August 1, 2014

RIP: 'Dutch' Van Kirk, Last Surviving Member of the Enola Gay Crew

“We were the Three Musketeers, Tom Ferebee, ‘Dutch’ Van Kirk, and I,” said pilot and mission commander Paul Tibbets

July 11, 2009

Slurring Thomas Jefferson

When, in the course of the Clinton presidency, it became necessary to normalize sexual misbehavior among presidents, the memory of Thomas Jefferson was soiled, with the compliance of academic and journalistic liberal elites.

November 8, 2008

Dumbest Palin smear of all?

The competition is not yet closed, but this one has to be considered a front-runner for now.

August 3, 2008

Hiroshima Hoax: Japan's 'Wllingness to Surrender Before the Bomb

So-called enlightened opinion has in recent years been dominated by historicval revisionism on the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

July 24, 2008

The audacity of fiction

Barack Obama today stated in Berlin that "many planes were forced to turn back" from the Berlin Airlift because of the bleak German weather. Great imagery, but contrafactual.

July 21, 2008

That New Yorker cover

One thing that had not come up in all the words that have spilled over the satire is that the Obama camp's indignation is based on a completely false premise.

July 7, 2007

More on the 'no-jihad zone'

Don't be surprised by LTC Kilcullen's comments. They are not at all uncommon.

December 26, 2006

If a Quarantine of North Korea is called . . .

North Korea's apparent detonation of a nuclear device in October, and threats to test fire nuclear missiles present the United States with no useful military option, but may have finally sent enough of a chill down Chinese spines that we may be able to do something that the US Navy is quite good at --- establish and maintain an effective quarantine of the Pyongyang regime.

May 8, 2006

Historians riled by book award on the A-bombing decision

A literary prize ignited a firestorm.