Seventy-eight years ago today, by this hour Allied troops had begun to break out of the beaches at Normandy. The butchery of Omaha Beach was over: teenage American boys running across flat sand toward complex defenses swept by vicious machine gun fire claimed many, but those who survived – together with Allied forces elsewhere on …
Category Archives: On history
Debacle at Anchorage
Anybody keeping an eye on what happened in Anchorage, Alaska? Someone better. For those wrapped around the axle about tax hikes, the opening of US borders, the destruction of our hard-won energy independence and the general run of craziness that is the vogue in Woke Washington these days, it might have escaped attention. But that …
America’s Reichstag Fire
Here we are in the seventh week of the occupation of our nation’s capital. There are now enough razor wire, barricades and checkpoints to make the former Capital of the Free World a clone of Baghdad’s Green Zone; more troops occupy the capital now than when the British burned it in 1814. One must present …
Pre-failed Diplomacy
Well, who could have seen THAT coming? After President Biden announces that the US is willing to “rejoin” the multilateral Iran Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, a.k.a. the “nuclear deal,” Iran has announced that it will further limit the already-restricted IAEA inspectors – or maybe throw them out of the country altogether. They also rattle …
Infamy, unremembered
Seventy-nine years ago today the United States was “deliberately and treacherously attacked” by the Imperial Japanese Navy. Over 2,400 Americans were killed and 1,700 wounded in the raid on Pearl Harbor that landed us squarely in World War Two, already raging for years in Europe and Asia. We thought we could remain aloof; that the …