Category: History

Video: Silicon Graffiti — “The Pinchurian Candidate”

Posted on by Ed Driscoll

The weekend before November’s elections, Frank Rich of the New York Times wrote a curious column titled, “The G.O.P. Stalinists Invade Upstate New York.”

On the other hand, it was rather refreshing to see a journalist with the New York Times use the word pejoratively. Needless to say, that hasn’t always been the case, as we’ll explore in the latest edition of our Silicon Graffiti videoblog…

 

Professor: Say, Let’s Pardon a Domestic Terrorist

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

CUNY Graduate Center professor David S. Reynolds has an idea. He wants to pardon an American criminal that is a known murderer and fanatic and who led a life that was steadily radicalized by an extreme religious ideology. This domestic terrorist even went so far as to attempt to start a war inside the USA […]

 

Science, Smoking, Healthcare, All Prove Gov’t Can’t be Trusted

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Just sit back and let big daddy government show you the way. The Democrat Party is assuring us that they know better because they have science, educated people, doctors, all that “expertise” in their control and further more they “care” about us all and they want us to know that they’d never do anything to […]

 

New Rule of Thumb: History Only Happens in Our Lifetime

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It’s a new rule of thumb, apparently, that history doesn’t matter. Fall of Rome? Who cares? WWII? What’s it matter? The Great Depression? Just a blip. It’s NOW that we care about, man. All that history stuff? Pffft. If it isn’t happening now, it doesn’t matter. This notion that history is for the stuffed shirts […]

 

The End of History or a History of the End?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A few years ago, Francis Fukuyama was widely criticized for his book claiming that mankind had seen “The End of History.” Fukuyama contended that liberal democracy had won the debate over which system was best and, therefore, there was necessary no more “moving forward” for man’s social order. While Fukuyama might have thought the question […]

 

Podcast: Erick Erickson Joins Me To Discuss The Possibilities For Health Care, Afghanistan & More

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Erick Erickson of Redstate talks health care, small business, taxation, bureaucracy, and America being at a cross-roads. Download MP3 To subscribe on iTunes, just click here! When Melissa isn’t on the radio, you can find her at melissaclouthier.com and on Twitter. Her username is MelissaTweets.

 

Where is THIS Republican Party?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

An excerpt of the 1924 Republican Party Platform: The prosperity of the American nation rests on the vigor of private initiative which has bred a spirit of independence and self-reliance. The republican party stands now, as always, against all attempts to put the government into business. American industry should not be compelled to struggle against […]

 

ISI Conference Part Three: More British Than the British!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

This is the final installment my three part report on the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s one day conference on The Roots of American Order. So here is part two of mine titled Lift a Glass to the Past: America Rooted in Tradition or a New Covenant? (Click for parts one and two) After a break for […]

 

ISI Conference Part Two: Christ in Our Soul

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

This is part two of my three part report on the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s one day conference on The Roots of American Order. So here is part two of mine titled Lift a Glass to the Past: America Rooted in Tradition or a New Covenant? (Part one can be seen here) The second speaker of […]

 

Lift a Glass to the Past: America Rooted in Tradition or a New Covenant?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Is the United States a grand experiment, a new covenant invented out of whole cloth by the fertile minds of the founders from never before seen ideas or is it a nation spawned from deeply rooted traditions of western thought? This was the question posited in a one-day-long conference on classicism in America’s founding sponsored […]

 

Why Isn’t President Obama Traveling to Germany for Berlin Wall Fall Anniversary?

Posted on by Sister Toldjah

Fox News reports that the WH is taking heat over our celebrity President’s decision not to attend the 20th anniversary celebration in Germany for the fall of the Berlin Wall: The president does not plan to travel to Germany to attend the 20th anniversary celebration Monday of the fall of the Berlin Wall, drawing heated […]

 

A Telling Quote on Slavery Reparations

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

If you want to know what the ultimate goal is of those that want reparations for the American slave trade, you have to look no farther than a telling quote that appeared in the Memphis Commercial Appeal on September 25. For slavery reparation advocates, the ultimate desire is not contrition, no apology will do, no […]

 

Moonbats Reduce Monument to Communism’s Victims to a Joke

Posted on by Dave Blount

Communist tyrants killed over 100 million of their own subjects during the 20th century, and inflicted unthinkable suffering on hundreds of millions more. But since one death is a tragedy, but a million deaths are only a statistic — and more importantly because Western society is controlled by liberals highly sympathetic to communist ideology — […]

 

Dem. Adviser Joe Trippi Admits Carter’s a ‘Failed Presidency’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Amusing note of the day: Well known Democratic advisor Joe Trippi called President Jimmy Carter’s a “failed presidency” on CNN yesterday. Trippi bemoaned what those nasty ol’ Republicans are trying to do to his Obammessiah but admitted that Carter was a failure as president. This is something we have not seen before coming from such […]