Air conditioning, central heat, flush toilets. Refrigeration, penicillin, aspirin, airplanes, x-rays, and ballpoint pens. The telephone, television, movies, paper clips, and Post-it notes. Heart surgery, radio, drive-thru windows at banks and restaurants, photography, the microchip, flea collars, assembly lines, disposable…
Do you think voting is a good idea or a bad idea? Do you believe that government should be by the consent of the governed, or do you think the people in government should not be accountable to the governed?…
As I read about Europe and Asia’s vast experiments with totalitarian socialism in the 20th century, I am struck by how the various governments of Germany, Italy, China, and the Soviet Union did NOT overtly use their militaries upon their…
None of Columbus’ original journals survive. We have no first hand accounts in his original hand, although we do have copies of copies. So, supposedly these copies of Columbus’ journals damn Christopher for admitting his desire to enslave, rape, pillage,…
These days I hear that Christopher Columbus was a genocidal maniac who slaughtered the Indians of the Caribbean, was responsible for bringing smallpox and other diseases to the Western Hemisphere thus wiping out 90% of the indigenous peoples, and he…
Since Christopher Columbus is now the focus of the Left’s hate these days (along with any other historical character from Europe, it seems), I thought I would explore the charges against this explorer from long ago. I scan through the…
Can you guess this soldier? Before the war he was a slave trader and invested in real estate. He fought for the Confederacy for the four brief years of its existence (1861-1865). He was considered by friend and foe alike…
During the Cultural Revolution of Communist China (1966-1976), a favorite tactic of Mao’s fanatical followers was the “struggle session”. If the Red Guard (the youthful fans of Chairman Mao who believed in his infallibility) thought that you were “counterrevolutionary” or…
Just recently I was visiting one of my children in Denver, Colorado. What a beautiful city. Just look to the west and there as far as the eyes can see are the Rocky Mountains (snow capped even in the spring!).…
On February 19, 1942 President Franklin Roosevelt issued his infamous Executive Order 9066 consigning all Japanese Americans on the West Coast to internment camps deep in the interior of the US. On March 21st, 1942 Congress enacted legislation giving authority…