Hugo Chavez’ inspirational debt to Ernesto “Che” Guevara is such that he titled his regime’s socio-economic model, “Mision Che Guevara.” Don’t look for much of this in the MSM–but as I write Venezuela’s youth are hitting the streets in the
A federal immigration judge in Tennessee has awarded political asylum to a German couple that was threatened by the German government with having their children forcibly removed from their home because the couple chose homeschooling instead of sending them to
Let’s give the Progressives a rest today. Judging by the 700+ comments on yesterday’s Big Government thread: Media Matters Attacks Beck – Ignores Progressive Roots Of The Klan And Holocaust, it looks like they could use a breather. Today, we
Over the last few years, I have lost friends and become estranged from relatives because of politics. At one time, I would have thought such a thing was unimaginable. But in the past decade, as the rift between those on
The same country that brought us Leni Riefenstahl is now set to deliver Hope: The Obama Musical. I’m serious, they are really doing this. The musical is set to open in Frankfurt on Jan. 17th and, in all fairness, it
Chris Crocker has nothing on most Che Guevara fans. His anguish in “Leave Britney Alone!” pales to what I’ve seen and heard from “hecklers”during many college lectures. The more painstakingly-documented the facts I discharge into the fog of ignorance that
AP: A jet headed for Spain’s Canary Islands came off the runway at Dortmund airport in western Germany on Sunday, but no one was injured, authorities said. The pilot of the Air Berlin Boeing 737-800, with 165 passengers and six
What happened? When did I become such a cynic? How can it be that my immediate reaction is skepticism to people, organizations and/or movements that outwardly seem to be selflessly asking for my support to help the less fortunate. Who
Here’s my annual list of the Ten Best Movies I Screened in 2009. I did not see more than a handful of contemporary releases that came close to the smart pacing, narrative sophistication and honest passion of these older films.
Martin Wolf, columnist for the great Financial Times, has a must-read column this weekend: The only truly global power was in rapid relative decline. Not long before, it had won a pyrrhic victory in a costly colonial war. New great
From the American Revolution Website: Here is an eyewitness account of the Battle of Trenton written by an officer on Washington’s Staff (account and more back ground info here): New Town PA, December 22, 1776 Things have been going against
Every once in a while one gets an insight into the sad state of higher education in the United States. Back in 2008, when my agent was attempting to market the manuscript of what recently appeared in two companion volumes
German politicians apparently have been hot on the trail of evil evaders who did not pay tax on coffee ordered over the Internet. To address this terrible crisis, the government spent 800,000 euro and tracked down 4000 dangerous criminals. Shockingly,
As President Obama jets off to Denmark for the UN’s climate conference, I hope he will take some time as he flies over the Atlantic Ocean to revisit the science that led him to this trip. The EPA sure didn’t.
AP: John Demjanjuk is seen by many as the last Nazi likely to be tried for heinous crimes committed during the Holocaust, but locals in the Ukrainian village where he was born remember him as a good man. AFPTV went
AFP: Former Beatle Paul McCartney on Thursday urged world leaders to place the harmful effects of beef production and consumption at the heart of talks next week in Copenhagen aimed at battling global warming. The music legend took his campaign
Thanksgiving is a uniquely American holiday. Sure, Canada and a couple other nations have adopted their own weird versions of it too, but the notion of a nation setting aside a day to give thanks for its blessings could only
Now that global warming is being exposed as a gross manipulation of junk science, it is important to remember that this is not the first time in our nation’s history that the Progressive community has used junk science in order
Last week an outside link to Big Hollywood led me to a leftist blog I’d never heard of that goes by the name of Sadly, No! For lack of a better term, here’s a portion of their, uhm, mission statement:
“WWII In HD” is an excellent 10-hour, five part series narrated by Gary Sinise of “Forrest Gump” and “CSI: New York. ” Three episodes air tonight on the History Channel. The series shows the war through the eyes of 12
A lot of people seemed shocked to discover that the folks at the National Endowment of the Arts were so ready, even anxious, to devote their talents to propagandizing on behalf of Obama and his administration. That merely proves that
So President Obama says he’d like to visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki – something no sitting U.S. president has ever done. Of course, there’s a reason they haven’t: it could be seen as criticism of a painful decision that ended the
Fox News: Germans from both sides of the former Berlin Wall celebrated on Monday, 20 years after the Iron Curtain fell, sending East Germans flooding west and setting in motion events that soon led to the country’s reunification.
The America in which I was raised always stood for freedom, and not just freedom for Americans but freedom for suffering people around the World. When I was an exchange student in Germany in 1983, I found myself in endless
For most non-Teutons the idea of German rock is not very appealing. The fatherland of Bach and Beethoven may well have produced many interesting experimental groups (Kraftwerk, Einstürzende Neubauten etc) but on a global, top 40 level it’s an entirely
