in the Hyde Park home that she shares with fellow Weatherman and hubby William Ayers. [Read more →]

As July 3, 2008 slides into July 4th on the East Coast, I hear fireworks in the distance. Likely, few of those setting them off appreciate what they originally symbolized.

First, I am deeply grateful to America’s military men and women for standing tall over the last two and a half centuries in the face of such fearful opposition at home and abroad. You are true heroes. May God grant those of you now serving victory in the field and a safe return the country that honors the traditions you sacrifice so much to defend. May He grant us here at home the courage, virtue and insight to win back - through civil debate and due process — the freedoms we enjoyed until such a short time ago.

John Adams is among the most profound and prolific political philosophers of America’s founding generation. If given the opportunity, I wonder what Adams might say to us “modern” Americans on our national birthday. Would he be pleased at how the Constitution has evolved since his passing on July 4, 1826? [Read more →]

Barack Obama has taken exquisite care to mask his personal ideology. What he says is anything but consistent. He is so reticent on this score that — if not for his pronounced narcissism — we might conclude he is modest.

Yet, despite the ideological stealth, who Obama hangs (and has hung) with — mentors, managers and sidekicks — reveals the real deal. In sharp contrast to Obama’s policy meandering, his mentor/ staffer/ pal pattern is consistent. Like plotting points on a map, paste these faces on a wall and a decidedly Marxist tapestry emerges. [Read more →]

Is that a shocking headline or what? I’m working on building a resume to work at KUTV-2 in Salt Lake.  How am I doing?

Anywhoo . . . A BYU engineering professor has worked a miracle in Ghana, harnessing kid power to generate electricity in otherwise powerless towns. Click on the picture (above) for the full story. And  don’t nobody tell Texas CPS!

This is one of the most heartwarming stories of the year, perhaps the decade.  I did not mean earlier to minimize it.  Many thousands if not millions of Colombians will rightfully celebrate this wonderful, bloodless victory.   May I extend my heartfelt congratulations to some of America’s most faithful allies and friends, el pueblo de Colombia.  To the Colombian military: Muy bien hecho!  Viva Colombia!

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This is major news.  CNN reports that Ingrid Betancourt and 11 other hostages have finally been rescued from their kidnappers.  Congratulations to los Colombianos!  Felicitaciones!

Speaking of religion, this story from Foxnews — assuming its accuracy — is the kind of thing that has me wondering whether Muslims, ultimately, can ever peacefully co-exist with anyone but themselves. Take a good look at the pup, then read what follows the picture:

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